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Early in the 12th century a monk of Worcester, named Florence, wrote a chronicle from the creation to the year 1118, when he died. The work was carried on until 1141, and it was printed in London in 1592. With all its inevitable defects and errors it serves as a key to the Saxon chronicle.
He is a young chub, or a mere chub; i.e. a foolish fellow, easily imposed on: an illusion to a fish of that name, easily taken.
Round-faced, plump. Probably from the same derivative as CHUB, which means literally a fish with a big head.
Food.
My chuck; a term of endearment.
Bread or meat; in fact, anything to eat. Also a particular kind of beefsteak.
To bear up or bonnet, as when a costermonger praises the inferior article his mate or partner is trying to sell. See CHI-IKE.
To attract a person’s attention while a confederate picks his pockets, or otherwise robs him.
to give up or abandon something
Fuck you.
Food.
Much the same as "buffle head," "cabbage head," "chowder head," "cod’s head,"—all signifying that large abnormal form of skull generally supposed to accompany stupidity and weakness of intellect; as the Scotch proverb, "muckle head and little wit."—Originally Devonshire, but now general.
Stupid, thick-headed.
Schoolboy’s signal on the master’s approach.
I.e., be off, or take it away, in answer to a street seller who is importuning you to purchase. Halliwell mentions CHUFF as a "term of reproach," surly, &c.
Round-faced, chubby.
Make haste. An abbreviation of the Hindostanee CHULLO, signifying "go along." CHULL is very commonly used to accelerate the motions of a servant, driver, or palanquin-bearer.
A chamber-fellow, particularly at the universities and in prison.
An intimate acquaintance. A recognised term, but in such frequent use with slangists that it almost demands a place here. Stated to be from the Anglo-Saxon, CUMA, a guest.
Something that attracts people's attention or interest
to become or try to become friendly with someone
Money paid by the richer sort of prisoners in the Fleet and King's Bench, to the poorer, for their share of a room. When prisons are very full, which is too often the case, particularly on the eve of an insolvent act, two or three persons are obliged to sleep in a room. A prisoner who can pay for being alone, chuses two poor chums, who for a stipulated price, called chummage, give up their share of the room, and sleep on the stairs, or, as the term is, ruff it.
An old custom amongst prisoners before the present regulations were in vogue, and before imprisonment for debt was abolished; when a fresh man was admitted to their number, rough music was made with pokers, tongs, sticks, and saucepans. For this ovation the initiated prisoner had to pay, or "fork over," half-a-crown—or submit to a loss of coat and waistcoat.
A chimney-sweep—probably connected with chimney; also a low-crowned felt hat. Sometimes, but rarely, a sweep is called a clergyman—from his colour.
The head or face. Also one end of a loin of mutton. A half-idiotic or daft person is said to be off his chump.
A small amount of money
Vomit.
To throw.
Among printers, a journeyman who refuses to work for legal wages; the same as the flint among taylors. See FLINT.
A thick or dumpy piece of any substance, as a CHUNK of bread or meat.—Kentish.
Large.
(or watch), to take the works of a watch from its original case, and put them into another one, to avoid detection.—See CHRISTEN.
Separation of religious and governmental institutions
It was built by Justinian (532-7), but since the capture of the city by the Turks (1453) has been used as a mosque. It was not dedicated to a saint named Sophia, but to the "Logos," or Second Person of the Trinity, called Hagia Sophia (Sacred Wisdom).
They are (1) 1123; held under Calixtus II; it confirmed the Concordat of Worms; (2) 1139, when Innocent II condemned Anacletus II and Arnold of Brescia; (3) 1179, under Alexander III; it was concerned with the election of popes; (4) 1215, when Innocent III condemned the Albigenses; and (5) 1512-17, under Julius II and Leo X, when the Canons of the Council of Pisa were abrogated.
In the medieval hierarchy (see ANGEL) the Archangels comprise an order of the third division.
Ultramontane opinions or tendencies are those which favour the high "Catholic" party. Ultramontane (beyond the mountains, i.e. the Alps) means Italy or the old Papal States. The term was first used by the French, to distinguish those who look upon the Pope as the fountain of all power in the Church, in contradistinction to the Gallican school, which maintained the right of self- government by national churches. Cp. TRAMONTANE.
See PRESBYTERIAN, which became the established religion of Scotland on the abolition of Episcopacy in 1638. The head of the Church is the Mod- erator, and it is regulated by four Courts: the General Assembly, Synod, Presbytery, and Kirk Sessions.
He ordained metropolitans, convened councils, received appeals, and was the chief bishop over several countries or provinces, as an archbishop is over several dioceses. It was also the title given by the popes to the archbishops of Lisbon and Venice, in order to make the patriarchal dignity appear distinct from and lower than the papal, and is that of the chief bishop of various Eastern rites, as the Jacobites, Armenians, and Maron- ites.
A tribute paid on St. Martin's pay (November llth) in support of the clergy in Anglo-Saxon times. It was originally paid in corn, but later other goods in kind, or money, were taken.
A Sussex name for a shag, or cormorant, probably from its voracity.
Said of any work that advances slowly.
Giles were usually situated in the outskirts of a city, and originally without the walls, cripples and beggars not being permitted to pass the gates. See CRIPPLE- GATE.
A long pipe, "a yard of clay;" probably so called from the dignity which seems to hedge the smoker of a churchwarden, and the responsibility attached to its use. Sometimes called an Alderman.
A cough that is likely to terminate in death.
A deep, chesty cough which sounds like a presage of death. Churrigueresque (chu rig er esk'). Over- ornate, as applied to architecture. The word, frequently used by Richard Ford (1796-1858) in his writings on Spain, derives from Jose Churriguera (1650-1723) a Spanish architect of the baroque school.
Originally, a labourer or husbandman: figuratively a rude, surly, boorish fellow. To put a churl upon a gentleman; to drink malt liquor immediately after having drunk wine.
chewing gum
The supposititious author upon whom Cervantes fathered The Adventures of Don Quixote.
The penis.
The word cigar comes from cicada, the Spanish cigar-shaped beetle. The natives of Cuba were already smoking tobacco in this form when the white men first invaded their country. Cigars as we know them were introduced into U.S.A. by General Putnam, in 1762, on his return from the capture of Havana by the Earl of Albemarle, and this fashion of smoking soon spread to Europe.
This, in turn, was stolen from him while it was being taken to Massilia (Marseilles); and when he encountered the Cimbrians both he and Maximus, his brother- consul, were defeated, and 112,000 of their men were left upon the field (106 B.C.).
Any liquor used in connexion with soda-water, as to "take a soda with a CINDER in it." The cinder may be sherry, brandy, or any other liquor.
A servant maid, from her business of sifting the ashes from the cinders. CUSTOM-HOUSE WIT.
The anus.
A white rainbow or luminous ring sometimes seen in Alpine regions opposite the sun in foggy weather. Named from Antonio de Ulloa (1716-95), a Spanish naval officer who founded the observa- tory at Cadiz and initiated many scientific enterprises.
to be in a downward spiral and nearing collapse
A touring performer or athlete who travels to different locations
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
A group that attacks its own members