chauffer, chaufer (shafer)

[F. chauffer, heat, make hot (see chafe ); or Gray, 1838), Wendell Phillips , Speeches and Lectures, p. 61. Chaulelasmus (ka-le-las'mus), n. [NL. (G. R. Syn. 3. See prattle , n. chatterationt (chat-e-ra's hon), n. [ chatter + -ation.] The act of chattering; the disposition or habit of talking much. Johnson. [Colloq.] chatter-basket (chat'er-basket), n. A prattling child. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] chatterbox (chat'er-boks), n. One who talks ince antly: applied chiefly to children. chatterer (chat'er-er), n. 1. One who chatters; a prater; an idle talker.-2. The popular name of birds of the genus Ampelis in the most restricted sense, or Bombycilla . The Bohemian chatterer is A. garrulus ; the chatterer of Carolina, or cedar-bird, A. cedrorum; the chatterer of Japan, А. phænicopterus . The name is sometimes given to some related birds. See cut under waxwing . IMG:content-0194.png:[graphic][merged small][merged small] Owl and Nightingale , 1. 655. chatter-water (chat'ér-water), n . [With allusion to tea-party go iping.] Tea. [Prov. Eng.]