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An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.

Office if a chamberlain.

The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.

18th century. A chapeau bras is now worn in the United States army by general and staff officers.

A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

The office, position, or station of a chaplain. Swift.

The office or business of a chaplain. The Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship. Milton.

Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.

Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. Shak.

The office of a chargé d'affaires.

Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent. What charitable men afford to beggars. Shak.

The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. Shak.

A distinguishing mark, above the elow, on the sleeve of a noncommisioned officer's coat.

To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. Burke.

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam.

Highest in office or rank; principal; head. "Chief rulers." John. xii. 42.

judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief Justice of the United States, the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, and Highest judicial officer of the republic.

The office of chief justice. Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century.

The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.

rown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.