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A casket; a small box for jewels. [Obs.] Shak.

rmerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. Blacktone.

A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc. [Written also ketchup.]

Same as Catchup, and Ketchup.

A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel.

ale; to bleach. Tennyson. Let a bleak paleness chalk the door. Herbert. To chalk out, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] "I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out." Burke.

A bed blanket. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay.

A thicket of low evergreen oaks.

A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.

y a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.

Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke.

A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket.

ghthood. Chevalier d'industrie ( Etym: [F.], one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper. -- The Chevalier St. George (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called "The Pretender." -- The Young Chevalier, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St. George.

ireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. -- Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, -- Chimney money, hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney. -- Chimney pot (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof. -…

To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.

To chirp. Tennyson. The criket chirrups on the hearth. Goldsmith.

To fill up, as a cavity. "The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints." Fuller.

A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.