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Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. The chaff and ruin of the times. Shak.

Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill.

hut in the mountains of Switzerland. Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen. Wordsworth.

mpaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton. Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth.

Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity. The heathen poet, in commending the charity of Dido to the Trojans, spake like a Christian. Dryden.

a chasm; abounding in chasms. Carlyle. They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. Wordsworth.

, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth.

he first progress of Christianity. Addison. No check, no stay, this streamlet fears. Wordsworth.

or, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc. The glory of our Troy this day doth lie On his fair worth and single chivalry. Shak.

Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift.

The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.

the form of a cross, by way of a charm. From infant conning of the Christcross-row. Wordsworth.

Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar. [India] Whitworth.

Low, worthless people; the rabble. [Scot.] Jamieson.

or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure. None among them are throught worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery. Sharp.

To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up. Worthies, away! The scene begins to cloud. Shak.

A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d. [Obs.] Wright. Cob coal, coal in rounded lumps from the size of an egg to that of a football; -- called also cobbles. Grose. -- Cob loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top. Wright. -- Cob money, a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of Spanis…

That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish. The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age. Sir P. Sidney.

of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli.

The quality of being cognoscible. Cudworth.