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To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard. Foamed and champed the golden bit. Dryden.

The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.

A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.

A flat, open country. Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton. Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth.

One who champs, or bites.

One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.

of authority. [Obs.] Beauté ne sleighte, strengthe ne hardyness, Ne may with Venus holde champartye. Chaucer.

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.

ent; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.

f fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path. Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. Nott.

A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aërated waters.

An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. Grath.

The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse. [Written also champfrain and chamfrain.]