Index of English words, starting with "ch"

(1) - Chap (v. i.) To bargain; to buy.
(2) - Chap (n.) A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
(3) - Chap (n.) A buyer; a chapman.
(4) - Chap (n.) One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
(5) - Chap (n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
(6) - Chap (n.) A blow; a rap.
(7) - Chap (n.) A division; a breach, as in a party.
(8) - Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
(9) - Chap (v. i.) To strike; to knock; to rap.
(10) - Chap (v. i.) To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
(11) - Chap (v. t.) To strike; to beat.
(12) - Chap (v. t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

(1) - Chaparral (n.) An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.
(2) - Chaparral (n.) A thicket of low evergreen oaks.

(1) - Chapbook (n.) Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.

(1) - Chapeau (n.) A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance.
(2) - Chapeau (n.) A hat or covering for the head.