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; to refine. They [classics] chasten and enlarge the mind, and excite to noble actions. Layard.

r 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.

To open; to yawn. [Obs.] O, chaun thy breast. Marston.

A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.

A short, sharp note, as of a bird or insect. "The chirp of flitting bird." Bryant.

A steelyard for weighting grain.

A change; a vicissitude. Marryat.

One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.

Churchyard. [Obs.] Chaucer.

a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.

Cassia. Cinnamon stone (Min.), a variety of garnet, of a cinnamon or hyacinth red color, sometimes used in jewelry. -- Oil of cinnamon, a colorless aromatic oil obtained from cinnamon and cassia, and consisting essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, C6H5.C2H2.CHO. -- Wild cinnamon. See Canella.

rtain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain. To circumscribe royal power. Bancroft.

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indi…

. Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects. Stowe. They had applied for the royal clemency. Macaulay.

The privilege or benefit of clergy. If convicted of a clergyable felony, he is entitled equally to his clergy after as before conviction. Blackstone. Benefit of clergy (Eng., Law), the exemption of the persons of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge -- a privilege which was extended to all who could r…

To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard. To clew down (Naut.), to force (a yard) down by hauling on the clew lines. -- To clew up (Naut.), to draw (a sail) up to the yard, as for furling.

A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself. Untwisting his deceitful clew. Spenser.

e of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.

To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn. And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Pope.