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timorous, and lefs fubtile. Bacon.— To quit any thing for 
the lake of another: with for before the thing taken or 
received: 
The French and we Hill change ; but here’s the curfe, 
They change for better, and we change for worfe. Dry den . 
To give and take reciprocally : w'itlr the particle with 
before the perfon to whom we give, and from whom we 
take.—To fecure thy content, look upon thofe thou- 
fands, with whom thou wouldff not, for any intereft, 
change thy fortune and condition. Taylor. —To alter ; to 
make other than it was.—Whatfoever is brought upon 
thee, take chearfully, and be patient when thou art 
changed to a low effate. Ecclus. —To mend the difpolition 
or mind : 
I would Ihe were in heaven, fo {he could 
Intreat fome pow’r to change this currilh Jew. Shakef. 
To difcount a larger piece of money into feveral fmaller. 
.—A Ihopkeeper might be able to change a guinea, or a 
moidore, when a cuftomer comes for a crown’s worth of 
goods. Swift. To change a horfe, or to change hand, is to 
turn or bear the horfe’s head from one hand to the other, 
from the left to the right, or from the right to the left. 
To CHANGE, v. n. To undergo change; to fuller 
alteration: as, his fortune may loon change, though he 
is now fo fecure : 
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lity of exhibiting different appearances.—Now the taylor 
make thy doublet of changeable taffeta; for thy mind is 
a very opal. Shakefpeare. 
CHANGE'ABLE ROSE,/, in botany. See Hibiscus 
Mutabilis. 
CHANGE'ABLENESS,/. Inconftancy 5 ficklenefs.— . 
There is no temper of mind more unmanly than that 
changeablenefs, with which we are too iuffly branded by 
all our neighbours. Addifon. —Sufceptibility of change.—• 
If how long they are to continue in force, be no where 
expreffed, then have we no light to direct our judgment 
concerning the changeablenefs or immutability of fucb 
laws. Hooker. 
CHAN'GEABLY, ad-v. Inconffantly. 
CHAN'GEFUL, adj. Full of change; inconftant; un¬ 
certain ; mutable ; fubjedt to variation ; fickle : 
Britain, changeful as a child at play. 
Now calls in princes, and now turns away. Pope. 
CHAN'GELING, f. [from change: the word arifes 
from an odd fuperftitious opinion, that the fairies Iteal 
away children, and put others that are ugly and ffupid 
in their places.} A child left or taken in the place of 
another: 
And her bafe elfin breed there for thee left: 
Such m'en do changelings call, fo chang'd by fairies thefto 
Spencer. 
One Julia, that his changing thought forgot, 
Would better fit his chamber. Shakefpeare. 
To change, as the moon ; to begin a new monthly revo¬ 
lution.—I am weary of this moon 5 would he would 
change. Shakefpeare. 
CHANGE,'/. An alteration of the date of any thing ; 
Since I faw you laft, 
There is a change upon you. Shakefpeare* 
A fucceffion of one thing in the place of another ; 
Hear how Timotheus’ various lays furprife, 
And bid alternate paifions fall and rile ! 
While, at each change, the fon of Libyan Jove 
Now burns with glory, and then melts with love. Pope. 
The time of tliemocn in which it begins a new month¬ 
ly revolution.—Take feeds or roots, and fet fome of them 
immediately after the change, and others of the fame kind 
immediately after the full. Bacon. —Novelty; a Hate dif¬ 
ferent from the former: 
Our fathers did for change to France repair ;. 
And they for change will try our Englifh air. Dryden. 
That which makes a variety; that which may be ufed 
for another of the fame kind.—I will now put fortha riddle 
unto you; if you can find it out, then I will give you 
thirty fheets, and thirty change of gaiments. Judges. — 
Small money, which may be given for larger pieces.— 
Wood buys up our old halfpence, and from thence the 
prefent want of change arifes ; but, fuppofing not one far¬ 
thing of change in the nation, five-and-twenty thoufand 
pounds would be futlicient. Swift. —Change for ex¬ 
change ; a place where perfons meet to traffic and tran- 
i'adt mercantile affairs.—The bar, the bench, the change, 
the fchools and pulpits, are full of quacks, juggler?, and 
plagiaries. VEfirange. 
CHAN'GE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Mayenne : one league north of Laval. 
CHAN'GE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Sarte : one league fouth of Le Mans. 
CHANGEABLE, adj. Subject to change; fickle; 
inconftant.—A Heady mind will admit Heady methods 
and counfels ; there is no meafure to be taken of a change¬ 
able humour. L’Ef range. —Poifible to be changed.—The 
fibrous or vafcular parts of vegetables feern fcarce change¬ 
able h\ the alimentary du£t. Arbuthwl.-*- Having the qua- 
An idiot; a fool ; a natural : 
Changelings and fools of heav’n, and thence fhut out, 
Wildly we roam in difeontent about. Dryden* 
One apt to change ; a waverer: 
As they had turn’d from fide to fide, 
And as they changelings liv’d, they died. Hudibras. 
Any thing changed and put in the place of another : in 
ludicrous fpeech: 
I folded the writ up in form of the other, 
Sublcrib’d it, gave the imprefilon, plac’d it fafely, 
The changeling never known. Shakefpeare „ 
CHAN'GER, / One that is employed in changing or 
difeounting money; a money changer.—Alfo an officer be¬ 
longing to the king’s mint, wbofe office confiffs in exchang¬ 
ing coin for bullion; brought in by merchants or others., 
CHAN'GES,/. The permutations or variations of any 
number of things, with regard to their pofirion, order, 
arrangement, &c. as how many changes may be rung on 
a number of bells, or bow many different ways any num¬ 
ber of perfons may" be placed, or how" many feveral vari¬ 
ations may be made of any number of letters, or any 
other things propofed to be varied. To find out fuck 
number of changes, multiply continually together all the 
terms in a feries of arithmetical progrelfion, whofe firff 
term and common difference are each unity or 1, and the 
laff term the number of things propofed to be varied, thus 
1 X 2 X 3 X 4 X Si &c. till the laff number be the pro- 
poled number of things. For, if there be only tvvo things, 
as a and b, they admit of a double order of pofition only ; 
for they may be placed either thus ab or thus ba, viz. i X a 
—a ways. If there be three things, a, b, and c, they will 
admit of fix variations — 1 X 2 X 3, as in the a b c 
margin, and no more; fince each of the three a c b 
may be combined three different ways with b a c 
each of the other two. And if there be four b c a 
things, each of them may be combined four cab 
ways with each order of the other three, that is c b a 
four times fix ways, ori X 2 X 3 X4=H ways. In like 
manner, the combinations of five things are 1 x 2 X 3 X 
4X5— 120; of fix things are 1 X 2 X3X4X SX 6 = 7 2 °> 
See. So that if it be propofed to allign how many different 
ways a company of fix perfons may be placed, at table 
for inffance, the anfwer will be 720 ways. Alfo the 
number of changes that can be rung on leven bells, are 
3X2X3X4X5X6X7>or7 2 oX 7 = 5040 cha £|g N , GEa 
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