CPage 129
- English Word Challenge Definition A claim or demand.
- English Word Challenge Definition The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
- English Word Challenge Definition An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.
- English Word Challenge Definition An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
- English Word Challenge Definition To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
- English Word Challenge Definition To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.
- English Word Challenge Definition To claim as due; to demand as a right.
- English Word Challenge Definition To censure; to blame.
- English Word Challenge Definition To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"
- English Word Challenge Definition To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
- English Word Challenge Definition To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
- English Word Challenge Definition To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.
- English Word Challenge Definition To assert a right; to claim a place.
- English Word Challengeable Definition That may be challenged.
- English Word Challenged Definition of Challenge
- English Word Challenger Definition One who challenges.
- English Word Challenging Definition of Challenge
- English Word Challis Definition A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses.
- English Word Chalon Definition A bed blanket.
- English Word Chalybean Definition Of or pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel.
- English Word Chalybean Definition Of superior quality and temper; -- applied to steel.
- English Word Chalybeate Definition Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.
- English Word Chalybeate Definition Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.
- English Word Chalybeous Definition Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.
- English Word Chalybite Definition Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite.
- English Word Cham Definition To chew.
- English Word Cham Definition The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan.
- English Word Chamade Definition A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
- English Word Chamal Definition The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.
- English Word Chamber Definition A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.