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les. Chaparral cock; fem. Chaparral hen (Zoöl.), a bird of the cuckoo family (Geococcyx Californianus), noted for running with great speed. It ranges from California to Mexico and eastward to Texas; -- called also road runner, ground cuckoo, churea, and snake killerit is the state bird of New Mexico.…

One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

A decretal epistle. Ayliffe.

Moral quality; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion.

Burdensome. [Obs.] I was chargeous to no man. Wyclif, (2 Cor. xi. 9).

with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life. I, in my own woe charmed, Could not find death. Shak.

The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Dryden.

Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe.

The face; the countenance or its expression. [Obs.] "Sweat of thy cheer." Wyclif.

Same as Cheliferous.

A Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone platyceras), which has migrated into California.

inquapin, an evergreen shrub or tree (Castanopes chrysophylla) of the Pacific coast. In California it is a shrub; in Oregon a tree 30 to 125 feet high.

The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc. The glory of our Troy this day doth lie On his fair worth and single chivalry. Shak.

of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift.

veral diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific pois…

The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.

in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Acts xi. 26.

combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their 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.

Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion