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See 1st Char.

The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus. Balfour.

See Charge, n., 17.

Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.

One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.

The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. Knight.

s), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.

A European mountain trout (Salvelinus alpinus); -- called also Bavarian charr.

The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not. If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup. Swift.

anish bean (Bot.) See the Note under Bean. -- Spanish black, a black pigment obtained by charring cork. Ure. -- Spanish broom (Bot.), a leguminous shrub (Spartium junceum) having many green flexible rushlike twigs. -- Spanish brown, a species of earth used in painting, having a dark reddish brown color, due to the p…