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Destitute of charms. Swift.

A sort of sweet wine. [Obs.] Shak.

Containing the bodies of the dead. "Charnel vaults." Milton. Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.

The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. Shak.

Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. Darwin.

See 1st Char.

The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus. Balfour.

See Charge, n., 17.

Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.

on is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.

Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.

The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.

s. 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," either granted or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men in the kingdom. Hume.

Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter. The sufficiency of chartered rights. Palfrey. The air, a chartered libertine. Shak.

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

A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

Same as Chartist.

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