Archchancellor :: Archchancellor (n.) A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court..

Bechance :: Bechance (adv.) By chance; by accident.

Bechance :: Bechance (v. t. & i.) To befall; to chance; to happen to.

Chance :: Chance (n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified..

Chance :: Chance (n.) The operation or activity of such agent.

Chance :: Chance (n.) The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty..

Chance :: Chance (n.) A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him..

Chance :: Chance (n.) Probability.

Chance :: Chance (v. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation..

Chance :: Chance (v. t.) To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object.

Chance :: Chance (v. t.) To befall; to happen to.

Chance :: Chance (a.) Happening by chance; casual.

Chance :: Chance (adv.) By chance; perchance.

Chance-medley :: Chance-medley (n.) The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.

Chance-medley :: Chance-medley (n.) Luck; chance; accident.

Chanceable :: Chanceable (a.) Fortuitous; casual.

Chanceably :: Chanceably (adv.) By chance.

Chanced :: Chanced (imp. & p. p.) of Chanc.

Chanceful :: Chanceful (a.) Hazardous.

Chancel :: Chancel (v. t.) That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed..

Chancel :: Chancel (v. t.) All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.

Chancellery :: Chancellery (n.) Chancellorship.

Chancellor :: Chancellor (n.) A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction..

Chancellorship :: Chancellorship (n.) The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.

Chancery :: Chancery (n.) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity..

Chancery :: Chancery (n.) In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity..

Chancing :: Chancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chanc.

Chancre :: Chancre (n.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre..

Chancroid :: Chancroid (n.) A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre..

Chancrous :: Chancrous (a.) Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.

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