CHATTEL, chat'l, _n._ any kind of property which is not freehold,
distinguished further into _chattels-real_ and _chattels-personal_, the
latter being mere personal movables--money, plate, cattle, and the like;
the former including leasehold interests.--GOODS AND CHATTELS, all
corporeal movables. [O. Fr. _chatel_--Low L. _captale_--L. _capitale_, &c.,
property, goods.]
CHATTER, chat'er, _v.i._ to talk idly or rapidly: to sound as the teeth
when one shivers.--_ns._ CHATT'ERBOX, one who chatters or talks
incessantly; CHATT'ERER, one that chatters: an idle talker: a significant
popular name applied to the birds of a small family of finch-like perching
birds, as the Bohemian wax-wing and the cedar bird of America; CHATT'ERING,
noise like that made by a magpie, or by the striking together of the teeth:
idle talk. [From the sound.]