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al charcoal, a fine charcoal prepared by calcining bones in a closed vessel; -- used as a filtering agent in sugar refining, and as an absorbent and disinfectant. -- Charcoal blacks, the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances. -- Charcoal drawing (Fine Arts), a drawin…

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 kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked. Charlotte Russe (, or Charlotte à la russe Etym: [F., lit., Russian charlotte] (Cookery), a dish composed of custard or whipped cream, inclosed in sponge cake.

A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men. Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought. Addison.

ful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent. "As chaste as Diana." Shak. Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced. Milton.

ing the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called ckippers or hoppers, live in cheese. -- Cheese mite (Zoöl…

To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

A filament of a stamen. [Obs.]

To fill up, as a cavity. "The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints." Fuller.

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

ignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characterized by diarrhea, rice- water evacuations, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly passing into a state…

A kind of light pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake, and with a filling, as of jelly or cream.

A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies. Malcom.

A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it. [Written also cimia.]

The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. Clear your mind of cant. Dr. Johnson. A statue li…

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.