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Full of censure; censorious. The censorial declamation of Juvenal. T. Warton.

A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheræa Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.

Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial. "Centenary solemnities." Fuller.

To bite or chew impatiently. They began . . . irefully to champ upon the bit. Hooker.

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

division; a breach, as in a party. [Obs.] Many clefts and chaps in our council board. T. Fuller.

and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.

To divide into chapters, as a book. Fuller.

In a chary manner; carefully; cautiously; frugally.

Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . . I will speak to thee. Shak.

ort or frame. Cheval glass, a mirror swinging in a frame, and large enough to reflect the full leght figure.

Wildy; vainly; fancifully.

es niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.

To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries. [Obs.] All full of chirkyng was that sorry place. Cheucer.

Full of chits or sprouts.

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

The chancel. Choir organ (Mus.), one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. -- Choir screen…

Full of cracks. "Choppy finger." Shak.