Part 1782

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<blockquote>Let a bleak paleness <b>chalk</b> the door. <i>Herbert.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To chalk out</col>, <cd>to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> "I shall pursue the plan I have <i>chalked out<i>."</cd></cs>

<i>Burke.</i>

<h1>Chalkcutter</h1> <Xpage=237>

<hw>Chalk"cut`ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A man who digs chalk.</def>

<h1>Chalkiness</h1> <Xpage=237>

<hw>Chalk"i*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being chalky.</def>

<h1>Chalkstone</h1> <Xpage=237>

<hw>Chalk"stone`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A mass of chalk.</def>

<blockquote>As <b>chalkstones</b> . . . beaten in sunder. <i>Isa. xxvii. 9.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Chalky</h1> <Xpage=237>

<hw>Chalk"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; <as>as, a <ex>chalky</ex> cliff; a <ex>chalky</ex> taste.</as></def>

<h1>Challenge</h1> <Xpage=237>

<hw>Chal"lenge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>chalenge</ets> claim, accusation, challenge, OF. <ets>chalenge</ets>, <ets>chalonge</ets>, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. <ets>calumnia</ets> false accusation, chicanery. See <er>Calumny</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>challenge</b> to controversy. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A claim or demand.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>There must be no <b>challenge</b> of superiority. <i>Collier.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Hunting)</fld> <def>The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.</def>

<i>Blackstone</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>An exception to a person as not legally qualifed to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark>

<cs><col>Challenge to the array</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>an exception to the whole panel.</cd> -- <col>Challenge to the favor</col>, <cd>the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it.</cd> -- <col>Challenge to the polls</col>, <cd>an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned.</cd> -- <col>Peremptory challenge</col>, <cd>a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause.</cd> -- <col>Principal challenge</col>, <cd>that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true.</cd></cs>

<h1>Challenge</h1> <Xpage=237>

<hw>Chal"lenge</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Challenged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Challenging</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>chalengen</ets> to accuse, claim, OF. <ets>chalengier</ets>, <ets>chalongier</ets>, to claim, accuse, dispute, fr. L. <ets>calumniar</ets> to attack with false accusations. See <er>Challenge</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, and cf. <er>Calumniate</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.</def>

<blockquote>I <b>challenge</b> any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>