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One who or that which causes.

Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.

A kind of sofa for two person. A tête-a-tête.

level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.

An Indian pony. [Northw. U. S.]

White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.

Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face. Beau. & Fl.

A schoolhouse. [Obs.]

A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.

A woman chauffeur.

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

To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.] The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.

See Choose. [Obs.]

To pour round; to spread round. His army circumfused on either wing. Milton.

tence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document. The usual attestation clause to a will. Bouvier.

A house occupied by a club.

A small species of titmouse, with a black head; the coletit.

A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the…