Part 1776

<h1>Chaffern</h1> <Xpage=236>

<hw>Chaf"fern</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Chafe</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>A vessel for heating water.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Chaffery</h1> <Xpage=236>

<hw>Chaf"fer*y</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Traffic; bargaining.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Chaffinch</h1> <Xpage=236>

<hw>Chaf"finch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Chiff-chaff</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A bird of Europe (<spn>Fringilla c\'d2lebs</spn>), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also <altname>copper finch</altname>.</def>

<h1>Chaffing</h1> <Xpage=236>

<hw>Chaff"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.</def>

<h1>Chaffless</h1> <Xpage=236>

<hw>Chaff"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without chaff.</def>

<h1>Chaffy</h1> <Xpage=236>

<hw>Chaff"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.</def>

<blockquote><b>Chaffy</b> grain beneath the thresher's flail. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Light or worthless as chaff.</def>

<blockquote>Slight and <b>chaffy</b> opinion. <i>Glanvill.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.</def>

<h1>Chafing</h1> <Xpage=236>

<hw>Chaf"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Chafe</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing.</def>

<cs><col>Chafing dish</col>, <cd>a dish or vessel for cooking on the table, or for keeping food warm, either by coals, by a lamp, or by hot water; a portable grate for coals.</cd> -- <col>Chafing gear</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>any material used to protect sails, rigging, or the like, at points where they are exposed to friction.</cd></cs>

<h1>Chagreen</h1> <Xpage=236>

<hw>Cha*green"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Shagreen</er>.</def>

<h1>Chagrin</h1> <Xpage=236>

<hw>Cha*grin"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. <ets>chagrin</ets> shagreen, a particular kind of rough and grained leather; also a rough fishskin used for graters and files; hence (<ets>Fig</ets>.), a gnawing, corroding grief. See <er>Shagreen</er>.]</ety> <def>Vexation; mortification.</def>

<blockquote>I must own that I felt rather vexation and <b>chagrin</b> than hope and satisfaction. <i>Richard Porson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Hear me, and touch Belinda with <b>chagrin</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Vexation; mortification; peevishness; fretfulness; disgust; disquiet.</syn> <usage> <er>Chagrin</er>, <er>Vexation</er>, <er>Mortification</er>. These words agree in the general sense of pain produced by untoward circumstances. <i>Vexation</i> is a feeling of disquietude or irritating uneasiness from numerous causes, such as losses, disappointments, etc. <i>Mortification</i> is a stronger word, and denotes that keen sense of pain which results fron wounded pride or humiliating occurrences. <i>Chagrin</i> is literally the cutting pain produced by the friction of <i>Shagreen</i> leather; in its figurative sense, it varies in meaning, denoting in its lower degrees simply a state of vexation, and its higher degrees the keenest sense of mortification.</usage>