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Weary; mournful. Shak.

Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.

A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceæ; the sedges.

A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot.

The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.

Covered, or furnished with, cedars.

A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1

See centare.

Same as Cæsarean, Cæsarian.

Same as Chaparajos. [Sp. Amer.]

To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. Old Proverb.

A narrow street. [Prov. Eng.]

A French coasting lugger.

The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry.

(Lagamys princeps) inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare.

A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

A nun of the order of St.Clare.

See Chiaroscuro.