Charm (n.) Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.
Charm (n.) Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain.
Charmed (imp. & p. p.) of Charm
Charming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charm
Charm (n.) To make music upon; to tune.
Charm (n.) To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic.
Charm (n.) To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
Charm (n.) To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate.
Charm (n.) To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.
Charm (v. i.) To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.
Charm (v. i.) To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.
Charm (v. i.) To make a musical sound.
Charmel (n.) A fruitful field.
Charmer (n.) One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician.
Charmer (n.) One who delights and attracts the affections.
Charmeress (n.) An enchantress.
Charmful (a.) Abounding with charms.
Charming (a.) Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive.
Charmless (a.) Destitute of charms.
Charneco (n.) Alt. of Charnico
Charnico (n.) A sort of sweet wine.
Charnel (a.) Containing the bodies of the dead.
Charnel (n.) A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
Charon (n.) 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 (n.) Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.
Charqui (n.) Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun.
Charr (n.) See 1st Char.
Charras (n.) The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus.
Charre (n.) See Charge, n., 17.
Charry (a.) Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.
Chart (n.) A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
Chart (n.) A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
Chart (n.) A written deed; a charter.
Charted (imp. & p. p.) of Chart
Chart (v. t.) To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.
Charta (n.) Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.
Charta (n.) A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.
Chartaceous (a.) Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.
Charte (n.) The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.
Charter (n.) A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
Charter (n.) An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
Charter (n.) An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.
Charter (n.) A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
Charter (n.) The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.
Chartered (imp. & p. p.) of Charter
Chartering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charter
Charter (v. t.) To establish by charter.
Charter (v. t.) To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.
Chartered (a.) Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter.
Chartered (a.) Hired or let by charter, as a ship.
Charterer (n.) One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.
Charterhouse (n.) A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
Charterist (n.) Same as Chartist.
Chartism (n.) 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 (n.) A supporter or partisan of chartism.
Chartless (a.) Without a chart; having no guide.
Chartless (a.) Not mapped; uncharted; vague.
Chartographer (n.) Alt. of Chartography
Chartographic (n.) Alt. of Chartography
Chartography (n.) Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.
Chartomancy (n.) Divination by written paper or by cards.
Chartometer (n.) An instrument for measuring charts or maps.
Chartreuse (n.) A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.
Chartreuse (n.) An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.
Chartreux (n.) A Carthusian.
Chartulary (n.) See Cartulary.
Charwomen (pl. ) of Charwoman
Charwoman (n.) A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
Chary (a.) Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal.
Charybdis (n.) A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
Chasable (a.) Capable of being chased; fit for hunting.
Chased (imp. & p. p.) of Chase
Chasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chase
Chase (v. t.) To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
Chase (v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.
Chase (v. t.) To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
Chase (v. i.) To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.
Chase (v.) Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt.
Chase (v.) That which is pursued or hunted.
Chase (v.) An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace.
Chase (v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point.
Chase (n.) A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
Chase (n.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
Chase (n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
Chase (n.) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
Chase (v. t.) To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
Chase (v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
Chaser (n.) One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.
Chaser (n.) Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.
Chaser (n.) One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.
Chaser (n.) A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.
Chasible (n.) See Chasuble.
Chasing (n.) The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.
Chasm (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
Chasm (n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
Chasmed (a.) Having gaps or a chasm.
Chasmy (a.) Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms.
Chasse (n.) A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.
Chasse (v. i.) To make the movement called chasse; as, all chasse; chasse to the right or left.
Chasselas (n.) A white grape, esteemed for the table.