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One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.

To sing, especially with joyful notes. Hovering awans . . . carol sounds harmonious. Prior.

k off; to lose; as, to carry away a fore-topmast. (b) To take possession of the mind; to charm; to delude; as, to be carried by music, or by temptation. -- To carry coals, to bear indignities tamely, a phrase used by early dramatists, perhaps from the mean nature of the occupation. Halliwell. -- To carry coals to New…

lack cat the fisher. See under Black. -- Cat and dog, like a cat and dog; quarrelsome; inharmonius. "I am sure we have lived a cat and dog life of it." Coleridge. -- Cat block (Naut.), a heavy iron-strapped block with a large hook, part of the tackle used in drawing an anchor up to the cathead. -- Cat hook (Naut.),…

To engage and attach; to please; to charm. The soothing arts that catch the fair. Dryden.

A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.

Harm. [Obs.] Chaucer.

talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue. Shak.

small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. Clair-obscur.

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

The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments. Instruments that made melodius chime. Milton.

Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony. Choral service, a service of song.

In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.

A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

rstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. From infant conning of the Christcross-row. Wordsworth.

acteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.

The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

ich fills its own vacancies. -- Close fertilization. (Bot.) See Fertilization. -- Close harmony (Mus.), compact harmony, in which the tones composing each chord are not widely distributed over several octaves. -- Close time, a fixed period during which killing game or catching certain fish is prohibited by law. --…

A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).