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}.
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.
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.