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The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.

A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.

To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard. Foamed and champed the golden bit. Dryden.

A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions. [Colloq. for Exchange.]

To utter with a melodious voice; to sing. The cheerful birds . . . do chant sweet music. Spenser.

In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.

A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.

A business meeting of any religious community.

The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.

A narrow street. [Prov. Eng.]

ice), the old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery. -- Charge sheet, the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accusations. -- To sound the charge, to give the signal for an attack.

ublic institutions. The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. Wordsworth. Sisters of Charity (R. C. Ch.), a sisterhood of religious women engaged in works of mercy, esp. in nursing the sick; -- a popular designation. There are various orders of the Sisters of Charity…

A sort of sweet wine. [Obs.] Shak.

A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

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

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

A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottem, and an open top.

laged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.

A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [Slang, Eng.]

The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.