CHALINA
First name CHALINA's origin is Spanish. CHALINA means "form of rosa". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CHALINA below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of chalina.(Brown names are of the same origin (Spanish) with CHALINA and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming CHALINA
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CHALƯNA AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH CHALƯNA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (halina) - Names That Ends with halina:
kathalinaRhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (alina) - Names That Ends with alina:
catalina madalina alina evalina galina kalina malina opalinaRhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (lina) - Names That Ends with lina:
akilina olina karolina adelina ancelina apollina aquilina arlina avelina belina carmelina carolina colina darlina earlina edelina elina erlina evangelina evelina ewelina jaquelina jolina jorgelina julina jyllina karlina lina lurlina madelina melina michaelina odelina orlina pasclina ursulina zerlina zelina xylina selina phillina celina jocelina marlina angelinaRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ina) - Names That Ends with ina:
asmina crispina hasina zahina inina raina jirina gelsomina levina jaakkina katariina falerina armina katharina aegina alcina aretina filipina jarina luigina trina kina mahina adamina ernesztina krisztina dakshina balbina catarina claudina rufina sabrina serafina akina shina citlalmina cha'kwaina migina afina alexandreina augustina corina crina dorina marina fayinaNAMES RHYMING WITH CHALƯNA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (chalin) - Names That Begins with chalin:
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (chali) - Names That Begins with chali:
chaliseRhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (chal) - Names That Begins with chal:
chalchiuitl chalmer chalmersRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cha) - Names That Begins with cha:
cha cha'akmongwi cha'risa cha'tima chaba chabah chace chad chadburn chadburne chadbyrne chadwi chadwick chadwik chadwyk chafulumisa chaga chagai chaim chaisly chait chaitra chaka chakierra chamorra chamunda chamyle chan chana chanah chanan chance chancellor chancey chanda chandara chandi chandler chandra chandria chane chanel chanell chanelle chaney chanler chann channa channe channelle channing channon chano chanoch chansomps chantae chantal chantalle chantay chante chantel chantell chantelle chantrell chanya chapa chapalu chapin chapman chappel chappell char chardae chardanae chardonnay charee charion charis charise charissa chariste charity charla charlaine charlayne charlee charleen charleena charlena charlene charles charleson charleston charleton charlette charleyNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CHALƯNA:
First Names which starts with 'cha' and ends with 'ina':
First Names which starts with 'ch' and ends with 'na':
cherina chesna cheyanna chiana chianna china cholena chrisanna christana christeena christena christiana christianna christina chrystina chu'mana chyna chynnaFirst Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'a':
cacia cadda cadena cadencia cadenza cadha cadhla cadyna caedwalla caersewiella caffara caffaria cahira caira cairistiona cala calandra calandria calantha caldwiella caliana calida calinda calissa calista calleigha callia calliegha calligenia callista calvina calynda calysta camara cambria camelia camella camellia camila camilla camraya candida candra cantara capeka caprina capucina cara caressa carilla carina carisa carissa carla carlaisa carletta carlita carlota carlotta carma carmela carmelita carmella carmencita carmia carmina carmita carmya carola caroliana carona carressa carrola cartimandua casandra casimira cassandra cassiopeia cassondra casta castalia caterinaEnglish Words Rhyming CHALINA
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CHALƯNA AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHALƯNA (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (halina) - English Words That Ends with halina:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (alina) - English Words That Ends with alina:
salina | adjective (a.) A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea. |
adjective (a.) Salt works. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (lina) - English Words That Ends with lina:
haematophlina | noun (n. pl.) A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire. |
linguatulina | noun (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida. |
oculina | noun (n.) A genus of tropical corals, usually branched, and having a very volid texture. |
orbulina | noun (n.) A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell. |
pedicellina | noun (n.) A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta. |
pediculina | noun (n. pl.) A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix. |
semolina | noun (n.) The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery. |
tellina | noun (n.) A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ina) - English Words That Ends with ina:
acarina | noun (n. pl.) The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange. |
achatina | noun (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa. |
alumina | noun (n.) One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3. |
amphirhina | noun (n. pl.) A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double. |
angina | noun (n.) Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. |
araneina | noun (n. pl.) The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders. |
carina | noun (n.) A keel |
noun (n.) That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification | |
noun (n.) A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat. | |
noun (n.) The keel of the breastbone of birds. |
casuarina | noun (n.) A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color. |
cavatina | noun (n.) Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used. |
china | noun (n.) A country in Eastern Asia. |
noun (n.) China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain. |
concertina | noun (n.) A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads. |
coquina | noun (n.) A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida. |
czarina | noun (n.) The title of the empress of Russia. |
discina | noun (n.) A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle. |
domina | noun (n.) Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. |
erythrina | noun (n.) A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers. |
farina | noun (n.) A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery. |
noun (n.) Pollen. |
globigerina | noun (n.) A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera. |
glucina | noun (n.) A white or gray tasteless powder, the oxide of the element glucinum; -- formerly called glucine. |
hemina | noun (n.) A measure of half a sextary. |
noun (n.) A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces. |
hydrina | noun (n. pl.) The group of hydroids to which the fresh-water hydras belong. |
ianthina | noun (n.) Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail. |
jaina | noun (n.) One of a numerous sect in British India, holding the tenets of Jainism. |
jamacina | noun (n.) Jamaicine. |
janthina | noun (n.) See Ianthina. |
lamina | noun (n.) A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals. |
noun (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower. | |
noun (n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather. |
limacina | noun (n.) A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales. |
littorina | noun (n.) A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle. |
madrina | noun (n.) An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules. |
marikina | noun (n.) A small marmoset (Midas rosalia); the silky tamarin. |
meandrina | noun (n.) A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals. |
mina | noun (n.) An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas. |
noun (n.) See Myna. |
monorhina | noun (n. pl.) The Marsipobranchiata. |
nemertina | noun (n. pl.) An order of helminths usually having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; -- called also Nemertea, Nemertida, and Rhynchocoela. |
neritina | noun (n.) A genus including numerous species of shells resembling Nerita in form. They mostly inhabit brackish water, and are often delicately tinted. |
ngina | noun (n.) The gorilla. |
ocarina | noun (n.) A kind of small simple wind instrument. |
quinquina | noun (n.) Peruvian bark. |
noun (n.) Peruvian bark. |
pagina | noun (n.) The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus. |
paludina | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond. |
patina | noun (n.) A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella. |
noun (n.) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals. |
piscina | noun (n.) A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels. |
platina | noun (n.) Platinum. |
polycystina | noun (n. pl.) A division of Radiolaria including numerous minute marine species. The skeleton is composed of silica, and is often very elegant in form and sculpture. Many have been found in the fossil state. |
retina | noun (n.) The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye. |
rhytina | noun (n.) See Rytina. |
rytina | noun (n.) A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow. |
salamandrina | noun (n.) A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders. |
sarcina | noun (n.) A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group. |
scarlatina | noun (n.) Scarlet fever. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHALƯNA (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (chalin) - Words That Begins with chalin:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (chali) - Words That Begins with chali:
chalice | noun (n.) A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. |
chaliced | adjective (a.) Having a calyx or cup; cup-shaped. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (chal) - Words That Begins with chal:
chalaza | noun (n.) The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus. |
noun (n.) A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle. |
chalazal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the chalaza. |
chalaze | noun (n.) Same as Chalaza. |
chalaziferous | adjective (a.) Having or bearing chalazas. |
chalazion | noun (n.) A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands. |
chalcanthite | noun (n.) Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under Blue. |
chalcedonic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to chalcedony. |
chalcedony | noun (n.) A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax. |
chalchihuitl | noun (n.) The Mexican name for turquoise. See Turquoise. |
chalcidian | noun (n.) One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidae), having four small or rudimentary legs. |
chalcocite | noun (n.) Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster. |
chalcographer | noun (n.) Alt. of Chalcographist |
chalcographist | noun (n.) An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper. |
chalcography | noun (n.) The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing. |
chalcopyrite | noun (n.) Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color. |
chaldaic | noun (n.) The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; Chaldee. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea. |
chaldaism | noun (n.) An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect. |
chaldean | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Chaldea. |
noun (n.) A learned man, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the Chaldeans. | |
noun (n.) Nestorian. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea. |
chaldee | noun (n.) The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; eastern Aramaic, or the Aramaic used in Chaldea. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea. |
chaldrich | noun (n.) Alt. of Chalder |
chalder | noun (n.) A kind of bird; the oyster catcher. |
chaldron | noun (n.) An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke. |
chalet | noun (n.) A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland. |
noun (n.) A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages. |
chalk | noun (n.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone. |
noun (n.) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon. | |
verb (v. t.) To rub or mark with chalk. | |
verb (v. t.) To manure with chalk, as land. | |
verb (v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach. |
chalking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chalk |
chalkcutter | noun (n.) A man who digs chalk. |
chalkiness | noun (n.) The state of being chalky. |
chalkstone | noun (n.) A mass of chalk. |
noun (n.) A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus. |
chalky | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste. |
challenge | noun (n.) An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. |
noun (n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign. | |
noun (n.) A claim or demand. | |
noun (n.) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. | |
noun (n.) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause. | |
noun (n.) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. | |
noun (n.) To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy. | |
noun (n.) To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. | |
noun (n.) To claim as due; to demand as a right. | |
noun (n.) To censure; to blame. | |
noun (n.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?" | |
noun (n.) To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation. | |
noun (n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court. | |
noun (n.) To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. | |
verb (v. i.) To assert a right; to claim a place. |
challenging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Challenge |
challengeable | adjective (a.) That may be challenged. |
challenger | noun (n.) One who challenges. |
challis | noun (n.) A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses. |
chalon | noun (n.) A bed blanket. |
chalybean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel. |
adjective (a.) Of superior quality and temper; -- applied to steel. |
chalybeate | noun (n.) Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient. |
adjective (a.) Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs. |
chalybeous | adjective (a.) Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel. |
chalybite | noun (n.) Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite. |
chalazogamy | noun (n.) A process of fecundation in which the pollen tube penetrates to the embryosac through the tissue of the chalaza, instead of entering through the micropyle. It was originally discovered by Treub in Casuarina, and has since been found to occur regularly in the families Betulaceae and Juglandaceae. Partial chalazogamy is found in Ulmus, the tube here penetrating the nucleus midway between the chalaza and micropyle. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cha) - Words That Begins with cha:
chamomile | noun (n.) A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative. |
noun (n.) See Camomile. |
chab | noun (n.) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus). |
chabasite | noun (n.) Alt. of Cabazite |
chablis | noun (n.) A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France. |
noun (n.) a white wine resembling Chablis{1}, but made elsewhere, as in California. |
chabouk | noun (n.) Alt. of Chabuk |
chabuk | noun (n.) A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment. |
chace | noun (n.) See 3d Chase, n., 3. |
verb (v. t.) To pursue. See Chase v. t. |
chachalaca | noun (n.) The Texan guan (Ortalis vetula). |
chacma | noun (n.) A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.] |
chaconne | noun (n.) An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations. |
chad | noun (n.) See Shad. |
chaetetes | noun (n.) A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones. |
chaetiferous | adjective (a.) Bearing setae. |
chaetodont | noun (n.) A marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae. The chaetodonts have broad, compressed bodies, and usually bright colors. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetodonts or the family Chaetodontidae. |
chaetognath | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha. |
chaetognatha | noun (n. pl.) An order of free-swimming marine worms, of which the genus Sagitta is the type. They have groups of curved spines on each side of the head. |
chaetopod | noun (n.) One of the Chaetopoda. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Chaetopoda. |
chaetopoda | noun (n. pl.) A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochaeta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychaeta, including most of the marine species. |
chaetotaxy | noun (n.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect. |
chafing | noun (p pr. & vb. n.) of Chafe |
verb (v. t.) The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing. |
chafe | noun (n.) Heat excited by friction. |
noun (n.) Injury or wear caused by friction. | |
noun (n.) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. | |
verb (v. t.) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. | |
verb (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate. | |
verb (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable. | |
verb (v. i.) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction. | |
verb (v. i.) To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes. | |
verb (v. i.) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated. |
chafer | noun (n.) One who chafes. |
noun (n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. | |
noun (n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer. |
chafewax | noun (n.) Alt. of Chaffwax |
chaffwax | noun (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents. |
chafeweed | noun (n.) The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing. |
chaff | noun (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. |
noun (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. | |
noun (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. | |
noun (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. | |
noun (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower. | |
verb (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter. | |
verb (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. |
chaffing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaff |
noun (n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter. |
chaffer | noun (n.) One who chaffs. |
noun (n.) Bargaining; merchandise. | |
noun (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. | |
noun (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter. | |
verb (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in. | |
verb (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words. |
chaffering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaffer |
chafferer | noun (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer. |
chaffery | noun (n.) Traffic; bargaining. |
chaffinch | noun (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch. |
chaffless | adjective (a.) Without chaff. |
chaffy | adjective (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. |
adjective (a.) Light or worthless as chaff. | |
adjective (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. | |
adjective (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers. |
chagreen | noun (n.) See Shagreen. |
chagrin | noun (n.) Vexation; mortification. |
noun (n.) To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined. | |
adjective (a.) Chagrined. | |
verb (v. i.) To be vexed or annoyed. |
chargrining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chagrin |
chain | noun (n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc. |
noun (n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit. | |
noun (n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas. | |
noun (n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land. | |
noun (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels. | |
noun (n.) The warp threads of a web. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog. | |
verb (v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave. | |
verb (v. t.) To unite closely and strongly. | |
verb (v. t.) To measure with the chain. | |
verb (v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor. |
chaining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chain |
chainless | adjective (a.) Having no chain; not restrained or fettered. |
chainlet | noun (n.) A small chain. |
chainwork | noun (n.) Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work. |
chair | noun (n.) A movable single seat with a back. |
noun (n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. | |
noun (n.) The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair. | |
noun (n.) A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig. | |
noun (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers. | |
verb (v. t.) To place in a chair. | |
verb (v. t.) To carry publicly in a chair in triumph. |
chairing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chair |
chairman | noun (n.) The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body. |
noun (n.) One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. |
chairmanship | noun (n.) The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body. |
chaise | noun (n.) A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse. |
noun (n.) a carriage in general. |
chaja | noun (n.) The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, / Chauna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi. |
cham | noun (n.) The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan. |
verb (v. t.) To chew. |
chamade | noun (n.) A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum. |