CHITLING (Tom), one of the associates of Fagin the Jew.  Tom Chitling was always most deferential to the “Artful Dodger.”—­C.  Dickens, Oliver Twist (1837).

CHIVALRY (The Flower of), William Douglas, lord of Liddesdale (fourteenth century).

CHLO’E [Klo’.e], the shepherdess beloved by Daphnis, in the pastoral romance called Daphnis and Chloe, by Longus.  St. Pierre’s tale of Paul and Virginia is based on this pastoral.

Chloe or rather Cloe.  So Prior calls Mrs. Centlivre (1661-1723).

Chloe (Aunt), the faithful wife of Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous book Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  She hires herself out to a pastry-cook to help redeem her husband after he is “sold South.”  Her exhortation, “Think o’ your marcies, chillen! think o’ your marcies!” is sincere, yet when Tom quotes, “Pray for them that despitefully use you,” she sobs out, “Lor’! it’s too tough!  I can’t pray for ’em!” (1852.)

Chloe (Aunt), “a homeless widow, of excellent Vermont intentions and high ideals in cup-cake, summoned to that most difficult of human tasks, the training of another woman’s child....  She held it to be the first business of any woman who undertook the management of a literary family like her brother’s to attend properly to its digestion.”—­Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Story of Avis (1877).

CHLO’RIS, the ancient Greek name of Flora.

  Around your haunts
  The laughing Chloris with profusest hand
  Throws wide her blooms and odors. 
  Akenside, Hymn to the Naiads.

CHOE’REAS (ch = k), the lover of Callirrhoe, in the Greek romance called The Loves of Choereas and Callirrhoe, by Char’iton (eighth century).

CHOKE (General), a lank North American gentleman, “one of the most remarkable men in the country.”  He was editor of The Watertoast Gazette, and a member of “The Eden Land Corporation.”  It was general Choke who induced Martin Chuzzlewit to stake his all in the egregious Eden swindle.—­C.  Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1844).

CHOLMONDELEY [Chum’.ly], of Vale Royal, a friend of sir Geoffrey Peveril.—­Sir W. Scott, Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).

CHOPPARD (Pierre), one of the gang of thieves, called “The Ugly Mug.”  When asked a disagreeable question, he always answered, “I’ll ask my wife, my memory’s so slippery.”—­Edward Stirling, The Courier of Lyons (1852).

CHRIEMHIL’DA. (See under K.)

CHRISOM CHILD (A), a child that dies within a month of its birth.  So called because it is buried in the white cloth anointed with chrism (oil and balm) worn at its baptism.

“He’s in Arthur’s [Abraham’s] bosom, if ever man went to Arthur’s bosom.  ’A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom [chrisom] child.  ‘A parted just ... at turning o’ the tide.”  (Quickly’s description of the death of Falstaff.)—­Shakespeare, Henry V. act ii. sc. 3 (1599).