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Fr. _cenchrite_, Lat. _cenchrus_, id.

CEST, CESSIT, _pret._ Seized.

_Wallace._

CH.

Words, of Goth. origin, whether S or E., beginning with _ch_, sounded hard, are to be traced to those in the Germ. or Northern languages that have _k_, and in A. S. _c_, which has the same power with _k_.

_To_ CHACK, _v. n._ To clack, to make a clinking noise, S.

_Cleland._

_To_ CHACK, _v. a._ To cut or bruise any part of the body by a sudden stroke; as when the sash of a window falls on the fingers, S.

E. _check_. Teut. _kack-en_, _kek-en_, increpare; synon. S. B.

_Chat_, q. v.

CHACK, CHATT, _s._ A slight repast, taken hastily, S.

Q. a _check_ for hunger.

CHACK, CHECK, _s._ The Wheat-ear, a bird, Orkn. Motacilla oenanthe, Linn.

V. ~Stane-Chacker~.

_Barry._

Nearly the same with the last part of its Germ. name, _stein schwaker_.

CHACKARALLY, _s._ Apparently some kind of checkered or variegated cloth.

_Watson's Coll._

CHACKE-BLYND-MAN, _s._ Blind man's buff.

_Bp. Forbes._

_Jockie-blind-man_, Angus, id.

CHACKLOWRIE, _s._ Mashed cabbage, mixed amongst barley-broth, Aberd.