Definitions for: Char


[n] any of several small-scaled trout
[n] a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the carpet"
[n] a charred substance
[v] burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling"
[v] burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"



Webster (1913) Definition: Char, Charr Charr, n. [Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit.,
red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red
belly.] (Zo["o]l.)
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. [F.]
A car; a chariot. [Obs.] --Chaucer.


Char, n. [OE. cherr, char a turning, time, work, AS.
cerr, cyrr, turn, occasion, business, fr. cerran, cyrran, to
turn; akin to OS. k["e]rian, OHG. ch["e]ran, G. kehren. Cf.
Chore, Ajar.]
Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.
[Written also chare.] [Eng.]

When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To
play till doomsday. --Shak.


Char, Chare Chare, v. t. [See 3d Char.]
1. To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] --Nores.

Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she
had hanged her husband. --Old Proverb.

2. To work or hew, as stone. --Oxf. Gloss.


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


Char, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charred; p. pr. & vb. n.
Charring.] [Prob. the same word as char to perform (see
Char, n.), the modern use coming from charcoal, prop.
coal-turned, turned to coal.]
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.

Synonyms: blacken, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, coal, scorch, woman

See Also: animal black, animal charcoal, Arctic char, atomic number 6, bone black, bone char, burn, burn, C, carbon, cleaner, combust, genus Salvelinus, salmonid, Salvelinus, Salvelinus alpinus, singe, snuff, swinge

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