CHAMPION, "now is a _champion_ field" (R200,_d_), _i.e._ champagne = flat open country. "Fra the thine thay went fourty dayes, and come intille a _champayne_ cuntree that was alle barayne, and na hye place, ne na hilles mighte be sene on na syde."--_MS. Lincoln_, A. i. 17, f. 31. "... the Canaanites, which dwell in the _champaign_ over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?"--_Bible_, Auth. Ver. (1611), _Deut._ xi. 30. "The verdant meads are drest in green, The _champion_ fields with corn are seen."--_Poor Robin_ (1694). CHARITY, see St. Charity. CHAVE (_passim_), I have--[i]ch 'ave. CHECK, "let us con well our neck-verse that we have not a _check_" (M23,_c_), _i.e._ be hung. CHERY-TIME, "but a _chery-time_" (M12,_a_), a short time, "like cherry blossoms" (Furnivall and Pollard). CHE[VI]SANCE, "the new _che[vi]sance_" (M29,_a_), _chesance_ in original: usually _chevisance_ = treaty, agreement, bargain; but here, as Mischief is speaking of the food and other cheer he has stolen, the meaning may be gain, booty, plunder, spoil. "Eschaunges and _chevysaunces_, with swich chaffare I dele."--Langland, _P. Plowman_ (1363), 2969. CHILL (_passim_), I will--'ch 'ill. CHIVE, "I warrant him a _chive_" (R185,_d_), a chip, fragment: a small standard of value. "If any _chive_, chip, or dust skip into the eye, ... then can you not cure the eye but by removing and drawing the said _chive_."--Barrough, _Method of Physick_ (1624.) CHOP, CHOPE (_a_) "in nomine Patris, _chope_ ... Ye shall not _chop_ my jewels" (M20,_a_), in both cases the original has _choppe_; but as Nought and New Guise were funning and punning, I have preserved the play on the words which I think was intended--_chope_ = ch'ope (I hope) and _chop_ = cut off; but the student can choose, and regard the first _chop_ also to mean "cut!" "strike!" "_Chope_ you'll consider my pain."--_Misogonus_, Anon. Plays, 2 Ser. (E.E.D.S.), 210_b_. (_b_) "Into a deanery ... to _chop_" (R223,_d_). Mr. Magnus glosses this as "snap"; but is it not used in the closer sense of _to pop_? cf. _chop-church_ = (1) one who exchanges livings, or (2) such an act of barter. "As flise at libertee in and out might _chop_."--Heywood, _Spider and Flie_ (1556), _Works_, III. (E.E.D.S.). CHOULD (_passim_), I would--'ch 'ould. CHRISTENDOM, "by my _christendom_" (R196,_d_). See E.E.D.S., _Anon. Plays_, Series 2 and 3, Note-Books, _s.v._ 4.2]