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One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.

An accepter. Chapman.

To cite; to summon. [Obs.] Our heralds now accited all that were Endamaged by the Elians. Chapman.

The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.

Action; endeavor. [Obs.] And with his best affair Obeyed the pleasure of the Sun. Chapman.

Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. Chapman.

To enamel. [Obs.] Enlightened all with stars, And richly ameled. Chapman.

To visit. [Obs.] And he applied each place so fast. Chapman. Applied chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Applied mathematics. See under Mathematics.

another). The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman.

To furnish with an arras. Chapman.

To bring to shore. [Obs.] And made the sea-trod ship arrive them. Chapman.

Aspiration. [Obs.] Chapman.

Full of augury; foreboding. [Obs.] "Augurous hearts." Chapman.

To occasion; to originate. [Obs.] Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. Chapman.

; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n.

A bedfellow. [Obs.] Chapman.

To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.

A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep. The bleat of fleecy sheep. Chapman's Homer.

The cry of, or as of, a sheep. Chapman.