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The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.

e whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior.

To assert a right; to claim a place. Where nature doth with merit challenge. Shak.

A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.

ine of the transept farthest from the main front. Chancel aisle (Arch.), the aisle which passes on either side of or around the chancel. -- Chancel arch (Arch.), the arch which spans the main opening, leading to the chancel -- Chancel casement, the principal window in a chancel. Tennyson. -- Chancel table, the commun…

That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. The veins are converging channels. Dalton. At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know. Burke.

An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.

An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.

To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a) person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of. If the did that wrong you charge with. Tennyson.

The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.

A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assemblly.

To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with. [Colloq.]

family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.

A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus. What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. Milton.

An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. [India] J. Mill.

g.] Halliwell. Chowder beer, a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.

h which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.

That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall." Bacon.

hide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set. As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened. Macaulay.