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Fr. _cenchrite_, Lat. _cenchrus_, id.
CEST, CESSIT, _pret._ Seized.
_Wallace._
CH.
Words, of Goth. origin, whether S or E., beginning with _ch_, sounded hard, are to be traced to those in the Germ. or Northern languages that have _k_, and in A. S. _c_, which has the same power with _k_.
_To_ CHACK, _v. n._ To clack, to make a clinking noise, S.
_Cleland._
_To_ CHACK, _v. a._ To cut or bruise any part of the body by a sudden stroke; as when the sash of a window falls on the fingers, S.
E. _check_. Teut. _kack-en_, _kek-en_, increpare; synon. S. B.
_Chat_, q. v.
CHACK, CHATT, _s._ A slight repast, taken hastily, S.
Q. a _check_ for hunger.
CHACK, CHECK, _s._ The Wheat-ear, a bird, Orkn. Motacilla oenanthe, Linn.
V. ~Stane-Chacker~.
_Barry._
Nearly the same with the last part of its Germ. name, _stein schwaker_.
CHACKARALLY, _s._ Apparently some kind of checkered or variegated cloth.
_Watson's Coll._
CHACKE-BLYND-MAN, _s._ Blind man's buff.
_Bp. Forbes._
_Jockie-blind-man_, Angus, id.
CHACKLOWRIE, _s._ Mashed cabbage, mixed amongst barley-broth, Aberd.
CHAD, _s._ Gravel, such small stones as form the bed of a river, S. B.
Teut. _kade_, litus, ora.
~Chaddy~, _adj._ Gravelly; as, _chaddy ground_, that which chiefly consists of gravel, S.
_To_ CHAFF, _v. n._ To chatter, to be loquacious, Loth.
Teut. _keff-en_, gannire, latrare.
CHAFTIS, CHAFTS, _s. pl._ Chops, S. A. Bor. _chafts_.
_Peblis to the Play._
Su. G. _kiaeft_, _kaeft_, Isl. _kiaft-ur_, the jaw-bone. A. Bor.
_chafts_, _chefts_, id. Hence also E. _chops_.
~Chaft-Blade~, _s._ The jaw-bone, S.
~Chaft-Talk~, _s._ Talking, prattling, Aberd. from _chaft_ and _talk_.
_Poems Buchan Dial._
_To_ CHAIPE, _v. n._ To escape.
_Wallace._
Fr. _eschapp-er_, Ital. _scapp-are_, id.
CHAIPES, CHAPIS, _s. pl._ Price, rate, established value of goods.
_Acts Ja. I._
A. S. _ceap_, price; from _ceap-an_, to buy.
_To_ CHAISTIFIE, _v. a._ To chastise.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
_To_ CHAK, _v. a._ To check.
