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A California rosaceous shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) which often forms an impenetrable chaparral.

See Camlet. [Obs.]

A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy.

See Camomile.

To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard. Foamed and champed the golden bit. Dryden.

The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.

A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.

A flat, open country. Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton. Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth.

One who champs, or bites.

One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.

of authority. [Obs.] Beauté ne sleighte, strengthe ne hardyness, Ne may with Venus holde champartye. Chaucer.

An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris). Fairy ring champignon, the Marasmius oreades, which has a strong flavor but is edible.

ts or speaks in 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.

A female champion. Fairfax.

State of being champion; leadership; supremancy.

Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.

A piece of champlevé enamel; also, the process or art of making such enamel work; champlevé work.

See Kamsin.

A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.