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A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "To note all the islands, and to set them down in plat." Hakluyt.

A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology. See Chart of Geology.

rian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology.

To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.

from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this. Blackstone.

poration, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.

trata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone, belonging to the Oölitic group. See the Chart of Geology.

The Quaternary age, era, or formation. See the Chart of Geology.

s of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.

The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for quidance.

ta of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the Triassic period. See the Chart of Geology.

Under the patronage of royality; holding a charter granted by the sovereign; as, the Royal Academy of Arts; the Royal Society. Battle royal. See under Battle. -- Royal bay (Bot.), the classic laurel (Laurus nobilis.) -- Royal eagle. (Zoöl.) See Golden eagle, under Golden. -- Royal fern (Bot.), the handsome fern Osmun…

A chart of a course, esp. at sea. [Obs.]

beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology.

ian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology.

rican Devonian system; -- so called from Schoharie, in New York, where it occurs. See the Chart of Geology.

quired on certain occasions. Among these papers are the register, passport or sea letter, charter party, bills of lading, invoice, log book, muster roll, bill of health, etc. Bouvier. Kent. -- To make ship, to embark in a ship or other vessel.

, esp. of a railway station. -- Station pointer (Surv.), an instrument for locating on a chart the position of a place from which the angles subtended by three distant objects, whose positions are known, have been observed. -- Station staff (Surv.), an instrument for taking angles in surveying. Craig.…

r done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection (Geom.), a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the sphere, and the plane upon which the projection is made is at right andles…

A charter or warrant; also, a deed of gift. [India]