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To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor. [Colloq.]

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

The act or habit of chattering. [Colloq.]

idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.

A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.] He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens.

ry cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]

The flat, circuliar, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia). [Colloq.]

Children, taken collectively. [R.] The well-governed childhood of this realm. Sir. W. Scott.

To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with. [Colloq.]

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

Chip, n., 3. -- A chip off the old block, a child who resembles either of his parents. [Colloq.] Milton.- Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin slices of raw potato fried crisp.

To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up. [Colloq. New Eng. ]

A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry. "His Memphian chivalry." Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. Shak.

and in giving a preference; discrimination. I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice. Bacon.

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

A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

ions, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly passing into a state of collapse, followed by death, or by a stage of reaction of fever. -- Cholera bacillus. See Comma bacillus. -- Cholera infantum, a dangerous summer disease, of infants, caused by hot weather, bad air, or poor milk, and especially…

To chew loudly and greedily; to champ. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] Halliwell.

To wish; to desire; to prefer. [Colloq.] The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment. Goldsmith. To choose sides. See under Side.

cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.] The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.