Part 1794

<h1>Changeful</h1> <Xpage=238>

<hw>Change"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

<blockquote>His course had been <b>changeful</b>. <i>Motley.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Change"ful*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Change"ful*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Changeless</h1> <Xpage=238>

<hw>Change"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That can not be changed; constant; <as>as, a <ex>changeless</ex> purpose</as>.</def>

-- <wordforms><wf>Change"less*ness</wf>, <tt>n</tt>.</wordforms>

<h1>Changeling</h1> <Xpage=238>

<hw>Change"ling</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Change</ets> + <ets>-ling</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.</def>

<blockquote>Such, men do <b>changelings</b> call, so changed by fairies' theft. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>changeling</b> [a substituted writing] never known. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A simpleton; an idiot.</def>

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<blockquote><b>Changelings</b> and fools of heaven, and thence shut out.

<blockquote>Wildly we roam in discontent about.

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>One apt to change; a waverer.</def> "Fickle <i>changelings</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Changeling</h1> <Xpage=238>

<hw>Change"ling</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Taken or left in place of another; changed.</def> "A little <i>changeling</i> boy."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Given to change; inconstant.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Some are so studiously <b>changeling</b>. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Changer</h1> <Xpage=238>

<hw>Chan"ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who changes or alters the form of anything.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who deals in or changes money.</def>

<i>John ii. 14.</i>