अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.

A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

Having a calyx or cup; cup-shaped.

A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon.

To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.

To manure with chalk, as land.

To rub or mark with chalk.

A man who digs chalk.

of Chalk

The state of being chalky.

of Chalk

A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus.

A mass of chalk.

Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.

To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.

To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"

To claim as due; to demand as a right.

To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.