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pion; to support or maintain; to protect. Championed or unchampioned, thou diest. Sir W. Scott.

A public house; an alehouse. [Scot.] They call an alehouse a change. Burt.

To strike; to beat. [Scot.]

Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.

To beguile. Sir W. Scott. To cheat winter of its dreariness. W. Irving.

A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.

A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.

red color of its salts, It is a coloriess crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.

and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus. [U. S.]

A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.

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

through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. Milton.

Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.

Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed. Swift.

To shiver or chatter with cold. [Scot.] Burns.

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. The words choked in his throat. Sir W. Scott.

on; to decide. They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion. Prescott.

See Jowl. Sir W. Scott.

A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone. [Scot.]