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Significavit :: Significavit (n.) Formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church..

Reckon :: Reckon (v. t.) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again..

Orator :: Orator (n.) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery..

Fortune :: Fortune (n.) The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life..

Case :: Case (n.) Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..

Misfortune :: Misfortune (n.) Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.

Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To omit, miss, or overlook by chance..

Scratch :: Scratch (a.) Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards..

Cursitor :: Cursitor (n.) An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs..

Waif :: Waif (n.) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance..

Random :: Random (a.) Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess..

Contingency :: Contingency (n.) An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.

Props :: Props (n. pl.) A game of chance, in which four sea shells, each called a prop, are used instead of dice..

Hazard :: Hazard (v. i.) To try the chance; to encounter risk or danger.

Application :: Application (n.) The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery..

Chanceably :: Chanceably (adv.) By chance.

Haphazard :: Haphazard (n.) Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.

Archchancellor :: Archchancellor (n.) A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court..

Rub :: Rub (n.) A chance.

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