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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]