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_Ross._
CHAP, _s._ A shop.
_Many._
CHAPIN, _s._ Chopin, a quart, S.
_s.h.i.+rrefs._
CHAPYT,
V. ~Chaipe~.
CHAPMAN, _s._ A pedlar, a hawker, S., a merchant, O. E.
_Statist. Acc._
A. S. _ceapman_, Sw. _koepman_, a merchant.
CHAR, _s._ Carriages.
_Barbour._
Fr. _char_, a waggon, a car.
_To_ CHAR, _v. a._
1. To stop.
_Douglas._
2. _To char by_, to turn aside.
_Douglas._
A. S. _cerr-an_, to turn, to turn from, divertere.
CHAR. _On char_, to a side.
_Douglas._
A. S. _cerre_, turning, bending, winding.
_To_ CHAR, _Char doute_. Perhaps, "murmur distrust."
_Barbour._
A. S. _cear-ian_, to complain, to murmur.
CHARBUKILL, _s._
1. A carbuncle.
_Douglas._
2. An ulcer.
_Polwart._
Fr. _escarboucle_, _carboucle_, the pestilent botch or sore, termed a carbuncle.
CHARD, _pret._
V. ~Chier~.
CHARE, _s._ A chariot.
_Douglas._
Fr. _char_, id.
CHARE, _s._ Care, charge.
_Ross._
Like E. _charie_, from A. S. _car_, cura, or _cearig_, solicitus.
CHARGES, _s. pl._ Rents.
_Buik of Discipline._
Fr. _charge_, pension, rente.
CHARLEWAN, CHARLEWAYNE, _s._ The constellation _Ursa Major_, also called the Plough, S.