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An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges. The king [John, a.d. 1215], with a facility somewhat suspicious, signed and sealed the charter which was required of him. This famous deed, commonly called the "Great Charter," ei…

To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.

A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.

as a substitute for madder. -- Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.

ickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.

To cut small pieces from; to diminsh or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew. Shak.

A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

pace between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.

A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer. Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.

A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.

idge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

Act of cutting by strokes. Chopping block, a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc. -- Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

The true skin, or cutis.

The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial. The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon. Old Play. Nares.

e which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.

A writing executed in letters of gold.

ckbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast. [Colloq.]

s of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.