chalkstone (chakston)

[ Goth, walketh forth, and brynge us a chalks to on . Chaucer , Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 196. When he maketh all the stones the altar as chalk Is. xxvii. 9. Deing recorded with stones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images Eng. One chalk or score is reckoned for every fair pin; and the game of skittles consists in obtaining thirty-one chalks precisely. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 366. 4. An account. See to chalk up, below. "I tell you, we can't and won't trust you. Your drunk en dad has run up a long chalk already. Look there, I gue you know enough to count twelve; - twelve gallons he owes now." S. Judd , Margaret, i. 6. A long chalk, a long way; many degrees. To beat one by a long chalk or long chalks is to beat him by a long way, or to excel him in a a high degree: in allusion to the custom of making marks, as in a score, with chalk, or to the marking of distances by lines drawn with a chalk. [Colloq.] Sir Alured's steed was by long chalks the best Of the party, and very soon distanced the rest. Barham , In golds by Legends, II. 294. Hence-Not by a long chalk, not on any account; not by any means; not at all. - Black chalk. (a) Slate sufficiently colored by carbonaceous particles to answer the purpose of black-lead in pencils for coarse work, such as marking stone. [Eng.] (b) A preparation of ivory-black and fine clay. - Chalk for cheese, an inferior article for a good one; one thing for another. shall not stand up. chalky (châʻki), a. [ As deposited from the cyanide bath just described, the surface of the precipitated silver has a mat or dead appearance, which is well described as chalky . Wahl , Galvanoplastic Manipulations, p. 304. challenge (chal'enj), n. [ chalenge , a ibilated form of calenge , calange , an accusation, claim, chalenge , chalonge, a ibilated form of calenge , calonge = It. calogna , an accusation, claim, dispute, E. calumny , q. v. Thus challenge is a doublet of calumny.] 1t. Accusation; charge. Then muste make thy chalenge agens God. Bp. Pecock, Repre or, I. iii. 152. But she that wrong full challenge soone a oyled, And shew'd that she had not that Lady reft (As they suppos'd), but her had to her liking left. Spenser, F. Q., IV. ix. 36. Lo! how they feignen chalke for cheese. Gower, Conf. Amant., Prol. Chalk style, in engraving. See stippling .-- French chalk, scaly tale; a variety of indurated talc, in ma es composed of small scales of a pearly-white or grayish col- 2t. A claim or demand; pretension. IMG:content-0129.png:[blocks in formation] Bene. Shall I speak a word in your ear? Claud. God ble me from a challenge ! IMG:content-0130.jpg:[blocks in formation] II. in trans. In hunting , to whimper or cry when the scent of game is first discovered: said of a hound. challengeable (chal'en-ja-bl), a. [ chal- angeable ; challenge + -able.] Capable of be- ing challenged, or called to an account. A chartre is chalengeable byfor a chief iustice. Piers Plowman (B), xi. 296. Or, with your Spaniard, your provocador And provocado, have their several courses. challenger (chal'en-jer), n . [ chalengere ; challenge + -er1.] 1. One who challenges or defies another to a duel or contest of any kind. Ros. Have you challenged Charles the wrestler? Orl . No, fair prince ; he is the general challenger . The impious challenger of Pow'r divine Was now to learn that Heav'n, though slow to wrath, Is never with impunity defied. Cowper , The Task, vi. 2. An objector; one who calls in question.-3. A claimant; one who demands something as of right. Earnest challengers there are of trial, by some publick disputation. Hooker . Challenger i a (chal-en-jē'ri-ä), n. [NL. (Wy- ville Thomson, 1877), Challenger , an English ve el in which a voyage of scientific research and exploration was made in 1873-76.] The typical genus of tripy leans of the family Chal- lengeriida. Challenge rid a (chal-en-jer'i-da), n . pl . [NL., as Challenger - ia + -ida .] An order of tripy leans having a monothalamous shell richly sculp- tured and filled with a nucleated sarcode. A group of extremely minute forms, "approaching, but in many important points differing from, the Radiola- rians," has been brought to light by the "Challenger" ex- pedition. They have received the ordinal name of Chal- lengerida . ber, to be taken without showing any cause at all. I do believe You are mine enemy: and make my challenge , You shall not be my judge. Shak ., Hen. VIII., ii. 4. challenge (chal'enj), v.; pret. and pp. chal- lenged , ppr. challenging . [ calognare , calumniari ; from the noun.] I. trans. 11. To accuse; call to answer; Quoted in Capt . John Smith's True Travels, II. 62. Dishonour'd thus and challenged of wrongs. 2. To lay claim to; demand as due or as a right: as, the Supreme Being challenges our reverence and homage. "Charite," quod he, "ne chaffareth nouzte, ne chalengeth , ne craueth!" Piers Plowman (B), xv. 160. Mortals can challenge not a ray, by right, Yet do expect the whole of Cynthia's light. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 3. The Pope challenges all Churches to be under him, the King and the two Arch-Bishops challenge all the Church of England to be under them. Selden , Table-Talk, p. 57. Hast thou yet drawn o'er young Juba? That still would recommend thee more to Cæsar, And challenge better terms. Add is on , Cato, i. 3. In this night of death I challenge the promise of thy word! Whittier , Swan Song of Parson Avery. 3. To call, invite, or summon to single com- bat or duel. Whosoe'er gainsays King Edward's right, By this I challenge him to single fight. [NL., Challenger i a + -ida .] A family of tripy leans having single-chambered shells, with po- rous gla -like walls, and very fine, perfectly regular, hexagonal pores varying greatly in form. Genera of this family are Challenger i a , Gazelletta , and Por cup in i a . challis (shal'i), n. [A French-looking form; also written chally ; same word as shalli , q. v.] A name originally given to a choice fabric of silk and wool first manufactured at Norwich, England, about 1832. It was thin, soft, fine, and without glo . The name is now applied to a fabric re- sembling muslin-de-laine, a light all-wool material, woven without twill, and either plain or figured. French challis is sometimes made with a glo y finish resembling that of alpaca. chalont, chalount, n. [ME.; the orig. form of shalloon, q. v.] A blanket or other form of bed-covering. Also, non of the Citee ne shal don werche [work] qwyltes ne chalouns hy-thoute the walles of the Citee, vp-on peyne to lese that good. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 350. A bed chalumeau (shal-u-mō'), n. [F. chalumeau , chalemel = Pr. calamel , caramel , calmeilh = Sp. caramillo (also F. dial. * calumet , > E. calu- met , q. v.), cal a mell us ; also in fem. form, OF. chalemelle (> Pg. char a mela = It. cennamel- la ), calamella , also calamaula (also OF. chalemie , > MHG. schalemie , G. schalmei = Dan. skalmeje = ME. shalmie , later shalme , shaume , mod. E. shawm (ML. reflex scalmeia ), calami a ), a pipe, flute, flageolet, cal a- mell us , a little pipe or reed, dim. of L. calamus , a pipe, a reed: see calamus , and cf. shawm .] 1. An obsolete musical instrument, probably of the clarinet cla . See shawm .-2. The lowest portion or register of the scale of the clarinet and of the ba et-horn. chaly (cha'li), n. An old copper coin of Ceylon, equal to about one fourth of a United States cent. Chalybean1 (kā-lib'e-an), a . [Cf. L. chalybeius , of steel; Chalybes : see def., and cf. chaly- bean2 .] Pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor famed as work- ers in iron and steel; similar to the work or products of the Chalybes: as, “ Chalybean tem- per'd steel," Milton , S. A., 1. 133. chalybean (kā-lib'e-an), n . [ chalybs : see chalybeate .] A bird of Para- IMG:content-0131.jpg:[merged small][graphic][merged small][merged small] chamæcephalic chamæcephalic (kame-se-fal'ik or kam-ēsef'a-lik), a. [