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One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.

The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit.…

A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.

hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell.

Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.

A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.

The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.

To chirp or chirrup. [ Prov. Eng.] Forby.

One who chirps, or is cheerful.

One who, or that which, chops.

The seed of gold; a means of creating gold. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper. Kane.

A person who claps.

To fight and scratch. C. Smart.

One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham.

Furnished with tendrils.

fically, one who clips off the edges of coin. The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket. Locke.

A rude, rustic fellow.

To form into clumps or masses. [Obs.] Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More.

One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. [Eng.] Dickens.