channel-bone 
Hit [her neck} was white, smuthe, streght, and pure flattc, 
Withouten hole, or <-<iin'l-b<i<i/t, 
As by seminge, hadde she noon. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 942. 
Chianicola [It., < L. clacicida], the chanelbmif of the 
tlirote, the neckbone or crawbone. Florin. 
channel-cat (chan'el-kat), n. A name com- 
mon in the United States to several species of 
catfish : so called from being found in the chan- 
nels of rivers, (a) The Icluhiru* jmnetntus, :\ slender, 
small-headed, fork-tailed species, abounding in the larger 
western and southern streams, attaining; a weight of from 
6 to 10 pounds, and generally esteemed for the table. (6) 
The Ainiuntx albidux, a robust large-headed species, with 
an emarginate candal fin, and of a light color, common in 
the Susquehanna and Potomac rivers. 
channel-duck (than'el-duk), n. See ducTc^. 
channeled, channelled (chan'eld), a. [< chan- 
nel 1 + -ed*.] 1. Having one or more channels; 
worn intc channels; grooved longitudinally ; 
fluted. 
Torrents, and loud impetuous Cataracts, 
Roll down the lofty mountain's channelled sides. 
Sir R. Black-more. 
2. In hot., hollowed out; trough-like; canalic- 
ulate: applied to petioles, leaves, etc. 3. In 
entom., canaliculate; having a central longitu- 
dinal furrow. 
channeler. channeller (chan'el-er), n. A ma- 
chine used in quarrying for cutting grooves or 
channels in the rock. 
channel-goose (chan'el-gos), n. The solan- 
goose or white gannet, Sitla bassana : so called 
from its frequenting the channel between Eng- 
land and Ireland. See cut under gannet. 
channeling, channelling (chan'ei-ing), . [< 
channel 1 + -ing 1 .] 1. A system of channels 
or gutters. 
All parts of the premises [a tannery] should be firmly 
and evenly paved with appropriate materials, and duly 
sloped to good channelling, and well drained throughout. 
Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 309. 
2. In arch., channels or grooves, taken collec- 
tively: as, the channeling of the Doric column. 
See channel 1 , 6 (c). 
channeling-machine (chan'el-ing-ma-shen"), 
n. 1 . A machine for cutting grooves or chan- 
nels in quarrying stone. 2. A machine for cut- 
ting channels in the soles of shoes and boots, 
into which the thread is sunk. 
channel-iron (chan'el-i"ern), n. 1. A form of 
angle-iron having two flanges, both placed on 
the same side of the web. 2. A hook to sup- 
port a gutter. 
channel-leafed (chan'el-left), a. In hot., hav- 
ing leaves folded together, so as to resemble a 
channel. London. 
channelled, etc. See channeled, etc. 
channelly (chan'el-i), . [< channel^ + -y 1 .] 
Gravelly. [Scotch.] 
channel-plate (chan'el-plat), n. [< channel^ + 
plate.] Same as chain-plate. 
channel-wale (chan'el-wal), n. A strake be- 
tween the ports of the gun-deck and the upper 
deck of a large war-vessel. 
channer ' (chan'er), r>. i. [E. dial. ; cf. chanter'*.] 
To fret ; grumble ; complain. 
The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, 
The channerin' worm doth chide. 
The Wife of Usher's Well (Child's Ballads, I. 216). 
channer' 2 , channers (chan'er, -erz). . [Var. 
of channel^, q. V- ] Gravel. [Scotch.] 
channery (chan'er-i), a. [< channer'^ + -!.] 
Gravelly. [Scotch.] 
channestt, v. t. [E. dial., appar. a var. of change 
or challenge.'} 1. To exchange. Halliwell. 
2. To challenge. Grose. 
chanpid (ka'noid), . and a. I. 11. A fish of the 
family Chanoida;. 
II. a. Of or pertaining to fishes of the fam- 
ily Chanoidai. 
Clianoidae (ka-no'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Chanos + 
-idee. ] A family of malacopterygian fishes, rep- 
resented by the genus Chanos. It embraces Clupe- 
oidea with subfusiform body, small adherent scales, dis- 
tinct lateral line, premaxillaries joined to the upper edge 
of the maxillaries, and gill-membranes broadly connected, 
but free. Although containing only two Pacific-ocean 
species, it is a well-marked group. 
chanont, An obsolete form of canorft. 
I demede hym som cfianon for to be. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale (ed. Skeat), 1. 573. 
Chanos (ka'nos), n. [NL. (Lacepede), < Gr. *d- 
fof, the open mouth, < xaivnv (/ *x a "-), g&P e > 
yawn : see chasm."] A genus of clupeoid fishes, 
which represents the family Chanoida!. These 
fishes somewhat resemble herrings ; they have the mouth 
small and toothless, the abdomen flattened below, and the 
gill-membranes united below the isthmus. Two species 
are known, one of which has an unusually wide range, be- 
ing found in the Gulf of California, in the Red Sea, and 
In several intermediate regions. C. salmoneus or milk- 
922 
fish is common in the Pacific ocean, is highly esteemed for 
the table, and sometimes attains a length of about 4 feet. 
chanount, An obsolete form of cation 2 . 
chanson (shan'son; F. pron. shon-son'), n. 
[If., < OF. canfun','chaHfun, chanson = Pr.canso, 
chanso = OSp. chamon, Sp. caution = Pg. can- 
<;ao = It. canzone, < L. cantiu(ii-), a song: see 
caution and canzone.] 1. A song, () Originally, 
a short poem in a simple, natural style, in stanzas called 
couplets, each usually accompanied by a refrain, Intended 
to be sung, (b) Later, any short lyric poem, and the music 
to which it is set. 
The first row of the pious chanson will show you more. 
Shak., Hamlet, ii. -2. 
These [Christmas carols] were festal chansons for en- 
livening the merriments of the Christmas celebrity. 
T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, iii. 142. 
2. A finger-ring with an inscription. See posy- 
ring. 3. The motto on a ring. 
Chansonnette (shan-so-uef), n. [F., < OF. 
chanqonnete (= Pr. cansoneta, chai/soiictu = Pg. 
cangoneta = It. canzonetta), < chanyon: see 
chanson, canzonet, etc.] A little song. 
chant (chant), v. [< ME. chanten, chaiintcn, < 
OF. canter, chanter, F. chanter = Pr. cantar, 
chantar = Sp. Pg. cantar = It. cantare, < L. 
cantare, sing, freq. of canere, sing: see cant 2 .] 
1. trans. 1. To sing; warble; utter with a 
melodious voice. 
The chearefull birds of sundry kynd 
Doe chaunt sweet musick. Spenser, F. Q., I. vii. 3. 
2. To celebrate in song : as, to chan t the praises 
of Jehovah. 
Wherein is the so chanted fountain of Arethusa. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 188. 
One would chant the history 
Of that great race, which is to be. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, ciii. 
3. To sing, as in the church service, in a style 
between air and recitative. See chant, n. 
The chanted prayer of men, now low, now loud, 
Thrilled through the brazen leaves of the great door. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 97. 
To chant a horse, to advertise it by qualities which on 
trial are found wanting. [Slang.] 
Jack Firebrace and Tom Humbold of Spotsylvania was 
here this morning chanting homes with 'em. 
Thackeray, The Virginians. 
II. in trans. 1. To sing; make melody with 
the voice. 
That chant to the sound of the viol. Amos vi. 5. 
2. To sing psalms, canticles, etc., as in the 
church service, after the manner of a chant. 
3. To go in full cry: said of hounds. 
chant (chant), n. [< chant, v. Cf. F. chant = 
Pr. cant, chant = Sp. Pg. It. canto, < L. cantus, 
song: see canto.] A vocal melody; a song; 
especially, now, one that is solemn, slow, or 
monotonous. 
A pleasant grove, 
With chant of tuneful birds resounding loud. 
ililt-m, P. R., ii. 290. 
Specifically (a) A melody composed in the Ambrosian or 
Gregorian style, following one of the ecclesiastical modes, 
having often a note for each syllable, and without a strict 
rhythmical structure : sometimes called a tone ; when 
used in contrapuntal composition, called a canto fermo. 
(b) A Gregorian melody, usually of ancient origin, in- 
tended to be used with a prose text in several verses, sev- 
eral syllables in each verse being recited or intoned upon 
a single note. A Gregorian chant of this kind has five 
parts : the intonation, the first dominant or reciting-note, 
the mediation, the second dominant or reciting-note, 
and the ending or cadence, (c) A short composition in 
seven measures, the first and fourth of which contain but 
one note, whose time-value may be extended at will so as 
to accompany several syllables or words, while the re- 
maining measures are sung in strict rhythm : commonly 
called an Anglican chant, because most extensively used 
in the services of the Anglican Church for the canticles 
and the psalms. An Anglican chant consists of two parts, 
the first of three and the second of four measures ; each 
half begins with a reciting-note and ends with a cadence ; 
the first cadence is also called the mediation. A double 
chant is equal in length to two typical or single chants, 
that is, contains fourteen measures, four reciting-notes, 
etc. The distribution of the words of a text for use with a 
chant is called pointing (which see). The Anglican chant 
is probably a modernized form of the Gregorian, without 
an intonation, having the mediation and cadence made 
strictly rhythmical, and following the modern ideas of 
tonality and harmony, (d) Any short composition one or 
more of whose notes may be extended at will so as to ac- 
company several syllables or words. 
Formerly also spelled chaunt. 
Ambrosian chant. See Ambrosian^. Changeable 
chant, a chant that can be sung in either the major or 
minor mode. Free chant, a form of recitative for the 
psalms and canticles, invented hy John Crowdy, an Eng- 
lishman. It consists of two chords only to each hemistich 
of the words. See above. 
chantablet (chan'ta-bl), a. [ME. chauntable, < 
L. cantabilis, that may be sung: see chant and 
-able, and editable.] Worthy to be sung. 
Chauntabte weren to me thi iusteiflynges. 
Wyclif, Ps. cxviii. [cxix.] 54. 
chantant (chan'tant ; F. pron. shon-ton'), a. and 
n. [F., ppr. of chanter, sing: see chant, <.] I. 
a. Singing. [Rare.] Caf6 chantant. Seeca/t. 
chanticleer 
II. n. Instrumental music of an easy, smooth, 
and singing style. Moore. [Kare.] 
chantepleuret, [ME. chantepleure, < OF. 
chantepleure, eluutteplwe, ohanteplore, f., lamen- 
tation, mourning, the chanting of the office of 
the dead, prop, 'she who sings and weeps,' the 
name of a famous poem of the 13th century 
(also called Pleitrechante), addressed to those 
who sing in this world but will weep in the 
next (cf. chantepleure, m., the singer who start- 
ed the tune in the songs sung in comedies) ; 
hence, with the notion of ' weeper,' the latter 
application to a gardener's water-pot, and, as in 
mod. F., to a funnel, tap, outlet, vent ; < chanter 
(< L. cantare), sing, + ]>lcttrer, plurer, mod. F. 
l/h-nrer (< L. plorare), weep.] 1. Alternate 
singing and weeping. See etymology. 
I fare as doth the song of chantepleure ; 
For now I pleyn, and now I pley. 
Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite, 1. 323. 
2. In arch., a narrow vertical hole or slit in a 
wall, to let the overflow of a stream or any 
other water that may collect pass through. 
chanter 1 (chan'ter), n. [Also chantor, chann- 
ter, early mod. E. chamiter, < ME. chantour, < 
OF. chantur, F. chanteur = Pr. cantaire, chan- 
taire, cantador, chantador = Sp. cantador = It. 
cantatore, < L. cantator, a singer, < cantare, pp. 
cantatas: see chant, v.] 1. One who chants ; a 
singer, minstrel, or songster. 
Yon curious chanter* of the wood, 
That warble forth dame Nature's lays. 
Sir //. Walton, To the Queen of Bohemia. 
2. The chief singer or priest of a chantry; a 
cantor. 
The rulers of the choir, or, as they are now called, chant- 
ers, were arrayed in silken copes and furred amices, and 
bore each one a staff of beautiful workmanship in his 
hand. Koclt, Church of our Fathers, III. ii. 163. 
3. One who chants, sings, or sounds the praise 
of anything, especially with the design to de- 
ceive: as, a horse-c/Kro ter (a fraudulent horse- 
dealer at country fairs). [Slang.] 
" Oh, him ! " replied Neddy : " he's nothing exactly. He 
was a horse-cArttmter; he's a leg now." 
Dickens, Pickwick, II. xiv. 
4. A street-vender of ballads or other broad- 
sides, who sings or bawls the contents of his 
papers. [Slang.] 5. In bagpipes, the pipe 
with finger-holes on which the melody is played. 
6. The hedge-sparrow, Accentor modvlaris. 
chanter 2 (chan'ter), v. t. and . [E. dial., also 
chuntcr, chounter ; cf. channer 1 , chooner; partly 
imitative, but perhaps with ref. to chant, q. v.] 
To mutter. [Prov. Eng.] 
chanterelle, (shan-ter-el'), n. [< F. chanterelle, 
a treble string, the first string, a decoy-bird 
(> E. chantrel), also a mushroom, in OF. also a 
treble bell, a small bell for a chime (whence, 
in ref. to the shape, the later application to a 
mushroom) (= Sp. cantarela, treble string, a 
mushroom, = It. cantarella, a treble string, a 
young frog, a bird-call (Florio), now a call-bird), 
< chanter, sing: see chan t, r. See Cantharellus.] 
1. The shortest or highest 
string of a musical instru- 
ment of the violin or the 
lute class; the string on 
which the melody or chant is 
usually played ; especially, 
the E-string of the violin. 
2. An edible mushroom, 
Cantharellus cibarius, resem- 
bling Agaricus. It is of a 
bright-orange color and has 
a fragrant fruity smell. Also 
chantarelle and chantarella. 
chanteriet. A Middle English form of chantry. 
chantershlpt (chan'ter-ship), . [< chanter 1 + 
-ship.] The office or dignity of a chanter, or 
chief singer of a chantry. Blafkstone. 
chanteryt, n. [< ME. chaunterye ; byapheresis 
from encliantery (prob. after OF. chanterie, sing- 
ing: see chantry) : see encliantery.] Enchant- 
ment. 
How that lady bryght 
To a warm [worm] was dyght 
Thorugh kraft of chatmtfrye. 
Lybeatis Disfonus, 1. 205B. 
chantey (chan'ti), . [Cf. chant, n.] A sailors' 
song. 
Then give us one of the old chanteys. . . . Why, the 
mere sound of those old songs takes me back forty years. 
W. C. Russell, Jack's Courtship, iii. 
chanticleer (chan'ti-kler), n. [Also accom. 
chant-it-clear (B. Jonson), < ME. chanteclere, 
I'hauntecleer, < OF. Chantecler, the name of the 
cock in the epic of Renart (Reynard the Fox), < 
Chanterelle ( Cantha 
rellus ti&art'HS). 
