Chanfrin

[Fr. chanfrein.] The fore-part of a horse's head. Changarnier, NICOLAS ANNE THEODULE, (shan-gar'ne ai, ) a French general, B. 1793. He entered the army when young, and distinguished himself in the campaign in Algeria, of which prov. he was, in 1848, made governor-general. He subsequently took part in the suppre ion of the insurrection in Paris, in Jan., 1848, and, upon Louis Napoleon becoming President of the Republic, C. was appointed commander-in-chief of the capital. In this capacity he crushed the attempted insurrection of June, in the same year. He was arrested on the day of the Coup d'État (Dec. 2, 1851), and afterwards exiled. In 1871, he came to offer his services against the German invasion, served at Metz under Marshal Bazaine, and surrendered himself a prisoner to the Pru ians, agreeably to the capitulation signed by his commander. In 1871 he was elected to the National A embly. D. 1877. Chang'choo-foo, a walled city of China, prov. FoKien, 36 m. S.W. of its port Amoy; Lat. 24° 35' N., Lon. 117° 50′ E. This is the centre of the silk manufacture of the prov., and a place of active trade and busy industry. Besides silk, sugar and tiles are extensively fabricated. Pop. Estimated at 1,000,000. Change, ( chanj ,) v. a. [Fr. changer; It. cang i are, cambiare; L. Lat. cambire , to exchange, to barter.] To alter; to vary; to cause to turn or pa from one state to another; as, to change color. To put one thing in the place of another; to exchange; to substitute for another; as, to change one's linen. - To give one kind of money for another; as, to change notes for gold. To become acid or tainted; to become deteriorated from a natural state of sweetne ; as, milk changes with the weather. To change a horse, or to change hand . To turn or bear the horse's head from one hand to the other, from the left to the right, or from the right to the left. -v. i. To be altered; to undergo variation. "They change for better, and we change for worse." - Dryden. -To vary in phase; to pa by transition from one state to another, as the moon. -n. Any variation or alteration in form, state, quality, or e ence; a mutation from one state or form to another; as, a change of dynasty. A substitution of one thing in the place of another; vici itude; revolution. "The sky is changed! and such a change!" - Byron. -Transition; a pa ing from one phase to another; as, a IMG:content-0125.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0126.png:[blocks in formation] manner.