1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser.
Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth
Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls.
Emerson.
2. A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor.
A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood.
Sir P. Sidney.
3. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf.
Drayton.
Churl
(Churl), a. Churlish; rough; selfish. [Obs.] Ford.
Churlish
(Churl"ish), a.
1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh.
Half mankind maintain a churlish strife.
Cowper.
2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and
intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle.
Churlishly
(Churl"ish*ly), adv. In a churlish manner.
Churlishness
(Churl"ish*ness), n. Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.
Churly
(Churl"y) a. Rude; churlish; violent. Longfellow.
Churme
(Churme Chirm) , n. [See Chirm.] Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing. [Obs.]
The churme of a thousand taunts and reproaches.
Bacon.
Churn
(Churn) n. [OE. chirne, cherne, AS. ceren, cyrin; akin to D. karn, Dan. kierne. See Churn,
v. t.] A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or
revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
Churn
(Churn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Churned (chûrnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Churning.] [OE. chernen, AS.
cernan; akin to LG. karnen, G. kernen, D. karnen, Dan. kierne, Sw. kärna, and also to E. corn, kernel,
the meaning coming from the idea of extracting the kernel or marrow. See Kernel.]
1. To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
2. To shake or agitate with violence.
Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.
Addison.
Churn
(Churn), v. i. To perform the operation of churning.
Churning
(Churn"ing), n.
1. The act of one who churns.
2. The quantity of butter made at one operation.
Churrus
(||Chur"rus) n. [Hind. charas.] A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes
from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.
