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[W. cyf, a stock or stem.] A clown; a rustic; a tianity. For six years C. dwelt in monastic seclusion coarse, heavy, dull, or surly fellow; as, "fat chuffs." Shak. among the mountains, in company with other prose--a. Ill-tempered; coarse; surly; brutish. (Used as an lytes, and maintained during this time a daily life of the English provincialism.) most rigorous austerity, so much so indeed that he was Chuf'fily, adv . In a clownish or surly manner. at length obliged to return to Antioch, and begin an- Chuffine , n. Clownishne ; surline ; coarsene . other mode of existence. Soon after his return he was Chuffy, a . [Fr. joufflu .] Fat; bloated; puffed out; ordained deacon by Meletius, in 381. In 386 C. was or swollen; as, chuffy -cheeked. fellow. dained presbyter by Flavian, bishop of Antioch, from -Blunt; surly; rude; coarse-mannered; as, a chuffy which time his reputation as a preacher became increas- ingly great, till it attained a climax in his famous Dis- courses of the Staturs -after a popular riot in which the statues of the Emperor Theodosius, and of the empre were thrown down. In 397, C. was consecrated bishop of Constantinople, in which position he effected strenu- ous measures of reform within the church. A form i- dable opposition becoming organized against him, sum- moned him to appear before a synod in 403, there to answer to the charges alleged against him. C., however, refused to attend, on the plea that the court was an in- competent one; whereupon the Emperor deposed him from office, and banished him first to Bithynia, then to Cucusus, a city on the borders of Armenia and Cilicia, and finally to Pityus, a town of Pontus on the Euxine, where he D. in 407. - C. was the most eloquent though not the most learned of the Fathers. He was more of the practical, ethical divine, than the logical theologian, conserving rather than advancing theology. The works of C. consist of commentaries, homilies, liturgies, trea- tises, and epistles. The most valuable are the homilies Chug an serai', a small river and town of Afghanistan. The former rises in Kafir is tan, and connects with the Cabul near Jellalabad. The town is 80 m. N.E. of Cabul, in Lat. 34° 55′ N., Lon. 70° 8' Ε. Chu'la Depot, in Virginia , a post-village of Amelia co., 30 m. W.S.W. of Richmond. Chulaho'ma, in Mi i ippi , a post-village of Marshall co., 15 m. S.W. of Holy Springs. Chulas'ky, in Pennsylvania, a post-village of North- umber land co., 3 m. W. of Danville. Chule, in Peru, a small port, department of Are quip a, about 60 m. S.E. of the city of that name. Chuluwan', or HOLY ISLAND, a small island in the Mozambique channel, S.E. coast of Africa, in Lat. 30° 28' S., Lon. 34° 53′ E.