Charcoal (v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.
Charcoal (v. t.) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
Chard (n.) The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.
Chard (n.) A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks.
Chare (n.) A narrow street.
Chare (n. & v.) A chore; to chore; to do. See Char.
Charged (imp. & p. p.) of Charge
Charging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charge
Charge (v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
Charge (v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.
Charge (v. t.) To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
Charge (v. t.) To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.
Charge (v. t.) To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.
Charge (v. t.) To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
Charge (v. t.) To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.
Charge (v. t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.
Charge (v. t.) To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.
Charge (v. t.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.
Charge (v. t.) To call to account; to challenge.
Charge (v. t.) To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
Charge (v. i.) To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.
Charge (v. i.) To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.
Charge (v. i.) To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.
Charge (v. i.) To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.
Charge (v. t.) A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
Charge (v. t.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.
Charge (v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
Charge (v. t.) Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.
Charge (v. t.) Harm.
Charge (v. t.) An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
Charge (v. t.) An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.
Charge (v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
Charge (v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.
Charge (v. t.) The price demanded for a thing or service.
Charge (v. t.) An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.
Charge (v. t.) That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time
Charge (v. t.) The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.
Charge (v. t.) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
Charge (v. t.) A soft of plaster or ointment.
Charge (v. t.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
Charge (n.) Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.
Charge (n.) Weight; import; value.
Chargeable (a.) That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.
Chargeable (a.) Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder.
Chargeable (a.) Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.
Chargeableness (n.) The quality of being chargeable or expensive.
Chargeably (adv.) At great cost; expensively.
Chargeant (a.) Burdensome; troublesome.
Charges d'affaires (pl. ) of Charge d'affaires
Charge d'affaires (n.) A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
Chargeful (a.) Costly; expensive.
Chargehouse (n.) A schoolhouse.
Chargeless (a.) Free from, or with little, charge.
Chargeous (a.) Burdensome.
Charger (n.) One who, or that which charges.
Charger (n.) An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge.
Charger (n.) A large dish.
Charger (n.) A horse for battle or parade.
Chargeship (n.) The office of a charge d'affaires.
Charily (adv.) In a chary manner; carefully; cautiously; frugally.
Chariness (n.) The quality of being chary.
Chariot (n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.
Chariot (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat.
Charioted (imp. & p. p.) of Chariot
Charioting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chariot
Chariot (v. t.) To convey in a chariot.
Chariotee (n.) A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.
Charioteer (n.) One who drives a chariot.
Charioteer (n.) A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones.
Charism (n.) A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.
Charismatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a charism.
Charitable (a.) Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind.
Charitable (a.) Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment.
Charitable (a.) Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.
Charitable (a.) Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution.
Charitable (a.) Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient.
Charitableness (n.) The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.
Charitably (adv.) In a charitable manner.
Charities (pl. ) of Charity
Charity (n.) Love; universal benevolence; good will.
Charity (n.) Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions of others.
Charity (n.) Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity.
Charity (n.) Whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness.
Charity (n.) A charitable institution, or a gift to create and support such an institution; as, Lady Margaret's charity.
Charity (n.) Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions.
Charivari (n.) A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.
Chark (n.) Charcoal; a cinder.
Charked (imp. & p. p.) of Chark
Chark (v. t.) To burn to a coal; to char.
Charlatan (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
Charlatanic (a.) Alt. of Charlatanical
Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
Charlatanism (n.) Charlatanry.
Charlatanry (n.) Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
Charles's Wain () The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. See Ursa major, under Ursa.
Charlock (n.) A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock.
Charlotte (n.) A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked.
Charm (n.) A melody; a song.
Charm (n.) A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation.
Charm (n.) That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality.