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Heriot :: Heriot (n.) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant..

Chattiness :: Chattiness (n.) The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly..

Chatter :: Chatter (v. i.) To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate..

Chatelaine :: Chatelaine (n.) An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain..

Eunuchate :: Eunuchate (v. t.) To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man.

Deodand :: Deodand (n.) A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand..

Stone-still :: Stonesmickle (n.) The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.

Hire :: Hire (n.) To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money..

Achatina :: Achatina (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa..

Jaspachate :: Jaspachate (n.) Agate jasper.

Chatoyment :: Chatoyment (n.) Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors..

Chateau :: Chateau (n.) A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg..

Chat :: Chat (n.) A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit..

Stone-cold :: Stonechat (n.) The blue titmouse.

Achate :: Achate (n.) Provisions. Same as Cates.

Chat :: Chat (n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat..

Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..

Chirrupy :: Chirrupy (a.) Cheerful; joyous; chatty.

Tiger-eye :: Tiger-eye (n.) A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite..

Tick :: Tick (n.) The whinchat; -- so called from its note.

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