Chartreuse: Definition and part of speech

Chartreuse

  1. n. An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; — made at La Grande Chartreuse.
  2. n. A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Chasse: Definition and part of speech

Chasse

  1. v. i. To make the movement called chasse; as, all chasse; chasse to the right or left.
  2. n. A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.