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To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect. Championed or unchampioned, thou diest. Sir W. Scott.

Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. [Sp. Amer.]

The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc. Knight.

A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.

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

or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character. You know the character to be your brother's Shak.

To protect 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.

to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away. Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place. Knolles.

The flat, circuliar, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia). [Colloq.]

To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid. We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. 1 Thess. ii. 7.

or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Médoc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry).

ll resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.

One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.

A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.

ight (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.

The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface.

To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion. Ray.

A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.

lized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.