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Show i C H ing heart cherty. 6. The black heart cherry 7. The May cherry. 8. The black cherry, or mazard, g, The archduke cherry. 10, The yello Spanifh cherry. 11. The Flanders clufter cherry 12. The carnation cherry, 13. The large blac 14. The bird cherry. 15. The red bir cherry or Cornith cherry. 16. The largeft double lower17. The double flowered cherry ed cherry 19. The wil 18. The common wild cherry northern Englifh cherry, with late ripe fruit 20, The fhock or perfumed chetry. 2r1. Th cherrytree with ftriped leaves. And many othe forts of cherries; as the amber cherry, lukeward corone, Gafcoigne, and the morello, which i chiefly planted for preferving This fruit wa brought out of Pontus at th . time of the Mithridatic victory by Lucullus, i the year of Rome 680; and was brought into Britain about 120 years afterwards, which was Znn Dom. 55 ;5 and was foon after {fpread through mof parts of Europe Miller Some afk but a pin, a nut, a cherry ftone; bu the, more covetous, would have a chain Shakefp July Iwould have drawn in a jacket of lightyellow, eating cherries, with his face and bofo fun-burnt Cur'rry 4dj [fro the fubftantive. _ Refembling a cherry in colour CHERRY-BAY Shakefp See LAUREL CHE'RRYCHEEKED. adj. [from cherry an cheek.] Having ruddy cheeks CHE'RRYPIT. 7. /. [from cherry and piz. A child's play, in which they thro cherry ftones into a fmall hole o cherubin fro o th by Mofes, Exod. xxvi cunning work The roof ¢' th' chambe With gold cherubims is fretted wer lick; relating to the cherubim Thy word A.ttentive, and with more delighted ear Divine infbructor! 1 have heard, than whe men cheft like a fkilful chefs-player, he draws ou an make hi pawn o uf to hi Dryden #. /. Mellow earth #. /. [cyye, Sax. ciffa, Lat. or other material i trunk,'well, vault, but he hath a abfira for the remembrance of fuch places. Shakefpearc But more have been by avarice oppreft And heaps of money crowded in the chgf. Dryden 2. A CHEST of Drawers A cafe wit moveable boxes or drawers 3. The trunk of the body, or cavity fro the fhoulders to the belly Such as hav roun faces, or broad cheffs, o fhoulders, have feldom or never long necks H Shall blow the horrid deed in ev'ry eye That tears fhall drown the wind Shakefpeare Crerv'B1ck. ad). [from cherub.] Ange [from chefs and man. He will fegk there, on my word : neither prefs calle Prior Prior which things are laid up Shake[peare And to a miracle improves a tune # / 1. A box of wood on Sormre cherub finifhes what you begun Cue'stip. » /. A {mall vermin, that lie under ftones or tiles Skinner CHESS. #. /. [echecs, Fr.] A nice an abfirufe game, in which two fets of me are moved in oppofition to each other CHEST 1. cherubim o Calmer Heav'n's cherubin, hors' Upon the fightlefs courfers of the air Spenfer being mere mould, between the two extremeés o clay and fand; efpecially if it be not loomy an binding Bacor's Naturel Hiflory oxen, lions, an Tabernacle The tendey cheffom and mellow earth is the bett n a compofition of all thefe figures pu together. The hieroglyphical reprefentations in the embroidery upon the curtain bifd Frame to thy fong their cheerful cheruping Or hold their pedce for fhame of thy fwect lays CrEssoM another ; as they are deferibed in th fhapes of men, eagles A plant Miller 7. [from cheer ; perhap corrupted to cherup.] T a cheerful voice. Th greater perfons is place diffe Shakefpeare . /. [charophyllum, Lat. umbelliferou 7o CHE'RUP. w from cheer up chirp ; to uf hi next in order to the feraphim. All th feveral defcriptions which the Scriptur u CHERVIL Thus ‘CHE'RUB. n./. [293 plur. a It i fometimes written in the plural, improperly, cherubims. A celeftial fpi give For all her cherubin look CHE'SS-PLAYER. 7. /i [from chefs an player.] A gamefter at chefs Woodward rit, which, in the hierarchy Hath in her more deftruéion than thy fword A company of chefs-men ftanding on the fam {quares of the chefs-board where we left them we fay they are all in the fame place, or unmoved Locke Flint is moft commonly found in form of nodules; but 'tis fometimes found in thin ftrate when 'tis called chert This fell whore of thin A puppet for chefs nent by a narrow neck or ifthmus kind of flint CHE'RUBIN.adj. [fromcherud.] Angelical Cue'ss-MaN Shalefpeare, 2 /0 [from guartz, Germ. Miltor's Paradife Loft. To eafe the pain of coward thought CHERSONE SE. 7, /. [xzecovmaos.] A peninfula; a tra& of land almoft furrounded by the fea, but joined to the conti CuErT Cbherubick watch And on the eaft fide of the garden plac And cards are dealt, and chefs-boards brought What, man ! "tis not for gravity to play at cher Miltors Paradife Loft CuE'ss-arpLE. 7 /. A {pecies of Wil Service CHEr'ss-BoARD. 7. /[ [from chefs an board.] The board or table on which th game of chefs is played I warrant them cherrycheek'd country girls Congreve rypit Aerial mufick fend From thence to bufy Eurepeans fent And ftyl'd by modern Lombards penfive chefs Denban So have I feen a king on chef (His rooks and knights withdrawn His queen and bifhops in diftrefs Shifting about, grow lefs and lefs With here and there a pawn Dryden Hale Shore's wife hath a pretty foot A cherry lip, a pafling pleafing tongue CuE'sTED The force of Eaftern wifdom to exprefs A little fpark of life, which, in its firft appearance, might be inclofed in the hollow of a cherr Cherubick fongs by night from neighb'ring hitl This game the Perfian magi did invent Peacham ftone CH CyH " defcribe anothe by the largenef cheft, and breadth of his fhoulders Broavn of hi } n. /. [ chaftaigne, Fr CHE'STNUT CHE'sTNUT-TREE. § caffanca, Lat. 1. The tree hath katkins, which are place at remote diftances from the fruit, o the fame tree. 'The outer coat of th fruit is very rough, and has two or tl}re nuts included in each hutk or covering This tree was formerly in greater plen ty, as may be proved by the old buildings in London, which were, for th moft part, of this.timber; which is equa in value to the beft oak, and, for man fo purpofes, far exceeds it, particularl making veflels for liquors; it having property, when once thoroughly feafoned, to maintain its bulk conftantly, an is no fubjeét to fhrin Miller A woman's tongue That gives not half {6 great a blow to th' ear Shakefpeare As will a cheffnut in a farmer's fire O&ober has a bafket of fervices, medlars, an cbefinuts, and fraits that ripen at the latter time Peacham on Drawing 3. The name ofa brown colour His hair is of a good colour.-- ---A excellen colour your chefluut wa eve Shakefpeare the only colour Merab's long hair was glofly cheffnut brown Cowley Cue'stoN n./. A fpecies of plum CHEVALI'ER. n. [ [chevalier Fr. knight; a gallant ftrong man Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid And I am.lowted by a traitor villain And cdnnot help the noble chevalier Shakefpeare CHEVAUXde Frife. n./. [Fr. The fingular Chewval de Frife 1s {eldom ufed. The Friefland horfe, which is a piece o timber, larger or fmaller, and traverfe with wooden {pikes, pointed with iron five or fix feet long ; ufed in defendin a paflage, ftopping a breach, or makin a retrenchment to flop the cavalry. I is alfo called a turnpike, or tourniquet Cue'VEN Chambers. n. [ [chevefne; Fr. A rive fith, the fame with chub CuE'VERIL. 7 /. [cheverau, Fr.] A kid kidleather Qbifolete A fentence is but a-cheveril glove to a good wit how guickly the wroag fide may be turned out ward Shakefpearz Which gifts the capacit Of your foft cheweril conicience would receive If you might pleafe to ftretch it Skakefpeare O, here 's a wit of cheweril, that ftretches fro an inch narrow to an ell broad Shakefpeare CHE'VISANCE. n. [. [chevifance, Fr. Enterprife; achievement. A word no not in ufe ‘Fortune, the foe of famows chewifance Seldom, faid Guyon, yields ta ¥irtue aid. Spenfer repofite in a cheft; to hoard CHEST-FOUNDERING. 7 /. A difeale i horfes. It comes near to a pleurify, o reprefent peripneumony, in a human body Farrier's Diionary lik or fwell other timber 2. The fruit of the cheftnut tree CHEVRON T Having [from chef. cheft ; as, broad-chefted, narrow-chefted See CasTOR Cue'sTer Pope's Notes on the Iliad 7o CuEesT, @, 2. [from the noun. adj n./. [French. One of th honourable ord#naries in heraldry I two rafters of a houfe, fet u as they eught to ftand Harris 70 CHEW. . a. [ceopyan, Sax. Aauwen Dutch. It is very frequently pronounce ¢hasw, and perhaps properly. Q9 1. T |