CHUZZLEWIT 
 
 
Of most perfect metal it was made, 
Tempered with adamant ... no substance was 
    so . . . hard 
But it would pierce or cleave whereso it came. 
            Spenser, Fairy Queen, v. (1596). 
 
  ** The poet tells us it was broken to 
pieces by Radigund queen of the Amazons 
(bk. v. 7), yet it reappears whole and sound 
(canto 12), when it is used with good ser- 
vice against Grantorto (the spirit of rebell- 
ion). Spenser says it was called Chrysaor 
because "the blade was garnished all with 
gold." 
 
  Chrysa'or, son of Neptune and Medu'sa. 
He married Callir'rho6 (4 syl.), one of the 
sea-nymphs. 
    Chrysaor rising out of the sea, 
    Showed thus glorious and thus emulous, 
    Leaving the arms of Callirrho&. 
             Longfellow, The Evening Star. 
 
  Chryseis   [Kri.see'.iss], daughter of 
Chrys~s priest of Apollo. She was famed 
for her beauty and her embroidery. Dur- 
ing the Trojan war Chryseis was taken 
captive and allotted to Agamemnon king 
of Argos, but her father came to ransom 
her. The king would not accept the of- 
fered ransom, and Chrys~s prayed that a 
plague might fall on the Grecian camp. 
His prayer was answered, and in order to 
avert the plague Agamemnon sent the 
lady back to her father not only without 
ransom but with costly gifts.-Homer, 
Iliad, i. 
 
  Chrysostom, a famous scholar, who 
died for love of Marcella, "rich William's 
daughter." 
 
  Chucks, the boatswain under Captain 
Savage.-Captain Marryat, Peter Simple 
(1833). 
 
   Chuffey, Anthony    Chuzzlewit's  old 
 
 
clerk, almost in his dotage, but master 
and man love each other with sincerest 
affection. 
  Chuffey fell back into a dark corner on one 
side of the fire-place, where he always spent his 
evenings, and was neither seen nor heard.... 
save once, when a cup of tea was given him, in 
which he was seen to soak his bread mechan- 
ically .... He remained, as it were, frozen up, 
if any term expressive of such a vigorous pro-. 
cess can be applied to him-C. Dickens, Martin 
Chuzzlewit, xi. (1843). 
 
  Chun6e (A la), very huge and bulky. 
Chunne was the largest elephant ever 
brought to England. Henry Harris, man- 
ager of Covent Garden, bought it for £900 
to appear in the pantomime of Harlequin 
Padmenaba, in 1810. It was subsequently. 
sold to Cross, the proprietor of Exeter 
'Change. Chunee at length became mad, 
and was shot by a detachment of the 
Guards, receiving 152 wounds. The skele- 
ton is preserved in the museum of the 
College of Surgeons. It is 12 feet 4 inches 
high. 
 
  Church built by Voltaire. Voltaire, 
the atheist, built, at Ferney, a Christian 
church, and had this inscription affixed to 
it "Deo erexit Voltaire." Campbell, in the 
Life of Cowper (vol. vii., 358) says, "he 
knows not to whom Cowper alludes in 
these lines :" 
Nor his who for the bane of thousands born, 
Built God a church, and laughed His word to 
  scorn.        Cowper, Retirement (1782). 
 
  Churm. Guide, philosopher, and friend 
of Robert Byng, in Cecil Dreeme. A noted 
philanthropist, the fame of whose benevo- 
lence is the Open Sesame to an insane 
asylum in which his child is incarcerated. 
-Theodore Winthrop, Cecil Dreeme (1861). 
 
  Chuzzlewit (Anthony), cousin of Martin 
Chuzzlewit, the grandfather. Anthony is 
 
 
CHRYSAOR 
 
 
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