Emily Dickinson Lexicon

chubby, adj. [Late ME chubbe, of unknown origin.] (webplay: head, near, short, thick).

Plump; well-rounded.

chuckle (-d, -s), v. [Echoic.]

Chortle; laugh quietly to oneself; laugh in a suppressed manner.

chum (-s), n. [Recorded only since c. 1684. Perhaps abbreviated from chamber-mate, but no historical link or proof has been found.] (webplay: rest).

Associate; companion; intimate friend.

church (-es), n. [ME < OE circe.] (webplay: call, clergy, day, faith, God, house, Lord, named, ritual, true).

1. Building where worship services take place; group of people that participate in a particular congregation; [fig.] holy place or thing.
2. Worship service.

churchyard, n. [see church, n.; yard, n. < OE yeard, fence, dwelling, house, region.] (webplay: buried).

Yard enclosing a church, which is usually used as a burial ground for the parish.

cicatrice, n. [Fr. < L. cicatricem cicatrix, scar.]

Scar of a healed wound.

cigar, n. [Sp. cigarro.]

Roll of tobacco leaves for smoking; one end goes in the smoker's mouth while the other is lit.

cimitar (scimitar), n. [Fr. cimiterre < Gk. sampsera, a barbarian sword.]

Short curved sword, used especially in Oriental countries.

cinder, n. [OE sinder, scoria, slag of metal.] (webplay: fire, small).

Ember; piece of glowing coal that has ceased to flame.

Cinderella (-'s), proper n. [Fr. Cendrillon < cendres, ashes; see cinder.]

Fairy tale princess; heroine of a story in “Mother Goose Tales” (1697) by French writer Perrault; children's book character who sat near the fire in the ashes when her work was done; maiden whose fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a coach and mice into horses.