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Rh Chapit, jammed between, caught or hooked by. Chapit hurang the name of part of the apparatus by which Carts or Pedaties are fixed to the wheels which revolve with the axle.

Chaplak, a joining of wood, by cutting a little off the ends of two pieces, so as to be able to fit them together.

Chara, like as, resembling, similar to; method, fashion, mode. Chara batur, in the same way as the neighbours. Châra orang Bogor, after the fashion of the people of Buitenzorg. Chāra, C. 197, going, motion. Chara, C. 835 to go. Acharana C. 61 walking. (32).

Chara, a trap set to catch monkeys. Quere Chara, 196, a spy- a secret emissarry or agent (sent to catch the monkeys?). (Châra, a prison, a house of confinement. Wilson.)

Charak, a powder-flask.

Charallang, a kind of squirrel, found in forests, but not about homesteads.

Charaman, to forbid, to prohibit, to interdict.

Charana, a betel stand or dish; a salver; such as used by great men. Charana C. 195 a foot; the root of a tree; (probably from resembling a wooden platter, and compared to a tree stump, as being used by a great man).

Charang, scarce, not often met with; far apart, with intervals between. (Batavian and Malay járang.)

Charangka, a rudely made but rather large basket for holding anything bulky, as Pad- dy, Cotton &c. &c. (Seems to be Skr; Angka, gremium, pectus; cf. Bali-angka, the womb of heroes, or the womb of offerings. Fr.)

Charéchét or Chěréchét, a bit of cloth to wipe the face with, carried hung over the shoulder. See Chěréchét.

Charéham, the after teeth, the molars, the large flat teeth in the after part of the jaw.

Charék, saying, speaking. Charék na, and he said; what a man says.

Charékan, to grumble at, to scold, to be angry with.

Charĕuh, the Viverra Musanga of Horsfield. Called in Malay Luwak, a wild animal which is fond of stealing poultry like the fox in Europe. It also feeds upon ripe Coffee, the pulp of which alone is digested, and the beans are voided clean. These are collected in the gardens, as they are of the ripest and finest description, and are called Tai Luwak or Tai Chareuh, Charĕuh voidings.

Chariang, a plant with succulent cabbagelike stem growing in moist and soft ground. Aglaonema Simplex.

Chariang Beureum, a plant; Homalonema rubrum. (32) It is rather âchâra, an established rule of conduct, an ordinance, an institute, a precept. Wil- son. This form occurs yet in Bali, but the shortened châra has also there become the common form. Châra Bali Bali, in the way of the Balinese, according to the instates of Bali. It is translated by good Mohammedans into the Arabic adat. Fr.