Chartless

Wanting a chart; unspecified on paper. Chartography, n. Same as CARTOGRAPHY, q. v. Chartom'eter, n. [Gr. chartes, and metron, measure.] An instrument adapted for the admeasurement of charts or maps. Char'tres, a town of France, dep. Eure-et-Loire (of which it is the cap.), on the Eure, 19 m. S.W. of Paris. The cathedral is reckoned one of the finest Gothic buildings in France. C. has one of the most important corn markets in the empire, and manufactures of hosiery, hats, and leather. This is a very ancient city, being accounted, before the Roman conquest, as the cap. of Celtic Gaul. Henry IV. was crowned here in 1594. Pop . 21,484. (Games.) In Tennis, the spot where a ball falls, and beyond which the adversary must strike his ball in order to gain a point.