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Char   /tʃɑr/   Listen
noun
Charr, Char  n.  (Zool.) One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.


Char  n.  A car; a chariot. (Obs.)


Char  n.  (Written also chare)  Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore. (Eng.) "When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday."


verb
Chare, Char  v. t.  
1.
To perform; to do; to finish. (Obs.) "Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband."
2.
To work or hew, as stone.


Char  v. t.  (past & past part. charred; pres. part. charring)  
1.
To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
2.
To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.


Chare, Char  v. i.  To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.





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... party of ladies and gentlemen on horseback and in a four-horsed char-a-bancs returning to La Mision Perdida. Buchanan, Raymond, and Garnier were there; Amita and Dorotea in the body of the char-a-bancs, and Maruja seated on the box. Much to his own astonishment and that of some others of the party, Captain Carroll was among the riders. Only Maruja and her mother ...
— Maruja • Bret Harte
... supper as Lucullus would have given a year of life for, and which, in all probability—for he had no prudence—would have shortened it for him. At the 'Retreat,' as it is called, among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char cooked to a turn. I like to think that this was the fish that Monte Christo had sent him in a tank to Paris on the occasion of a certain banquet; but all the wealth of the Indies could not have accomplished that; the char (in spite of its name) ...
— Some Private Views • James Payn
... CHAR. GEN.:—Corpus subcylindricum. Testa semicircularis, margine posteriore recto.—Antennae externae minimae, articulo basali orbitam subtus partim claudente.—Antennularum fossulae transversae, continuae, et ...
— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various
... said old Toby, grinning, "debil knows I ain't in 'arnest! he knows better'n to take me at my word, for I speaks his name widout no kind o' respec', allus, I does. Hyar's yer ol' easy char fur ye, Mass' Villars. Now you jes' make yerself comf'table." And he cleared a place on the stove-hearth for the old ...
— Cudjo's Cave • J. T. Trowbridge
... of God! do the fools think of their Christianity as our neighbours in Tartary (with better reason) think of their milk; that it will keep the longer for turning sour? or that it must be wholesome because it is heady? Swill it out, swill it out, say I, and char ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor


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