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Definition of Chancers
1. chancer [n] - See also: chancer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chancers
Literary usage of Chancers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Great Britain Magistrates' cases, Edward William Cox, Great Britain (1862)
"Know all men that I have grunted, released, and for me and my heirs have quit
claimed to all my burgesses and chancers, and all my Englishmen within my town ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"The chancers,1" or band of the Arkansa, 600 men; town situated near the mouth
... chancers is evidently a corruption of chines.— ED. m For sketch of White ..."
3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"The chancers,1" or band of the Arkansa, ... chancers is evidently a corruption
of chines.— ED. "" For sketch of White Hair, see Bradbury's Travels, ..."
4. A Text-book of pathology by Alfred Stengel (1899)
"Tuberculosis may occur in the form of lupus. The lesions are irregular ulcers
with elevated edges and more or less necrotic bases. Syphilis.—chancers ..."
5. Introduction to Infectious and Parasitic Diseases: Including Their Cause and by Millard Langfeld (1907)
"... initial lesion (chancer) is usually upon the genitals; extra-genital chancers,
however, may be found upon any cutaneous surface; also upon lips, tongue, ..."