CHAUBERT (Mons.), Master Chaffinch’s cook.—­Sir W. Scott, Peveril of the Peak (time, George II.).

CHAUCER OF FRANCE, Clement Marot (1484-1544).

CHAU’NUS, Arrogance personified in The Purple Island, by Phineas Fletcher (1633).  “Fondly himself with praising he dispraised.”  Fully described in canto viii. (Greek, chaunos, “vain".)

CHEAT’LY (2 syl.), a lewd, impudent debauchee of Alsatia (Whitefriars).  He dares not leave the “refuge” by reason of debt; but in the precincts he fleeces young heirs of entail, helps them to money, and becomes bound for them.—­Shadwell, Squire of Alsatia (1688).

CHE’BAR, the tutelar angel of Mary, sister of Martha and Lazarus of Bethany.—­Klopstock, The Messiah, xii. (1771).

Ched’eraza’de (5 syl.), mother of Hem’junah and wife of Zebene’zer, sultan of Cassimir.  Her daughter having run away to prevent a forced marriage with the prince of Georgia, whom she had never seen, the sultana pined away and died.—­Sir C. Morell [J.  Ridley], Tales of the Genii ("Princess of Cassimir,” tale vii., 1751).

CHEDER’LES (3 syl.), a Moslem hero, who, like St. George, saved a virgin exposed to the tender mercies of a huge dragon.  He also drank of the waters of immortality, and lives to render aid in war to any who invoke it.

When Chederles conies To aid the Moslem on his deathless horse, ... as [if] he had newly quaffed The hidden waters of eternal youth.  Southey, Joan of Arc, vi. 302, etc. (1837).

CHEENEY (Frank), an outspoken bachelor.  He marries Kate Tyson.—­Wybert Reeve, Parted.

CHEERLY’ (Mrs.), daughter of colonel Woodley.  After being married three years, she was left a widow, young, handsome, rich, lively, and gay.  She came to London, and was seen in the opera by Frank Heartall, an open-hearted, impulsive young merchant, who fell in love with her, and followed her to her lodging.  Ferret, the villain of the story, misinterpreted all the kind actions of Frank, attributing his gifts to hush-money; but his character was amply vindicated, and “the soldier’s daughter” became his blooming wife.—­Cherry, The Soldier’s Daughter (1804).

Miss O’Neill, at the age of nineteen, made her debut at the Theatre Royal, Crow Street, in 1811, as “The Widow Cheerly.”—­W.  Donaldson.

CHEERYBLE BROTHERS (The), brother Ned and brother Charles, the incarnations of all that is warm-hearted, generous, benevolent, and kind.  They were once homeless boys running about the streets barefooted, and when they grew to be wealthy London merchants were ever ready to stretch forth a helping hand to those struggling against the buffets of fortune.

Frank Cheeryble, nephew of the brothers Cheeryble.  He married Kate Nickleby.—­C.  Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby (1838).