Part 1823

<cs><col>Bush chat</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Bush</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Chat</h1> <Xpage=243>

<hw>Chat</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A twig, cone, or little branch. See <er>Chit</er>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>Small stones with ore.</def>

<cs><col>Chat potatoes</col>, <cd>small potatoes, such as are given to swine. <mark>[Local.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Chateau</h1> <Xpage=243>

<hw>Cha`teau"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Chateux</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[F. <ets>ch\'83teau</ets> a castle. See <er>Castle</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A castle or a fortress in France.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; <as>as, the <ex>chateau</ex> of the Louvre; the <ex>chateau</ex> of the Luxembourg.</as></def>

<note>&hand; The distinctive, French term for a fortified caste of the middle ages is <i>ch\'83teau-fort</i>.</note>

<cs><col>Chateau en Espagne</col> <tt>(<?/)</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety>, <cd>a castle in Spain, that is, a castle in the air, Spain being the region of romance.</cd></cs>

<h1>Chatelaine</h1> <Xpage=243>

<hw>Chat"e*laine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>ch\'83telaine</ets> the wife of a castellan, the mistress of a chateau, a chatelaine chain.]</ety> <def>An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; <as>as, a <ex>chatelaine</ex> chain</as>.</def>

<h1>Chatelet</h1> <Xpage=243>

<hw>Chat"e*let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>ch\'83telet</ets>, dim. of <ets>ch\'83teau</ets>. <ets>See</ets> <er>Castle</er>.]</ety> <def>A little castle.</def>

<h1>Chatellany</h1> <Xpage=243>

<hw>Chat"el*la*ny</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>ch\'83tellenie</ets>.]</ety> <def>Same as <er>Castellany</er>.</def>

<h1>Chati</h1> <Xpage=243>

<hw>Cha`ti"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>chat</ets> cat.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A small South American species of tiger cat (<spn>Felis mitis</spn>).</def>

<h1>Chatoyant</h1> <Xpage=243>

<hw>Cha*toy"ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F., p. pr. of <ets>chatoyer</ets> to be chatoyant, fr. <ets>chat</ets> cat.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.</def>

<h1>Chatoyant</h1> <Xpage=243>

<hw>Cha*toy"ant</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A hard stone, as the <i>cat's-eye</i>, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.</def>

<h1>Chatoyment</h1> <Xpage=243>

<hw>Cha*toy"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>chatoiement</ets>. See <er>Chatoyant</er>.]</ety> <def>Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors.</def>

<i>Cleaceland.</i>

<h1>Chattel</h1> <Xpage=243>

<hw>Chat"tel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>chatel</ets>; another form of <ets>catel</ets>. See <er>Cattle</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than <i>goods</i> or <i>effects</i>.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Chattels</i> are personal or real: <i>personal</i> are such as are movable, as goods, plate, money; <i>real</i> are such rights in land as are less than a freehold, as leases, mortgages, growing corn, etc.</note>