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A bargain; profit; gain. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A kind of meat pie. [Obs.]

A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.

f North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory.

A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers. G. Eliot.

A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.

To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. Pope.

To cut small pieces from; to diminsh or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew. Shak.

e solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medi…

A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

A writing which, reguiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on 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.

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.

huck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.

Chopped pieces of fish used as bait. [U. S.]

A short, thick, heavy piece of wood. Morton. Chump end, the thick end; as, the chump end of a joint of meat. Dickens.

A short, thick piece of anything. [Colloq. U. S. & Prov. Eng.]

nd; to inclose; to encircle. Prior. Pope. Their heads are circled with a short turban. Dampier. So he lies, circled with evil. Coleridge. To circle in, to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as, to circle bodies in. Sir K. Digby.

A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.