CPage 217
- English Word Chart Definition 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.
- English Word Chart Definition 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.
- English Word Chart Definition A written deed; a charter.
- English Word Chart Definition To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.
- English Word Charta Definition Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.
- English Word Charta Definition A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.
- English Word Chartaceous Definition Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.
- English Word Charte Definition The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.
- English Word Charted Definition of Chart
- English Word Charter Definition A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
- English Word Charter Definition An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
- English Word Charter Definition An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.
- English Word Charter Definition A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
- English Word Charter Definition The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.
- English Word Charter Definition To establish by charter.
- English Word Charter Definition To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.
- English Word Chartered Definition of Charter
- English Word Chartered Definition Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter.
- English Word Chartered Definition Hired or let by charter, as a ship.
- English Word Charterer Definition One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.