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Chat"ti*ness (?), n. The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.

Chat"ty (?), a. Given to light, familiar talk; talkative. Lady M. W. Montagu.

||Chat"ty, n. [Tamil shāti.] A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

Chat"wood` (?), n. [Chat a little stick + wood.] Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. Johnson.

Chaud"-med`ley (?), n. [F. chaude mŕlÚe; chaud hot + mŕler (Formerly sometimes spelt medler) to mingle.] (Law) The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance-medley or killing in self- defense, or in a casual affray. Burrill.

Chau"dron (?), n. See Chawdron. [Obs.]

Chauf"fer (?), n. [Cf. F. chauffoir a kind of stone, fr. chauffer to heat. See Chafe.] (Chem.) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.

Chaul"dron (?), n. See Chawdron. [Obs.]

Chaun (?), n. A gap. [Obs.] Colgrave.

Chaun, v. t. & i. To open; to yawn. [Obs.]

O, chaun thy breast. Marston.

Chaunt (?), n. & v. See Chant.

Chaunt"er (?), n. 1. A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [Slang, Eng.]

2. A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.]

He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens.

3. The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.

Chaunt"er*ie (?), n. See Chantry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

||Cha"us (?), n. (Zo÷l.) a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).

||Chausses (?), n. pl. [F.] 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.

||Chaus`sure" (?), n. [F.] A foot covering of any kind.

Chau"vin*ism (?), n. [F. chauvinisme, from Chauvin, a character represented as making grotesque and threatening displays of his attachment to his fallen chief, Napoleon I., in 1815.] Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.

-- Chau"vin*ist, n. -- Chau`vin*is"tic (&?;), a.

&fist; To have a generous belief in the greatness of one's country is not chauvinism. It is the character of the latter quality to be wildly extravagant, to be fretful and childish and silly, to resent a doubt as an insult, and to offend by its very frankness. Prof. H. Tuttle.

Chav"en*der (?), n. [Cf. Cheven.] (Zo÷l.) The chub. Walton.

Chaw (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chawed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chawing.] [See Chew.] 1. To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.

The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

2. To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over. Dryden.

A word formerly in good use, but now regarded as vulgar.