CHANGE, v.t.

1. Any variation or alteration in form, state, quality, or essence; or a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.
2. A succession of one thing in the place of another; vicissitude; as, a change of seasons; a change of objects on a journey; a change of scenes.
3. A revolution; as, a change of government.
4. A passing by the sun, and the beginning of a new monthly revolution; as, a change of the moon.
5. A different state by removal; novelty; variety. Our fathers did, for change, to France repair. – Dryden.
6. Alteration in the order of ringing bells; variety of sounds. Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing. – Holder.
7. That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another. Thirty changes of raiment. – Judges xiv.
8. Small coins of money, which may be given for larger pieces.
9. The balance of money paid beyond the price of goods purchased; as, I gave the clerk a bank note for his cloth, and he gave me the change.
10. The dissolution of the body; death. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. – Job xiv.
11. Change for exchange, a place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for merchantile transactions.
12. In arithmetic, permutation; variation of numbers. Thirteen numbers admit of 6,227,020,800 changes, or different positions.

1. To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better, often for the worse. I am Jehovah, I change not. – Mal. iii.
2. To pass the sun, as the moon in its orbit; as, the moon will change the 14th of this month.

1. To cause to turn or pass from one state to another; to alter, or make different; to vary in external form, or in essence; as, to change the color or shape of a thing; to change the countenance; to change the heart or life.
2. To put one thing in the place of another; to shift; as, to change the clothes. Be clean and change your garments. Gen. xxxv.
3. To quit one thing or state for another; followed by for; as, persons educated in a particular religion do not readily change it for another.
4. To give and take reciprocally; as, will you change conditions with me?
5. To barter; to exchange goods; as, to change a coach for a chariot.
6. To quit, as one place for another; as, to change lodgings.
7. To give one kind of money for another; to alter the form or kind of money, by receiving the value in a different kind, as to change bank notes for silver; or to give pieces of a larger denomination for an equivalent in pieces of smaller denomination; as, to change an eagle for dollars, or a sovereign for sixpences, or to change a dollar into cents; or on the other hand, to change dollars for or into eagles, giving money of smaller denomination for larger.
8. To become acid or tainted; to turn from a natural state of sweetness and purity; as, the wine is changed; thunder and lightning are said to change milk. To change a horse or to change hand, is to turn or bear the horse's head from one hand to the other, from the left to the right, or from the right to the left. – Farrier's Dict.

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 be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better.
   
   

   For I am Lord, I change not.
   Mal. iii. 6.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.
6. 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.

7. 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.

8. A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon.
9. 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.

10. Alteration in the order of a series; permutation.
11. That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.
    
    

    Thirty change (R.V. changes) of garments.
    Judg. xiv. 12.

12. 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.
13. A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.
    
    
    [Colloq. for Exchange.]
14. A public house; an alehouse.
    
    
    [Scot.]

    They call an alehouse a change.
    Burt.

15. 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.