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An exchanger or an exchange of benefices. [Cant]

Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen.

A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house. The freedom of a chophouse. W. Irving.

See Chopine.

ome cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

A kind of spade. [Eng.]

One who, or that which, chops.

ing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.

Full of cracks. "Choppy finger." Shak.

The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.

One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.

A rude, rustic fellow.

Boorish; rude. C. Bronté.

A joint or coadjutant bishop. Ayliffe.

An eating house. "A subterranean cookshop." Macaulay.

Like, or pertaining to, the family Cyathophyllidæ.

A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.

A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions.

Expressing character. [Obs.] Urquhart.

A shop or barroom where gin is sold as a beverage. [Colloq.]