Word Meanings - ENCHAFE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To chafe; to enrage; to heat. Shak.

CHAFER
1. One who chafes. 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.
CHAFERY
An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
CHAFEWEED
The cudweed , used to prevent or cure chafing.
CHAFE
calfacere, to make warm; calere to be warm + facere to make. See 1. To ecxite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser. 2. To excite passion or anger in; to fret;
ENRAGEMENT
Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement.
ENRAGE
To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious. Syn. -- To irritate; incense; inflame; exasperate; provoke; anger; madden; infuriate.
COCKCHAFER
A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
ENCHAFE
To chafe; to enrage; to heat. Shak.