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Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. Johnson.

, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance- medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray. Burrill.

See Chawdron. [Obs.]

A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottem, and an open top.

[pl.] (F. Hist.)

A woman chauffeur.

See Chawdron. [Obs.]

To open; to yawn. [Obs.] O, chaun thy breast. Marston.

See Chant.

A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.] He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens.

See Chantry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).

ughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.

A foot covering of any kind.

The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.

leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism. -- Chau"vin*ist, n. -- Chau`vin*is"tic (, a.

The chub. Walton.

To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit. The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

Entrails. [Obs.] [Written also chaudron, chauldron.] Shak.

The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. [Written also choy root.]