CHARREN. The smoke of Charren.--His eyes water from the smoke of Charren; a man of that place coming out of his house weeping, because his wife had beat him, told his neighbours the smoke had made his eyes water. CHATTER BOX. One whose tongue runs twelve score to the dozen, a chattering man or woman. CHATTER BROTH. Tea. See CAT LAP and SCANDAL BROTH. CHATTS. Lice: perhaps an abbreviation of chattels, lice being the chief live stock of chattels of beggars, gypsies, and the rest of the canting crew. CANT.--Also, according to the canting academy, the gallows. CHATES. The gallows. CANT. CHAUNTER CULLS. Grub-street writers, who compose songs, carrols, &c. for ballad-singers. CANT. CHAUNT. A song. TO CHAUNT. To sing. To publish an account in the newspapers. The kiddey was chaunted for a toby; his examination concerning a highway robbery was published in the papers. CHAW BACON. A countryman. A stupid fellow. CHEAPSIDE. He came at it by way of Cheapside; he gave little or nothing for it, he bought it cheap. CHEATS. Sham sleeves to put over a dirty shift or shirt. See SHAMS. CHEEK BY JOWL. Side by side, hand to fist. CHEEKS. Ask cheeks near cunnyborough; the repartee of a St. Gilse's fair one, who bids you ask her backside, anglice her a-se. A like answer is current in France: any one asking the road or distance to Macon, a city near Lyons, would be answered by a French lady of easy virtue, 'Mettez votre nez dans mon cul, & vous serrez dans les Fauxbourgs.' CHEESE-TOASTER. A sword. CHEESE IT; Be silent, be quiet, don't do it. Cheese it, the coves are fly; be silent, the people understand our discourse. CHEESER. A strong smelling fart. CHELSEA. A village near London, famous for the military hospital. To get Chelsea; to obtain the benefit of that hospital. Dead Chelsea, by G-d! an exclamation uttered by a grenadier at Fontenoy, on having his leg carried away by a cannon-ball. CHEST OF TOOLS. A shoe-black's brush and wig, &c. Irish. CHERRY-COLOURED CAT. A black cat, there being black cherries as well as red. CHERUBIMS. Peevish children, because cherubims and seraphims continually do cry. CHESHIRE CAT. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of anyone who shews his teeth and gums in laughing. CHICK-A-BIDDY. A chicken, so called to and by little children. CHICKEN-BREASTED. Said of a woman with scarce any breasts. CHICKEN BUTCHER. A poulterer. CHICKEN-HAMMED. Persons whose legs and thighs are bent or archward outwards. CHICKEN-HEARTED. Fearful, cowardly. CHICKEN NABOB. One returned from the East Indies with but a moderate fortune of fifty or sixty thousand pounds, a diminutive nabob: a term borrowed from the chicken turtle. CHILD. To eat a child; to partake of a treat given to the parish officers, in part of commutation for a bastard child the common price was formerly ten pounds and a greasy chin. See GREASY CHIN. CHIMNEY CHOPS. An abusive appellation for a negro.