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Chariotee

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

Charism

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

Charitable

Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind.

Charitableness

The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.

Charivari

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

Chark

To burn to a coal; to char.

Charlatan

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

Charlatanry

Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.

Charlie

A familiar nickname or substitute for Charles.

Charlock

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

Charlotte

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.

Charm

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

Charmer

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

Charming

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

Charnel

A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.

Charon

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.

Charpie

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

Charqui

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

Charr 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.

Charras

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

Charry

Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.

Chart

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

Charta

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.

Chartaceous

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

Charte

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

Chartered

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

Charterer

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

Charterhouse

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

Chartism

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.

Chartist

A supporter or partisan of chartism.

Chartreuse

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

Charwoman

A woman hired for odd work or for single days.

Chary

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.

Charybdis

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

Chasable

Capable of being chased; fit for hunting.

Chase

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

chased

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

Chaser

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

Chasing

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

Chasm

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

Chasmy

Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms.

Chasse

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

Chasselas

A white grape, esteemed for the table.

Chassepot

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

Chasseur

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

Chassis

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

Chastely

In a chaste manner; with purity.

Chasten

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

Chastened

Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down.

Chastisable

Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable.

Chastise

To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.

chastised

having bad behavior criticised and punished; as, the chastised child sat humbly in the corner.

Chastisement

The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.

Chastiser

One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector.

Chastity

The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.

chastize

same as chastise; -- a variant spelling; as, She chastized him for his insensitive remarks.

Chasuble

The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle.

Chat

A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.

Chateau

A castle or a fortress in France.

Chateau-Thierry

a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918.

Chateaubriand

a double-thick center cut of beef tenderloin, broiled and served with a sauce and potatoes.

Chatelaine

An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.

Chati

A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).

Chatoyant

A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.

Chatoyment

Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors.

Chattel

Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.

Chattelism

The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel.

Chatter

Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.

Chattering

The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.

Chattiness

The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.

Chatty

A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

Chatwood

Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.

Chaud-medley

The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance-medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray.

Chauffer

A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.

Chauffeur

Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.

Chaunter

A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.

Chaus

a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).

Chausses

The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.

Chauvinism

Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.

Chaw

As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.

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