Emily Dickinson Lexicon

chastise, v. [see chasten, v.]

Chasten; correct; rebuke; reprove.

chastising, n. [see chasten, v.]

Chastening; correcting; reproving.

chat, n. [an onomatopoeic abbreviation of chatter.]

Chatter; familiar and easy talk or conversation.

chat (-ted), v. [see chat, n.] (webplay: idly, manner).

Converse; discourse; engage in spoken exchange; talk idly or frivolously.

chatter, n. [an onomatopoeic word of frequentative form: < Du. koeteren, jabber, kwetteren, chatter, and Eng. twitter, jabber, etc.]

Incessant, trivial, inconsequential talk.

cheat (-s), v. [ME chete.] (webplay: belief, child, common, fail, fraud, gain, hide.]

1. Defraud; swindle; deceive or trick.
2. Escape from; sneak off; steal away from; go out of view from.

cheated, verbal adj. [see cheat, v.] (webplay: fine).

Deceived; tricked; victimized; deprived of something.

check (-s), n. [ME chek.] (webplay: counter-register, flight, seamanship).

1. Bank-note; order for money.
2. Arrest; cessation; halt; stay; act of stopping.
3. Token, usually a memorandum of receipt, used for the purpose of identification, or as evidence of ownership or title.

check, v. [ME chek-en.] (webplay: bend, money, rope, stop).

Arrest; constrain; curb; halt; restrain; stop.

cheek (-s), n. [OE céce.] (webplay: below, eyes, chin, closeness, face, head, near, printing-press, trees).

Part of either side of the face below the eye and between the nose and ear; [fig.] petal; something resembling a cheek.