chartreuse 
cially nettles, growing on the Alps. It derives its 
name from the celebrated monastery of the (Jramle rhar- 
treuse, in France, where it is made. Chartreuse pot- 
tery, an enameled pottery made in the neighborhood of 
Bordeaux in the early part of the eighteenth century, for 
the use of the Carthusian monastery in that neighborhood. 
It resembles the fluer pottery of .Rouen, and especially 
that of Nevers. 
chart-room (chart'ro'm), n. The apartment in 
a ship (steamer or sailing vessel) in which the 
charts, maps, instruments, etc., are kept. 
chartulary (kiir'tu-la-ri), n. ; pi. chartularies 
(-riz). [< ML. chartularius, cartiilarius, in sec- 
ond sense from ML. chartularium, cartularium : 
masc. and neut. respectively of adj. chartu- 
larius, cartularius, < chartula, a charter, record: 
see charter."} 1. An officer in the ancient Latin 
Church who had the care of charters and other 
papers of a public nature. 2. A record or an 
account-book of the temporal possessions of a 
monastery. 
The chartulary or leger-book of some adjacent monas- 
tery. Blackstone. 
The chartulary of Winchester Abbey, compiled early in 
the 12th century, and containing numerous documents of 
the time before the Conquest, is in the British Museum. 
Encyc. Brit., VII. 253. 
3. The room in which such records are kept. 
4. The officer who had the records in charge. 
Also spelled cartulary. 
charwoman, charewoman (char'-, char'wum"- 
an), n. ; pi. charwomen, charewomen (-wim"en). 
S< char 1 , chare 1 , + woman.'] A woman hired to 
o chares or odd work, or to work by the day. 
There is a chare-woman in the house, his nurse, 
An Irish woman, I took in a beggar. 
B. Jonson, New Inn, ii. 1. 
charwork, charework (char'-, char'werk), . 
[< char 1 , chare 1 , + work.'] In England, chares 
or odd work ; work, usually menial, done by the 
job or by the day. 
She, harvest done, to char-work did aspire ; 
Meat, drink, and twopence were her daily hire. 
Dryden, tr. from Theocritus. 
chary (char'i), a. [< ME. charig, < AS. cearig, 
full of care or sorrow, sad (= OS. karag = OHG. 
charag, full of care or sorrow, = MLG. karich, 
karch, kerch, shrewd, sparing), < cearu, care, 
sorrow. Chary is thus the assibilated adj. of 
care: see care, and cf. Chare Thursday."] 1. 
Careful; disposed to cherish with care; cau- 
tious : often with of. 
I Send you my humble Thanks for the curious Sea-chest 
of Glasses you pleased to bestow on me, which I shall be 
very chary to keep as a Monument of your Love. 
HoweU, Letters, I. V. 10. 
His rising reputation made him more chart/ of his fame. 
Jeffrey. 
2. Sparing ; not lavish ; not disposed to give 
freely; frugal: absolute or with of: as, chary 
of compliments ; clMry of favors. 
The chariest maid is prodigal enough, 
If she unmask her beauty to the moon. 
Shale., Hamlet, i. 3. 
Prodigal of all brain-labour he, 
Charier of sleep, and wine, and exercise. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
Nature of sameness is so chary. Lowell, Nomades. 
Charybdaea (kar-ib-de'ii), n. [NL., < L. Cha- 
rybdis, q. v.] The typical genus of acalephs 
of the family Charybdwidce. C. marsupialis is 
an example. 
charybdseid (kar-ib-de'id), n. An acaleph of 
the family Charybdceidw. 
Charybdaeidae (kar-ib-de'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < 
Charybdcea + -idee.] A family of four-rayed 
acalephs. They have a 4-sided pouch-like form, an un- 
divided marginal membrane or velarium, containing pro- 
longations of the gastrovascular system, 4 lobe-like verti- 
cal appendages of the margin of the disk, 4 covered sense- 
organs, and 4 vascular pouches separated by narrow par- 
titions. They represent a suborder Marsupialida, (or Lo- 
bofthora). Also written Charybdeidce. 
Charybdis (ka-rib'dis), n. [L., < Or. Xapv/iiif ; 
etym. uncertain.] See Scylla. 
chasable (cha'sa-bl), a. [< ME. chaceable (cf. 
OF. "chacable, cachavle, adapted for hunting); 
< chase 1 + -able.] Capable of being chased or 
hunted ; fit for the chase. Also spelled chase- 
able. [Bare.] 
Of bestes which ben chaceable. Gower, Couf. Amant. 
chasbow, n. See cheese-bowl. 
chase 1 (chas), v. ; pret. and pp. chased, ppr. cha- 
sing. [Also formerly spelled chace, < ME. cha- 
cen, chasen, < OF. chacier (F. chasser), chase, as- 
sibilated form of cacier, cachier, > ME. cacchen, 
E. catch, which is thus a doublet of chase: see 
catch 1 . Hence in comp. (in OF .) purchase, q. v.] 
I. trans. 1. To pursue for the purpose of cap- 
turing or killing, as game ; hunt. 
Like to the chaced wild bore 
The houndes whan he feleth sore. 
Gowei; Conf. Amaut., III. 268. 
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Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird. Lam. iii. 52. 
Rose 
To chase the deer at five. Tennyson, Talking Oak. 
They saw the swallow chase high up in air 
The circling gnats. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 352. 
2. To pursue for any purpose; follow earnest- 
ly, especially with hostile intent ; drive off by 
pursuing : as, to chase an enemy. 
But another, that had to Name Elphy, chaced him out 
of the Contree, and made him Soudan. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 37. 
'Tis a meritorious fair design 
To chase injustice with revengeful arms ; 
Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 1693. 
The following morn had chased away 
The flying stars, and light restored the day. Dryden. 
Life is a running shade, with fettered hands, 
That chases phantoms over shifting sands. 
0. W. Uolmes, The Old Player. 
3. To pursue ; continue. 
And schortly forth this tale for to chase. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 338. 
n. intrans. 1. To pursue; follow in pursuit. 
fa chase 
At Love in scorn. Chaucer, Troilus, i. 908. 
Specifically 2. Of a hunting-dog, to leave a 
point for the purpose of pursuing the game. 
3. To move briskly or steadily along ; hasten : 
as, the dog kept chasing ahead of us. 
Comynge fro a cuntre that men called lerico ; 
To a lustes in Iherusalem he chaced awey faste. 
Piers Plowman (B), xvii. 51. 
chase 1 (chas), n. [Also formerly spelled chace, 
< ME. chace, chase, chas, < OF. chace, cace, F. 
chasse = Pr. cassa = Sp. caza = Pg. caya = It. 
caccia, chase, the chase; from the verb: see 
chase 1 , v. Cf. catch 1 , n.] 1. Pursuit for the 
purpose of obtaining, capturing, or killing; 
specifically, hunting : as, to be fond of the 
chase; beasts of the chase. 
In the contre of Canterburi mest plente of fysch Is, 
And mest chase of aboute Salesburi of wylde bestes. 
Rob. of Gloucester, p. 6. 
The chase I sing ; hounds and their various breeds. 
Somervitte, The Chase, i. 1. 
2. Pursuit, as of one's desires ; eager efforts 
to attain or obtain : as, the chase of pleasure, 
profit, fame, etc. 
What suttle and unpeaceable desigues he then had in 
chace, his own Letters discover'd. 
Milton, Eikouoklastes, xviii. 
Mad chase of fame. Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires. 
3. That which is pursued or hunted. Specifically 
(a) Game which is pursued. 
Like some poor exiled wretch, 
The frightened Chase leaves her late dear abodes. 
Somerville, The Chase, ii. 178. 
(b) A vessel pursued by another : as, the chase outsailed us. 
4. The body of men pursuing game. 
The kynge Aguysans wente in to his Cite disconflted, 
ffor the chace lefte of hym for to fight with the kynge 
vrien and his peple. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 239. 
5. An open piece of ground or other place re- 
served for animals to be hunted as game, and 
belonging to a private proprietor : properly dif- 
fering from a forest, in that the latter is not 
private property and is invested with privi- 
leges, and from a park, in that the latter is in- 
closed. [Eng.] 
A forest hath laws of her own, to take cognizance of all 
trespasses ; she hath also her peculiar officers, as forest- 
ers, verderers, agisters, &c. ; whereas a chase or park hath 
only keepers or woodwards. HoweU. 
I see the moulder'd Abbey-walls, 
That stand within the chace. 
Tennyson, Talking Oak. 
6f. In the game of tennis, the spot where a ball 
falls, beyond which an opponent must strike 
his ball or lose a point. 7. In old Eng. law, a 
franchise authorizing a subject to whom it was 
granted to hunt. Beasts of the chase, in Eng. law, 
properly, the buck, doe, fox, marten, and roe ; but in a 
common sense, all wild beasts of veucry and hunting. 
Knights of the Chase. See knight. To give chase, to 
pursue : absolute or followed by to with an object : as, the 
squadron immediately gave chase to the enemy's fleet. 
Wild-goose Chase, the pursuit of anything in ignorance 
of the direction it will take ; hence, a foolish pursuit or 
enterprise. According to Dyce, the name wild-goose chase 
was applied to a kind of horse-race, in which two horses 
were started together, the rider who 
gained the lead forcing the other to 
follow him wherever he chose to go. 
= Syn. 5. Park, Woods, etc. See forest. 
chase 2 (chas), . [< OF. chasse, 
F. chasse, a frame, a shrine, 
assibilated form of OF. casse 
(F. came), a box, chest, > E. 
case 2 : see case 2 , of which chase% 
is a doublet.] 1. In printing, 
a square and open framework 
of iron, in which forms of type 
Printers' Chase. 
<i, frame ; b, b, b, 
of wood or 
chasm 
are secured by f urniture and quoins for moving 
and for working on the press. For large forms of 
type, chases are made with crossing and movable center- 
bars, to give greater strength. 
2. The part of a gun between the trunnions and 
the swell of the muzzle, or, in modern guns in 
which the muzzle has no swell, the whole of 
that part of the gun which is in front of the 
trunnions. 3. A groove cut in any object: as, 
the chase of a water- wheel ; a chase in the face 
of a wall of masonry ; the chase or groove for 
the arrow in a crossbow. 4. In ship-building, 
that kind of joint by which the overlapping 
joints of clincher-built boats are gradually con- 
verted at the stem and stern into flush joints, as 
in carvel-built boats. 5. The circular trough 
of a cider-mill, in which the apples are placed 
to be crushed by a revolving stone called the 
runner. 6. A trench made to receive drain- 
tiles. 
chase 3 (chas), v. t. ; pret. and pp. chased, ppr. 
chasing. [Shortened from enchase, q. v.] 1. 
To decorate (metal-work, especially work in 
the precious metals) by tooling of any kind on 
the exterior. It is usual to support the metal, when 
thin, upon a slightly yielding substance; thus in the case 
of a hollow vessel the interior is tilled with pitch before 
the chasing is begun. 
2. To cut so as to make into a screw; cut, as 
the thread of a screw. 
chaseable, a. See chasable. 
chase-gun (chas'gun), . In war-ships, a gun 
used in chasing an enemy, or in defending a 
ship when chased ; a chaser. 
chase-mortise (chas'm6r"tis), n. A mode of 
securing a ceiling-joist to a binding-joist, so that 
their lower surfaces shall be flush. The end of the 
ceiling-joist has a tenon which is let into a mortise in the 
binding-joist. Also called pulley-mortise. E. 11. Knight. 
chase-port (chas'port), n. The porthole at the 
bow or the stern of a vessel, through which the 
chase-gun is fired. 
chaser 1 (cha'ser), n. [< ME. chasur, a hunter 
(horse), < OF. chaceour, chaceor (F. chasseitr), a 
hunter, < chacier, hunt : see chase 1 , v., and -er 1 . 
Cf. chasseur."] 1. One who chases ; a pursuer; 
a hunter; a driver. 2. Naut.: (a) A vessel 
which pursues another. (6) A chase-gun; a 
gun on a vessel mounted especially for service 
when in chase or being chased : called a bow- 
chaser when pointed from the bow, and a stern- 
chaser when from the stern. 3. A short strap 
used to keep the curtain of a carriage in place 
when it is rolled up. 
chaser 2 (cha'ser), n. [< chase^ + -er 1 .] 1. 
One who chases or enchases; an enchaser. 
All the tools and appliances of professional chasers. 
The American, VII. 120. 
2. A hand-tool of steel used for cutting or fin- 
ishing the threads of screws; the 
tool used as the cutting instrument 
in a chasing-lathe. 
chase-ring (chas'ring), n. A band 
placed around a piece of ordnance 
near the muzzle. 
chasible (chas'i-bl), . See chasuble. 
Chasidean (kas-i-de'an), . Same 
as Assidean. 
chasing (cha'sing), n.. [Verbal n. 
of chase 3 , .] The art of engraving c S^Kma. 
designs on metallic surfaces with a 
chisel or a burin. See toreutics Flat chasing, 
a method of ornamenting silverware with a punching- 
tool which forms the design by dots or lines. 
chasing-chisel (cha'sing-chiz'el), n. One of 
the tools used in chasing. See chase 3 . 
chasing-hammer (cha'sing-ham'er), n. The 
implement, usually a wooden mallet, used by 
the chaser to strike upon the butt of the cha- 
sing-tool. 
chasing-lathe (cha'sing-laTH), n. A lathe 
adapted to cut screws. 
chasing-Stafft, . A weapon or an instrument 
of offense : apparently the same as catchpole 2 . 
Grose. 
chasing-tool (cha'sing-t61), n. A tool used in 
chasing. Suc-h tools are either punches, gravers, or 
chisel-shaped tools w ith blunt edges ; they are applied by 
being held in contact with the metal and struck lightly 
with a hammer or mallet. 
Chaslesian (shal'zi-an), a. Pertaining to the 
French geometer Michel Chasles (1793-1880). 
Chaslesian shell, an infinitely thin shell of homogene- 
ous matter, coinciding with an equipotential surface and 
having a thickness everywhere proportional to the attrac- 
tion. 
chasm (kazm), n. [< L. chasma, < Gr. x"f a j 
a yawning hollow, gulf, chasm, any wide space 
or expanse (cf. x aa /*1, a yawning), < / *x" in 
X<icKeiv, xaiveiv, yawn: see chaos,] 1. An open- 
