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selor, a counselor who gives his opinion in private, or at his chambers, but does not advocate causes in court. -- Chamber fellow, a chamber companion; a roommate; a chum. -- Chamber hangings, tapestry or hangings for a chamber. -- Chamber lye, urine. Shak. -- Chamber music, vocal or instrumental music adapted to p…

or rights; or one who acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero. A stouter champion never handled sword. Shak. Champions of law and liberty. Fisher Ames.

A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler.

To indicate the character of; to describe. Under the name of Tamerlane he intended to characterize King William. Johnson.

To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit. The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.

To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.

ent cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.

18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the 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 L…

One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.

ls, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia. Chlorite slate, a schistose or slaty rock consisting of alumina, iron, and magnesia.

mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.

nable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.

A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.

To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words. Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge. Bacon.

The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye. Choroid plexus (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain.

ir applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.

A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.

piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.