CHARLOTTE GOODCHILD, a merchant’s orphan daughter of large fortune.  She is pestered by many lovers, and her guardian gives out that she has lost all her money by the bankruptcy of his house.  On this all her suitors but one depart, and that one is sir Callaghan O’Brallaghan, who declares he loves her now as an equal, and one whom he can serve, but before he loved her “with fear and trembling, like a man that loves to be a soldier, yet is afraid of a gun.”—­C.  Macklin, Love-a-la-mode (1779).

CHARLOTTE TEMPLE, the daughter of an English gentleman, whose seduction by an officer in the British army, her sad life and lonely death, are the elements of a novel bearing her name, written by “Mrs. Rowson.”  Charlotte Temple is buried in Trinity church-yard, New York.

CHAR’MIAN, a kind-hearted, simple-minded attendant on Cleopatra.  After the queen’s death, she applied one of the asps to her own arm, and when the, Roman soldiers entered the room, fell down dead.—­Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1608).

CHAR’TERIS (Sir Patrick), of Kinfauns, provost of Perth.—­Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).

CHARTIST CLERGYMAN (The), Rev. Charles Kingsley (1809-1877).

CHARYLLIS, in Spenser’s pastoral Colin Clout’s Come Home Again, is lady Compton.  Her name was Anne, and she was the fifth of the six daughters of sir John Spenser of Althorpe, Lancaster, of the noble houses of Spenser and Marlborough.  Edmund Spenser dedicated to her his satirical fable called Mother Hubbard’s Tale (1591).  She was thrice married; her first husband was lord Monteagle, and her third was Robert lord Buckhurst (son of the poet Sackville), who succeeded his father in 1608 as earl of Dorset.

  No less praiseworthy are the sisters three,
  The honor of the noble family

  Of which I meanest boast myself to be,... 
  Phyllis, Charyllis, and sweet Amaryllis: 
  Phyllis the fair is eldest of the three,
  The next to her is bountiful Charyllis.

Colin Clout’s Come Home Again (1594).

CHASTE (The), Alfonso II. of Asturias and Leon (758, 791-835 abdicated, died 842).

CHATOOKEE, an Indian bird, that never drinks at a stream, but catches the raindrops in falling.—­Account of the Baptist Missionaries, ii. 309.

  Less pure than these is that strange Indian bird,
  Who never dips in earthly streams her bill,
  But, when the sound of coming showers is heard,
  Looks up, and from the clouds receives her fill.

Southey, Curse of Kehama, xxi. 6 (1809).

CHAT’TANACH (M’Gillie), chief of the clan Chattan.—­Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).

CHAT’TERLEY (Rev. Simon), “the man of religion” at the Spa, one of the managing committee.—­Sir W. Scott, St. Ronan’s Well (time, George III.).