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hapeau hat + bras arm], a hat so made that it can be compressed and carried under the arm without injury. Such hats were particularly worn on dress occasions by gentlemen in the 18th century. A chapeau bras is now worn in the United States army by general and staff officers.

cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

Without a chape.

To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.

Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.

A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.

Without a chart; having no guide.

To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. Shak. To chat a while on their adventures. Dryden.

Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n. My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. Spenser.

Without a chief or leader.

Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.

job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]

on a contract, or damages for a tort, which can not be enforced against a reluctant party without suit. -- Chose in possession, a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action. -- Chose local, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. -- Chose transitory, a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount.…

Without faith in Christ; unchristian. Tennyson.

ns or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates. If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.

Without a church. T. Fuller.

Without any light; intensely dark. In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. Milton.

A hot coal without flame; an ember. Swift.

About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.

To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.