Charm"er*ess (?), n. An enchantress. Chaucer.
Charm"ful (?), a. Abounding with charms. "His charmful lyre." Cowley.
Charm"ing, a. Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive.
How charming is divine philosophy.
Milton.
Syn. - Enchanting; bewitching; captivating; enrapturing; alluring; fascinating; delightful; pleasurable; graceful; lovely; amiable; pleasing; winning.
-- Charm"ing*ly, adv. -- Charm"ing*ness, n.
Charm"less, a. Destitute of charms. Swift.
{ Char"ne*co, Char"ni*co (?) }, n. A sort of sweet wine. [Obs.] Shak.
Char"nel (?), a. [F. charnel carnal, fleshly, fr. L. carnalis. See Carnal.] Containing the bodies of the dead. "Charnel vaults." Milton.
Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.
Char"nel, n. A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
In their proud charnel of ThermopylŠ.
Byron.
Cha"ron (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Cless. Myth.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. Shak.
||Char"pie (?), n. [F., properly fem. p. p. of OF. charpir, carpir, to pluck, fr. L. carpere. Cf. Carpet.] (Med.) Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.
||Char"qui (?), n. [Sp. A term used in South America, Central America, and the Western United States.] Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. Darwin.
Charr (?), n. See 1st Char.
||Char"ras (?), n. The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus. Balfour.
Charre (?), n. [LL. charrus a certain weight.] See Charge, n., 17.
Char"ry (?), a. [See 6th Char.] Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.
Chart (?), n. [A doublet of card: cf. F. charte charter, carte card. See Card, and cf. Charter.] 1. A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
2. A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.