*chari*

prop. n. The type and sole genus of Carchariidae; the sand sharks.
Syn. -- genus Carcharias, Odontaspis, genus Odontaspis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. a natural family comprising the sand sharks; in some classifications coextensive with the family Carcharhinidae.
Syn. -- family Carchariidae, Odontaspididae, family Odontaspididae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a chary manner; carefully; cautiously; frugally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of boas of western North America.
Syn. -- genus Charina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality of being chary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. Chariot, from char car. See Car. ] 1. (Antiq.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

First moved the chariots, after whom the foot. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Charioted; p. pr. & vb. n. Charioting. ] To convey in a chariot. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who drives a chariot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; gift. ] (Eccl.) A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a charism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. See Charity. ] 1. Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . .
. . . I will speak to thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent. [ 1913 Webster ]

What charitable men afford to beggars. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient. [ 1913 Webster ]

By a charitable construction it may be a sermon. L. Andrews.

Syn. -- Kind; beneficent; benevolent; generous; lenient; forgiving; helpful; liberal; favorable; indulgent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a charitable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Charities [ F. charité fr. L. caritas dearness, high regard, love, from carus dear, costly, loved; asin to Skr. kam to wish, love, cf. Ir. cara a friend, W. caru to love. Cf. Caress. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Love; universal benevolence; good will. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now abideth faith, hope, charity, three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1. Cor. xiii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

They, at least, are little to be envied, in whose hearts the great charities . . . lie dead. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

With malice towards none, with charity for all. Lincoln. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions of others. [ 1913 Webster ]

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. Buckminster. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The heathen poet, in commending the charity of Dido to the Trojans, spake like a Christian. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness. [ 1913 Webster ]

She did ill then to refuse her a charity. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A charitable institution, or a gift to create and support such an institution; as, Lady Margaret's charity. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. pl. (Law) Eleemosynary appointments [ grants or devises ] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions. [ 1913 Webster ]

The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless,
Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sisters of Charity (R. C. Ch.), a sisterhood of religious women engaged in works of mercy, esp. in nursing the sick; -- a popular designation. There are various orders of the Sisters of Charity.

Syn. -- Love; benevolence; good will; affection; tenderness; beneficence; liberality; almsgiving. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult; -- called also shivaree.
Syn. -- shivaree, charivari, callithump, callathump. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It was at first performed before the house of any person of advanced age who married a second time. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. eucharis agreeable, Gr. e'y`charis See Eucharist. ] (Bot.) A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. eucharistia, Gr. e'ycharisti`a, lit., a giving of thanks; e'y^ + cha`ris favor, grace, thanks; akin to chai`rein to rejoice, and prob. to yearn: cf. F. eucharistie. ] 1. The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Led through the vale of tears to the region of eucharist and hallelujahs. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) The sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion.

-- See Sacrament.

{ } a. [ Cf. F. eucharistie. ] 1. Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The eucharistical part of our daily devotions. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to the Lord's Supper. “The eucharistic sacrament.” Sir. G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. incharitable. ] Uncharitable; unfeeling. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incharité. ] Lack of charity. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Nitro- + saccharin. ] (Chem.) An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Also }. [ Mono- + saccharide. ] (Chem.) A simple sugar; any of a number of sugars (including the trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, etc.), not decomposable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Also . (Chem.) A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, saccharine substances; specifically, designating an acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. saccharon sugar + -ferous. ] Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Saccharified p. pr. & vb. n. Saccharifying ] [ L. saccharon sugar + -fy: cf. F. saccharifier. ] To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of muslin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. saccharon sugar + -meter: cf. F. saccharimètre. ] An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts. [ Written also saccharometer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common saccharimeter of the brewer is an hydrometer adapted by its scale to point out the proportion of saccharine matter in a solution of any specific gravity. The polarizing saccharimeter of the chemist is a complex optical apparatus, in which polarized light is transmitted through the saccharine solution, and the proportion of sugar indicated by the relative deviation of the plane of polarization. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained by saccharimetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., from L. saccharon sugar. ] (Chem.) A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) (a) A salt of saccharinic acid. (b) A salt of saccharine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. saccharin, fr. L. saccharon sugar, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, &unr_;, Skr. çarkara. Cf. Sugar. ] Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A trade name for benzoic sulphinide. [ Written also saccharin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharin; specifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Saccharized p. pr. & vb. n. Saccharizing ] To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Self-love. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + chariot. ] To throw out of a chariot. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not charitable; contrary to charity; severe in judging; harsh; censorious; as, uncharitable opinions or zeal. Addison. -- Un*char"i*ta*ble*ness, n. -- Un*char"i*ta*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]