The female is of a dull green above; the breast and belly of a brown or dirty white; the wings have the same markings as the male, but less brilliant.
This bird makes a most elegant nest of green moss, curiously studded with lichen, interwoven with wool, and lined with feathers and hair. It builds against the side of a tree, particularly in ivy, or in some forked branch of a bush; but particularly in apple trees overgrown with moss and lichen, and, like many other birds, adapts the materials of its nest to the surrounding colour; an instinct of no small importance.—Bewick.
Chain, s. A series of links fastened one within another; a bond, a manacle; a fetter.
Chaise, s. A carriage either of pleasure or expedition.
Chaldron, or Chaudron, s. A dry English measure of coals, consisting of thirty-six bushels heaped up. The chaldron should weigh two thousand pounds.
Chalk, s. A white fossil, usually reckoned a stone, but by some ranked among the boles.
Chalybeate, a. Impregnated with iron or steel.
Chambel of a Horse, s. The joint or bending of the upper part of the hind leg.
Chamois, s. An animal of the goat kind, the skin of which made into leather is called Shammy.
The chamois is a little larger than a goat, but much superior in power and agility; the strongest man could not hold one of a month old; they bound from precipice to precipice to a prodigious distance, gaining the loftiest summits, and precipitating themselves from the steepest rocks without fear. The chase of this animal occupies a great part of the mountainous population, and many perish annually in the hazardous pursuit.