CHAFE

v. n.

9 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To ecxite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser.

2.
v.

To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate. Her intercession chafed him. Shak.

3.
v.

To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable. Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed. Sir W. Scott.

4.
v.

To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction. Made its great boughs chafe together. Longfellow. The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores. Shak.

5.
v.

To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.

6.
v.

To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated. Spenser. He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter. Shak.

7.
n.

Heat excited by friction.

8.
n.

Injury or wear caused by friction.

9.
n.

Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall. Camden.

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