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Chintz (Mary, Miss Bloomfield’s maid, the bespoke of Jem Miller.—C. Selby: The Unfinished Gentleman.

Chios (The Man of), Homer, who lived at Chios [Ki-os]. At least Chios was one of the seven cities which laid claim to the bard, according to the Latin hexameter verse—

Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenæ. Varro. Our national feelings are in unison with the bard of Chios, and his heroes who live in his verse.—Sir W. Scott: The Monastery (introduction).

Chirnside (Luckie), poulterer at Wolfs Hope village.—Sir W. Scott: Bride of Lammermoor (time, William III.).

Chirron, a centaur, renowned for his skill in hunting, medicine, music, gymnastics, and prophecy. He numbered among his pupils, Achilles, Peleus, Diomede, and indeed all the most noted heroes of Grecian story. Jupiter took him to heaven, and made him the constellation Sagittarius.

…as Chiron erst had done To that proud bane of Troy, her god-resembling son [Achilles]
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, v. (1612)..

Chitling (Tom), one of the associates of Fagin the Jew. Tom Chitling was always most deferential to the “Artful Dodger.”—Dickens: Oliver Twist (1837).

Chivalry (The Flower of), William Douglas, lord of Liddesdale (fourteenth century).

Chloe [Klo-], the shepherdess beloved by Daphnis, in the pastoral romance called Daphnis and Chloê, by Longus. St. Pierre’s tale of Paul and Virginia is based on this pastoral.

Chloe, in Pope’s Moral Essay (epistle II), is meant for lady Suffolk, mistress of George II. “Placid, good- natured, and kind-hearted, but very deaf and of mean intelligence.”

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell on decencies for ever.

Chloe or rather Cloe. So Prior calls Mrs. Centlivre (1661–1723).

Chloe or Cloe is a stock name in pastoral poetry. The male name is generally Stephon.

Chloris, the ancient Greek name of Flora.

Around your haunts The laughing Chloris with profusest hand Throws wide her blooms and odours.
   —Akenside: Hymn to the Naiads.

Choaspes , a river of Susiana, noted for the excellency of its water. The Persian kings used to carry a sufficient quantity of it with them when journeying, so that recourse to other water might not be required.

There Susa, by Choaspes’ amber stream, The drink of none but kings.
   —Milton: Paradise Regained, iii. 288 (1661).

Chœreas, the lover of Callirrhoé, in the Greek romance called The Loves of Chœreas and Callirrhoê, by Chariton (eighth century).

Choice (The), a poem in ten-syllabic rhymes, by John Pomfret (1699). His beau-ideal is a rural literary life.

Choke (General), a lank North American gentleman, “one of the most remarkable men in the century.” He was editor of The Watertoast Gazette, and a member of “The Eden Land Corporation.” It was general Choke who induced Martin Chuzzlewit to stake his all in the egregious Eden swindle.—Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit (1844).