Botanique. 
Chaetophora 
move by means of setigerous feet or parapodia, 
or by suctorial disks, as tho oligochsetous and po- 
lychsetous forms of worms, 
and the suctorial forms, 
or leeches. The group is 
nearly equivalent to tho 
class Annelida in the usual 
acceptation of that term. 
Chaetophora 2 (ke-tof'o-rii), 
. [NL., fern. sing, of cha 1 - 
tojihorus : see chaetoplto- 
rotts.] In hot., the princi- 
pal genus of the Cha'toplio- 
raeeie. 
Chaetophoracese (ke-tof-o- 
ra'se-e), n.pl. [NL.j< Chir- 
tophoi'a 2 + -aecfc.] A fam- 
ily of filamentous green 
fresh-water or rarely ter- 
restrial algre, belonging 
to the Chlorosporcie, and 
characterized by bristle- 
like tips on terminal ap- 
P end ages. Chwtophora is 
the principal genus, and C. 
elegans a common species. 
chastophorous (ke-tof'o-rus), a. [< NL. chaeto- 
phorus (cf. cluEtiferous), < Gr. x a ' T 1, mane (NL. 
chceta, bristle), + -<j>opo<;, < ijicpav = E. ftcntr 1 .] 
Bearing bristles ; setigerous or setiferous ; chse- 
tiferous; specifically, of or pertaining to the 
Chwtophora. 
Chaetopqd (ke'to-pod), a. and . I. a. Of or 
pertaining to the Cheetopoda. Also cluetopodous. 
II. n. An annelid or worm of the order Ciue- 
topoda. 
Chaetopoda (ke-top'o-da), n. pi. [NL., < Gr. 
xa'tTT/, mane (NL. ciiceta, bristle), + iroif (;ro<!-) 
= E./ooi.] 1. In some systems of zoological 
classification, a prime division or branch of a 
phylum of the animal kingdom called Appen- 
diculata, consisting of two classes, Oligochceta 
and Polychceta: in this sense contrasted with 
Rotifera (alone) and Gnatltopoda (Arthropoda 
indiscriminately). U. B. Lankester. [Little 
used.] 2. Ordinarily, an order or subclass of 
the class Annelida, with dorsal branchiee and 
non-suctorial mouth. They are marine worm-like 
annelids not distinctly segmented, and with tubular seti- 
gerous feet or parapodia, whence the name. There is a 
metamorphosis in most forms, and the sexes are generally 
distinct. This order is a large and important group of 
about 20 families, which has received many names, and to 
which varying limits have been assigned ; it is now usually 
divided into Oligochaita and Polychceta. 
chaetopodous (ke-top'o-dus), a. [< CliCEtopoda 
+ -ous.~] Same as chaitopod. 
Chaetops (ke'tops), n. [NL. (Swainson, 1837), < 
Gr. x atTr l, mane (NL. clueta, bristle), + bty, eye, 
face.] A notable genus of turdoid passerine 
birds of Africa : so called from the bristly rictus 
which they possess. C.frenatus is an example. 
Chaetopteridae (ke-top-ter'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < 
Cluetopterus, 1, + -ido;.] A family of annelids, 
usually referred to the order Clxetopoda, some- 
times to the Cephalobranchia. The body is elon- 
gated and segmented into several dissimilar regions ; the 
dorsal appendages of the middle segments are alate and 
often lobate, and they usually have 2 or 4 very long ten- 
tacular cirri. The animals live in parchment-like tubes. 
Chaetopterus (ke-top'te-rus), n. [NL., < Gr. 
xa'TI, mane (NL. chaiia, bristle), + mcpov, 
wing.] 1. The typical genus of the family 
Clicetopteridtf. C. pergamen taceits is a West In- 
dian species. 2. A genus of sparoid fishes. 
ChaetOSoma (ke-to-so'ma), . [NL., < Gr. xa-lrti, 
mane (NL. cii(eta, bristle), + aa/ia, body.] 1. 
The typical genus of the family Chcetosomidce, 
having a double row of short knobbed rods on 
the ventral surface in front of the anus. 2. A 
genus of coleopterous insects. 
Chaetosomidae (ke-to-so'mi-de), n. pi. [NL., < 
Chtetosoma, 1, + -idce.~\ A family of marine 
worms of uncertain position, usually referred 
to the order Nematoidea, and considered to have 
relationship with the Chectof/natha (Sagitta). 
Chaetospira (ke-to-spl'raj, . [NL. (Lach- 
mann, 1856), < Gr. xairrf,' mane (NL. chaita, 
bristle), + mrelpa, a coil, spire.] A genus of 
heterotrichous infusorians, of the group of the 
stentors or trumpet-animalcules, having a slen- 
der, spirally twisted, ribbon-like extension of 
the anterior region, and a lateral hyaline ex- 
pansion along the peristome. It includes sed- 
entary loricate infusorians, the zooids of which 
are not attached to the sheath, as C. muelleri. 
Chaetura (ke-tu'rii), w. [NL. (Stephens, 1825), 
< Gr. x a i T >l, mane (NL. chceta, bristle), + oiipd, 
tail.] 1. In ornith., a genus of swifts, of the 
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family Ci/pselida;; the spine-tailed swifts: so 
called because the shafts of the tail-feathers 
project beyond the webs in a hard, sharp point 
Chimney-swift (Clitrtttrtt felagi> 
or mucro. There are many species, the best-known of 
which is tlie common black chimney-swift of the United 
States, Chtxtura pelagica. 
2. A genus of gastrotrichous Nematorliyncha. 
3. A genus of dipterous insects. Macquart, 
1851. 4. A genus of protozoans. 
Chaeturinae(ke-tu-ri'ne), n.pl. [NL.,<Ch(etura, 
1, + -*'!.] A subfamily of non-passerine fissi- 
rostral birds, of the family Cypselidte or swifts ; 
the spine-tailed swifts, differing from the typi- 
cal swifts or Cypselince in having the normal 
ratio of the phalanges (2, 3, 4, 5). The genera 
are Chcetura, Collocalia, Dendrochelidon, Cypse- 
loides, and Nephcecetes. 
chaeturine (ke-tu'rin), a. Spine-tailed, as a 
swift ; of or pertaining to the Chceturince. 
chafe (chaf), v. ; pret. and pp. chafed, ppr. chaf- 
ing. [< ME. chaufen, warm, heat, < OF. chan- 
fer, F. chauffer, warm, = Pr. calfar, < L. calefa- 
cere, make warm, < calere, be warm, + facere, 
make. Cf. calefacient, calefy, and see chaffZ,'] 
1. trans. If. To heat; make warm. 
That the flamme upliende 
The celles forto chere and chaufe olofte. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 40. 
2. To excite heat in or make warm by friction ; 
stimulate to warmth by rubbing, as with the 
hands : as, to chafe the limbs. 
At last, recovering hart, he does begin 
To rubb her temples, and to chaufe her chin. 
Speiuer, F. Q., I. vii. 21. 
Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips 
With twenty thousand kisses. 
Shale., 2 Hen. VI., ill. 2. 
But she . . . laid his head upon her lap, 
And loosed the shatter'd casque, and chafed his hands. 
Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur. 
3. To fret and wear by friction ; abrade ; espe- 
cially, abrade (the skin) by rubbing; make sore 
by rubbing; gall: as, the coarse garments 
chafed his skin. 
The ground for anchorage is of the very best kind, sand 
without coral, which last chafes the cables all over the Bed 
Sea. Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 310. 
Two slips of parchment . . . she sewed round it to pre- 
vent its being chafed. Scott. 
The opposite hill, which hems in this romantic valley, 
and, like a heavy yoke, chafes the neck of the Aar. 
Ltmgfellow, Hyperion, iii. 2. 
4. To irritate ; annoy ; vex ; gall ; make angry. 
These foughten full harde, that sore were chauffed with 
wrath oon a-gein a-nother. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 460. 
Her intercession chaf'd him so, 
When she for thy repeal was suppliant, 
That to close prison he commanded her. 
Shak.,1. G. of V., ill. 1. 
Nay yet it chafes me that I could not bend 
One will ; nor tame and tutor with mine eye 
That dull cold-blooded Csesar. Tennyson, Fair Women. 
5. To stimulate, as by pungent odors ; per- 
fume. [Rare.] 
Lilies . . . 
Whose scent so chafed the neighbour air, that you 
Would surely swear Arabick spices grew. Suckling. 
6f. To animate; revive; inspirit; encourage. 
That he wolde . . . 
. . . cherisch hem alle with his cher, <fe chavfen her loye. 
Alliterative Poems (E. E. T. S.), ii. 128. 
= Svn. 3. To nib, wear. 4. To gall, vex, irritate, heat, 
ruffle, exasperate. 
II. intrans. If. To be or become heated. 
The day be-gan to chauffe, and the sonne was risen right 
high as a-boute the houre of pryme, and the duste be-gan 
to rise right thikke. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 283. 
2. To be fretted and worn by rubbing : as, the 
cable chafed against a rock. 3. To be irritated 
or annoyed; fret; fume. 
And take no care 
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are. 
Shah., Macbeth, iv. 1. 
Strode about in the chamber, 
Chafing and choking with rage ; like cords were the veins 
on his temples. Longfellow, Miles Standish, iv. 
4. To be in violent agitation; rage or boil; 
dash, as in anger ; fret. 
The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores. 
Shak., 3. C., 1. 2. 
chaff 
She too is strong, and might not chafe in vain 
Against them. Bryant, The Ages, st. 34. 
Chafe (chaf), n. [< chafe, v.~] 1. Heat excited 
by friction. [Bare.] 2. An irritated mental 
condition arising from continued provocation 
or annoyance ; heated impatience or anger, 
especially under restraint or a sense of injury ; 
a fretful tendency or state ; vexation. 
But she, in r/m/V, him from lu-r lap did shove. 
Sir P. Sidney, in Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 511. 
Stalking with less unconscionable strides, 
And lower looks, but in a sultry chafe. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 1246. 
Chafer 1 (cha'fer), , [< ME. "chafer, < AS. 
ccafor, ccafer, a beetle (tr. of L. bruchus: see 
Sruchus), = D. kever = OS. kever (gloss.) = 
OHG. chevar, chevaro, MHG. kcrer, kefere, G. 
kcifer, a chafer ; root uncertain ; 
cf. MHG. kifen, kiffen, gnaw.] 
A name commonly given to 
several species of lamellicorn 
beetles, Searabatidie. The melan- 
choly rose-chafer, Euphoria inelan- 
choliea, a familiar example, feeds upon 
flowers or upon the sap exuded from 
wounded trees, but in the autumn, and 
especially in dry seasons, not infre- 
quently attacks and injures ripe fruit mriancholica}, nat- 
of all descriptions, as grapes, figs, and "">! size, 
cotton-bolls. The European cockcha- 
fer, Melolontha milaarix, is in habit and position tho ana- 
logue of the American May-beetle or June-bug. 
chafer 2 (cha'fer), n. [< cnafe + -erl.] 1. One 
who or that which chafes. 2f. A vessel for 
heating water, food, etc. ; a chafing-dish. 
Water in chafer for laydyes fre. 
Kabecs Book (E. E. T. 8.), p. 314. 
Chafowre, to make whote a thynge, as watur, calefac- 
torium. Prompt. Pare. 
Hence 3f. Any dish or pan. [Rare.] 
A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. 
Baker, Hen. VIII., an. 1541. 
4. A small portable furnace ; a chauffer. E. 
H. Knight. Also chaffer. 
chaferyt (cha'fer-i), n. [Early mod. E. also 
chaferie, < F. (OF.) cliaufferie, a forge, < chauf- 
fer, OF. chaufer, heat : see chafe, ?.] A sort of 
blacksmiths' forge formerly used in manufac- 
turing iron in England, for reheating the blooms 
intended to be drawn out into bars. 
chafe-wax (chaf'waks), n. [< chafe, heat, + 
obj. wax 1 . Cf. equiv. F. chauffe-cire.~\ Former- 
ly, in England, an officer in chancery who pre- 
pared the wax for the sealing of writs and 
other documents about to be issued. Also 
written chaff-wax. 
chafeweed (chaf 'wed), n. A local English name 
for Gnaphalium Germaniatm, the cudweed. 
chaff 1 (chaf), . [= Sc. caff, < ME. chaf, caffe, 
< AS. ceaf= D. kaf, > MHG. kaf, G. kaff, chaff, 
prob. akin to OHG. cheva, MHG. *kei-e, G. Mfe, 
pod, husk, G. dial. (Swiss) kefen (also kifel, 
Bav. kif-erbes), green peas in the pod; cf. MHG. 
kffach, pods collectively.] 1. The glumes or 
husks of wheat, oats, or other grain and grasses, 
especially when separated from the seed by 
threshing and winnowing. 
Ley hem [pomegranates] feire in chaf that never oon other 
Touche, and ther thai beeth save ynough. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 117. 
We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind 
That ev'n our com shall seem as light as chaf. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 
2. Straw cut small for the food of cattle. 3. 
Figuratively, paltry refuse; worthless matter, 
especially that which is light and apt to be 
driven by the wind. 
Here es cury un-clene, carle, be my trowthe, 
Ca/e of creatours alle, thow curssede wriche ! 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1064. 
Gods defend us ! 
We are chaf before their fury else. 
Fletcher, Valentinian, v. 4. 
Not meddling with the dirt and chaf of nature. 
Fletcher (and another), Elder Brother, ii. 1. 
4. In bot., the scales or bracts which subtend 
the individual flowers in the heads of many 
Composites. 5. A name among fishermen for 
the finer kinds of seaweed. 
chaff 2 (chaf), i'. [A dial, form of chafe, pre- 
serving the older sound of the a (namely a, a), 
as also in chaff-wax for chafe-wax: see chafe, 
v. t., 4.] I. trans. To assail with sarcastic ban- 
ter or raillery ; banter ; make game of ; ridicule ; 
tease; quiz; worry. [Colloq.] 
Morgan saw that his master was chaffing him. Thackeray. 
=Syn. See taunt. 
II. intrans. To use bantering or ironical lan- 
guage by way of ridicule, teasing, or quizzing. 
[Colloq.] 
