CHAONIAN FOOD, acorns, so called from the oak trees of Dodona, which gave out the oracles by means of bells hung among the branches. Beech mast is so called also, because beech trees abounded in the forest of Dodona. CHARALOIS, son of the marshal of Burgundy. When he was twenty-eight years old his father died in prison at Dijon, for debts contracted by him for the service of the State in the wars. According to the law which then prevailed in France, the body of the marshal was seized by his creditors, and refused burial. The son of Charalois redeemed his father's body by his own, which was shut up in prison in lieu of the marshal's.--Philip Massinger, _The Fatal Dowry_ (1632). (It will be remembered that Milti'adês, the Athenian general, died in prison for debt, and the creditors claimed the body, which they would not suffer to be buried till his son Cimon gave up himself as a hostage.) CHAR'EGITE (3 _syl_.). The Charegite assassin, in the disguise of a Turkish marabout or enthusiast, comes and dances before the tent of Richard Coeur de Lion, and suddenly darting forward, is about to stab the king, when a Nubian seizes his arm, and the king kills the assassin on the spot.--Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.). CHARICLE'IA, the _fiancée_ of Theag'enês, in the Greek romance called _The Loves of Theagenês and Charicleia_, by Heliodo'ros bishop of Trikka (fourth century). CHARI'NO, father of Angelina. Charino wishes Angelina to marry Clodio, a young coxcomb; but the lady prefers his elder brother Carlos, a young bookworm. Love changes the character of the diffident Carlos, and Charino at last accepts him for his son-in-law. Charino is a testy, obstinate old man, who wants to rule the whole world in his own way.--C. Cibber, _Love Makes the Man_ (1694). CHAR'LEMAGNE AND HIS PALADINS. This series of romances is of French origin, as the Arthurion is Welsh or British. It began with the legendary chronicle in verse, called _Historia de Vita Carola Magni et Rolandi_, erroneously attributed to Turpin archbishop of Rheims (a contemporary of Charlemagne), but probably written two or three hundred years later. The chief of the series are _Huon of Bordeaux, Guerin de Monglave, Gaylen Rhetore_ (in which Charlemagne and his paladins proceed in mufti to the Holy Land), _Miles and Ames_, _Jairdain de Blaves, Doolin de Mayence, Ogier le Danais_, and _Maugis the Enchanter_.