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A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

Carbuncle. [Written also Charboncle.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

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.

The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.

A chore; to chore; to do. See Char.

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke.

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.

That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.

The quality of being chargeable or expensive. [Obs.] Whitelocke.

At great cost; expensively. [Obs.]

Burdensome; troublesome. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Costly; expensive. [Obs.] The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak.

A schoolhouse. [Obs.]

Free from, or with little, charge.

Burdensome. [Obs.] I was chargeous to no man. Wyclif, (2 Cor. xi. 9).

One who, or that which charges.

The office of a chargé d'affaires.

In a chary manner; carefully; cautiously; frugally.

The quality of being chary.