CHALUS, a small town of France, department of Haute Vienne, arrondissement and 16 miles N.W. of St Yrieix, on the Tardociere, which divides it into an upper and lower
Chalybeate town. Pop. 1200. Richard Cœur de Lion was here mortally wounded by an arrow in 1199.
CHALYBEATE (χαλύβη, steel), impregnated with particles of iron or steel; applied to medicines containing iron, as well as to mineral waters impregnated with that metal.
CHAM or KHAN, the title given to the sovereign princes of Tartary. The word in the Persian signifies mighty lord; in the Sclavonic, emperor. Sperlingius, in his dissertation on the Danish term könig, king, thinks the Tartar kham may be thence derived. The term cham or kham is also applied, among the Persians, to great lords, and governors of provinces.