v. t.
To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
Her intercession chafed him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed. Sir W. Scott.
v. i. To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction. [ 1913 Webster ]
Made its great boughs chafe together. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. ceafor; akin to D. kever, G këfer. ] (Zool.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species;
n. [ See Chafe, v. t. ] (Iron Works) An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) The cudweed (