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Word Meanings - RUTTIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chart of a course, esp. at sea.

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  • CHARTIST
    A supporter or partisan of chartism.
  • CHART
    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
  • COURSED
    1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
  • COURSE
    1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
  • CHARTA
    Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper. A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.
  • CHARTULARY
    See CARTULARY
  • CHARTOGRAPHER; CHARTOGRAPHIC; CHARTOGRAPHY
    See ETC (more info) etc.
  • CHARTREUSE
    1. A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France. 2. An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.
  • COURSEY
    A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
  • CHARTLESS
    1. Without a chart; having no guide. 2. Not mapped; uncharted; vague. Barlow.
  • CHARTREUX
    A Carthusian.
  • CHARTOMANCY
    Divination by written paper or by cards.
  • CHARTACEOUS
    Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.
  • CHARTOMETER
    An instrument for measuring charts or maps.
  • CHARTERHOUSE
    A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery in London.
  • CHARTERER
    One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.
  • CHARTERIST
    See CHARTIST
  • CHARTER
    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. Charter land , land held by charter, or in socage; bookland.
  • CHARTE
    The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.
  • CHARTERED
    1. Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter. The sufficiency of chartered rights. Palfrey. The air, a chartered libertine. Shak. 2. Hired or let by charter, as a ship.
  • RECOURSEFUL
    Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
  • INTERCOURSE
    A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
  • DISCOURSE
    fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
  • DISCOURSER
    1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
  • BLOCKING COURSE
    The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
  • CONCOURSE
    1. A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale. 2. An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving
  • BARGECOURSE
    A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.

 

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