अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him.

The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty.

The operation or activity of such agent.

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

Luck; chance; accident.

The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.

Fortuitous; casual.

By chance.

of Chance

Hazardous.

All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.

That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.

Chancellorship.

A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.

In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.

In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.

of Chance

A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre.

A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.