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Luck; chance; accident. Milton. Cowper.

To course through or over, as in a channel. Cowper.

A chapel or altar so endowed. Cowell.

imals, and colloquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. Cowley. He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. Shak.

Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. [Sp. Amer.]

e for war, racing, state processions, etc. First moved the chariots, after whom the foot. Cowper.

Abounding with charms. "His charmful lyre." Cowley.

from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper.

To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up. Cowpe.

, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup. He cherups brisk ear-erecting steed. Cowper.

revenge, abjuring his offense. Prior. To chew the cud, to chew the food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deut. xxiv. 6.

A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.

Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. "Chimes of verse." Cowley.

A toll for passage through a forest. [Obs.] Cowell.

short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. "Chink of bell." Cowper.

l, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. -- Chose transitory, a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount.

Summoning to church. The sound of the churchgoing bell. Cowper.

l; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper.

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.