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A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc. First moved the chariots, after whom the foot. Cowper.

A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.

One who drives a chariot.

To throw out of a chariot. Pope.

Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

Of or pertaining to a chariot. [R.]

The act of driving a chariot or a carriage. [R.] De Quincey.

ay; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

To put trappings on; to clothe; to deck. After them followed two other chariots covered with red satin, and the horses betrapped with the same. Stow.

A two-horse chariot.

A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity. [Poetic]. The gilded car of day. Milton. The towering car, the sable steeds. Tennyson.

A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. "Phoebus' cart." Shak.

A charioteer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A car; a chariot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x. I knew that they were the cherubim. Ezek. x. 20. He rode upon a cherub and did fly. Ps. xviii. 10.

gh the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.

A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.

To overwhelm; to spread over. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen. Ex. xiv. 28.

rind to powder. See Crase. God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels. Milton.