Chalkcutter to Champerty
Chalkcutter
(Chalk"cut`ter) n. A man who digs chalk.
Chalkiness
(Chalk"i*ness) n. The state of being chalky.
Chalkstone
(Chalk"stone`) n.
1. A mass of chalk.
As chalkstones . . . beaten in sunder.
Isa. xxvii. 9.
2. (Med.) A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small
joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus.
Chalky
(Chalk"y) a. Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky
taste.
Challenge
(Chal"lenge) n. [OE. chalenge claim, accusation, challenge, OF. chalenge, chalonge, claim,
accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See Calumny.]
1. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to
fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
A challenge to controversy.
Goldsmith.
2. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
3. A claim or demand. [Obs.]
There must be no challenge of superiority.
Collier.
4. (Hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
5. (Law) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he
should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in
trial upon him or his cause. Blackstone
6. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the
ballot is offered. [U. S.]
Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel. — Challenge to the favor, the
alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide
upon it. — Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors
returned. — Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a
certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause. — Principal
challenge, that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true.
Challenge
(Chal"lenge), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Challenged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Challenging.] [OE. chalengen
to accuse, claim, OF. chalengier, chalongier, to claim, accuse, dispute, fr. L. calumniar to attack with
false accusations. See Challenge, n., and cf. Calumniate.]
1. To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood.
Locke.
2. To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.
By this I challenge him to single fight.
Shak.
