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ent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday. The carnival at Venice is everywhere talked of. Addison.

To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.

t attention, or steady rectitude, escape blame from censors who have no inclination to approve. Rambler.

ake the corn and leave the chaff behind. Dryden. Old birds are not caught with caff. Old Proverb.

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith.

] Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. Old Proverb.

A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.

To chide, rebuke, or reprove. The good king, his master, will check him for it. Shak.

Strife; contention; controversy. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with. Upbraided, chid, and rated at. Shak.

a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. -- Chimney cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. -- Chimney corner, the space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. -- Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and ket…

The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection. The common wealth is sick of their own choice. Shak.

A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning. That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again, that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing. Glanvill.

To prove or confirm by circumstances; to entr into details concerning. Neither will time permint to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general. State Trials (1661).

A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

cceptation. T. Fuller Claw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; -- an old proverb. Tyndale. To claw away, to scold or revile. "The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it." L'Estrange. To claw (one) on the back, to tickle; to express approbation. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To claw (one)…

That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.

cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak.

A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies.