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CHAN'GEWATER, a town of United America, in 
the State of New Jerfey : twenty-five miles weft-louth- 
welt of Morrifto.wn. 
CHANGLOS SE, a town of Afia, in the country of 
Thibet, near-the river Sanpoo : 104. miles welt of Lafla, 
and 190 north-north-eaft_of Catmunda. 
CHANGY', a town of France, in the department of the 
Rhone and Loire : three leagues and a half north-weft of 
Roanne. 
CHANIE'RES, a town of France in the department 
of the Gironde: twelve miles eaft of Blaye. 
CHANIE WIE'ZE, a town of Lithunia in the palati¬ 
nate of Novogrodek : fifty-fix miles foutli-weft of Novo- 
grodek. 
CHANMAN'NING, a town of Afia, in Thibet, where 
the grand Lama lometimes refides: 116 miles weft of 
Lalfa, and 266 north-eaft of Catmandu. 
CHAN'NA,/. in ichthyology, the name of a fifli of the 
perch genus, caught in the Mediterranean ; called like- 
wife cannadella, or cbannadella , and at Marfeilles by the 
name of charina. 
CHAN'NEL,/. {canal, Fr. canalis, Lat.] The hollow 
bed of running waters.—It is notfoealy, now that things 
are grown into an habit, and have their certain courle, 
to change the channel, and turn their ftreams another 
way. Spenfer. —Any cavity drawn longways : 
Complaint and hot defires, the lover’s hell, 
And Raiding tears, that wore a channel where they fell. 
Dry clen. 
A ftrait or narrow fea, between two countries : as the 
Britifh Channel, between Britain and France; St. George’s 
Channel, between Britain and Ireland.—A gutter or fur¬ 
row of a pillar. 
T 0 CHAN'NEL, <v. a. To cut any thing in channels: 
No more {hall trenching war channel her fields, 
Nor bruife her flowrets with the armed hoofs 
Of hoftile paces. Shahefpeare. 
CHAN'NEL, the Englifh name of the department of 
France called La Manche. See La Manche. 
CHAN'NI OUDOU'C, a town of Cliinefe Tartary, in 
the country of Moguls. Lat. 42. 51. N. Ion. 132. E. Ferro. 
CHANONA'T, a town of France, in the department 
of the Puy de Dome, celebrated for its mineral waters. 
CHANSCHE'NA-POU,/. in botany. See Bauhinia. 
To CHANT, oj. a. [chantey-, Fr.] To fing: 
Wherein the chearful birds of fundry kind 
Do chant fweet mufic. Fairy Queen. 
To celebrate by fong.—The poets chant it in the theatres, 
the ftiepherds in the mountains. Bramhall. —To fing in 
cathedral fervice. 
To CHANT, <v. n. To fing : to make melody with the 
voice.—They chant to the found of the viol, and invent 
to t.hemlelves inllruments of mufic, Amos, vi. 7. 
Heav’n heard his fong, and haften’d his relief; 
And chang’d to Inowy plumes his hoary hair, 
And wing’d his flight, to chant aloft in air. Dryden. 
CEIANT, f. Song ; melody : 
A pleafant grove, 
With chant of tuneful birds refounding loud. Milton. 
In church-hiftory we meet with divers kinds of chant or 
fong. The firft is the Amhrofian , eftablifhed by St. Am- 
brofe. The fecond, the Gregorian chant, introduced by 
pope Gregory the Great, whoeftabiiftied fchools of chan¬ 
ters, and ccrredled the church-fong. This is ftill retain¬ 
ed in the church under the name of plain fong : at firft it 
was called the Roman fong. The plain or Gregorian chant , 
is where the choir and people fing in unifon, or all toge¬ 
ther in the fame manner. 
CHANTABOU'N, a feaport town of the kingdom of 
Siam, on the frontiers of Camboja, 
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CHANTA'DA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Galicia : twenty miles north of Orenfe. 
CHANTAGIR', a river of Siberia, which runs into 
the Eniiei. Lat. 51.50. N. Ion. 109. 20. E. Ferro. 
CHANTAREL'LE, f. in botany. See Agaricus. 
CHANTAUNAY', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Vendee: fifteen miles north of Fontenay- 
le-Comte. 
CHANTEL'LE lf. CHATEAU, a town of France, in 
the department of the Aliier, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftrift of Gannat: three leagues northof Gannat. 
CHANTENA'Y, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
dillridl of Nantes : two miles weft of Nantes. 
CHANTENA'Y, a town of France in the department 
of the Sarte, and chief place of a canton, in the dillridt 
of Sable : fifteen miles weft-foutli-weft Le Mans. 
C’HAN'TER, f. a finger in the choir of a cathedral. The 
word is almoft obfolete, chorijler being commonly ufed in- 
ftead of it. Ail great chapters have chanters and chap¬ 
lains to aflift the canons, and officiate in their abfence. 
Chanter is ufed by way of excellence for the precentor 
or mailer of the choir. At St. David’s cathedral in Wales, 
where there is no dean, he is next in dignity to the bilhop. 
The ancients called the chanter prhnicerius cantorum. To 
him belonged the direction of the deacons and other in¬ 
ferior officers. Chanters-in the temple of Jerufalem, were 
a number of Levites employed in finging and playing 
upon inllruments before the altar. They had no habits 
diftinft from the reft of the people ; yet in the ceremony 
of removing the 1 ark to Solomon’s temple, the chanters 
appeared drefled in tunics of byffus or fine linen, a 
Chron. v. 12. 
CHANTICLEER'', f. [from chanter and clear, Fr ] 
The name given to the cock, from the clearnefs and loud- 
nefs of his crow : 
And chearful chanticleer, with his note {brill,, 
Had warned once, that Plicebus’ fiery car 
In hafte was climbing up the eaftern hill. Spenfer . 
Hark, hark, I hear 
The {train of ftrutting chanticleer ► Shakefpeare. 
CHANTIL'LY, a town of France, in the department 
of the Oife, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Senlis. The prince of Conde had a magnificent pa¬ 
lace here, with beautiful gardens, a menagery, extenlive 
park, and curious water-works. The liable was thought 
to exceed any thing of the kind in France; and the foreft, 
for the purpofe of keeping game, for the chafe, and the 
gun, extended many miles in circumference : one league 
and a half weft of Senlis, and four fouth-l'outh-eaft of 
Clermont. 
CHANTONA'Y, a town of France, in the department 
of the Vendee, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of La Chataigneraye : four leagues and a quarter weft of 
La Chataignexaye. In September, 1793, French re¬ 
publicans were totally defeated by the royalilts, near this 
town, with great lois. 
CHAN'TRESS, f. A woman finger : 
Sweet bird, that fhunn’ll the ncife of folly, 
Mod mufical, mod melancholy ! 
Thee, chantrefs of the woods among* 
I woo to hear thy even-ftmg.. Miltont 
CHANTRTGNE, a town of France,. In. the depart¬ 
ment of the Mayenne, and chief place’of a canton in the 
dillrift of Mayenne e two leagues and a half north of 
Mayenne. 
CHAN'TRY,/- [ cantaria , Lat..] A little church, cha¬ 
pel, or particular altar in fome cathedral, endow-ed with 
lands, or other revenues, for the maintenance of one or 
more priefts, daily to mg mats, and officiate divine fer¬ 
vice for the fouls of the donors,, and fuch others as they 
appointed. The flat. 1 Edw. VI. c. 14, put an end to. 
thefe chantries, by declaring it not to be lawful for any 
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