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Cheshire
Chesh·ire also chesh·ire C0278300 (chĕsh′ər)n. A hard yellow English cheese made from cow's milk.
[After Cheshire, a county of west-central England.]Cheshire (ˈtʃɛʃə; ˈtʃɛʃɪə) n (Placename) a former administrative county of NW England; administered since 2009 by the unitary authorities of Cheshire West and Chester, and Cheshire East: low-lying and undulating, bordering on the Pennines in the east; mainly agricultural: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Warrington and Halton, which became independent unitary authorities in 1998. Area 2077 sq km (802 sq miles). Abbreviation: Ches
Cheshire (ˈtʃɛʃə) n (Biography) Group Captain (Geoffrey) Leonard. 1917–92, British philanthropist: awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II; founded the Leonard Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Disabled: married Sue, Baroness RyderChesh•ire (ˈtʃɛʃ ər, -ɪər)
n. a county in NW England. 966,500; 899 sq. mi. (2328 sq. km). Formerly, Chester. Cheshire
grin like a Cheshire catTo smile smugly or mischievously. The term was popularized by the character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I knew he had a prank planned for April Fools' Day when he arrived at work grinning like a Cheshire cat.See also: cat, Cheshire, grin, likebe grinning like a Cheshire catTo be smiling smugly or mischievously. The term was popularized by the character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I knew he had a prank planned for April Fools' Day when he arrived at work and was grinning like a Cheshire cat.See also: cat, Cheshire, grin, likeCheshire catOne who is smiling smugly or mischievously. The term was popularized by the character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I knew he had a prank planned for April Fools' Day when he arrived at work grinning like a Cheshire cat.See also: cat, Cheshiresmile like a Cheshire catTo grin very broadly and persistently, especially in a smug, mischievous, or self-satisfied manner. The term was popularized by the character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a cat with the ability to disappear whose wide smile would remain after the rest of it had vanished. I knew he had a prank planned for April Fools' Day when he arrived at work smiling like a Cheshire cat. My dad sat on the porch and smiled like a Cheshire cat as he watched me try to fix the engine all by myself, as I had insisted.See also: cat, Cheshire, like, smilesmiling like a Cheshire catFig. smiling very broadly. (Alludes to a grinning cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.) There he stood, smiling like a Cheshire cat, waiting for his weekly pay.See also: cat, Cheshire, like, smilegrin like a Cheshire catSmile broadly, especially in a self-satisfied way. For example, John ended the set with a beautiful serve, an ace, and couldn't help grinning like a Cheshire cat . The ultimate origin of this expression, appearing in print since the late 1700s, is disputed, but its most famous exponent was Lewis Carroll, in whose Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the grinning cat gradually vanished from view, with its grin the last part to vanish. See also: cat, Cheshire, grin, likebe grinning like a Cheshire cat or be smiling like a Cheshire cat If someone is grinning like a Cheshire cat, or is smiling like a Cheshire cat, they are smiling broadly, usually in a foolish way. Standing on the door step and grinning like a Cheshire Cat was Bertie Owen. He came indoors, smiling like a Cheshire cat, expecting to be congratulated. Note: You can also say that someone has a Cheshire cat grin or a Cheshire cat smile. I complained, but Jennifer stood there with her Cheshire cat grin. A beaming Steve stood in the background, nodding his head up and down and wearing a Cheshire Cat smile on his face. Note: The Cheshire cat is a character from `Alice in Wonderland' (1865) by the English writer Lewis Carroll. This cat gradually disappears until only its huge smile remains. The idea for the character may have come from Cheshire cheese, which was made in the shape of a smiling cat. Alternatively, it may have come from hotel signs in Cheshire, UK, many of which had a picture of a smiling lion on them. See also: cat, Cheshire, grin, likegrin like a Cheshire cat have a broad fixed smile on your face. The Cheshire cat with its broad grin is best known for its appearance (and disappearance) in Lewis Carroll 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( 1865 ), but the expression, which is of uncertain origin, is recorded from the first half of the 19th century.See also: cat, Cheshire, grin, likegrin like a Cheshire ˈcat smile widely in a foolish way or as if you are very pleased with yourself: She sat there grinning like a Cheshire cat while we tried to put the tent up.The Cheshire Cat is a character in Lewis Carroll’s story, Alice in Wonderland.See also: cat, Cheshire, grin, likegrin like a Cheshire catTo smile broadly. The origin of this expression, which was well known in the eighteenth century, has been lost. Most explanations involve the traditional Cheshire County cheese, sold in the shape of a wheel and, perhaps, once so molded that it resembled a cat’s grinning face. Another theory holds that it refers to a Cheshire forest ranger named Caterling who frightened off poachers with his fierce grin. At any rate, the term has been appearing in print since the late 1700s in the works of such writers as William Thackeray and Charles Lamb, as well as in the work of its most famous exponent, Lewis Carroll.See also: cat, Cheshire, grin, likeCheshire catHaving a perpetual, mischievous grin, one that is often indistinguishable from smugness. Although the Cheshire cat is best known as a character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, it appeared much earlier in popular English culture, so the phrase may have originally referred to cheese made in the country of Cheshire and molded roughly to resemble a grinning cat. Lewis Carroll's feline had the ability to disappear until only its smile remained. The cheese variety would be sliced from hind end to front, which similarly gave the impression that its smile—if cheese showed emotion—would be the last to go.See also: cat, CheshireCheshire
Cheshire (chĕsh`ər), county, W central England, on the N border with Wales. The county seat was ChesterChester,
city (1991 pop. 80,154), Cheshire West and Chester, W central England, on a sandstone height above the Dee River. It is a railroad junction. Manufactures include electrical equipment, paint, and window panes. Tourism is also important.
..... Click the link for more information. . Other principal population centers included NorthwichNorthwich
, town (1991 pop. 32,664), Cheshire West and Chester, W central England, at the confluence of the Weaver and Dane rivers. Northwich was once the center of England's salt production; however, the manufacture of chemicals has become its leading occupation.
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, town (1991 pop. 59,097), Cheshire East, W central England. It is an important railroad junction with large locomotive and car works, including Rolls-Royce motors.
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, town (1991 pop. 46,832), Cheshire East, W England. Silk manufacture, of which Macclesfield is the principal center in England, was introduced in the town in 1756. Other manufactures are clothing, shoes, electrical appliances, and paper. The Church of St.
..... Click the link for more information. . Cheshire was made a palatinate by William I and maintained some of its privileges as such until 1830. The numerous black-and-white-timbered manor houses attest to the county's prosperity in the 16th and 17th cent. Much later, the population of the county greatly increased with the industrialization and suburbanization of the Wirral peninsula and the part of Cheshire just S of Manchester. In 1974, most of Cheshire became part of the new nonmetropolitan county of Cheshire; NW Cheshire (including BirkenheadBirkenhead,
city (1991 pop. 99,075) and port, Wirral metropolitan borough, W central England, at the mouth of the Mersey River; connected with Liverpool by the Mersey tunnel. Birkenhead has extensive docks. There are engineering, food-processing and clothing plants.
..... Click the link for more information. ) became part of the former metropolitan county of MerseysideMerseyside,
former metropolitan county, NW England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Greater Liverpool metropolitan area and comprised five metropolitan districts (metropolitan boroughs): Wirral, Sefton, Liverpool, Knowsley, and St.
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metropolitan borough (1991 pop. 276,800), W central England, located in the Manchester metropolitan area on the slopes of a narrow valley at the head of the Mersey River. The ravine is crossed by a high railroad viaduct built in the 19th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ) became part of the former metropolitan county of Greater ManchesterGreater Manchester,
former metropolitan county, 497 sq mi (1,288 sq km), W central England. It comprised ten administrative districts (metropolitan boroughs): Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan.
..... Click the link for more information. . In 1998, Halton and Warrington in N Cheshire became administratively independent of the county. Cheshire was abolished as an administrative county in 2009, but it remains a ceremonial county under the Lieutenancies Act, and its name survives in the unitary authorities of Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester.
Cheshire, town (1990 pop. 25,684), New Haven co., S central Conn., in a farm area; settled 1695, inc. 1780. It is chiefly residential, with some light industry. The painter John Frederick KensettKensett, John Frederick
, 1816–72, American landscape painter, of the Hudson River school, b. Cheshire, Conn. He began painting while working as an engraver and in 1840 went to England to study.
..... Click the link for more information. was born in Cheshire.Cheshire (pop culture)The highly accomplished international mercenary and assassin Cheshire was introduced in The New Teen Titans Annual #2 (1983) in a story written by Marv Wolfman and rendered by George Pérez, as Jade, an orphan of French-Vietnamese heritage who is doomed to a life of slavery until she murders her master and is unofficially adopted by ex-Blackhawk member Wen Ch'ang. Ch'ang teaches Jade the subtler points of the art of guerilla warfare, including skilled hand-to-hand combat. After she couples this talent with an education in mercenary arts and the craft of poison, which she gains from her brief marriage to Kruen Musenda, the Spitting Cobra, Jade emerges as killer-for-hire Cheshire. The self-determined Cheshire can hold her own in a fight with any hero; as a triple-jointed acrobat she can tangle with—and conquer—the most lithe. She has also been known to conceal poison in her razor-sharp fingernails, giving her that extra edge in combat. She has continually battled the Teen Titans, the all-girl hero group Birds of Prey, and— with fellow vixens the Cheetah and Poison Ivy— Wonder Woman. The wild-haired villainess has led the Ravens, an all-female supervillain team. Never one for maternal instincts, Cheshire gave custody of her daughter Lian to Roy Harper (the hero Arsenal), with whom she had a brief affair. Although she spent time incarcerated while awaiting a crimes-against-humanity charge for detonating a nuclear device in the Middle Eastern country Qurac, in 2005 Cheshire resurfaced in the DC miniseries Villains United, as one of the Secret Six. She had an affair with fellow Sixer Catman and taunted that she might be carrying his child. After betraying her teammates to Lex Luthor's Society, Cheshire took a bullet to the chest courtesy of Deathstroke the Terminator, who remarked, “We don't need any traitors in the Society.”Cheshire a county in Great Britain. Population, 902,300 (1974). The administrative center of Cheshire is Chester. Cheshire’s main industries are chemicals, nonferrous metallurgy, and machine building. Dairy farming is the chief sector of the county’s agriculture. Cheshire’s industrial centers—Warrington, Widnes, and Runcorn—are situated along the Manchester Canal. Salt is mined in the region. Cheshirecat vanishes at will; grin the last feature to go. [Br. Lit.: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland]See: InvisibilityCheshire1 Group Captain (Geoffrey) Leonard. 1917--92, British philanthropist: awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II; founded the Leonard Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Disabled: married Sue, Baroness Ryder
Cheshire2 a county of NW England: low-lying and undulating, bordering on the Pennines in the east; mainly agricultural: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Warrington and Halton, which became independent unitary authorities in 1998. Administrative centre: Chester. Pop. (excluding unitary authorities): 678 700 (2003 est.). Area (excluding unitary authorites): 2077 sq. km (802 sq. miles) |