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, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider. [Written also chaplet.]

A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc. First moved the chariots, after whom the foot. Cowper.

ontrol, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic. No witchcraft charm thee! Shak.

To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor. [Colloq.]

a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.

sy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila c…

ases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. Milton.

To shoot out; to sprout. I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth. Mortimer.

Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.

A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. [Obs.] Blount.

An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion.

cording to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it. [Written also cimia.]

The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

rivileges were anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places. Baron of the Cinque Ports. See under Baron.

leth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft. Bacon.

, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.