CHEESE (Dr.), an English translation of the Latin Dr. Caseus, that is, Dr. John Chase, a noted quack, who was born in the reign of Charles II., and died in that of queen Anne.

CHEMISTRY (The Father of, Arnaud do Villeneuve (1238-1314)).

CHE’MOS (ch = k), god of the Moabites; also called Baal-Pe’oer; the Pria’pus or idol of turpitude and obscenity.  Solomon built a temple to this obscene idol “in the hill that is before Jerusalem” (1 Kings xi. 7).  In the hierarchy of hell Milton gives Chemos the fourth rank:  (1) Satan, (2) Beelzebub, (3) Moloch, (4) Chemos.

Next Chemos, the obscene dread of Moab’s sons, Peoer his other name.

  Paradise Lost, 406, 412 (1665).

CHENEY, a mighty hunter in the northern woods, whose story is told in The Adirondack, by Joel Tyler Headley (1849).

CHERONE’AN (The) or THE CHERONE’AN SAGE (ch = k), Plutarch, who was born at Chaerone’a, in Boeo’tia (A.D. 46-120).

  This praise, O Cheronean sage, is thine. 
  Beattie, Minstrel (1773).

CHER’RY, the lively daughter of Boniface, landlord of the inn at Lichfield.—­Geo.

Farquhar, The Beaux’ Stratagem (1705). (See CHERY.)

Cherry (Andrew), comic actor and dramatist (1762-1812), author of The Soldier’s Daughter.  All for Fame, Two Strings to Your Bow.  The Village, Spanish Dollars, etc.  He was specially noted for his excellent wigs.

Shall sapient managers new scenes produce From Cherry, Skeffington, and Mother Goose? Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809).

[Illustration] Mother Goose is a pantomime by C. Dibdin.

CHER’UBIM (Don), the “bachelor of Salamanca,” who is placed in a vast number of different situations of life, and made to associate with all classes of society, that the author may sprinkle his satire and wit in every direction.—­Lesage, The Bachelor of Salamanca (1737).

CHER’Y, the son of Brunetta (who was the wife of a king’s brother), married his cousin Fairstar, daughter of the king.  He obtained for his cousin the three wonderful things:  The dancing water, which had the power of imparting beauty; the singing apple, which had the power of imparting wit; and the little green bird, which had the power of telling secrets.—­Comtesse D’Aunoy, Fairy Tales ("The Princess Fairstar,” 1682).

CHES’TER (Sir John), a plausible, foppish villain, the sworn enemy of Geoffrey Haredale, by whom he is killed in a duel.  Sir John is the father of Hugh, the gigantic servant at the Maypole inn.

Edward Chester, son of sir John, and the lover of Emma Haredale.—­C.  Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1841).

CHESTERFIELD (Charles), a young man of genius, the hero and title of a novel by Mrs. Trollope (1841).  The object of this novel is to satirize the state of literature in England, and to hold up to censure authors, editors, and publishers as profligate, selfish, and corrupt.