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The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds.

A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.

fugal. -- Centripetal impression (Physiol.), an impression (sensory) transmitted by an afferent nerve from the exterior of the body inwards, to the central organ.

To buy or sell; to trade in. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser.

a person as not legally qualifed to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [U. S.] Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel. -- Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it.…

That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.

A possibity; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him. So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune. That I would get my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on't Shak.

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7.

Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.

sses; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. The veins are converging channels. Dalton. At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know. Burke.

gation; indictment; specification of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell.

contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below. Charter land (O. Eng. Law), land held by charter, or in socage; bookland. -- Charter member, one of the original members of a society or corporation, esp. one named in a charte…

To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. Pope. My proffered love has cheapened me. Dryden.

To clash or interfere. [R.] Bacon.

To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton.

A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

Millenarian. "The obstruction offered by the chiliastic errors." J. A. Alexander.

The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed. Swift.