Chastiser

One who chastises; a corrector. Chas'tity, n. [Lat. cast it as, from cast us, pure.] Purity of the body; state or quality of being chaste; freedom from all unlawful sexual commerce; as, female chastity. That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound."-Burke. -Freedom from obscenity; purity of language or style, or of the mind. There is not chastity enough in language." - Shaks. "And shorten'd the delay by pleasing chat." -Dryden. (Zool.) The popular name of the genus of birds ICTERIA, q. v. -[A. S. cith .] A twig or small stick, Chata'wa, in Mi i ippi , a post-office of Pike co. Fig . 573. CHASUBLE. Château, (shä-to',) n.; pl . (From a tomb in Westminster CHATEAUX, n. [Fr., a castle. Abbey.) See CASTLE.] In France, a castle. -A country-seat or residence; a manorial house; as, the Château de Chenonceaux. Château en Espagne. See CASTLES IN THE AIR. Chateaubriand, Chateaubriant, ( shat -obré awng ,) a town of France, dept. Loire-Inférieure, on the Cher, 26 miles W.N.W. of Ancenis. The old castle here is noted as being the place where the beautiful Françoise de Foix, Counte de C., mistre of Francis I., breathed her last. Manf . Woollens, . Рор . 5,099.