_Char_, a Task or Work. _A good Char well Char’d_, a Work well over. _Chates_, c. the Gallows. _Chat_, Talk, Prate. _Chatter_, to Talk fast or jabber. _Chattering fellow_, a noisy prating Man. _Chatts_, c. Lice. _Squeeze the Chatts_, c. to Crack or Kill those Vermin. _Cheap_, Contemptible. _How Cheap you make your self_, how Contemptible you render your self or undervalue your self. _Chear_, _good_ or _bad_, high or ordinary fare. _How Chear you?_ How fare you? _Chear up_, be of good courage, hence _chearful_, or _chearly_, for one in Heart, or that keeps up his Spirits, _prety chearly_, indifferent hearty or lightsom. _Cheats_, Sharpers, which see; also Wristbands or sham Sleeves worn (in good Husbandry) for true, or whole ones. _Chicken_, a feeble, little creature, of mean Spirit; whence _a Chicken-hearted Fellow_, or _Hen-hearted Fellow_, a Dastard. _Childish_, Foolish. _Childing-women_, Breeding. _China-Ale_, From the well known _East-Indian_ Drug of that Name, of which they ought to put some, but they seldom do any into it, making it sweet only and adding a little Spice. _Chink_, c. Money, because it chinks in the Pocket. _Chip_, a Child. _Chip of the old Block_, a Son that is his Father’s likeness; more particularly the Son of a Cooper, or one brought up to the same Trade. _Chirping-merry_, very pleasant over a Glass of good Liquor. _Chit_, a Dandyprat, or Dergen. _Chittiface_, a little puiny Child. _Chitchat_, idle Prate, or empty Talk. _Chive_, c. a Knife. _Chop_, to change, or barter. _Chopping-boy_, a bouncing Boy. _To chop up Prayers_, to huddle them up, or slubber them over in posthast. _A Chop by chance_, a rare Contingence, an extraordinary or uncommon Event, out of course. _Chopps_, (of a Man) his Face (of Mutton) a Bone or Cut. _Chounter_, to talk pertly, and (sometimes) angrily. _Chouse_, to cheat or trick. _Chop-houses_, where Both boyl’d and roast Mutton (in chopps) are alwayes ready. _Chub_, c. _he is a young chub, or a meer chub_, c. very ignorant or inexperienc’d in gaming, not at all acquainted with Sharping. _A good Chub_, said by the Butchers; when they have met with a silly raw Customer and they have Bit him. _Chuck-farthing_, a Parish-Clerk (in the Satyr against Hypocrites) also a Play among Boies. _Chum_, a Chamber-fellow, or constant Companion. _Church-yard-cough_, that will terminate in Death. _Churl_, an Ill-natur’d Fellow; a selfish, sordid Clown. _To put a Churl upon a Gentleman_, to Drink Ale or any Mault-Liquor immediately after Wine. _Ciento_, an old Game at Cards. _Citt_, for Citizen. _Civil List_, all the Officers and Servants in the King’s Family. _Clack_, a Woman’s Tongue. _Clammed_, Starved, or Famished. _Clan_, Family, Tribe, Faction, Party in _Scotland_ chiefly, but now anywhere else. _Clank_, c. a Silver-tankard. _Clanker_, a swinging Lie. _Clank-napper_, c. a Silver-tankard Stealer. See _Bubber_.