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A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.

A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay.

Like a chandler; in a petty way. [Obs.] Milton.

Commodities sold by a chandler.

An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking. Balfour.

Chandlery. [Obs.] "Torches from the chandry." B. Jonson.

The fore part of a horse's head.

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7.

A gear by means of which the speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant; -- called also change-speed gear.

A key adapted to open only one of a set of locks; -- distinguished from a master key.

Changeableness.

Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.

In a changeable manner.

Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.

That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose. -- Change"less*ness, n.

One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies. Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft. Spenser. The changeling [a substituted writing] never known. Shak.

One who changes or alters the form of anything.

eral species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank chell.

A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.