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To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit. The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

To chew loudly and greedily; to champ. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] Halliwell.

To champ; to bite. [Obs.] A. Stafford.

Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.

One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen. [Obs.] Champan.

fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

Comparison. [Archaic] His mighty champion, strong beyond compare. Milton. Their small galleys may not hold compare With our tall ships. Waller.

ictory; to overcome; to prevail. He went forth conquering and to conquer. Rev. vi. 2. The champions resolved to conquer or to die. Waller.

One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.

guard; a protection. War would arise in defense of the right. Tennyson. God, the widow's champion and defense. Shak.

To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. To edge her champion's sword. Dryden.

at once; speedily. [Archaic] And, if he fall from his capel [horse] eftsone. Chaucer. The champion stout eftsoons dismounted. Spenser.

A festival. Fête champêtre ( Etym: [F.], a festival or entertainment in the open air; a rural festival.

y up. Blackw. Mag. It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack. Saintsbury.

Among Mohammedans, a warrior champion or veteran, esp. in the destruction of infidels.

ery slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia.

The person insured. Champness.

A champion; a partisan; a lover. "Give this ring to my true knight." Shak "In all your quarrels will I be your knight." Tennyson. Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms. Shak.

pending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. Wharton. Cap of maintenance. See under Cap.

A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne. Sir W. Scott.