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A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck. Goodliest of all the forest, hart and hind. Milton.

Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot.

An Asiatic species of Cacalia (C. Kleinia), used medicinally in India.

A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America.

an it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white. [Written also hartebeest, and hartebest.]

To hearten; to encourage; to incite. [Obs.] Spenser.

The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark- colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.

The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum).

Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n.

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.

inciple of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.

A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

n is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.

Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.

The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.

. The king [John, a.d. 1215], with a facility somewhat suspicious, signed and sealed the charter which was required of him. This famous deed, commonly called the "Great Charter," either granted or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men in the kingdom. Hume.

Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter. The sufficiency of chartered rights. Palfrey. The air, a chartered libertine. Shak.