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Furnished with a chape or chapes. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A divice placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.

To divide into chapters, as a book. Fuller.

made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time

A horse for battle or parade. Macaulay. And furious every charger neighed. Campbell.

Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . . I will speak to thee. Shak.

The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.

Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. Johnson.

A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottem, and an open top.

Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff. Useful check upon the administration of government. Washington. A man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.

ort or frame. Cheval glass, a mirror swinging in a frame, and large enough to reflect the full leght figure.

A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers. G. Eliot.

na; a prefect, supervising the civil business of the hsiens or districts comprised in his fu (which see).

Furnished with a child. [Obs.]

ral species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

es niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.