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One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.

ic school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

Same as Chartist.

ral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.

A supporter or partisan of chartism. [Eng.]

Without a chart; having no guide.

Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.

Divination by written paper or by cards.

An instrument for measuring charts or maps.

A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.

A Carthusian.

See Cartulary.

Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.

The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I.

See under Chart, and see Mercator's projection, under Projection.

A second charter; a renewal of a charter. D. Webster.

A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.

Blindness. [R.] Urquhart.

f a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. Wharton. Kent.

Tacit concurrence in the action of another. Wharton. p. 17