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Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . . I will speak to thee. Shak.

The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.

In a charitable manner.

to put the best construction on the words and actions of others. The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. Buckminster.

A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.

Charcoal; a cinder. [Obs.] DeFoe.

One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish. -- Char`la*tan"ic*al*ly, adv.

Charlatanry.

Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.

The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. See Ursa major, under Ursa.

A familiar nickname or substitute for Charles.

istrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock. Jointed charlock, White charlock, a troublesome weed (Raphanus Raphanistrum) with straw- colored, whitish, or purplish flowers, and jointed pods: wild radish.

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 melody; a song. [Obs.] With charm of earliest birds. Milton. Free liberty to chant our charms at will. Spenser.

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.