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A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.

To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate. Her intercession chafed him. Shak.

To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.

To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.

ify from errors or faults; to refine. They [classics] chasten and enlarge the mind, and excite to noble actions. Layard.

To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup. He cherups brisk ear-erecting steed. Cowper.

nched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. Chime his childish verse. Byron.

A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.

Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger. "Choleric speech." Sir W. Raleigh. Choleric temperament, the bilious temperament.

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.

A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.

Capable of being cited.

One who cites. [R]

Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.

Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! B. Jonson. The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene. Addison.

Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement. "He could not debate anything without some commotion." Clarendon.

To urge; to persuade; to incite. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay.

to mollify; to propitiate; to appease. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was found expedient to conciliate the nation. Hallam.