-v. 2. graph, tabulate, draw, draw up, delineate; map out, chalk out; diagram, blueprint, plan, shape a plan, chart a course, steer, guide, pilot; draw up a scheme, outline, sketch, map, represent, picture,
charter, n. 1. lease, permit, license, authority; franchise, concession.
2. covenant, agreement, contract, compact.
-v. 3. establish, prescribe, ordain, constitute; grant, sanction, designate, commission, delegate, authorize; entitle, allot, assign, settle, license, legalize.
4. lease, hire, rent, engage.
chary, adj. 1. careful, cautious, circumspect, mindful, heedful; guarded, on guard, alert, on the alert, on the qui vive, watchful; wary, leery, apprehensive, distrustful, suspicious, Inf. cagey.
2. shy, timid, bashful, self-conscious, skittish.
3. fastidious, particular, scrupulous, exacting, meticulous, punctilious, precise, difficult, hard to please; selective, fussy, finicky, picky, Inf. choosy.
4. frugal, thrifty, sparing, economical, conserving, unwasteful, Scot. canny.
chase, v. 1. pursue, give chase, run after, fly after, follow after, make after, take off after, Brit, chevy; hound, dog, bedog; shadow, trail, haunt, Inf tail; hunt, stalk, course, trace, track, run down.
2. suit, court, Inf. spark, Inf. court and spark, Sl. hustle, Sl. put or slap the make on, Sl. put a move on.
3. chase out run out, drive out, drive away, send away, send packing, put to flight.
-n. 4. pursuit, hunt, hunting, sport, coursing, Brit, chevy, Archaic, venery.
5. game, quarry, prey, the hunted, kill.
chasm, n. 1. gorge, canyon, ravine; void, abyss, cavity, hole, pit, bottomless pit; crevice, fissure, breach, break, rupture, fracture; cleft, split, rent, rift; gap, gulf, opening.
2. schism, separation, falling-out. See - breach (def 3).
chassis, n. frame, framework, undercarriage, Naut. keel, skeleton,
chaste, adj. 1. virtuous, good, innocent, modest; pure, Archaic, honest, virgin, virginal, vestal, maidenly, maidenish or maidish; untouched, undefiled, unused, uncorrupted, unadulterated, unsullied, unsoiled; pristine, fresh, clean, immaculate, snowy; spotless, unblemished, stainless, unstained, untainted, untarnished.
2. celibate, single, unmarried, unwed; spouseless, wifeless, husbandless, widowed.
3. continent, abstinent, abstemious, nonindulgent; self-restrained, self-controlled, reserved, self-disciplined, temperate, moderate, refraining, forbearing, desisting.
4. decent, clean, wholesome, pure; saintly, angelic, faultless, sinless; exemplary, meritorious, reputable, creditable; elevated, exalted, noble, honorable; moral, righteous, upright, right-minded, honest.
5. simple, subdued, unaffected, unpretentious; plain, unadorned, unornamented, unembellished, undecked, ungarnished, unenriched; neat, classic, elegant, attic; proper, prudish, seemly, tasteful, becoming; formal, decorous, sedate, strict, severe, precise; puritanical, puritan-like, austere, self-mortifying, self-depriving; ascetic, self-denying, self-abnegating.
chasten, v. 1. discipline, correct, castigate; admonish, reprimand, reprove, scold, chide, criticize, censure, call down, call on the carpet, take [s.o.] to task,