chary (char i)

[ I Send you my humble Thanks for the curious Sea-chest of Gla es you pleased to bestow on me, which I shall be very chary to keep as a Monument of your Love. Howell , Letters, I. v. 10. His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame. Jeffrey. 2. Sparing; not lavish; not disposed to give freely; frugal: absolute or with of: as, chary of compliments; chary of favors. The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon. Shak ., Hamlet, i. 3. Prodigal of all brain-labour he, Charier of sleep, and wine, and exercise. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. Nature of samene is so chary . Lowell, Nomades. Charybdæa (kar-ib-dē'a), n. [NL., Cha rybdis, q. v.] The typical genus of acalephs of the family Charybdœida. C. marsupial is is an example.