Singing, esp. as a chant is sung.

A chanter.

A female chanter or singer.

An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.

same as Hanukka; -- a variant spelling.

Divination by means of appearances in the air.

An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.

Resembling chaos; confused.

In a chaotic manner.

To bargain; to buy.

Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps.

Same as Chaparajos.

A thicket of low evergreen oaks.

a flat pancakelike bread cooked on a griddle, originating in India.

Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.

The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.

A hat or covering for the head.

Furnished with a chape or chapes.

To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

Without a chape.

A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider.

A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel.

To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.

Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.

Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.

A capital [Obs.] See Chapital.

An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.

The office, position, or station of a chaplain.

The office or business of a chaplain.

Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless.

To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers.

provided with a chaplet; wearing a chaplet.

One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.

Short for Chaparajos.

To divide into chapters, as a book.

An impost.

To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise.

A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.

any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae; -- also called characin.

a natural family of tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and southern and central America.

any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae; -- also called characid.

former name of the family Characidae.

A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character.

A distinction of character; a characteristic.

A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.

Characteristic.

In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.

The act or process of characterizing.

To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.

stated precisely; -- of the meaning of words or concepts.

Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.

The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.

A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

a natural family of birds comprising the plovers.

large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters; shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on animal life.

the type genus of the Charadriidae; the plovers.

a small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis; the stoneworts.

Carbuncle.

Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

very dark gray.

a delicatessen that specializes in dressed meats and meat dishes, particularly pork products.

The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.

a white wine grape.

A chore; to chore; to do. See Char.

To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.

A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.

A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.

That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.

The quality of being chargeable or expensive.

At great cost; expensively.

Burdensome; troublesome.

Costly; expensive.

A schoolhouse.

Free from, or with little, charge.

Burdensome.

One who, or that which charges.

The office of a charg/ d'affaires.

In a chary manner; carefully; cautiously; frugally.

a genus of boas of western North America.

The quality of being chary.

To convey in a chariot.

A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.

One who drives a chariot.

A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.

Of or pertaining to a charism.

Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind.

The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.

In a charitable manner.

A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult; -- called also shivaree.

To burn to a coal; to char.

One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.

Charlatanry.

Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.

A familiar nickname or substitute for Charles.

A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock.

A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked.

To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.

same as captivated.

A fruitful field.

One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician.

An enchantress.

Abounding with charms.

Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive.

Destitute of charms.

A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.

A sort of sweet wine.

The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.

Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun.

See 1st Char.

One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.

The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus.

See Charge, n., 17.

Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.

To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.

Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper. A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.

Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.