Chafe (Hastings' Dictionary)

To c. is to make warm (Lat. cale- facere, late Lat. ca/iifdrc, old Fr. ehaufer) ; next to make warm by friition ; tlien (as with 'friction' itself) to irritate. In 2 S 17» only (AV, RV) ' tliey be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field ' (csj "i? ' bitter of soul '). Cf. — •Calmnesse is great advantage ; \w that leta Another cliafe, may wami hin, at liis fire, Mark all his waiuirinj^'s, and rnjoy his frets.' Q. Herbert, TempCe (' Ciiurch Porch," lill.} J. Hastings.