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Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character. You know the character to be your brother's Shak.

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

A written deed; a charter. Globular chart, a chart constructed on a globular projection. See under Globular. -- Heliographic chart, a map of the sun with its spots. -- Mercator's chart, a chart constructed on the principle of Mercator's projection. See Projection. -- Plane chart, a representation of some part of the…

Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.

A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance. [Archaic]

Divination by written paper or by cards.

om a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace. [Eng.]

atical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle. [Written also chasible, and chesible.]

Entrails. [Obs.] [Written also chaudron, chauldron.] Shak.

root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. [Written also choy root.]

A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.

ll alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing. [Written also checquy, cheguy.]

s) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus. [Written also chetah.]

A tribute by the head; a capitation tax. [Written also chevage and chivage.] [Obs.]

o remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger. [Written also chegre, chegoe, chique, chigger, jigger.]

A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum [Written also chilli and chile.]

reous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells. [Also written Chillostomata.]

The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3. [Written also hime.]

rom six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat. [Written also chincapin and chinkapin.] Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak (Quercus prinoides) of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns. -- Western Chinquapin, an evergreen shrub or tree (Castanopes chrysophylla) of the Pacific…

ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus. [Written also chipmonk, chipmuck, and chipmuk.]