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Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.

One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize. Fortunately Lady Bell Finley, whom I had promised to chaperon, sent to excuse herself. Hannah More.

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

An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword. The great chasseur who had announced her arrival. W. Irving.

n, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.

St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

One who attends church.

Habitually attending church.

One was is attached to, or attends, church.

That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. W. Irving.

antial evidence (Law), evidence obtained from circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption. According to some authorities circumstantial is distinguished from positive evidence in that the latter is the testimony of eyewitnesses to a fact or the admissio…

A double bar marking the end. At every close she made, the attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song. Dryden.

uption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever. -- To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.] Cold, v. i.

One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.

To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany. [R.] Ruskin.

Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction. That no compunctious vistings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Shak.

One of the two ecclesiastics allowed to attend a cardinal in the conclave.