CHADBURN
First name CHADBURN's origin is Other. CHADBURN means "from the wildcat brook". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CHADBURN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of chadburn.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with CHADBURN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming CHADBURN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CHADBURN AS A WHOLE:
chadburneNAMES RHYMING WITH CHADBURN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 7 Letters (hadburn) - Names That Ends with hadburn:
Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (adburn) - Names That Ends with adburn:
radburn bradburnRhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (dburn) - Names That Ends with dburn:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (burn) - Names That Ends with burn:
caliburn ashburn rayburn alburn clayburn melburn osburn welburn wellburn washburn reyburn milburn burn coburn wilburnRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (urn) - Names That Ends with urn:
bourn rayhurn reyhurn sherbournRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rn) - Names That Ends with rn:
edern padarn vortigern gwern thorn ahern eachthighearn kern bern fern lavern rhearn aethelbeorn bjorn brarn claiborn elvern hern kearn melborn severn stearn torn usbeorn welborn arn stern sanborn osborn farn dearborn albern kentigern ahearn bearn beorn trahern vernNAMES RHYMING WITH CHADBURN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 7 Letters (chadbur) - Names That Begins with chadbur:
Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (chadbu) - Names That Begins with chadbu:
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (chadb) - Names That Begins with chadb:
chadbyrneRhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (chad) - Names That Begins with chad:
chad chadwi chadwick chadwik chadwykRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cha) - Names That Begins with cha:
cha cha'akmongwi cha'kwaina cha'risa cha'tima chaba chabah chace chafulumisa chaga chagai chaim chaisly chait chaitra chaka chakierra chalchiuitl chalina chalise chalmer chalmers 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 CHADBURN:
First Names which starts with 'cha' and ends with 'urn':
First Names which starts with 'ch' and ends with 'rn':
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'n':
cadan caden cadman cadmon cadwallon caedmon caedon caelan caerleon caerlion cailean cailen cailin caillen cailyn cain caitilin caitlan caitlin caitlinn caitlyn caitlynn caitrin calan calhoun calidan calin callaghan callahan camarin camaron camdan camden camdin camdyn camelon cameron cameryn camlann camren camron camryn camshron caoilfhinnn caoilfhionn caoimhghin caolabhuinn caolan caomhan caralyn carelton carilyn carlatun carleen carleton carlin carlson carlton carman carmen carmon carnation carolan carolann carolin carolyn carolynn carrington carson carsten caryn carynn casen cassian caswallan catalin catelyn catheryn cathleen cathlin cathryn catlin catlyn cavalon cavan cayden caylan ceallachan ceannfhionn ceapmann ceastun ceawlin ceileachan cein celdtun celidon celyddon cendrillon cenon cercyonEnglish Words Rhyming CHADBURN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CHADBURN AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHADBURN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (hadburn) - English Words That Ends with hadburn:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (adburn) - English Words That Ends with adburn:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (dburn) - English Words That Ends with dburn:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (burn) - English Words That Ends with burn:
alburn | noun (n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls. |
auburn | adjective (a.) Flaxen-colored. |
adjective (a.) Reddish brown. |
burn | noun (n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat. |
noun (n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn. | |
noun (n.) A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6. | |
noun (n.) A small stream. | |
verb (v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. | |
verb (v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass. | |
verb (v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime. | |
verb (v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block. | |
verb (v. t.) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. | |
verb (v. t.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen. | |
verb (v. i.) To be of fire; to flame. | |
verb (v. i.) To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat. | |
verb (v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever. | |
verb (v. i.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine. | |
verb (v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. |
caburn | noun (n.) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc. |
heartburn | noun (n.) An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints. |
sunburn | noun (n.) The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun; tan. |
verb (v. t.) To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (urn) - English Words That Ends with urn:
azurn | adjective (a.) Azure. |
bourn | noun (n.) Alt. of Bourne |
verb (v.) Alt. of Bourne |
cothurn | noun (n.) A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general. |
counterturn | noun (n.) The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties. |
lecturn | noun (n.) A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern.] |
nocturn | noun (n.) An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night. |
noun (n.) One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service. |
overturn | noun (n.) The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties. |
verb (v. t.) To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building. | |
verb (v. t.) To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow. | |
verb (v. t.) To overpower; to conquer. |
return | noun (n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary. |
noun (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis. | |
noun (n.) That which is returned. | |
noun (n.) A payment; a remittance; a requital. | |
noun (n.) An answer; as, a return to one's question. | |
noun (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information. | |
noun (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. | |
noun (n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south. | |
noun (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. | |
noun (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. | |
noun (n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners. | |
noun (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below. | |
noun (n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc. | |
noun (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. | |
verb (v. i.) To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. | |
verb (v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again. | |
verb (v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond. | |
verb (v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession. | |
verb (v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. | |
verb (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money. | |
verb (v. t.) To give in requital or recompense; to requite. | |
verb (v. t.) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks. | |
verb (v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie. | |
verb (v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known. | |
verb (v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election. | |
verb (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ. | |
verb (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. | |
verb (v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net. | |
verb (v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club. |
saturn | noun (n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time. |
noun (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites. | |
noun (n.) The metal lead. |
spurn | noun (n.) A kick; a blow with the foot. |
noun (n.) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment. | |
noun (n.) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass. | |
verb (v. t.) To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick. | |
verb (v. t.) To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt. | |
verb (v. i.) To kick or toss up the heels. | |
verb (v. i.) To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance. |
taciturn | adjective (a.) Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak. |
tourn | noun (n.) A spinning wheel. |
noun (n.) The sheriff's turn, or court. |
turn | noun (n.) The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel. |
noun (n.) Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide. | |
noun (n.) One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander. | |
noun (n.) A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll. | |
noun (n.) Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time. | |
noun (n.) Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn. | |
noun (n.) Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn. | |
noun (n.) Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation. | |
noun (n.) A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn. | |
noun (n.) A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given. | |
noun (n.) A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat. | |
noun (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift. | |
noun (n.) A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county. | |
noun (n.) Monthly courses; menses. | |
noun (n.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat. | |
verb (v. t.) To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something. | |
verb (v. t.) To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote. | |
verb (v. t.) To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like. | |
verb (v. t.) To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal. | |
verb (v. t.) Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt. | |
verb (v. t.) To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad. | |
verb (v. t.) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly. | |
verb (v. t.) To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach. | |
verb (v. i.) To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel. | |
verb (v. i.) Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact. | |
verb (v. i.) To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue. | |
verb (v. i.) To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road. | |
verb (v. i.) To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan. | |
verb (v. i.) To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well. | |
verb (v. i.) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc. | |
verb (v. i.) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain. | |
verb (v. i.) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach. | |
verb (v. i.) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales. | |
verb (v. i.) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide. | |
verb (v. i.) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. | |
verb (v. i.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted. | |
verb (v. t.) To make a turn about or around (something); to go or pass around by turning; as, to turn a corner. |
urn | noun (n.) A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn. |
noun (n.) Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave. | |
noun (n.) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius. | |
noun (n.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca. | |
noun (n.) A tea urn. See under Tea. | |
verb (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHADBURN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (chadbur) - Words That Begins with chadbur:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (chadbu) - Words That Begins with chadbu:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (chadb) - Words That Begins with chadb:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (chad) - Words That Begins with chad:
chad | noun (n.) See Shad. |
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. |
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. |
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. |