Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
chaft .
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Examples
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And, the lone lady cheft-testant is Jennifer, who seems to be losing her mind but we're hoping she pulls it together in California.
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And, the lone lady cheft-testant is Jennifer, who seems to be losing her mind but we're hoping she pulls it together in California.
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The retail of it produces large profits, as the fociety make eight or nine hundred rix-dollars, and more, of every cheft.
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Having taken the returning Jiroke eight or tea times one morning, he felt a confiderable degree of pain acrofs his cheft during the whole even - ing, and a difagreeable fenfation in his arms and wrifU all the next day.
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That g, pofTefTed oi 4 cheft, gave it to defendant.
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Their oil, in particular, is in high efteem j and the common people ufually cat cheft - nuts inftead of bread.
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This learned author at the fame time obferves that, though it is confidently afTerted that Shanfcrit books on cheft exift, no account of the game ha& hitherto been difcovered iii the claffical writings of the Bramins.
The Monthly Review 1796
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I beg leave to mention that a further fum of money will J be wanted for our military cheft by the time it can be fent.
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The cuftom-houfe officers received orders from the council to enter into any houfe, warehoufe, or cellar; to fearch any trunk or cheft; and to break any bulk whatever; in default of the payment of cuftoms ''.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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On others you may too lay hold, in purfe or cheft, if they have gold., who wife or.rich. are in this nation,
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830. cn 1795
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