CHRYSALDE’ (2 syl.), friend of Arnolphe.—­Moliere, L’Ecole des Femmes (1662).

CHRYSALE (2 syl.), a simple-minded, henpecked French tradesman, whose wife Philaminte (3 syl.) neglects her house for the learned languages, women’s rights, and the aristocracy of mind.  He is himself a plain practical man, who has no sympathy with the bas bleu movement.  He has two daughters, Armande (2 syl.) and Henriette, both of whom love Clitandre; but Armande, who is a “blue-stocking,” loves him platonically; while Henriette, who is a “thorough woman,” loves him with a woman’s love.  Chrysale sides with his daughter Henriette, and when he falls into money difficulties through the “learned proclivities” of his wife, Clitandre comes forward like a man, and obtains the consent of both parents to his marriage with Henriette.—­Moliere, Les Femmes Savantes (1672).

CHRYSA’OR (ch = k), the sword of sir Ar’tegal, which “exceeded all other swords.”  It once belonged to Jove, and was used by him against the Titans, but it had been laid aside till Astraea gave it to the Knight of Justice.

Of most perfect metal it was made, Tempered with adamant ... no substance was so ... hard But it would pierce or cleave whereso it came.  Spenser, Faery Queen, v. (1596).

[Illustration] The poet tells us it was broken to pieces by Radigund queen of the Amazons (bk. v. 7), yet it reappears whole and sound (canto 12), when it is used with good service against Grantorto (the spirit of rebellion).  Spenser says it was called Chrysaor because “the blade was garnished all with gold.”

Chrysa’or, son of Neptune and Medu’sa.  He married Callir’rhoe (4 syl.), one of the sea-nymphs.

  Chrysaor rising out of the sea,
  Showed thus glorious and thus emulous,
  Leaving the arms of Callirrhoe. 
  Longfellow, The Evening Star.

Chryseis [Kri see’.iss], daughter of Chryses priest of Apollo.  She was famed for her beauty and her embroidery.  During the Trojan war Chryseis was taken captive and allotted to Agamemnon king of Argos, but her father came to ransom her.  The king would not accept the offered ransom, and Chryses prayed that a plague might fall on the Grecian camp.  His prayer was answered, and in order to avert the plague Agamemnon sent the lady back to her father not only without ransom but with costly gifts.—­Homer, Iliad, i.

CHRYSOSTOM, a famous scholar, who died for love of Marcella, “rich William’s daughter.”

CHUCKS, the boatswain under Captain Savage.—­Captain Marryat, Peter Simple (1833).

CHUFFEY, Anthony Chuzzlewit’s old clerk, almost in his dotage, but master and man love each other with sincerest affection.

Chuffey fell back into a dark corner on one side of the fire-place, where he always spent his evenings, and was neither seen nor heard.... save once, when a cup of tea was given him, in which he was seen to soak his bread mechanically....  He remained, as it were, frozen up; if any term expressive of such a vigorous process can be applied to him—­C.  Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xi. (1843).