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Show CH T will nq CH put forth a riddle unto you 3 if yo 7» Small money, which may be give larger pieces buys u ou ol halfpence, an thence the prefent want of change arifes Of hurly-burly innovation Shakefpeare *Twas not lon Before from world to world they fwung As they had turn'd from fide to fide And as they changelings liv'd, they died. Hudibras fo but fup of another On CHA'NGER. 2. /. [from ‘change. that is employed in changing or difcounting money ; money-changer CHA'NNEL Lat. CuA'NGEABLE. adj. [from change. there is no meafur to b an an habit, and have their certain courfe, to chang the channel, and turn their ftreams another way changeable humour L' Eftrange As1 am a man, Imuft be chargeable; and fome Spenfer's State of Ireland Dra Into th Do kif So th To gai times the graveft of us all are fo, even upon ridicu Dryden 2. Poflible to be changed "The fibrous or vafcular parts of vegetables {fee fcarce changeable in the alimentary duét If the new banks Arbutbnot on Aliments 3. Having the quality of exhibitin ferent appearances CHA'NGEABLENESS dif Sbake_éeare 7 /. [from change able. 1. Inconftancy; ficklenefs if an worthinef unworthy a changeablencfs There is n tha tha temper of min changeablenefs juftly brande might excuf with which w unmanl by all our neighbours Addifon's Frecholder devifed for her good, yet never effe€tually profecuted Spenfer Britain, changeful as a child at play Now calls in princes, and now turns away. Pope 2. An idiot ; a fool ; a natural Changelings and fools of heav'n, and thence fhu out Wildly we roam in difcontent about Dryden Would any one be a changeling, becaufe he i lefs determined by wife confiderations than a wif man . One apt to change ; a waverer Of fickle changelings and poor difcontents Locke noun. Tells you that the time js near Ben Fonfon Thefe verfes were mentioned by Chaucer, the defcription of the fudden ftir, and panical ey when Chanticleer the cock was carried away by Camden's Remaiys Within this homeftead liv'd without 2 peer For crowing loud, the noble chanticler Dryden's Fablys Cra'~NTRESS man finger #./i [from chant,] A wo Sweet bird, that thunn'ft the noife of folly Moft mufical, moft melancholy Thee, chantrefs of the woods among I woo to hear thy even-fong 7. / Cui'NTRY Milton [from chant. of .one or more priefts, daily to fing mafs for th fouls of the donors, and fuch others as they ap Cowell Now go with me, and with this holy man Into the chantry by And, underneath that confecrated roof Plight me the full aflurance of your faith 1. The mafs of matter {fuppofed to be i confufion before it was divided by th "creation into its proper clafles and elements The whole univerfe would have been a' confufe Bentlzg chaos, without beauty or order 2. Confufion; irregular mixture Had I followed the worft, I could not hav brought church and ftate to fuch a chaos of confu Of hoftile paces Shakefpeare The body of this column is perpetually channel/led, like a thick plaited gown. Wotton's ArchitcEure Supplies her parts, and wild ideas take Blackmore The poets chant it in the theatres, the fhepherd in the mountains Bramball 3. To fing in the cathedral fervice 7o CaanT. w. 7. To fing; to make me lody with the voice They chant to the found of the viol, and inven to themfelves inftruments of mufick. .mos, vi. 7 Heav'n heard his fong, and haften'd his relief And chang'd to fnowy plumes his hoary hair And wing'd his flight, to chant aloft in air. Dryd Cuanr. z / melody [from the verb. Song A pleafant grove With chant of tuneful birds refounding loud. Milton Cua'NTER. 2. /. [from chant.] A finger a fongfter You curious chanters of the wood That warble forth dame Nature's lays Jove's etherial lays, refiftle(s fire Potton . The chanter's foul and raptur'd fong infpire Shak CHAOS. 7, /: [chaos, Lat. yd®. fions, as fome have done 2. To celebrate by fong Shak the No more fhall trenching war channel her fields Nor bruife her flowrets with the armed hoof Wherein the chearful birds of fundry kin Do chant fweet mufick Fairy Qucen And her bafe elfin breed there for thee left A lovely boy ftol'n from an Indian king She never had fo fweet a changeling Shakefpeare be 1. To fing other hat Channel 7o CHANT. «. a, [chanter, Fr. CHA'NGELING. 7. /. [from change; th word arifes from an odd fuperftitiou opinion, that the fairies fteal away children, and put others that are ugly an ftupid in their places. 1. A child left or taken in the place of an She, as her attendant Britit tw Roll down the lofty mountain's channell'd fides And to the vale convey their foaming tides are dail Such men do changelings call, fo chang'd by fairie theft Spenfer's Fairy Queen fea, betwee Torrents, and loud impetuous cataraéts mutable ; fubjeét to variation ; fickle and changeful orders narro 4. A gutter or furrow of a pillar 70 CHA'NNEL. @. a. [from th To cut any thing in channels Full of change; inconftant ; uncertain plots Dryden's Fables Channel, between Britain and Ireland CHA'NGEABLY. adw. [from changeable. Inconftantly CHA'NGEFUL. adj. [from change and full. The firain of ftrutting chanticleer Stay, the chearful chanticlee perfe point tween Britain and France ; St. George' tability of them, but confidering the nature an quality of fuch laws Hooker Hark, hark, I hea have been no cavity or channel to give reception t the water of the fea Woodward The tops of mountains and hills will be continually wathed down by the rains, and the channel of rivers abraded by the ftreams Bentley countries : as th If how long they are to continue in force, be n where expreffed, then have we no light to direct ou judgment concerning the changeablenefs or immu In hafte was climbing up the eaftern hill, Chantry is a church or chapel endowed wit lands, or other yearly revenue, for the maintenanc 3. A ftrait o are to warned once, that Phebus® fiery ca Had not the faid ftrata been diflocated, fome o them elevated, and others deprefled, there woul they fell 2. Sufceptibility of change Unfoun Waller Complaint and hot defires, the lover's hell And fcalding tears, that wore a channe/ wher f Sidney mor negle&ed once, decay 2. Any cavity drawn longways At length he betrothed himfelf to one worth _to be liked and weep your tear firea of all. Shakefpeare her wonted courfe force No longer will from her old channel tay Now the taylor make thy doublet of changeabl "taffeta; for thy mind is a very opal them to Tyber'sbank channel, till the lowef the moft exalted fhore injur'd fea, which fro fome acres, avarice di Ha Reynard the fox It is not fo eafy, now that things are grown int taken of lous accidents canalis Fr [canal 7. / 1. The hollow bed of running waters 1. Subjelt to change; fickle; inconftant counfels Caa'NTICLEER. 7 f [from chanter an clair, Fr.] The name given to the cocl And chearful chanticleer, with his note fhrij Subferib'd it, gave the impreffion, plac'd it fafely Shakefpeare The changeling never known The bar, the bench, the change, the fchools an pulpits, are full of quacks, jugglers, and plagiaries L'Eftrange will admit fteady method Pflpl in ludicrous fpeech I folded the writ up in form of the other 8. Change for exchange; a place wher perfons meet to traffick and tranfa& mercantile affairs A fteady min Warbling the Grecian woes with harp and yoics from the clearnefs and loudnefs of pj 4. Any thing changed and put in the place | . Crow fro pofing not one farthing of change in the nation five-and-twenty thoufand pounds would be fufficient Savift Inftinét divine! nor blame fevere his cholce That gape and rub the elbow at the new €an find it out, then I will give you thirty theets and thirty change of garments Fudges Woo CH K. Charle Their reafon fleeps, but mimick fancy wakes From words and things, ill forted, and mxs_;qm‘d The anarchy of thought, and chas of the :Bi;lt 'acti 3. Any thing where the parts are undiftinguifhed We fhall have nothing but darknefs and a cha within, whatever order and light there be in thing without us Lottt Pleas'd with a work, where nothing 's juft or fi One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit Pope Refem adj. [from chass. Cuao'Tick bling chaos ;. confufed When the terraqueous globe was in a.chatfic ftate, and the earthy particles fubfided, then thof feveral beds were, in all probability, repofited the earth D"'bf" 7o CHAP «. a. [kappen, Dutch, to cut Thi word feems originally the fal}} with chop; nor were they probabl}' diftinguithed at firft, otherwife than by accident ; but they have now a meanin fomething different, though referable t the fame original fenfe.] To break in hiatus, or gapings It weakene earth dryin in fundry places more and mor the arch of th it immoderately, and cbapping .B‘ Then would unbalanc'd h a l c n Crack the dry hill, and ¢bap the Fu lou;'rx:lgu llet Pgm}mafl Coa |