‖n. [ G. ] See Legislature, Austria, Prussia. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ Written also bahawder. ] [ Hind. bahādur hero, champion. ] A title of respect or honor given to European officers in East Indian state papers, and colloquially, and among the natives, to distinguished officials and other important personages. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boxhauled ] (Naut.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind). Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chaude mêlée; chaud hot + mêler (Formerly sometimes spelt medler) to mingle. ] (Law) The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance-medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Chawdron. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. chauffoir a kind of stone, fr. chauffer to heat. See Chafe. ] (Chem.) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., lit., stoker. ] 1. [ pl. ] (F. Hist.) Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. One who manages the running of an automobile or limousine; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., fem. of chauffeur. ] A woman chauffeur. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Chawdron. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A gap. [ Obs. ] Colgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To open; to yawn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O, chaun thy breast. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Chant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [ Slang, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Chantry. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ F. ] The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A foot covering of any kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a meeting, usually held in the summer outdoors or under a temporary tent, providing public lectures combined with entertainment such as concerts and plays. It originated in the village of Chautauqua, N. Y., in 1874, and was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Also, a meeting similar to this. [ PJC ]

(of education) The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin, a character represented as making grotesque and threatening displays of his attachment to his fallen chief, Napoleon I., in 1815 (in the play La Cocarde tricolor, 1831). ] 1. Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. exaggerated and unreasoning partisanship to any group or cause; -- as, male chauvinism, i.e. belief in the superiority of males. [ PJC ]

-- Chau"vin*ist, n. & adj. -- Chau`vin*is"tic a. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ To have a generous belief in the greatness of one's country is not chauvinism. It is the character of the latter quality to be wildly extravagant, to be fretful and childish and silly, to resent a doubt as an insult, and to offend by its very frankness. Prof. H. Tuttle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. fanatically patriotic.
Syn. -- flag-waving(prenominal), jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultrapatriotic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Naut.) Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; having the sails trimmed for sailing as close to the wind as possible; -- said of a sailing vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. a mountain in Nepal, 26, 810 feet high. [ proper name ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Exchange. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order of small, commonly luminescent crustaceans: krill.
Syn. -- order Euphausiacea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exhausted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exhausting. ] [ L. exhaustus, p. p. of exhaurire; ex out + haurire, haustum, to draw, esp. water; perhaps akin to Icel. asua to sprinkle, pump. ] 1. To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources. [ 1913 Webster ]

A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Chem.) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exhausted receiver. (Physics) See under Receiver.

Syn. -- To spend; consume; tire out; weary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. exhaustus, p. p. ] 1. Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exhaust draught, a forced draught produced by drawing air through a place, as through a furnace, instead of blowing it through. --
Exhaust fan, a fan blower so arranged as to produce an exhaust draught, or to draw air or gas out of a place, as out of a room in ventilating it. --
Exhaust nozzle,
Exhaust orifice (Steam Engine), the blast orifice or nozzle. --
Exhaust pipe (Steam Engine), the pipe that conveys exhaust steam from the cylinder to the atmosphere or to the condenser.
Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes. --
Exhaust purifier (Milling), a machine for sorting grains, or purifying middlings by an exhaust draught. Knight. --
Exhaust steam (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to escape from the cylinder after having been employed to produce motion of the piston. --
Exhaust valve (Steam Engine), a valve that lets exhaust steam escape out of a cylinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Steam Engine) 1. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as burned-out, 1. [ wns=1+3 ]
Syn. -- burned-out(prenominal), burnt-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), fagged, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. used up; completely consumed. [ wns=2 ][ Narrower terms: gone, expended, spent ] WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. emptied by being pumped out or having a vacuum created. Opposite of unexhausted.
Syn. -- exhausted, evacuated. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

pos>n. One who, or that which, exhausts or draws out. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being exhausted. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended. Opposite of inexhaustible. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Producing exhaustion; as, exhausting labors. -- Ex*haust"ing, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Cf. F. exhaustion. ] 1. The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications and quadratures, now investigated by the calculus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Exhaustion; drain. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Exhaustion. Wraxall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ar., prop., mouth of the large fish: cf. F. Fomalhaut. ] (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Hind. ghāt. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A pass through a mountain. [ India ] J. D. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A range of mountains. Balfour (Cyc. of Ind. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf. [ India ] Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Habergeon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. hauberc, halberc, F. haubert, OHG. halsberc; hals neck + bergan to protect, G. bergen; akin to AS. healsbeorg, Icel. hālsbjörg. See Collar, and Bury, v. t. ] A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon. [ Written variously hauberg, hauberque, hawberk, etc. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Helm, nor hawberk's twisted mail. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Von Hauer, of Vienna. ] (Min.) Native sulphide of manganese, a reddish brown or brownish black mineral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Haw a hedge. ] A low-lying meadow by the side of a river. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

On a haugh or level plain, near to a royal borough. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Haughty. ] High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]