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The act or process of forming a channel or channels.

A song. Shak.

itten originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland.

A little song. These pretty little chansonnettes that he sung. Black.

To utter with a melodious voice; to sing. The cheerful birds . . . do chant sweet music. Spenser.

Composed in a melodious and singing style.

One who chants; a singer or songster. Pope.

A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous.

A sailor's song.

A cock, so called from the clearness or loundness of his voice in crowing.

Singing, esp. as a chant is sung. Chanting falcon (Zoöl.), an African falcon (Melierax canorus or musicus). The male has the habit, remarkable in a bird of prey, of singing to his mate, while she is incubating.

A chanter.

A female chanter or singer. Milton.

An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.

Divination by means of apperances in the air.

An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm. [Archaic] Between us and there is fixed a great chaos. Luke xvi. 26 (Rhemish Trans. ).

Resembling chaos; confused.

In a chaotic manner.

ack or become rough. Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. Blackmore. Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. Lyly.

pen at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. [Sp. Amer.]