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ing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character. You know the character to be your brother's Shak.

y the latter in transportation for his own account, either under their charge or his. -- People's Charter (Eng. Hist.), the document which embodied the demands made by the Chartists, so called, upon the English government in 1838.

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

words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses. Ex. xvii. 2.

ld of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.

Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.

which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift. -- Christmas carol, a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas. -- Christmas day. Same as Christmas. -- Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas. -- Christmas fern (Bot.)…

ainst some moral evil. Remember that both church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors. Bulwer.

Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.

The Jews, as a circumcised people.

The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city. "What is the city but the people" Shak.

Low, worthless people; the rabble. [Scot.] Jamieson.

To salute loudly. [R.] The people with a shout Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise. Milton .

lly; entirely. "Domestic broils clean overblown." Shak. "Clean contrary." Milton. All the people were passed clean over Jordan. Josh. iii. 17.

One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy. [Low, Eng.]

manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.

act of conferring or bestowing. [Obs.] Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. Bacon.

To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.

The collective sum. aggregate, or mass of anything; specif., the people as a body; the state.

To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in. Bacon. They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants. Howell.