chattel 
In law the term includes also (for most purposes, at chatter (chafer). M. [< rlitilti;; r . \ 
least) any interest in land other than an estate- for life or ..,:, {: .h*hl. i nnrrinnl, 
of inheritance. 
Godes and chateux. Enylixh GiWx (E. K. T. 8.), p. 58. 
1 1. .PI. .M i - a lease for lives to come, 
And cannot he extended from 
The legal tenant : 'tis a chattel 
Not to be forfeited in liattle. 
,s'. Hull,;-. Ilildihras. 
\o wiser than their mothers, household stult, 
Live f/i/itl' V.s-. 'f't-tinff.^i'H, Princess, iv. 
Are flesh and blood a ware? 
Are heart anil aiml a tluill,! ' 
llrtni'iiiii!!, Itinj: anil hook, I. 215. 
Chattel mortgage, a transfer of chattels from om> PIT- 
SOU, usually a debtor, to another, usually his credit. ir. 
chaundler 
1. A sue- chauffer, chaufer (sha'fer), n. [< F. 
cession of quick, shrill, inarticulate sounds, heat, make hot (see chafe); or < F. chaufmtr, a 
especially it discordant or jarring, like those lime-kiln, < f/iw,limo (see rl<(ilk,rnlj-l), +fintr, 
uttered liv it magpie or a monkey; rapid and oven, furnace.] In <-ltrnt., a small funnier, ;i 
imperfectly articulated utti-rimce. cylindrical box of slieet-iron, open at the top, 
The mimic ape began his rlmitr,-. witli a grating near the bottom. See chdf'i i~. I. 
.sv./J, Tin- leasts' Conft-sMon. chauk-daW (chiik'da), ii. [< chaHl.; = cli,iiti/li, 
2. The noise made by the trrtli striking to- + dnir 1 . Cf. ciiittlou:'] A local British naim- 
gether repeatedly and rapidly, as under the in- for the chough or red-legged crow, J'yi -rh-> <-<ir<u 
fluence of cold or fright. 3. idle or foolish talk. yraculiin. 
Tin' miiriiinriiii; mnltitinle beneath me. on whom his Chault, II. All obsolete form of jilirl. 
tptamcxUe chatter M] like it wet blanket, chauldront, '< Same us cliaiidrvn. 
H;;,,I: ii PAflMpi, speeches an.i Uwterai, P. m. Chaulelasmus (ka-le-las'mus), . [NL. (G. R. 
Gray, 1838), < Gr. jan/-, as in Ckiiulioduf, q. v., 
+ f/.aer/ja, a (metal) plate.] A genus of AHII- 
timi' or fresh-water ducks; the gadwalls : so 
an article of tangible personal property, such us an uninial. tlill"; child. Ilillliiri II . 
furniture, grain, etc., including evidetiees oi ileht. chat- /> h a ttar Vt AV i dint 'MV lnVvi\ 
tels personal are usually simken of sim],lv MS chattel., or cnauert)ox ^>- " 
timtoioginilly as ./.>' aw/ chHttrl*. - Chattel real, r "WWMntly: applied chieny to 
chattel Interest, mi estate in land other tlian one for life chatterer (chat'er-er), n. 1. 
[Prov. Eug.] 
<>uc who talks 
children. 
One who chat- 
ters; a prater; an idle talker. 2. The popu- 
lar name of birds of the genus Ampclis in the 
most restricted sense, or Sombijeilla. The Bohe- 
mian chatterer is A. ../<'///.< ; the diattcivrof I'arolina, 
or cedar-bird, A. cedrorum ; the chatterer of Japan, .1. 
it tri, or t-1,,,1 if-i/f-u, |i|ir. rum iriilll] or Cltfltll'llllli/. relnteil liirils ^ Sec cut liniler ".M /''./*./'' 
[< chattel, .] To regard as a chattel; reduce chatterstert, . [ME. chateresirc; < chatter + 
to the condition of a chattel. [Rare.] . s ter.] One who chatters ; a chatterer. 
ChattellSm (chat el-inn or -1-izm), w. [< chat- Site mi stille chair ml rr ! 
tel + -ism.'] 1. The condition of holding chat- ' ,>/ ',/ x,;,htiiu>ale, 1. 665. 
l'''ir~l 2 ' T .e state of being a chattel. chatter-water (chat'er-wa'ter), n. [With al- 
Chattelize (chat el-iz or -1-iz), v. *. ; pret. and lusion to tea-party gossiping.] Tea. [Prov. 
pp. chitttelwd, ppr. chattehzmg. [< chattel + g n g n 
-ize.] To consider or class as a chattel or chat- chatteryt (chat'er-i), n. [< cltat 1 + -ery, or < 
tels ; reduce to the rank of a chattel. 3555?* -y. Cf. chattatiim.] Chat; idle talk; 
, 
ot' inherilunee, as a lease for years. Chattel vege- 
table, a designation sometimes applied to trees when sev- 
ered from the ground, to the fruit and produce uf trees 
when severed from the body of the tree, and to emlilc- 
rilents. =SVn. K/<'<-tx, Goo'tn, etc. See /-'j/" ;/./. 
chattel (chat'el or -1), r. t. ; pret. and pp. chat- 
OP MHea, ppr. cMn,,, or 
This system of chatteliztd humanity [negro slavery! 
rested upon that false relation of arbitrary power upon 
the one side, and dependence and helplessness on the 
other, which is the life of every form of oppression. 
If. A. /fee., CXXVII. 251. 
chatter (chafer), r. [< ME. chateren, chatren, chattiness '(ehat'i-nes), n. 
cheatereu, chatter, with a dim. form chiteren (> 
E. chitted; cf. chitchat), appar. an imitative 
light conversation. 
Easy and cheerful chattenj. Mme. D'Arblay. 
chat-thrush (chat'thrush), n. Any bird of the 
genus CosHijphitx. 
[< chatty + -ness.] 
The quality or state of being chatty ; talkative- 
ness. 
Gray Duck, or Gadwall ( ChauUlasniMs strtperus). 
called from the prominent lamella of the bill. 
The common gadwall is C. itrepenu ; another species, C. 
cmttxi, inhabits the Fanning islands in Polynesia. Also 
variation of a,form*cwiieren,**quitere>i,,mod. E. chattocks (chat'oks), . >>l [< chat* + dim 
quitter = Be. quhitter, twitter, = 8w. qvittra = -octe.] Refuse wood, left in making fagots. 
Dan. kvidre, twitter, chirp, = D. kwetteren, chat- Grose. 
ter, warble : prob. a variation of what is prop, 
a freq. form connected with AS. cwethan, say, 
speak: see bequeath and quoth, and cf. twitter. 
Shortened to chat 1 , q. v.] I. intrans. 1. To 
utter a succession of quick, shrill, inarticulate 
sounds, as a magpie or a monkey. 
Sparuwe is a cheateriiid-e brid, cheatereth ever ant chirm- 
eth. Ancren Riwle, p. 152. 
Thu chaterent so doth on [an] Irish preost. 
Owl and Nightingale, 1. 322. 
(ka-li'o-don), n. [NL., < Gr. 
v'/Movf '(-ofavT-), with outstanding 
teeth: see Chauliodus.] Sa,me&sChautiodus,l. 
chauliodont (ka-li'o-dont), a. and n. I. . 
Pertaining to or having the characters of the 
Chauliodontida;. 
II. . A fish of the family Chauliodontidce. 
Jordan and Gilbert. 
A fish of 
He found her as handsome as she had been last year ; 
as gix>d-natured, and as unaffected, though not quite so 
chatty. Jane Aitnten, Pride and Prejudice, p. 287. 
2. Conversational and entertaining in style; 
unconventional; easy: as, a chatty letter. 
Apes that moe and chatter at me. Shak., Tempest, ii. 2. chatty 2 (chat'i), . ; pi. chatties (-iz). [Anglo- 
Yes : they are Birds, and let them sing, they're Birds, and Ind. ] In India, an earthen pot, nearly spheri- 
[Prov. Eng.] 
chatty 1 (chat'i), a. [< chaft, n., + -i.] 1. . ,. 
Given to free conversation or chatting; talka- Chauliodontld (ka'li-o-don'tid), n. 
t;i ve the family ('hiiuhodontida;. 
As'c/mtri/asvournarrot ChauliodbntidSB (ka'li-6-don'ti-de), n. pi. 
AS (.mil. f if us > uiii J)H1 1 Oi. rXTT / ni. i*j/,*\i * j -i * < \ 
Lady M. W. Montagu, Letters, i. 35. [NL. , < Chauhodon( t-) + -tda:] A family of ini- 
omous fishes, typified by the genus ( 'liauliodon . 
They have an elongated liody covered with thin deciduous 
scales ; the head compressed ; the mouth deep, its upper 
margin bounded by the intenuaxillaries mesially and the 
supramaxillaries laterally ; no barbels or pseudobranchiie ; 
and the dorsal fin anterior. The few species are deep-sea 
nshes with phosphorescent eye-like spots in rows along 
the lower or under surface of the body. 
, iim.j ui IIMII;I. au earuieu poi, nearly spneri- nt..i* j /i & i-/- i \ r-k-n- s /-. 
let them chatter. cal in shane used for can-vimr warnr nnri ntT.v ChaulloduS (ka-ll'o-dus), n. [NL., < Gr. ^ov- 
Constantine and Arete (Child's Ballads, I. 309). {-quids //odovc, also X av>*6&w (-odovr-), with outstand- 
2. To make a rapid rattling noise, as the teeth, chat-wood (chat'wud), . Little sticks; fuel. ^? tee - th or tusks ' < X^(- (< (appar.) . 
from cold or fnght. E. Phillips, 1706. 
When the rain came to wet me once^and the wind to chau (chou), n. A unit of weight in Cochin 
Lear, iv. 6. China, equal to three fifths of a grain troy. 
Chaucerism (cha'ser-izm), . [< Chaucer + 
-ism.'] A word or an expression peculiar to or 
characteristic of the writings of Chaucer (about 
1340-1400). 
Thus I should question the employment of such Chan- 
Mrtang, to use Ben Jonson's phrase. 
Tmich, Study of Words, p. 154. 
[Also chaud- 
make me chatter. 
Oh ! what's the matter? what's the matter? 
What is't that ails young Harry Gill? 
That evermore his teeth they chatter, 
Chatter, chatter, chatter still ! 
Wordsworth, Goody Blake and Harry Gill. 
3. To talk thoughtlessly, idly, or rapidly; jab- 
ber; gabble. 
How we chattered like two church daws ! 
Browning, A Lovers' Quarrel, chaud-medley (sh6d'med // li), n. 
People still chatter about the mythical exploits of Tell, 
but hardly any one has heard of this little piece of suc- 
cessful resistance to oppression, done only twelve years 
back. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 237. 
4f. To argue. 
If Wratthe wrastel with the pore he hath the worse ende ; 
For if they hothe pleyne the pore is but fleble, 
And if he chyde or chatre hyin chieuth the worse. 
Piers Pimmiuin (B), xiv. 226. 
(y *;t;a),yawn, gape: see chaos, chasm) + Move, 
Ionic Mov (O&OVT-), = E. tooth.] 1. A genus of 
fishes with a few very large exserted anterior 
teeth, typical of the family Chauliodontida!. 
Also called Chanliodnn. 2. Same as Chaule- 
Insmus. 
chaulmugra, chaulmaugra (chal - mug ' ra, 
-ma'gra), n. [E. Ind.] A handsome East In- 
dian bixaceous tree, Gi/nocardia odorata, with 
fragrant flowers and a large fruit resembling a 
shaddock. The seeds yield an oil that has long been 
highly valued in India and China as a remedy for leprosy 
and other skin-diseases, rheumatism, etc. ; for leprosy it 
has been considered a specific. 
melee, chaud-mille ; < OF. chaude, hot (< L. cali- 
diis: see calid), + medlee, fight: see medley, 
mellay, mSUe.l In law, the killing of a man in chaum (cham), w. [See chawn.] Same as 
an affray in the heat of blood or passion: a chaien. [Prov. Eng.] 
word often erroneously used as synonymous chaumontelle (sho-mon-tel'), n. [P.] A fine 
with chance-medley. Mozley and Whitely. pear which is much grown and attains a large 
chaud-millet, See cltaud-medley. E. Phillips, size in the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and 
1706. in the southern parts of England. 
6. To jar, so as to form a series of nicks or chaudront, chaldron 2 !, [Early mod. E. also chaunt, v. and n. See chmcti. 
notches, as a cutting-tool. 
If a tool for use in a slide rest is too keen for its allotted 
duty, the only result under ordinary circumstances is, that 
it will jar or chatter (that is, tremble and cut numerous 
indentations in the work). 
J. Rose, Pract. Machinist, p. 152. 
II. trans. To utter as one who or that which 
chatters: as, to chatter nonsense. 
Their service consisted in precipitate and very irrever- 
entcAatteraij/of certain Prayers and Hymns to our blessed 
Saviour and to the blessed Virgin. 
Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 27. 
Your birds of knowledge that, in dusky air. 
Chatter futurity. Dryden. 
They chatter'd trifles at the door. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, MX. 
chauldron, thawdron, clMundron,chawtherne (not Chaunacidse (ka-nas'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Chaii- 
foundinME.), < OF. chaudun, chaudin, caudun, nax (f'haunar-) + -ida:~\ A family of pedicu- 
caldun (ML. calduiia), < MLG. kaldune, koldune, late fishes, typified by the genus Chaunax: same 
Icallune, usually in pi. kaldunen, etc., LG. kaldii- as Chaunacina>. 
nen, koldunen = MHG. kaldune, pi. kaldunen, G. Chaunacinae (ka-na-si'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Chau- 
kaldaunen (> Dan. kallun), entrails, guts (= Pol. nax (Chaunac-) + -ina;.] In Gill's system, a sub- 
and Little Russ.A-nW (barred 1), belly, paunch, family of Antennariida; typified by the genus 
= Bohem. kaldoun, entrails, = Croatian kalduni, Chaunax, with cuboid head, only a rostral spine 
lungs) ; perhaps of Celtic origin : cf. W. colud- or tentacle, and low soft dorsal fin. 
<fy, gut, bowel, cohidd, guts, bowels.] Entrails. Chaunax (ka'naks), . [NL.] A genus of 
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron. Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. fishes, typical of the subfamily Chaunacitue. 
Lapet. Sheep-heads will stay with thee? chauncelt, chauncelert. Obsolete forms of 
Gal. Yes, sir, or chavlarons. chancel, chancellor. 
FMcher (and another), Nice Valour, HI. 2. chaundlert, chaundelert , n. Obsolete forms 
chaufet, ''. A Middle English form of chafe. of chandler. 
