chart room (chart rom)

The apartment in a ship (steamer or sailing ve el) in which the charts, maps, instruments, etc., are kept. chartulary (kär tū-lā-ri), n.; pl. chartularies (-riz). [ML. chartularius, cartularius, in second sense from ML. chartularium, cartularium: masc. and neut. respectively of adj. chartu lari us, cartularius, The chartulary or leger-book of some adjacent monastery. Black stone . The chartulary of Winchester Abbey, compiled early in the 12th century, and containing numerous documents of the time before the Conquest, is in the British Museum. Encyc. Brit ., VII. 253. 3. The room in which such records are kept.4. The officer who had the records in charge. Also spelled cartulary. charwoman, chare woman (chär'-, char'wum"an), n.; pl. charwomen, chare women (-wimen). [ There is a chare - woman in the house, his nurse, An Irish woman, I took in a beggar. 934 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird. Lam. iii. 52. Rose To chase the deer at five. Tennyson , Talking Oak. They saw the swallow chase high up in air The circling gnats. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 352. 2. To pursue for any purpose; follow earnestly, especially with hostile intent; drive off by pursuing: as, to chase an enemy. But another, that had to Name Elphy, chaced him out of the Contree, and made him Soudan. Mandeville, Travels, p. 37. "Tis a meritorious fair design To chase injustice with revengeful arms; Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms. Shak., Lucrece, L. 1693. The following morn had chased away The flying stars, and light restored the day. Dryden . Life is a running shade, with fettered hands, That chases phantoms over shifting sands. O. W. Holmes, The Old Player. IMG:content-0180.png:[blocks in formation] the dog kept chasing ahead of us. Comynge fro a cuntre that men called Ierico; To a Iustes in Iherusalem he chaced awey faste. Piers Plowman (B), xvii. 51. elled chace, chasm are secured by furniture and quoins for moving and for working on the pre . For large forms of type, chases are made with cro ing and movable center bars, to give greater strength. 2. The part of a gun between the trunnions and the swell of the muzzle, or, in modern guns in which the muzzle has no swell, the whole of that part of the gun which is in front of the trunnions.-3. A groove cut in any object: as, the chase of a water-wheel; a chase in the face of a wall of masonry; the chase or groove for the arrow in a cro bow.-4. In ship - building, that kind of joint by which the overlapping joints of clincher-built boats are gradually converted at the stem and stern into flush joints, as in carvel-built boats. - 5. The circular trough of a cider-mill, in which the apples are placed to be crushed by a revolving stone called the runner.-6. A trench made to receive drain tiles.