Chat \Chat\ (ch[a^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chatted; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Chatting.] [From Chatter. [root]22.]
   To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without
   form or ceremony; to gossip. --Shak.
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         To chat a while on their adventures.     --Dryden.

   Syn: To talk; chatter; gossip; converse.
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	Chat \Chat\, v. t.
   To talk of. [Obs.]
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	Chat \Chat\, n.
   1. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
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            Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat,
            With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.
                                                  --Pope.
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   2. (Zool.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the
      warblers, in America. The best known species are the
      yellow-breasted chat (Icteria viridis), and the
      long-tailed chat (Icteria longicauda). In Europe the
      name is given to several birds of the family
      Saxicolid[ae], as the stonechat, and whinchat.
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   Bush chat. (Zool.) See under Bush.
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	Chat \Chat\, n.
   1. A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
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   2. pl. (Mining) Small stones with ore.
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   Chat potatoes, small potatoes, such as are given to swine.
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	111 Moby Thesaurus words for "chat":
   babble, babblement, bavardage, be closeted with, bibble-babble,
   blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, bull session,
   bullshit, burble, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, causerie, chatter,
   chew the fat, chin, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, colloque,
   colloquy, compare, confab, confabulate, confabulation,
   conversation, converse, coze, cozy chat, dialogue, dish, dither,
   entice, flirt with, friendly chat, gab, gabble, gam, gas, gibber,
   gibble-gabble, go on, gossip, guff, gush, haver, heart-to-heart,
   heart-to-heart talk, hot air, idle talk, induce, inveigle, jabber,
   jaw, lallygag, little talk, lure, make conversation, mere talk,
   natter, nonsense talk, palaver, parley, patter, persuade,
   pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prevail upon, prittle-prattle,
   proposition, prose, ramble on, rap, rap session, rattle, rattle on,
   reel off, run on, seduce, shoot the breeze, small talk, smatter,
   spout, spout off, talk, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on,
   talkee-talkee, tempt, tete-a-tete, tinkle, tittle-tattle, twaddle,
   twattle, twiddle, twitter, visit, waffle, yak, yakkety-yak, yammer,
   yap, yarn