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CHAF'FERER,/. A buyer ; bargainer; purchaser. 
CH AF'FFRN,/. \_efchauffer, Fr. to heat.] A veil'd for 
heating water. 
CHAFTFRY, f. Traffic; the practice of buying and 
felling.—The third is, merchandize and chaffery ; that 
is, buying and felling.- Spenfer. 
CHAF'FERY, in the iron works, the name of one of 
the two principal forges. The other is called the finery. 
When the iron has been brought at the finery into what 
is called an ancony, or fquare mafs, hammered into a 
bar in its middle, but with its two ends rough, the bufi- 
nefs to be done at the chaffery is the reducing the whole 
to the fame fhape, by hammering down the rough ends 
to the fhape of the middle part. 
CHAF'FINCH,/! A bird fo called, becaufe it delights 
in chaff. See Fringilla. 
CHAFFTESS, adj. Without chaff: 
The love I bear him. 
Made me to fan you thus ; but the gods made you, 
Unlike all others, chafflefs. Shakefpeare. 
CHAFFTVEED, f [gnaphalium, Lat.] An herb the 
fame with cudweed. 
CHAF-'FY, adj. Like chaff; full of chaff; light.—If 
the ftraw-s be light and chaffy, and held at a reafonable 
difiance, they will not rife unto the middle. Brown. 
CHATING-DISII,/. A vefiel to make airy thing hot 
in; a portable grate for coals. 
CHAGNON', a town of Franpe in the department of 
the Rhone and Loire: fix leagues fouth of Lyons. 
CHAGNY / , a town of France, in the department of 
the Saone and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrift of Chalons; ten miles north-north-well Chalons 
fur Saone. 
CHA'GRE, a river of South America, in the ifthmus 
of Darien, which runs into the fea, thirty miles weft- 
fouth-weft Porto Bello. 
CHAGRI'N,/! \_cbagrine, Fr.] Ill humour; vexafion; 
•fretfulnefs ; peevifnnefs. It is pronounced Jhagreen- 
Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin ; 
That fingle aft gives half the world the fpleen. Pope. 
’To CHAGRTN, v. a. \_chagriner, Fr.] To vex; to put 
out of temper ; to teaze ; to make uneafy. 
CHAHAI'GNE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Sarte, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Chateau du Loir: five miles north-eaft Chateau du 
Loir. 
CHA-HO, a town of China, in the province of Pe- 
tche-li.- feven miles fouth of Chun-te. 
CH A-HO-TCHAN, a town of Chinefe Tartary : thirty 
miles fouth-well of Ning-yuen. 
CHAIA, a river of Siberia, which runs into the Oby : 
twenty miles north-eaft of Obdorlkoi. 
CH APB AR, or K a i b a r, a ftrong town of Arabia, taken 
from the Jews by Mahomet in the feventh year of the 
Hegira: 152 miles north-eaft of Medina. 
CHAILA'RD (Le), a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Ardeche, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftrift of Mezen: four leagues and a half north- 
weft of Privas. 
CHALLA'C, a town of France, in the department of 
the Indre, and chief place of a canton in the diftrift of 
Argenton : four leagues fouth-fouth-weft of Argenton. 
CH AILLA'ND, a town of France, in the department 
of the Mayenne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
■diftrift of Ernee : ten miles north of Laval. 
CHAIL'LF. les Marais, a town of France, in the 
department of the Vendee, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftrift of Fontenay-le-Conte: three leagues weft- 
fouth-vveft of Fontenay. 
CHAILTE-sous-les-Ormeaxjx, a town of France, 
in the department of thd Sarte : ten miles eaft of Sable. 
CHAILLEVET'TE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ed H A 
ment of the Lower Charente: five miles fouth of Ma, 
rennes. 
CH AILLOU'E, a town of France, in the department of 
the Orne, containing about 1100 inhabitants : one league 
north of Sees. 
CHAIN, an ifland of the Pacific Ocean, difeovered by- 
captain Cook in 1769, about four leagues long, and two 
wide. Lat. 17.23.S. Ion. 14.5. 54. W. Greenwich. 
CHAIN, f. [ chaine , Fr.] A feries of links faftened one 
within another.—And Pharoah took off his ring, and put 
it upon Jofeph’s hand, and put a gold chain about his 
neck. Genefis, xli. 42.—A bond; a manacle; a fetter with 
which priloners are bound: 
Still in conftraint your fuff’ring fex remains, 
Or bound in formal or in real chains. Pope. 
A feries linked together, as of caufes or thoughts; a fuc- 
cefiion; a fubordination.—As there is pleafure in the 
right exercife of any faculty, fo elpecially in that of right 
reafoning; which is ftill the greater, by how. much the 
confc-quences are more clear, and the chains of them more 
long. Burnet. —A gold chain is one of-the ornaments or 
badges of the dignity of the chief magiftrates of a city, 
as the lord mayor and aldermen of London, the provoft 
and bailiffs of Edinburgh, &c. Something like this ob¬ 
tained among the ancient Gauls: the principal ornament 
of their perfons in power and authority was a gold chain, 
which they wore on ail occafions ; and even in battle, to 
diftiiiguilh them from the common foldiers. 
To CHAIN, <v. a. To fallen or bind with a chain.— 
They repeal daily any wholefome aft eftablifhed againft 
the rich, ar.d provide more piercing ftatutes daily to chain 
up and reftrain the poor. Shakefpeare. —To enllave; to 
keep in llavery : 
This world, ’tis true, 
Was made for Caefar, but for Titus too : 
And which more bled ? who chain'd his country, fay. 
Or he whofe virtue figh’d to lofe a day ? " Pope. 
To keep by a chain.—The admiral feeing the mouth of 
the haven chained, and the caftles full of ordnance, and- 
ftrongly manned, durft not attempt to enter. Knolles. — 
To unite : 
O Warwick, I do bend my knee with thine, 
And in this vow do chain my foul with thine. Shake/. 
CHAIN, f. in furveying, a lineal meafure; confifting of 
a certain number of iron links, ufually a hundred; ferv- 
ing to take the dimenfions of fields, &c. At every tenth 
link is ufually faftened a fmall brafs plate, with a figure 
engraven upon it, orelfe cut into different fnapes, tolhew 
how many links it is from one end of the chain. Thefe 
chains are of various kinds and lengths; as—1. A chain 
of a hundred feet long, each link one foot, for meafur- 
ing of large diltances only, when regard is not propofed 
to be had to acres, See. in the fuperficial content. 2. A 
chain of one pole or fixteen feet and a half in length ; 
ufeful in measuring and laying out gardens and orchards, 
turnips, &c. by the pole or rod meafure. 3. A chain of 
four poles, or fixty-fix feet, -or twenty-two yards, in¬ 
length, called Gunter’s chain, peculiarly adapted to fur- 
veying or land-meafuring; becaufe ten fquare chains 
juft make an Englifli acre of land; lb that the dimenfions. 
being taken in thefe chains, and thence the contents 
computed in fquare chains, they are readily turned into 
acres by dividing by ten, or barely cutting off the laft 
figure from the fquare chains. But it is ftill better in 
praftice to proceed thus, viz. Count the dimenfions, not 
in chains, but all in links; then the contents are in fquare 
links; and, five figures being cut off for decimals, the 
reft are acres; that is four figures to bring the fquare 
links to fquare chains, and one more-to bring the fquare 
chains to acres. In this chain, the links are each leven 
inches and or inches in length, which is very 
nearly | of a foot. And hence any number of chains 
or 
