Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 44
Charm (n.) Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.
Charm (n.) Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain.
Charm (n.) (Physics) a property of certain quarks which may take the value of +1, -1 or 0.
Syn: Spell; incantation; conjuration; enchantment; fascination; attraction.
Charmed (imp. & p. p.) of Charm.
Charming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charm.
Charm (v. t.) To make music upon; to tune. [Obs. & R.]
Here we our slender pipes may safely charm. -- Spenser.
Charm (v. t.) To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic.
No witchcraft charm thee! -- Shak.
Charm (v. t.) To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
Music the fiercest grief can charm. -- Pope.
Charm (v. t.) To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate.
They, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear. -- Milton.
Charm (v. t.) To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.
I, in my own woe charmed, Could not find death. -- Shak.
Syn: To fascinate; enchant; enrapture; captivate; bewitch; allure; subdue; delight; entice; transport.
Charm (v. i.) To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.
The voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. -- Ps. lviii. 5.
Charm (v. i.) To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.
Charm (v. i.) To make a musical sound. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Charm (n.) Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates; "his smile was part of his appeal to her" [syn: appeal, appealingness, charm].
Charm (n.) A verbal formula believed to have magical force; "he whispered a spell as he moved his hands"; "inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese" [syn: spell, magic spell, magical spell, charm].
Charm (n.) Something believed to bring good luck [syn: charm, good luck charm].
Charm (n.) (Physics) One of the six flavors of quark.
Charm (v.) Attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: capture, enamour, trance, catch, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant].
Charm (v.) Control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft [syn: charm, becharm].
Charm (v.) Protect through supernatural powers or charms.
Charm (v.) Induce into action by using one's charm; "She charmed him into giving her all his money" [syn: charm, influence, tempt].
Charm, () An explicitly parallel programming language based on C, for both shared and nonshared MIMD computers. (2006-04-29)
Charmel (n.) [Heb.] A fruitful field.
Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest. -- Isa. xxix. 17 (Douay version).
Charmer (n.) One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician. -- Deut. xviii. 11.
Charmer (n.) One who delights and attracts the affections.
Charmer (n.) Someone with an assured and ingratiating manner [syn: smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker, charmer].
Charmer (n.) A person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) [syn: charmer, beguiler].
Charmer, () One who practises serpent-charming (Ps. 58:5; Jer. 8:17; Eccl. 10:11). It was an early and universal opinion that the most venomous reptiles could be made harmless by certain charms or by sweet sounds. It is well known that there are jugglers in India and in other Eastern lands who practise this art at the present day.
In Isa. 19:3 the word "charmers" is the rendering of the Hebrew _'ittim_, meaning, properly, necromancers (R.V. marg., "whisperers"). In Deut. 18:11 the word "charmer" means a dealer in spells, especially one who, by binding certain knots, was supposed thereby to bind a curse or a blessing on its object. In Isa. 3:3 the words "eloquent orator" should be, as in the Revised Version, "skilful enchanter."
Charmeress (n.) An enchantress. -- Chaucer.
Charmful (a.) Abounding with charms. "His charmful lyre." -- Cowley.
Charming (a.) Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive.
How charming is divine philosophy. -- Milton.
Syn: Enchanting; bewitching; captivating; enrapturing; alluring; fascinating; delightful; pleasurable; graceful; lovely; amiable; pleasing; winning. -- Charm"ing*ly, adv. -- Charm"ing*ness, n.
Charming (a.) Pleasing or delighting; "endowed with charming manners"; "a charming little cottage"; "a charming personality."
Charming (a.) Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night" -- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers" [syn: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, witching(a), wizard(a), wizardly].
Charmless (a.) Destitute of charms. -- Swift. Charneco
Charneco (n.) Alt. of Charnico.
Charnico (n.) A sort of sweet wine. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Charnel (a.) Containing the bodies of the dead. "Charnel vaults." -- Milton.
Charnel house, A tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.
Charnel (n.) A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
In their proud charnel of Thermopyl[ae]. -- Byron.
Charnel (a.) Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" [syn: charnel, ghastly, sepulchral]
Charnel (n.) A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited [syn: charnel house, charnel].
Charon (n.) (Cless. Myth.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. -- Shak.
Charon (n.) (Greek mythology) The ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades.
Charpie (n.) (Med.) Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.
Charqui (n.) Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. -- Darwin.
Charr (n.) See 1st Char.
Char, Charr (n.) (Zool.) One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout ({Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.
Charr (n.) Any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus [syn: char, charr].
Charras (n.) The gum resin of the hemp plant ({Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus. -- Balfour.
Charre (n.) See Charge, n., 17.
Compare: Charge
Charge (n.) A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
Charge (n.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.
Note: The people of a parish or church are called the charge of the clergyman who is set over them.
Charge (n.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. -- Shak.
Charge (n.) Heed; care; anxiety; trouble. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Charge (n.) Harm. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Charge (n.) An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
The king gave cherge concerning Absalom. -- 2. Sam. xviii. 5.
Charge (n.) 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 (n.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. -- Whewell.
Charge (n.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.
Charge (n.) The price demanded for a thing or service.
Charge (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (n.) 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.
Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies. -- Holland.
The charge of the light brigade. -- Tennyson.
Charge (n.) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
Charge (n.) (Far.) A sort of plaster or ointment.
Charge (n.) (Her.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
Charge (n.) [Cf. Charre.] Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.
Charge (n.) Weight; import; value.
Many suchlike "as's" of great charge. -- Shak.
Back charge. See under Back, a.
Bursting charge. (a) (Mil.) The charge which bursts a shell, etc.
Bursting charge. (b) (Mining) A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting.
Charge and discharge (Equity Practice), The old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery.
Charge sheet, The paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accusations.
To sound the charge, To give the signal for an attack.
Syn: Care; custody; trust; management; office; expense; cost; price; assault; attack; onset; injunction; command; order; mandate; instruction; accusation; indictment.
Charry (a.) Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.
Chart (n.) A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
Chart (n.) A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
Chart (n.) A written deed; a charter.
Globular chart, A chart constructed on a globular projection. See under Globular.
Heliographic chart, A map of the sun with its spots.
Mercator's chart, A chart constructed on the principle of
Mercator's projection. See Projection.
Plane chart, A representation of some part of the superficies of the globe, in which its spherical form is disregarded, the meridians being drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude at equal distances.
Selenographic chart, A map representing the surface of the moon.
Topographic chart, A minute delineation of a limited place or region.
Charted (imp. & p. p.) of Chart.
Chart (v. t.) To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.
Chart (n.) A visual display of information.
Chart (n.) A map designed to assist navigation by air or sea.
Chart (v.) Make a chart of; "chart the territory."
Chart (v.) Plan in detail; "Bush is charting a course to destroy Saddam Hussein."
Chart (v.) Represent by means of a graph; "chart the data" [syn: graph, chart].
Charta. () An ancient word which signified not only a charter or deed in writing, but any signal or token by which an estate was held.
Charta (n.) (Law) Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.
Charta (n.) (Law) A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.
Chartaceous (a.) Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.
Chartaceous (a.) Of or like paper [syn: chartaceous, papery, paperlike].
Charte (n.) The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.
Charter. () A grant made by the sovereign either to the whole people or to a portion of them, securing to them the enjoyment of certain rights. Of the former kind is the late charter of France, which extended to the whole country; the charters which were granted to the different American colonies by the British government were charters of the latter species. 1 Story, Const. L. Sec. 161; 1 Bl. Com. 108 Encycl. Amer. Charte Constitutionelle.
Charter. () A charter differs from a CONSTITUTION in this, that the former is granted by the sovereign, while the latter is established by the people themselves : both are the fundamental law of the land.
Charter. () This term is susceptible of another signification. During the middle ages almost every document was called carta, charta, or chartula. In this sense the term is nearly synonymous with deed. Co. Litt. 6; 1 Co. 1; Moor. Cas. 687.
Charter. () The act of the legislature creating a corporation, is called its charter. Vide 3 Bro. Civ. and Adm. Law, 188; Dane's Ab. h.t.
Charter (n.) A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance. [Archaic]
Charter (n.) An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
The king [John, a.d. 1215], with a facility somewhat suspicious, signed and sealed the charter which was required of him. This famous deed, commonly called the "Great Charter," either granted or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men in the kingdom. -- Hume.
Charter (n.) An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.
Charter (n.) A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
My mother, Who has a charter to extol her blood, When she does praise me, grieves me. -- Shak.
Charter (n.) (Com.) The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.
Charter land (O. Eng. Law), Land held by charter, or in socage; bookland.
Charter member, One of the original members of a society or corporation, esp. one named in a charter, or taking part in the first proceedings under it.
Charter party [F. chartre partie, or charte partie, a divided charter; from the practice of cutting the instrument of contract in two, and giving one part to each of the contractors] (Com.), A mercantile lease of a vessel; a specific contract by which the owners of a vessel let the entire vessel, or some principal part of the vessel, to another person, to be used by the latter in transportation for his own account, either under their charge or his.
People's Charter (Eng. Hist.), The document which embodied the demands made by the Chartists, so called, upon the English government in 1838.
Chartered (imp. & p. p.) of Charter.
Chartering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charter.
Charter (v. t.) To establish by charter.
Charter (v. t.) To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.
Charter (n.) A document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation.
Charter (n.) A contract to hire or lease transportation.
Charter (v.) Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services [syn: rent, hire, charter, lease].
Charter (v.) Grant a charter to.
Charter (v.) Engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" [syn: lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take].
Charter, () mar. contr. An agreement by which a vessel is hired by the owner to another; as A B chartered the ship Benjamin Franklin to C D.
Chartered (a.) Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter.
The sufficiency of chartered rights. -- Palfrey.
The air, a chartered libertine. -- Shak.
Chartered (a.) Hired or let by charter, as a ship.
Chartered (a.) Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers; "a chartered plane"; "the chartered buses arrived on time" [syn: chartered, hired, leased] [ant: unchartered].
Charterer (n.) One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.
Charterhouse (n.) A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
Charterhouse (n.) A Carthusian monastery.
Charterist (n.) Same as Chartist.
Chartism (n.) The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.
Chartism (n.) The principles of a body of 19th century English reformers who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people.
Chartist (n.) A supporter or partisan of chartism. [Eng.]
Chartist (n.) A 19th century English reformer who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people.
Chartist (n.) A stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities [syn: chartist, technical analyst].
Chartless (a.) Without a chart; having no guide.
Chartless (a.) Not mapped; uncharted; vague. -- Barlow. Chartographic; Chartographer
Chartless (a.) (Of unknown regions) Not yet surveyed or investigated; "uncharted seas" [syn: chartless, uncharted, unmapped].
Chartographer (n.) Alt. of Chartography.
Chartographic (n.) Alt. of Chartography.
Chartography (n.) Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.
Chartomancy (n.) Divination by written paper or by cards.
Chartometer (n.) An instrument for measuring charts or maps.
Chartreuse (n.) [F.] A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.
Chartreuse (n.) An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.
Compare: Colorful
Colorful (a.) Having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled].
Syn: colourful.
Colorful (a.) Striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque].
Colorful (a.) Having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color (predicate).
Chartreuse (a.) Of something having the yellowish green color of.
Chartreuse liqueur (n.) Aromatic green or yellow liqueur flavored with orange peel and hyssop and peppermint oils; made at monastery near Grenoble, France
Chartreuse liqueur (n.) A shade of green tinged with yellow [syn: yellow green, yellowish green, chartreuse, Paris green, pea green].
Chartreux (n.) [F.] A Carthusian.
Chartulary (n.) See Cartulary.
Charwomen (n. pl. ) of Charwoman.
Charwoman (n.) A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
Charwoman (n.) A human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman].
Chary (a.) Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, or reckless; as, the latest internet IPO's were shunned by investors made chary by the poor performance of the first wave of companies that went public.
His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame. -- Jeffrey.
Chary (a.) Saving; frugal; sparing; not spendthrift; -- often used with of; as, chary of his praise.
Chary (a.) Fastidious; picky; choosy.
Chary (a.) Characterized by great caution and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer”; “chary of the risks involved”; “a chary investor” [syn: cagey, cagy, chary].
Charybdis (n.) A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
Charybdis (n.) (Greek mythology) A ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla.
Charybdis, () A Lisp program to display mathematical expressions. It is related to MATHLAB.
[Sammet 1969, p. 522].
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Chasable (a.) Capable of being chased; fit for hunting. -- Gower.
Chased (imp. & p. p.) of Chase.
Chasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chase.
Chase (v. t.) 追捕，追逐，雕刻，在金屬上打花樣 To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
We are those which chased you from the field. -- Shak.
Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. -- Cowper.
Chase (v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.
Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place. -- Knolles.
Chase (v. t.) To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
Chasing each other merrily. -- Tennyson.
Chase (v. i.) 追趕，奔跑 To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor. [Colloq.]
Chase (n.) 追求，狩獵，追逐 Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt. "This mad chase of fame." -- Dryden.
You see this chase is hotly followed. -- Shak.
Chase (n.) That which is pursued or hunted.
Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I myself must hunt this deer to death. -- Shak.
Chase (n.) An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace. [Eng.]
Chase (n.) (Court Tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point.
Chase gun (Naut.), A cannon placed at the bow or stern of an armed vessel, and used when pursuing an enemy, or in defending the vessel when pursued.
Chase port (Naut.), A porthole from which a chase gun is fired.
Stern chase (Naut.), A chase in which the pursuing vessel follows directly in the wake of the vessel pursued.
Cut to the chase (Film), A term used in action movies meaning, to shift the scene to the most exciting part, where someone is being chased. It is used metaphorically to mean "get to the main point."
Chase (n.) A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
Chase (n.) (Mil.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
Chase (n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
Chase (n.) (Shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
Chase (v. t.) To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
Chase (v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
Chase (n.) The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit" [syn: pursuit, chase, pursual, following].
Chase (n.) United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873) [syn: Chase, Salmon P. Chase, Salmon Portland Chase].
Chase (n.) A rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time.
Chase (v.) Go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" [syn: chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track].
Chase (v.) Pursue someone sexually or romantically [syn: chase, chase after].
Chase (v.) Cut a groove into; "chase silver."
Chase (v.) Cut a furrow into a columns [syn: furrow, chamfer, chase].
Chase, () Eng. law. The liberty of keeping beasts of chase, or royal gaine, on another man's ground as well as on one's own ground, protected even from the owner of the land, with a power of hunting them thereon. It differs from a park, because it may be on another's ground, and because it is not enclosed. 2 Bl. Com. 38.
Chase, () property. The act of acquiring possession of animals ferae naturae by force, cunning or address. The hunter acquires a right to such animals by occupancy, and they become his property. 4 Toull. n. 7. No man has a right to enter on the lands of another for the purpose of hunting, without his consent. Vide 14 East, R. 249 Poth. Tr. du Dr. de Propriete, part 1, c. 2, art. 2. CHASTITY. That virtue which prevents the unlawful commerce of the sexes.
Chase, () A woman may defend her chastity by killing her assailant. See Self Defence. And even the solicitation of her chastity is indictable in some of the states; 7 Conn. 267; though in England, and perhaps elsewhere, such act is not indictable. 2 Chit. Pr. 478. Words charging a woman with a violation of chastity are actionable in themselves. 2 Conn. 707.
Chase -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000): 3030
Housing Units (2000): 1529
Land area (2000): 775.887075 sq. miles (2009.538213 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.122146 sq. miles (5.496332 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 778.009221 sq. miles (2015.034545 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.313664 N, 96.607734 W
Headwords:
Chase
Chase, KS
Chase County
Chase County, KS
Chase -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 4068
Housing Units (2000): 1927
Land area (2000): 894.495131 sq. miles (2316.731656 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.139206 sq. miles (8.130506 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 897.634337 sq. miles (2324.862162 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.507192 N, 101.699405 W
Headwords:
Chase
Chase, NE
Chase County
Chase County, NE
Chase, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska
Population (2000): 41
Housing Units (2000): 90
Land area (2000): 92.903484 sq. miles (240.618909 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.623183 sq. miles (1.614037 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 93.526667 sq. miles (242.232946 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12350
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 62.422316 N, 150.077553 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chase, AK
Chase
Chase, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 490
Housing Units (2000): 222
Land area (2000): 0.293148 sq. miles (0.759250 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.293148 sq. miles (0.759250 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12650
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.355682 N, 98.348743 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67524
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Headwords:
Chase, KS
Chase
Chaser (n.) One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.
Chaser (n.) (Naut.) Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.
Chaser (n.) One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.
Chaser (n.) (Mech.) A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.
Chaser (n.) A person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture; "always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers" [syn: pursuer, chaser].
Chaser (n.) A drink to follow immediately after another drink.
Chasible (n.) See Chasuble.
Compare: Chasuble
Chasuble (n.) (Eccl.) The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle. [Written also chasible, and chesible.]
Chasing (n.) The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.
Chasm (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. -- Coleridge.
Chasm (n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought. -- Addison.
Chasm (n.) A deep opening in the earth's surface.
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Chasmed (a.) Having gaps or a chasm. [R.]
Chasmy (a.) Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms. -- Carlyle.
They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. -- Wordsworth.
Chasse (n.) A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.
Chasse (n.) A gliding step in dancing in which one foot is kept in front of the other while moving.
Chasse (v. i.) To make the movement called chasse; as, all chasse; chasse to the right or left.
Chasse (n.) A small potion of spirituous liquor taken to remove the taste of coffee, tobacco, or the like; -- originally chasse-caf['e], lit., "coffee chaser."
Chasse (n.) (Ballet) Quick gliding steps with one foot always leading [syn: chasse, sashay].
Chasse (v.) Perform a chasse step, in ballet [syn: chasse, sashay].
Chasselas (n.) A white grape, esteemed for the table.