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Bargaining; merchandise. [Obs.] Holished.

lack chalk, a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate. -- By a long chalk, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] Lowell. -- Chalk drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See Crayon. -- Chalk formation. See Cretaceous formation,…

behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero. A stouter champion never handled sword. Shak. Champions of law and liberty. Fisher Ames.

out a thirty-pound note and bid me change it. Goldsmith. To change a horse, or To change hand (Man.), to turn or bear the horse's head from one hand to the other, from the left to right, or from the right to the left. -- To change hands, to change owners. -- To change one's tune, to become less confident or boastful…

To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.

Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character. You know the character to be your brother's Shak.

responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. Shak.

he sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak.

The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand. -- Chei*ros"o*phist (, n.

tinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

ed or subsequently referred to in a sentence; thus, If e'er to bless thy sons My voice or hands deny, These hands let useful skill forsake, This voice in silence die. Dwight.

A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.

y tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions. We have heard the chimes at midnight. Shak.

Money; cash. [Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands." Somerville.

Gout in the hand.

Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease. Sir. T. Browne.

The art of judging character by the shape and apperance of the hand.

One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.

The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.

One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.