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Without a chief or leader.

eëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton.

A small rent paid to the lord paramount. [Obs.] Swift.

A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.

The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.

Love; tender regard. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount. [Obs.] Bacon.

See Cheve, v. i. [Obs.]

A cavalry raid; hence, a military expedition. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward.

A covering for the head. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton. That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.

To defend, as with a shield; to shield. [Archaic] Shak.

A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief; a neckcloth.

Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.

, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in compounds; as, neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief. He might put on a hat, a muffler, and a kerchief, and so escape. Shak. Her black hair strained away To a scarlet kerchief caught beneath her chin. Mrs. Browning.

Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief. Milton.

A kerchief. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ic languages, probably as early as the 3d century b. c. , often called the first Lautverschiebung, sound shifting, or consonant shifting. (b) A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the High German dialects (less fully in modern literary German) from the 6th to the 8th century, known as the second Lautverschi…

A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches.