CPage 146
- English Word Chartomancy Definition Divination by written paper or by cards.
- English Word Chartometer Definition An instrument for measuring charts or maps.
- English Word Chartreuse Definition A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.
- English Word Chartreuse Definition An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.
- English Word Chartreux Definition A Carthusian.
- English Word Chartulary Definition See Cartulary.
- English Word Charwoman Definition A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
- English Word Charwomen Definition of Charwoman
- English Word Chary Definition Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal.
- English Word Charybdis Definition A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
- English Word Chasable Definition Capable of being chased; fit for hunting.
- English Word Chase Definition To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
- English Word Chase Definition To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.
- English Word Chase Definition To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
- English Word Chase Definition To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.
- English Word Chase Definition Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt.
- English Word Chase Definition That which is pursued or hunted.
- English Word Chase Definition An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace.
- English Word Chase Definition A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point.
- English Word Chase Definition A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
- English Word Chase Definition The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
- English Word Chase Definition A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
- English Word Chase Definition A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
- English Word Chase Definition To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
- English Word Chase Definition To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
- English Word Chased Definition of Chase
- English Word Chaser Definition One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.
- English Word Chaser Definition Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.
- English Word Chaser Definition One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.
- English Word Chaser Definition A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.