CHRYSA'OR _(ch = k)_, the sword of sir Ar'tegal, which "exceeded all other swords." It once belonged to Jove, and was used by him against the Titans, but it had been laid aside till Astraea gave it to the Knight of Justice. 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, _Faëry Queen_, v. (1596). [Illustration] 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 service against Grantorto (_the spirit of rebellion_). 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'rhoê (4 _syl._), one of the sea-nymphs. Chrysaor rising out of the sea, Showed thus glorious and thus emulous, Leaving the arms of Callirrhoê. Longfellow, _The Evening Star_. Chryseis [_Kri see'.iss_], daughter of Chrysês priest of Apollo. She was famed for her beauty and her embroidery. During 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 offered ransom, and Chrysês 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 mechanically.... He remained, as it were, frozen up; if any term expressive of such a vigorous process can be applied to him--C. Dickens, _Martin Chuzzlewit_, xi. (1843). CHUNÉE (_À la_), very huge and bulky. Chunée was the largest elephant ever brought to England. Henry Harris, manager 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. Chunée at length became mad, and was shot by a detachment of the Guards, receiving 152 wounds. The skeleton 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:"