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One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.

The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap. "Open your chaps again." Shak.

A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

An impost. [Obs.]

A car; a chariot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise.

To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. Old Proverb.

rope. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.

A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.

A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character. In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms. Shak.

or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder.

A distinction of character; a characteristic. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.

Characteristic.

In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.

The act or process of characterizing.

ake with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot.

Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.

The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark. Fairies use flowers for their charactery. Shak.