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.

A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

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 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.

The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.

To establish by charter.

Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter.

One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.

A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

Same as Chartist.

The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.

A supporter or partisan of chartism.

Without a chart; having no guide.

Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.

Divination by written paper or by cards.

An instrument for measuring charts or maps.

A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.

A Carthusian.

See Cartulary.

A woman hired for odd work or for single days.

Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, or reckless; as, the latest internet IPO's were shunned by investors made chary by the poor performance of the first wave of companies that went public.

A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.

Capable of being chased; fit for hunting.

To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.

a person who is being chased; as, better to be the chaser than the chased.

One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.

See Chasuble.

The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.

A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.

Having gaps or a chasm.

Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms.

A small potion of spirituous liquor taken to remove the taste of coffee, tobacco, or the like; -- originally chasse-caf/, lit., /coffee chaser./

See Chasse, n., above.

A French coasting lugger.

A white grape, esteemed for the table.

A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.

One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.

A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

to chasten.

In a chaste manner; with purity.

To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.

Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down.