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An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris). Fairy ring champignon, the Marasmius oreades, which has a strong flavor but is edible.

ts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero. A stouter champion never handled sword. Shak. Champions of law and liberty. Fisher Ames.

A female champion. Fairfax.

State of being champion; leadership; supremancy.

Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.

A piece of champlevé enamel; also, the process or art of making such enamel work; champlevé work.

See Kamsin.

is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. Sam…

The kiling of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.

Fortuitous; casual. [Obs.]

By chance. [Obs.]

Hazardous. [Obs.] Spenser.

a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front. Chancel aisle (Arch.), the aisle which passes on either side of or around the chancel. -- Chancel arch (Arch.), the arch which spans the main opening, leading to the chancel -- Chancel casement, the principal window in a chancel.…

Chancellorship. [Obs.] Gower.

A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.

ction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.

ial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.

A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.

Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.