a sect of heretics who rose in Armenia in the seventh century. The word is formed of the Armenian chazur, "crofs." They are also called flouralatre, which in Greek signifies the same as Chazinzarians in Armenian, viz. adorers of the crofs; they being charged with paying adoration to the crofs alone. In other respects they were Nestorians; and admitted two persons in Jesus Christ: Nicaephorus attributes other singularities to them; particularly their holding an annual feast in memory of the dog of their false prophet Sergius, which they called Chazinartzbartzes.

CHESAPEAK BAY, in North America, the entrance between Cape Henry and Cape Charles, running up 300 miles between Virginia and Maryland. It is navigable almost all the way for large ships, and has several navigable rivers that fall into it, by means of which ships go up to the very doors of the planters, to take in their lading of goods.—Here was a sea engagement in 1781 between the British fleet under Admiral Graves consisting of 19 ships of the line, and the French fleet of 24 line-of-battle ships under the Count de Grasse, which ended in the Count's keeping possession of the bay, by which Lord Cornwallis and his whole army were made prisoners of war at Yorktown, being invested both by sea and land by very superior numbers.