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The face; the countenance or its expression. [Obs.] "Sweat of thy cheer." Wyclif.

A low courtesy; -- 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…

A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.

An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount. [Obs.] Bacon.

Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison.

A country in Eastern Asia.

A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.

One of the counters used in poker and other games.

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 encounter. [Obs.]

in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.

A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.

The era in use in all Christian countries, which was intended to commence with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus (died about 540), who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754, which year he counted as 1 a. d. This date for Christ's bir…

An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.

Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables. Raleigh. -- Chron`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson.

Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.

A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.