CHAISE, a sort of light open chariot, or calash. Aurelius Victor attributes the first introduction of post-chaises to Trajan; but it is generally ascribed to Augustus, and was probably only improved by Trajan.
CHALAZE (χαλαζαίς, knotted), a name applied to the two knotty chords attached to near the poles of the yolk of an egg; being a plexus of the fibres of the membranes, connecting the yolk and white together, and serving to maintain the yolk in such a position that the cicatricula shall always be uppermost, and consequently nearest the source of heat during incubation.