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A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel.

A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum. They beat the chamade, and sent us carte blanche. Addison.

f change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.

ls, and colloquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. Cowley. He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. Shak.

attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize. Fortunately Lady Bell Finley, whom I had promised to chaperon, sent to excuse herself. Hannah More.

on, Country, genius of his Age. Pope. A man of . . . thoroughly subservient character. Motley.

Abounding with charms. "His charmful lyre." Cowley.

m by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. "Chimes of verse." Cowley.

To shoot out; to sprout. I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth. Mortimer.

arth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc. Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.

d socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.

A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. [Obs.] Bailey.

To make a circle around; to encompass. [Obs.] Bailey.

An orbicular motion. [Obs.] bailey.

e in the same digits as the roots themselves; as 5 and 6, whose squares are 25 and 36. Bailey. Barlow. -- Circular points at infinity (Geom.), two imaginary points at infinite distance through which every circle in the plane is, in the theory of curves, imagined to pass. -- Circular polarization. (Min.) See under Pol…

e usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. Paley.

A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.

A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.

Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. "Hold still thy clatter." Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ). Throw by your clatter And handle the matter. B. Jonson