A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult; -- called also shivaree.
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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.
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.
One who chastens.
Chastity; purity.
Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable.
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.
having bad behavior criticised and punished; as, the chastised child sat humbly in the corner.
The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.
One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector.
The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
same as chastise; -- a variant spelling; as, She chastized him for his insensitive remarks.
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.
A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
A castle or a fortress in France.
a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918.
a double-thick center cut of beef tenderloin, broiled and served with a sauce and potatoes.
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.
A little castle.
Same as Castellany.
A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).
A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.
Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors.
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.
The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel.
Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.
The act or habit of chattering.
A prater; an idle talker.
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.
The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.
A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.
Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.
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.
See Chawdron.
A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.
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.
A woman chauffeur.
See Chawdron.
To open; to yawn.
See Chant.
A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
See Chantry.
a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).
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.
A foot covering of any kind.
Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
fanatically patriotic.
The chub.
As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.
Entrails.
To buy; to bargain.
A seller of low-priced, shoddy, or second goods; a hawker.
To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
One who cheapens.
At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.
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