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Love; universal benevolence; good will.

a song. [Obs.] With charm of earliest birds. Milton. Free liberty to chant our charms at will. Spenser.

ishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes. How fine my master is! I am afraid He will chastise me. Shak. I am glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chemists thus discovered and chastised. Boyle.

y fair stars, On equal terms to give him chastesement! Shak. I have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more. Job xxxiv. 31.

e real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke.

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

howing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing. To entertain a cheerful disposition. Shak. The cheerful birds of sundry kind Do chant sweet music. Spenser. A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God. Macaulay. This general applause and cheerful shout. Shak.…

so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus. [U. S.]

things; especially, a period of a thousand years. The world, then in the seventh chiliad, will be assumed up unto God. Sir. T. More.

Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.

af. -- Chowchow chop. See under Chowchow. -- Grand chop, a ship's port clearance. S. W. Williams.

censed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [China] S. W. Williams.

A customhouse where transit duties are levied. [China] S. W. Williams.

To give a name; to denominate. "Christen the thing what you will." Bp. Burnet.

body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as under…

To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. [Colloq.] "Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile." Lord Palmerson.

lar position or condition; situated. The proposition is, that two bodies so circumstanced will balance each other. Whewell.

acteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.

rticular accidents or adjuncts. [R.] If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly. Bramhall.

oud noise made by sudden collision; a bang. "Give the door such a clap, as you go out, as will shake the whole room." Swift.