Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CHAL-DA'ISM, n.

An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect. – Parkhurst.

CHAL-DE'AN, n.

An inhabitant of Chaldea.

CHAL'DEE, a.

Pertaining to Chaldea.

CHAL'DEE, n.

The language or dialect of the Chaldeans.

CHAL'DRON, or CHAL'DER, n. [Fr. chaudron; Sp. calderon; It. calderone, a kettle. The same word as caldron. Chalder is not in use in the United States.]

A measure of coals consisting of thirty-six bushels. – Chambers.

CHAL'ICE, n. [Fr. calice; Sp. caliz; It. calice; D. kelk; G. kelch; L. calix; Gr. κυλιξ. It should have been written calice.]

A cup, or bowl; usually a communion cup.

CHAL'I-CED, a.

Having a cell or cup; applied by Shakspeare to a flower; but I believe little used.

CHALK, n. [chauk; Sax. cealc; D. Dan. and G. kalk; Sw. kalck; W. calc; Corn. kalch; Ir. cailk; L. calx; Fr. chaux. The Latin calx is lime-stone, chalk-stone, and the heel, and calco is to kick and to tread. In Italian calca is a crowd. The sense then is a mass made compact, a clod or lump. If the Gr. χαλιξ, flint, gravel, is the same word, the Latins deviated from their usual practice in writing calx; for chalx. These words are probably connected in origin with callus.]

A well known calcarious earth, of an opake white color, soft and admitting no polish. It contains a large portion of carbonic acid, and is a subspecies of carbonate of lime. It is used as an absorbent and anti-acid. – Cleaveland. Nicholson. Kirwan. Aikin. Black chalk is a species of earth used by painters for drawing on blue paper. Red chalk is an indurated clayey ocher used by painters and artificers.

CHALK, v.t.

1. To rub with chalk; to mark with chalk.
2. To manure with chalk, as land.
3. From the use of chalk in marking lines, the phrase to chalk out is used to signify, to lay out, draw out, or describe; as, to chalk out a plan of proceeding.

CHALK'-CUT-TER, n.

A man that digs chalk. – Woodward.

CHALK'ED, pp.

Marked with chalk.

CHALK'I-NESS, n. [chauk'iness.]

The state of being chalky.

CHALK'ING, ppr.

Marking with chalk.

CHALK'-PIT, n.

A pit in which chalk is dug. – Johnson.

CHALK'-STONE, n.

1. In medicine, a calcarious concretion in the hands and feet of men violently affected by the gout. – Encyc.
2. A small lump of chalk. – Isaiah.

CHALK'Y, a. [chauk'y.]

1. Resembling chalk; as, a chalky taste.
2. White with chalk; consisting of chalk; as, chalky cliffs. – Rowe.
3. Impregnated with chalk; as, chalky water.

CHAL'LENGE, n. [Norm. calenge, an accusation; chalunge, a claim; challenger, to claim; from the root of call, Gr. καλεω, κελλω, L. calo. See Call. Literally, a calling, or crying out, the primary sense of many words expressing a demand, as claim, L. clamo. Hence appropriately,]

1. A calling upon one to fight in single combat; an invitation or summons, verbal or written, to decide a controversy a duel. Hence the letter containing the summons is also called a challenge.
2. A claim or demand made of a right or supposed right. There must be no challenge of superiority. – Collier.
3. Among hunters, the opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. – Encyc.
4. In law, an exception to jurors; the claim of a party that certain jurors shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause; that is, a calling them off. The right of challenge is given both in civil and criminal trials, for certain causes which are supposed to disqualify a juror to be an impartial judge. The right of challenge extends either to the whole panel or array, or only to particular jurors, called a challenge to the polls. A principal challenge is that which the law allows without cause assigned. A challenge to the favor, is when the party alledges a special cause. In criminal cases, a prisoner may challenge twenty jurors, without assigning a cause. This is called a peremptory challenge. – Blackstone.

CHAL'LENGE, v.t.

1. To call, invite or summon to answer for an offense by single combat, or duel.
2. To call to a contest; to invite to a trial; as, I challenge a man to prove what he asserts, implying defiance.
3. To accuse; to call to answer. – Spenser. Shak.
4. To claim as due; to demand as a right; as, the Supreme Being challenges our reverence and homage.
5. In law, to call off a juror, or jurors; or to demand that jurors shall not sit in trial upon a cause. [See the noun.]
6. To call to the performance of conditions.

CHAL'LENGE-A-BLE, a.

That may be challenged; that may be called to an account. – Sadler.

CHAL'LENG-ED, pp.

Called to combat or to contest; claimed; demanded as due; called from a jury.

CHAL'LENG-ER, n.

1. One who challenges; one who invites to a single combat; one who calls on another by way of defiance. – Shak.
2. One who claims superiority; one who claims any thing as his right, or makes pretensions to it. – Hooker.
3. One who calls a juror, or a jury, from the trial of his cause.

CHAL'LENG-ING, ppr.

Summoning to a duel, or to contest; claiming as a right; defying; calling off from a jury.

CHA-LYB'E-AN, a. [Infra.]

Pertaining to steel well tempered. – Milton.

CHA-LYB'E-ATE, a. [L. chalybs; Gr. χαλυψ, steel. Qu. from Chalybs, a town near the Euxine.]

Impregnated with particles of iron; as, chalybeate waters.

CHA-LYB'E-ATE, n.

Any water or other liquor into which iron enters.