Char, n. [F.] A car; a
chariot. [Obs.] Chaucer.
{ Char, 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 (?), n. [OE. cherr,
char a turning, time, work, AS. cerr, cyrr,
turn, occasion, business, fr. cerran, cyrran, to
turn; akin to OS. kërian, OHG. chëran, 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 (?), 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.
{ Char, Charr (?), } n.
[Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit., red, blood-colored,
fr. cear blood. So named from its red belly.]
(Zoöl.) 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, Chare, } v. i.
To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant;
to do small jobs.