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One who by defeating all rivals, has obtained an acknowledged supremacy in any branch of athetics or game of skill, and is ready to contend with any rival; as, the champion of England.
One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's honor or rights; or one who acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero.
Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap.
A location or compartment.
A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
To divide into chapters, as a book.
A decretal epistle.
A bishop's council.
An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
A community of canons or canonesses.
A chapter house.
An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
A business meeting of any religious community.
An impost.
Alt. of Chare
To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.