chart, charest

[ME., also charre, an a ibi About his char ther wenten white alauns. char1, charel (chär, char), v.; pret. and pp. charred, chared, ppr. charring, charing. [ Satenas [Satan] our wai will charre; Forthi behoues us be waire 21. To lead or drive. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1290. [She] pa es owte of the pale e with alle hir price maydenys, Towarde Chestyre in a charre thay chese hir the wayes. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), L. 3917. Therby also, not ferre fro me Jordan, is the place where Elyas the prophete was rauy hed into heuyn in a golde chare . Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 42. That we ga bi na wrange sties. Metrical Homilies , p. 52. char6 (chär), adv . and a. [Short for * achar for ajar : see ajar .] Ajar. Hall i well . [North. Eng.] Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 850. char7 (char), n. [Appar. a particular use of F. The lorde hym charred to a chambre. Take good eyd to our corn And chare away the crowe. Coventry Mysteries, p. 325. char, a car, wagon.] An old wine-measure. In Geneva it was about 145 United States gallons. chars (chär), n. [E. Ind.) An island or sand E. A. Freeman , Norman Conquest, II. 333. In 1352 the chapterhouse is regarded as the chamber of the commons. Stubbs , Const. Hist. (2d ed.), § 749. chapter-lands (chap'ter-landz), n. pl . Lands belonging to the chapter of a cathedral, etc. Chaptia (chap'ti-ä), n. [NL. (Hodgson, 1837); from a native name.] A genus of drongo shrikes, of the family Dicrurida . The tail is forked and has only 10 rectrices; the plumage has a scaly or spangled appearance, due to the metallic luster of the tips of the feathers; and dense frontal plumules are extended on the base of the upper mandible. There are several species, as C. ænea, C. mala yens is, and C. brauniana , ranging throughout India, Burma, the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Formosa. Also called Prepop terus (Hodgson, 1844) and Entomo letes (Sun devall, 1872). n. The chaptrel (chap'trel), [Dim. of chapiter1 .] capital of a pillar or pilas- ter which supports an arch: more commonly called im- post. chap woman (chap'wum"- an), n.; pl . chap women (-wim "en). [ chap , as in chapman, + woman .] woman who buys and sells; a female trader. Mas singer. [Rare.] A Chaptrel ( a ). charl, charel (chär, char), n. [ Thanne he maketh therto char. Bestiary , 1. 643 (Old Eng. Miscellany, ed. Morris). 21. A particular time. The thridde time riht also, and [the] feorthe cherre , & te vifte cherre. Ancren Riwle , p. 36. 31. A motion; an act. Bote as tou [thou] bere me aboute, ne migt I do the leste char. Debate of Body and Soul, 1. 157 (Latin Poems attrib. to [Walter Mapes, ed. Wright, p. 334). While thou holdes mete in mouthe, be war To drynke, that is un-honest char , And also fysike for-bedes hit, And sais thou may be choket at that byt. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 302. 4. [In this use regularly, in the U. S., chore: see etym.] A particular thing to do; a single piece of work; a job; in the plural, miscellaneous jobs; work done by the day. See chore1. For be of ne for bakoun, ne for swich stor of house, Unnethe (hardly] wolde eny don a char . Political Songs (ed. Wright), p. 341. IMG:content-0157.png:[blocks in formation] The great Indian rivers, therefore, not only supply new ground by depositing chars or islands in their beds, etc. W. W. Hunter , The Indian Empire, p. 44. The gradual formation of chars and bars of sand in the upper part of its [the Brahmaputra's] course has diverted the main volume of water into the present channel of the Jamuná. Encyc. Brit., XV. 295. Charal (kā'ra), n. [NL., Fletcher (and another ), Two Noble Kinsmen, iii. 2. cryptogamous plants, natural order Characea II. in trans. 11. To turn; return. IMG:content-0158.png:[blocks in formation] Leue askede hem hom to faren With wiues and childre the then [thence] charen. Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1611. 3. [In this sense usually chare.] To work in the house of another by the day; do chares or chores; do small jobs. "Mother goes out charing , sir," replied the girl. Thackeray, The Curate's Walk.