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To come to an issue; to turn out; to succed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise. [Prov. or Obs.] Holland.

A hairlike envelope. The nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star. Sir. W. Hershel.

A river fish; the chub. Sir T. Browne.

A variant of Chieftain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

oft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility. [Obs.] Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad. Shak.

To make as pliable as kid leather. [Obs.] Br. Montagu.

The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.

Disheveled. [Obs.] Chaucer.

one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.

See Cheve, v. i. [Obs.]

h of the Cyprinidæ or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc. Chub mackerel (Zoöl.…

which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be cheved a second time. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Levit. xi. 3

ts an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.

A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and the like; as, take which you will.