chiel (chel)

which was also formerly applied to a young man: see child, 8, childe.] A young man; a fellow: used in either a good or a bad sense. [Scotch.] [Sc., also chield, = E. child , Buirdly chiels an' clever hizzies. Burns , The Twa Dogs. chievancet, n. [ chevaunce , gain, tant part. ML. chevancia ), gain, the court, and there pa ed all his time in much trouble and busine . Sir T. More, Utopia, tr. by Robinson, i. ally used when the chief itself is not indicated. (c) Direct ly: said of land tenure: as, to hold land in chief (to hold it directly from the sovereign by honorable personal services). (d) In direct or original procedure: as, an examination in chief. See examination. - Little chief hare. See Lagomys and pika. - Per chief, in her., divided by the horizontal line which separates the chief from the rest of the field. Thus, an escutcheon may be blazoned as per chief argent and gules; but this form is rare, it being usual to say gules a chief argent. Syn. 2. Chief, Chieftain, Commander, Leader, Head. Chief, literally the head, is applied to one who occupies the highest rank in military or civil matters: as, an Indian chief; a military chief; the chief of a department in the civil service; a party chief. Chieftain is now mostly poetic, and is sometimes used in prose where the leadership is peculiarly suggestive of the past: as, a Highland chieftain. A commander is one who i ues commands to a body or organization of a military or naval character, or has authority over it as, the com mander of the army in the East; the commander of the Asiatic squadron. A leader is the head of a party or faction, or one who conducts some special undertaking, perhaps actually going at the head: as, the leader of the House of Commons; the leader of the Conservative or Republican party; the leader of the storming party or forlorn hope; a leader of fashion. Head is applied to the chief of a tribe or family or profe ion: as, the head of the house of Cavendish; the head of the church; the head of the bar.