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converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. Shak. To chat a while on their adventures. Dryden.

To make a noise by rapid collisions. With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden.

To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over. Dryden.

Of comparatively small value; common; mean. You grow cheap in every subject's eye. Dryden. Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]

rice of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. Pope. My proffered love has cheapened me. Dryden.

ception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Dryden.

oiler to prevent the return of the feed water. -- To take check, to take offense. [Obs.] Dryden.

pe, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort. The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered. Dryden.

y; animated; willing. To entertain a cheerful disposition. Shak. The cheerful birds of sundry kind Do chant sweet music. Spenser. A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God. Macaulay. This general applause and cheerful shout. Shak.

A cherub. [Obs.] Dryden.

, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.

, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. And chime their sounding hammers. Dryden.

ackbone or spine of an animal; the back. "And chine with rising bristles roughly spread." Dryden.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.

Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.

One who practices chiromancy. Dryden.

nighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry. Dryden.

, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. Dryden.

Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. Dryden.

with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune. When Jubal struck the chorded shell. Dryden. Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp. Beecher.