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Of superior quality and temper; -- applied to steel. [Obs.] Milton.

A flat, open country. Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton. Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth.

ety into which chance might throw him. Macaulay. That power Which erring men call Chance. Milton.

Luck; chance; accident. Milton. Cowper.

Like a chandler; in a petty way. [Obs.] Milton.

A female chanter or singer. Milton.

The office or business of a chaplain. The Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship. Milton.

t which a person or thing really is; nature; disposition. The character or that dominion. Milton. Know well each Ancient's proper character; His fable, subject, scope in every page; Religion, Country, genius of his Age. Pope. A man of . . . thoroughly subservient character. Motley.

To convey in a chariot. Milton.

A melody; a song. [Obs.] With charm of earliest birds. Milton. Free liberty to chant our charms at will. Spenser.

in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive. How charming is divine philosophy. Milton.

Containing the bodies of the dead. "Charnel vaults." Milton. Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.

ous; continent. "As chaste as Diana." Shak. Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced. Milton.

y chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Milton.

Cheaply. Milton.

ternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton.

bs.] There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.

Of or pertaining to cherubs; angelic. "The cherubic host." Milton.

this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton.

The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.