Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,
With reeky shanks, and yellow chapless skulls.
Romeo and Juliet, iv. 1.
Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chap-
less, and knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's
spade.
Hamlet, v. 1.
CHAPMAN. A trader; a dealer.

Fair Diomed, you do as chapmen do,
Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy.

Troilus and Cressida, iv. 1.
Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.
Love's Labour's lost, ii. 1.

CHARACT. Inscription.

So may Angelo,

In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms,
Be an arch-villain. Measure for Measure, v. 1.

King Lear, i. 2. The letters of Antigonus, found with it, which they know to be his character. Winter's Tale, v. 2. I say, without charácters, fame lives long.

Richard 3, iii. 1.

TO CHARACTER.
To engrave; to inscribe.
Show me one scar charácter'd on thy skin.

Henry 6, P. 2, iii. 1.
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou charácter.

Hamlet, i. 3.

These trees shall be my books, And in their barks my thoughts I'll character.

CHARACTERLESS.

tered.

As you like it, iii. 2.

Without record; unregis

And mighty states characterless are grated
To dusty nothing; yet let memory,
From false to false, among false maids in love,
Upbraid my falsehood!

Troilus and Cressida, iii. 2.

CHARACTERY. Writing; language.
Fairies use flowers for their charáctery.

Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5.
All my engagements I will construe to thee,
All the charáctery of my sad brows.

CHARGE.

I hope so, sir; for I have about me many parcels
of charge.
Winter's Tale, iv. 3.
With many suchlike as's of great charge.

CHEAP.

But I will charm him first to keep his tongue. Taming of the Shrew, i. 1. But 'tis your grace

Hamlet, v. 2.
I have procured thee, Jack, a charge of foot.
Henry 4, P. 1, iii. 3.
A good and virtuous nature may recoil
In an imperial charge.
Macbeth, iv. 3.
I'm weary of this charge, the gods can witness.
Timon of Athens, iii. 4.

TO CHARGE. To call upon; to challenge; to summon; to enjoin.

Thou canst not, cardinal, devise a name
So slight, unworthy, and ridiculous,
To charge me to an answer, as the pope.

King John, iii. 1.
For his best friends, if they
Should say, "Be good to Rome," they charg'd him

That, from my mutest conscience, to my tongue, Charms this report out.

Cymbeline, i. 6.

If he be now return'd,— As checking at his voyage, and that he means No more to undertake it,-I will work him To an exploit, now ripe in my device, Under the which he shall not choose but fall. Hamlet, iv. 7. CHEER. Gaiety; jollity; countenance; mien.

The human mortals want their winter cheer.
Midsummer-Night's Dream, ii. 1.

I have not that alacrity of spirit,
Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.

This fell whore of thine

Hath in her more destruction than thy sword For all her cherubin look. Timon of Athens, iv. 3. CHEVERIL.

Kid-leather.

O, here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad.

Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4. A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit: how quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! Twelfth-Night, iii. 1.

CHIDING. Noise; sound; clamour.

The icy fang

And churlish chiding of the winter's wind.
As you
like it, ii. 1.
Never did I hear such gallant chiding.
Midsummer-Night's Dream, iv. 1.

CIRCUMMURED.

With a world

Of pretty, fond-adoptious christendoms,
That blinking Cupid gossips.

All's well that ends well, i. 1.

CHRISTOM. Chrysom, an infant that dies within a month of its birth.

'A made a fine end, and went away, an it had been any christom child. Henry 5, ii. 3.

CHUCK. A familiar term of endearment.
Why, how now, my bawcock! how dost thou, chuck?
Twelfth-Night, iii. 4.

Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
Till thou applaud the deed.

Macbeth, iii. 2.

Hamlet, ii. 2.

CINDERS OF THE ELEMENT.

CHOP-LOGIC. A dealer in words; a logician. How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this? Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5.

CHOPPING. Mincing.

Speak "pardon" as 'tis current in our land, The chopping French we do not understand.

Richard 2, v. 3.

CHRISTENDOM. Christianity; baptism; a term of affection or endearment.

By my christendom,

So I were out of prison, and kept sheep,

I should be merry as the day is long.

King John, iv. 3.

The stars.

King John, iv. 1.

Measure for Measure, iv. 1.