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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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CHEMIST n.
A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.
CHERUP v.
To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup. "Cheruping birds." Drayton.
CHEVERLIIZE v.
To make as pliable as kid leather. [Obs.] Br. Montagu.
CHIDE v.
To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. As doth a rock againts the chiding flood. Shak.
CHILL v.
To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold. When winter chilled the day. Goldsmith.
CHIME v.
To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. Cowley
CHINK v. 2 definitions
To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. Pope.
CHIPPENDALE a.
ating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 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.…
CHIRM v.
To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird. [Obs.] Huloet.
CHIRP v.
To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.
CHOICE n.
ch is preferable. The flower and choice Of many provinces from bound to bound. Milton. To make a choice of, to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.
CHOKE v.
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.
CHOOSE v. 2 definitions
To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils. Choose me for a humble friend. Pope.
CHOP v. 2 definitions
To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.
CHOROGRAPHER n.
One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. "The chorographers of Italy." Sir T. Browne.
CHOWDER v.
To make a chowder of.
CHRISTIANIZE v.
To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans.
CHUCK v.
To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
CHURN v.
To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
CHURR v.
To make a churr, as a cockchafer.
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