||Chevalier d'industrie (&?;) [F.], one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper. -- The Chevalier St. George (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called "The Pretender." -- The Young Chevalier, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St. George.
||Che*vaux" (she*vō"), n. pl. See Cheval.
Cheve (chēv), v. i. [OF. chevir. See Chievance.] To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise. [Prov. or Obs.] Holland.
||Cheve*lure" (?), n. [F., head of hair.] A hairlike envelope.
The nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star.
Sir. W. Hershel.
Chev"en (?), n. [Cf. F. chevanne. Cf. Chavender.] (Zo÷l.) A river fish; the chub. Sir T. Browne.
Chev"en*tein (?), n. A variant of Chieftain. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Chev"er*il (?), n. [OF. chevrel, F. chevreau, kid, dim. of chevre goat, fr. L. capra. See Caper, v. i.] Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility. [Obs.]
Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad.
Shak.