or CHOWENT, a township in the parish of Leigh, and hundred of West Derby, in Lancashire, 199 miles from London. It is one of those places which has... grown to wealth and populousness since the extension of the cotton trade. Population in 1801, 3249; in 1811, 3894; and in 1821, 4145.

ATHLETÆ, in Antiquity, persons of strength and agility, disciplined to perform in the public games. The word is originally Greek, ἀθλητής, formed from ἀθλος, cer-tamen, combat; whence also, ἀθλημα, the prize or reward adjudged to the victor. Under athlete were comprehended wrestlers, boxers, runners, leapers, throwers of the disk, and those practised in other exercises exhibited in the Olympic, Pythian, and other solemn sports.