An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

2. Foreboding good fortune, S. Any person or thing viewed as inauspicious, is said to be no chancy, S.
Ross.

CHANDLER, CHANLER, s. A candlestick, S.
Ramsay.

Fr. chandelier, a branch for holding candles, used obliquely. Grose mentions chaundler.

Chanler-Chafted, adj. Lantern-jawed; having chops like a chandler or candlestick, S. B.
Journal Lond.

CHANNEL, s. Gravel, S. (synon. [chad]) perhaps from channel, the bed of a river.
V. [Chingle].

Channelly, adj. Gravelly, S.
Statist. Acc.

To CHANNER, v. n. To fret, to be in a chiding humour, S.
Minstrelsy Border.

CHANOS, adj. Gray.
V. [Canois].
Douglas.

CHANTERIS, s. pl. Laics endowed with ecclesiastical benefices.
Bannatyne Poems.

CHAP, s.
1. A fellow; a contemptuous term; sometimes chappie, or "little chap," S.
Burns.
2. Like chield, it is also applied to a female, S. B.
Ross.