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See Chant.
A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.
See Chantry.
a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).
The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.
A foot covering of any kind.
Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
The chub.
To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.
To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.
The jaw.
Entrails.
of Chaw
of Chaw
The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff.
An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology.
A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.