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Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment.

A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.

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

To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over. Dryden.

Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.

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

The side of the face below the eye.

An application of chemical theory and method to the consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron; the chemistry of indigo.

A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.

One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.

A native or resident of Chile; Chilian.

A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides. Barlow.

presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. -- Chimney corner, the space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. -- Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, -- Chimney money, hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney. -- Chimney pot (Arch.)…

himney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.

now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment. Goldsmith. To choose sides. See under Side.

The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.

The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.

hus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.

derworld; esp., relating to the underworld gods of the Greeks, whose worship is widely considered as more primitive in form than that of the Olympian gods. The characteristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic names of the deities, which are supposed to have been pri…