Change (chānj), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Changed (chānjd);
p. pr. & vb. n. Changing.] [F.
changer, fr. LL. cambiare, to exchange, barter, L.
cambire. Cf. Cambial.] 1. To
alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to
another; as, to change the position, character, or
appearance of a thing; to change the
countenance.
Therefore will I change their glory into
shame.
Hosea. iv. 7.
2. To alter by substituting something
else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to
change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to
change one's intention.
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!
Peele.
3. To give and take reciprocally; to
exchange; -- followed by with; as, to change place,
or hats, or money, with another.
Look upon those thousands with whom thou wouldst
not, for any interest, change thy fortune and
condition.
Jer. Taylor.
4. Specifically: To give, or receive,
smaller denominations of money (technically called change)
for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill.
He pulled out a thirty-pound note and bid me
change it.
Goldsmith.
To change a horse, or To change hand
(Man.), to turn or bear the horse's head from one hand
to the other, from the left to right, or from the right to the
left. -- To change hands, to change
owners. -- To change one's tune, to
become less confident or boastful. [Colloq.] -- To
change step, to take a break in the regular
succession of steps, in marching or walking, as by bringing the
hollow of one foot against the heel of the other, and then
stepping off with the foot which is in advance.
Syn. -- To alter; vary; deviate; substitute; innovate;
diversify; shift; veer; turn. See Alter.
Change, v. i. 1.
To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes
change for the better.
For I am Lord, I change not.
Mal. iii. 6.
2. To pass from one phase to another; as,
the moon changes to-morrow night.
Change, n. [F. change, fr.
changer. See Change. v. t.]
1. Any variation or alteration; a passing
from one state or form to another; as, a change of
countenance; a change of habits or principles.
Apprehensions of a change of dynasty.
Hallam.
All the days of my appointed time will I wait,
till my change come.
Job xiv. 14.
2. A succesion or substitution of one
thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety;
as, a change of seasons.
Our fathers did for change to France
repair.
Dryden.
The ringing grooves of change.
Tennyson.
3. A passing from one phase to another;
as, a change of the moon.
4. Alteration in the order of a series;
permutation.
5. That which makes a variety, or may be
substituted for another.
Thirty change (R.V. changes) of
garments.
Judg. xiv. 12.
6. Small money; the money by means of
which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small
dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by
a coin or note exceeding the sum due.
7. [See Exchange.] A place where
merchants and others meet to transact business; a building
appropriated for mercantile transactions. [Colloq. for
Exchange.]
8. A public house; an alehouse.
[Scot.]
They call an alehouse a change.
Burt.
9. (Mus.) Any order in which a
number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic
scale.
Four bells admit twenty-four changes in
ringing.
Holder.
Change of life, the period in the life
of a woman when menstruation and the capacity for conception
cease, usually occurring between forty-five and fifty years of
age. -- Change ringing, the continual
production, without repetition, of changes on bells, See def. 9.
above. -- Change wheel (Mech.),
one of a set of wheels of different sizes and number of
teeth, that may be changed or substituted one for another in
machinery, to produce a different but definite rate of angular
velocity in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc. --
To ring the changes on, to present the same
facts or arguments in variety of ways.
Syn. -- Variety; variation; alteration; mutation;
transition; vicissitude; innovation; novelty; transmutation;
revolution; reverse.
