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A supporter or partisan of chartism. [Eng.]

Without a chart; having no guide.

Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.

Divination by written paper or by cards.

An instrument for measuring charts or maps.

A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.

A Carthusian.

See Cartulary.

A woman hired for odd work or for single days.

; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal. His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame. Jeffrey.

A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.

Savage fierceness; ferocity.

A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.

A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.

To charm; to captivate.

A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pat…

An opposing charge.

To destroy the effect of a charm upon.

The stonecrop (Sedum acre).

To free from a charm; to disenchant.