CPage 148
- English Word Chastise Definition To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
- English Word Chastised Definition of Chastise
- English Word Chastisement Definition The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.
- English Word Chastiser Definition One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector.
- English Word Chastising Definition of Chastise
- English Word Chastity Definition The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
- English Word Chastity Definition Moral purity.
- English Word Chastity Definition The unmarried life; celibacy.
- English Word Chastity Definition Chasteness.
- English Word Chasuble Definition The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle.
- English Word Chat Definition To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
- English Word Chat Definition To talk of.
- English Word Chat Definition Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
- English Word Chat Definition A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.
- English Word Chat Definition A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
- English Word Chat Definition Small stones with ore.
- English Word Chateau Definition A castle or a fortress in France.
- English Word Chateau Definition A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.
- English Word Chatelaine Definition An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.
- English Word Chatelet Definition A little castle.
- English Word Chatellany Definition Same as Castellany.
- English Word Chateux Definition of Chateau
- English Word Chati Definition A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).
- English Word Chatoyant Definition Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.
- English Word Chatoyant Definition A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.
- English Word Chatoyment Definition Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors.
- English Word Chatted Definition of Chat
- English Word Chattel Definition Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.
- English Word Chattelism Definition The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel.
- English Word Chatter Definition To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.