☉chagrinement (-mān), adv., sorrowfully; peevishly, fretfully.
chagriner, v.a., to render gloomy, to grieve, to vex, to afflict, to cross, to trouble, to perplex, to disquiet; to shagreen (skins).
se chagriner, v.r., to fret, to vex one’s self, to grieve, to take on.
chagrinier, n.m., shagreen-maker.
chahut, n.m., vulgar dance; row, shindy.
chahuter, v.n., to make a row, kick up a shindy.
chai, n.m., wine store (above ground).
chaîne, n.f., chain, shackle, cord; galleys, chain of galley-slaves; belting-course (for walls); bonds, bondage; drag-chain (of canals); warp (weaving); (land-surveying) chain, Gunter’s chain; (dancing) right and left. — longue; watch guard. — de gilet; Albert chain. — de sûreté; coupling-chain. Charger quelqu’un de —s; to load with fetters. — de montagnes; long ridge of mountains. La — des idées; the chain of ideas. Attacher avec des —s; to chain up. Tendre des —s; to lay chains across. À la —; chained up. Faire la — (in a fire); to form in line; to pass buckets from hand to hand.
chaînetier (shên-tié), n.m., chain-maker.
chaînette, n.f., little chain; (arch.) catenary arch.