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The quality of being chary.

The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.

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.

Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.

h exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Pope. The charm of beauty's powerful glance. Milton.

Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.

The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.

To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

The quality of being cheesy.

Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.

A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels. [Russia]

One who chides or quarrels. Shak.

Principal or most eminent in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; taking the lead; most important; as, the chief topic of conversation; the chief interest of man.

The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis).

The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.

A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.

ate pieces three types are recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne.…