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at in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser.

One who chafes.

An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.

Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.

tle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.

To chafe; to enrage; to heat. [Obs.] Shak.

on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of the port, Abborrent of a calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. Tennyson.

Fig.: To be noise about; to chafe against. The sea that chides the banks of England. Shak. To chide hither, chide from, or chide away, to cause to come, or to drive away, by scolding or reproof.

A vibrant or whirring noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc.

A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer. [Prov. Eng.]

To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe. [Obs.] Spenser.

tomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. Harvey. This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. Dryden.

To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame. [Obs.] Minds exulcerated in themselves. Hooker.

A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.

restore it. -- To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. -- To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship. With many a curve my banks I fret. Tennyson.

Rubbed or worn away; chafed.

To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes. [Obs.] Marston.