Chat
- n. Small stones with ore.
- v. i. To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
- v. t. To talk of.
- n. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
- n. A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.
- n. A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.