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A fruitful field. Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest. Isa. xxix. 17 (Douay version).

One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician. Deut. xviii. 11.

An enchantress. Chaucer.

Abounding with charms. "His charmful lyre." Cowley.

Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive. How charming is divine philosophy. Milton.

Destitute of charms. Swift.

A sort of sweet wine. [Obs.] Shak.

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.

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.

Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. Darwin.

See 1st Char.

The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus. Balfour.

See Charge, n., 17.

Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.

on is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.

Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.

The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.

ngs done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance. [Archaic]