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oes not advocate causes in court. -- Chamber fellow, a chamber companion; a roommate; a chum. -- Chamber hangings, tapestry or hangings for a chamber. -- Chamber lye, urine. Shak. -- Chamber music, vocal or instrumental music adapted to performance in a chamber or small apartment or audience room, instead of a thea…

A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.

of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

hy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. Cowley. He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. Shak.

Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.

or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men in the kingdom. Hume.

of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents alone. Thudichum.

courage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. To cherish virtue and humanity. Burke.

he West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger. [Written also chegre, chegoe, chique, chigg…

or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.

e; to sut; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with. Everything chimed in with such a humor. W. irving.

the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.

or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils. Choose me for a humble friend. Pope.

rroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort. [Humorous]

One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites.

brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. This continual circulation of human things. Swift.

sting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents. The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. Paley.

Flying around. The circumvolant troubles of humanity. G. Macdonald.

A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.