n. An agate. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. achat purchase. See Cates. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Purchase; bargaining. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Provisions. Same as Cates. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; agate. ] (Zool.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cater. ] Purveyor; acater. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Chatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Chatting. ] [ From Chatter. √22. ] To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To chat a while on their adventures. Dryden.

Syn. -- To talk; chatter; gossip; converse. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To talk of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip. [ 1913 Webster ]

Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat,
With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (Icteria viridis), and the long-tailed chat (Icteria longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidæ, as the stonechat, and whinchat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bush chat. (Zool.) See under Bush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Mining) Small stones with ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chat potatoes, small potatoes, such as are given to swine. [ Local. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Chateux [ F. château a castle. See Castle. ] 1. A castle or a fortress in France. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The distinctive, French term for a fortified castle of the middle ages is château-fort. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a double-thick center cut of beef tenderloin, broiled and served with a sauce and potatoes. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖Chateau en Espagne ety>[ F. ], a castle in Spain, that is, a castle in the air, Spain being the region of romance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918.
Syn. -- battle of the Marne, Belleau Wood, Marne River. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. châtelaine the wife of a castellan, the mistress of a chateau, a chatelaine chain. ] An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. châtelet, dim. of château. See Castle. ] A little castle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. châtellenie. ] Same as Castellany. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Cf. F. chat cat. ] (Zool.) A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., p. pr. of chatoyer to be chatoyant, fr. chat cat. ] (Min.) Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chatoiement. See Chatoyant. ] Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors. Cleaceland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. chatel; another form of catel. See Cattle. ] (Law) Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Chattels are personal or real: personal are such as are movable, as goods, plate, money; real are such rights in land as are less than a freehold, as leases, mortgages, growing corn, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chattel mortgage (Law), a mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Chattered p. pr. & vb. n. Chattering. ] [ Of imitative origin. Cf. Chat, v. i. Chitter. ] 1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. [ 1913 Webster ]

The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. [ 1913 Webster ]

To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make a noise by rapid collisions. [ 1913 Webster ]

With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Begin his witless note apace to chatter. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your words are but idle and empty chatter. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or habit of chattering. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A prater; an idle talker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A bird of the family Ampelidæ -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (a) (Mach.) One of the fine undulations or ripples which are formed on the surface of work by a cutting tool which chatters. (b) (Geol.) A short crack on a rock surface planed smooth by a glacier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to light, familiar talk; talkative. Lady M. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ Tamil shāti. ] A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chat a little stick + wood. ] Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Chat, by way of reduplication. ] Familiar or trifling talk; prattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. debacchatus, p. p. of debacchari to rage; de- + bacchari to rage like a bacchant. ] To rave as a bacchanal. [ R. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. debacchatio. ] Wild raving or debauchery. [ R. ] Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dendrachates; Gr. de`ndron a tree + &unr_; agate: cf. F. dendrachate, dendragate. ] (Min.) Arborescent or dendritic agate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the last or final things. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; the furthest, last + -logy. ] The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ L. eunuchare. ] To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man. Creech. Sir. T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. exarchatus, fr. L. exarchus: cf. F. exarchat. ] The office or the province of an exarch. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. haemachates; Gr. a"i^ma blood + 'acha`ths agate.] (Min.) A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. iaspachates, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Min.) Agate jasper. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Igor Kurchatov, a Russian scientist who worked on the atomic bomb. ] A transuranic element of atomic number 104, symbol Ku; also called rutherfordium, symbol Rf. It is produced in very small quantities by nuclear reactions. In November 1993 the nomenclature committe of the American Chemical Society approved the name rutherfordium for element 104. Russsian investigators who claim to have first discovered element 104, isotope 260 (half-life 0.3 seconds) in 1964 at Dubna proposed the name kurchatovium. However, investigators at Berkely in 1969 produced several isotopes of element 104 but were unable to produce isotope 260; they reported finding isotope 257, with a half-life of 4-5 seconds, isotope 259 with a half-life of 3-4 seconds, and isotope 258 with a shorter half-life.
Syn. -- rutherfordium, Rf, Ku, unnilquadium, Unq, element 104, atomic number 104. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A naturally occurring colorless glass made of almost pure silica, and found in fulgurites, which are produced by lightning striking sand.
Syn. -- quartz glass, vitreous silica, crystal. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; musk: cf. F. moscatelline. See Muscadel, Musk. ] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Adoxa (Adoxa moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from Neufchâtel-en-Bray in France. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. patriarcat. ] 1. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Ethnol.) A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal, a., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; the wood pigeon + &unr_; the agate. ] (Min.) The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sardachates: cf. F. sardachate. See Sard, and Agate. ] (Min.) A variety of agate containing sard. [ 1913 Webster ]