Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CHAT'WOOD, n.

Little sticks; fuel. – Bailey. Johnson.

CHAUF'FER, n. [Fr. chauffer, to heat.]

In chimistry, a small furnace, a cylindrical box of sheet iron, open at the top, with a grate near the bottom. – Fyfe.

CHAU-MON-TELLE', n. [Fr.]

A sort of pear.

CHAUN, n.

A gap. [Not in use. See Yawn.]

CHAUN, v.i.

To open; to yawn. [Not in use.]

CHAV'EN-DER, or CHEV'EN, n. [Fr. chevesne.]

The chub, a fish.

CHAW, n. [a different spelling of jaw. See Chaw, supra.]

1. The jaw. – Ezek. xxix. 4. But in modern editions of the Bible it is printed jaw.
2. In vulgar language, a cud; as much as is put in the mouth at once.

CHAW, v.t. [Sax. ceowan; D. kaauwen; G. kauen; Ir. cagnaim, or cognaim; Arm. jaoga, or chaguein; coinciding with jaw, which in Arm. is javed, gaved or chagell, and as cheek and jaw are often united, this word coincides with Sax. ceac, ceoca. It is most correctly written and pronounced chaw; but chew is deemed most elegant.]

1. To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to ruminate, or to chew as the end.
2. To ruminate in thought; to revolve and consider. [Obs.]

CHAW'DRON, n.

Entrails. – Shak.

CHAW'ED, pp.

Chewed.

CHAW'ING, ppr.

Chewing.

CHAY, n.

Chaya-root; the root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, used in dyeing red.

CHEAP, a. [Sax. ceap, cattle, business, or trade, a price, a pledge or pawn, a selling any thing that may be bought or sold; ceapian, cypan, to buy, to sell, to negotiate, to gain; D. koop, a bargain or purchase; “te koop zetten,” to set to sale; “goed koop,” cheap, good purchase; koopen, to buy; G. kaufen; Dan. kiöber; Sw. kåpa; Russ. kupayu; L. caupo; Eng. to cheapen, to chaffer, chap-man, chap-book, to chop and change. The sense is a purchase, and good cheap is a good purchase or bargain. Hence, probably, omitting good, we have cheap.]

1. Bearing a low price, in market; that maybe purchased at a low price; that is, at a price as low or lower than the usual price of the article or commodity, or at a price less than the real value. The sense is always comparative; for a price deemed cheap at one time is considered dear at another. It is a principle which the progress of political science has clearly established; a principle that illustrates at once the wisdom of the Creator and the blindness of human cupidity, that it is cheaper to hire the labor of freemen than to compel the labor of slaves. – L. Bacon.
2. Being of small value; common; not respected; as cheap beauty. Make not yourself cheap in the eyes of the world. – Anon.

CHEAP, n.

Bargain; purchase; as in the phrases, good cheap, better cheap; the original phrases from which we have cheap.

CHEAP'EN, v.t. [che'apn; Sax. ceapian. See Cheap, supra.]

1. To attempt to buy; to ask the price of a commodity; to chaffer. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, / Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. – Swift.
2. To lessen value. – Dryden.

CHEAP'EN-ED, pp.

Bargained for.

CHEAP'EN-ER, n.

One who cheapens or bargains.

CHEAP'EN-ING, ppr.

Bargaining for.

CHEAP'ER, a. [comp.]

More cheap; less expensive.

CHEAP'EST, a. [superl.]

Most cheap; least costly.

CHEAP'LY, adv.

At a small price; at a low rate.

CHEAP'NESS, n.

Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.

CHEAR, v. [or n.]

See CHEER.

CHEAT, n.

1. A fraud committed by deception; a trick; imposition; imposture.
2. A person who cheats; one guilty of fraud by deceitful practices.

CHEAT, v.t. [Sax. ceatt. In Ar. خَدَعَ gadaa, signifies to deceive, circumvent, seduce; to fail, to hide, to disguise, to defraud; كَادَ kaida, signifies to deceive, to lay snares; Eth. ኀይጠ chiet or kiet, signifies to cheat, to deceive, to defraud.]

1. To deceive and defraud in a bargain; to deceive for the purpose of gain in selling. Its proper application is to commerce, in which a person uses some arts, or misrepresentations, or withholds some facts, by which he deceives the purchaser.
2. To deceive by any artifice, trick or device, with a view to gain an advantage contrary to common honesty; as, to cheat a person at cards.
3. To impose on; to trick. It is followed by of or out of, and colloquially by into, as to cheat a child into a belief that a medicine is palatable.