a. [ Gr. 'anakaqartiko`s, fr. 'anakaqai`rein to cleanse upward, i. e., by vomiting; 'ana` + kaqai`rein. See Cathartic. ] 1. (Med.) Producing vomiting or expectoration. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. (Med.) An anacathartic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to cleanse, fr. &unr_; pure; akin to F. chaste. ] 1. (Med.) Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] (Med.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and irritaint that the drastic purges, which cause profuse, repeated, and watery evacuations.

-- Ca*thar"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Ca*thar"tic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; down + &unr_; serving to purge. See Cathartic. ] (Med.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A doublet of card: cf. F. charte charter, carte card. See Card, and cf. Charter. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A written deed; a charter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Globular chart, a chart constructed on a globular projection. See under Globular. --
Heliographic chart, a map of the sun with its spots. --
Mercator's chart, a chart constructed on the principle of Mercator's projection. See Projection. --
Plane chart, a representation of some part of the superficies of the globe, in which its spherical form is disregarded, the meridians being drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude at equal distances. --
Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon. --
Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Charted. ] To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., leaf of paper. See Chart. ] (Law) (a) Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper. (b) A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. chartaceus. See Charta. ] Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Chart. ] The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. chartre, F. chartre, charte, fr. L. chartula a little paper, dim. of charta. See Chart, Card. ] 1. A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king [ John, a.d. 1215 ], with a facility somewhat suspicious, signed and sealed the charter which was required of him. This famous deed, commonly called the “Great Charter, ” either granted or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men in the kingdom. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption. [ 1913 Webster ]

My mother,
Who has a charter to extol her blood,
When she does praise me, grieves me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Com.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Charter land (O. Eng. Law), land held by charter, or in socage; bookland. --
Charter member, one of the original members of a society or corporation, esp. one named in a charter, or taking part in the first proceedings under it. --
Charter party [ F. chartre partie, or charte partie, a divided charter; from the practice of cutting the instrument of contract in two, and giving one part to each of the contractors ] (Com.), a mercantile lease of a vessel; a specific contract by which the owners of a vessel let the entire vessel, or some principal part of the vessel, to another person, to be used by the latter in transportation for his own account, either under their charge or his. --
People's Charter (Eng. Hist.), the document which embodied the demands made by the Chartists, so called, upon the English government in 1838. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chartered p. pr. & vb. n. Chartering. ] 1. To establish by charter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sufficiency of chartered rights. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

The air, a chartered libertine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hired or let by charter, as a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Chartist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. charte charter. Cf. Charte, Chart. ] The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A supporter or partisan of chartism. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Without a chart; having no guide. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not mapped; uncharted; vague. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., a., n., etc. Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. charta paper + -mancy. Cf. Cartomancy. ] Divination by written paper or by cards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chart + -meter. ] An instrument for measuring charts or maps. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A Carthusian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cartulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; vomiting + E. cathartic. ] (Med.) Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.

n. [ OE. hart, hert, heort, AS. heort, heorot; akin to D. hert, OHG. hiruz, hirz, G. hirsch, Icel. hjörtr, Dan. & Sw. hjort, L. cervus, and prob. to Gr. kerao`s horned, ke`ras horn. √230. See Horn. ] (Zool.) A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

Goodliest of all the forest, hart and hind. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. hertebeest. See Hart, and Beast. ] 1. (Zool.) A large South African antelope (Alcelaphus caama), formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are marked with black, the rump with white. [ Written also hartebeest, and hartebest. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any anteleope of the genus Alcelaphus and certain species of Darnaliscus. [ PJC ]

n. 1. large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To hearten; to encourage; to incite. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An Asiatic species of Cacalia (Cacalia Kleinia), used medicinally in India. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hartshorn plantain (Bot.), an annual species of plantain (Plantago Coronopus); -- called also buck's-horn. Booth. --
Hartshorn shavings, originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly. Hebert. --
Salt of hartshorn (Chem.), an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts. Brande & C.--
Spirits of hartshorn (Chem.), a solution of ammonia in water; -- so called because formerly obtained from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. Similar ammoniacal solutions from other sources have received the same name. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America. (b) A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnaeus. It is also found in Florida. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is often vaguely given to other plants of the same order, as species of Seseli and Bupleurum. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L., great charter. ] 1. The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, a fundamental constitution which guaranties rights and privileges. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Chart, and see Mercator's projection, under Projection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A second charter; a renewal of a charter. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to. [ 1913 Webster ]

A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated. [ 1913 Webster ]