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Carat

CARAT, noun

1. The weight of four grains, used by gold-smiths and jewelers in weighing precious stones and pearls.

2. The weight that expresses the fineness of gold. The whole mass of gold is divided into 24 equal parts, and as many 24th parts as it contains of pure gold, it is called gold of so many carats. Thus gold of twenty-two parts of pure metal, is gold of twenty-two carats. The carat in Great Britain is divided into four grains; among the Germans into twelve parts; and among the French into thirty-two.

3. The value of any thing.

Caravan

CARAVAN, noun A company of travellers, pilgrims or merchants, marching or proceeding in a body over the deserts of Arabia, or other region infested with robbers.

Caravansary

CARAVANSARY, noun A place appointed for receiving and loading caravans; a kind of inn, where the caravans res at night, being a large square building, with a spacious court in the middle.

Caravel

CARAVEL,

CARAWAY, noun A plant of the genus Carum, a biennial plant, with a taper root like a parsnip, which, when young, is good eating. The seeds have an aromatic smell and a warm pungent taste. They are used in cakes, incrusted with sugar, and distilled with spirituous liquors.

Caraway

CARAWAY, n. A plant of the genus Carum, a biennial plant, with a taper root like a parsnip, which, when young, is good eating. The seeds have an aromatic smell and a warm pungent taste. They are used in cakes, incrusted with sugar, and distilled with spirituous liquors.

Carbine

CARBINE, noun A short gun or fire arm, carrying a ball of 24 to the pound, borne by light horsemen, and hanging by a belt over the left shoulder. The barrel is two feet and a half long, and sometimes furrowed.

Carbon

CARBON, noun Pure charcoal; a simple body, black, brittle, light and inodorous. It is usually the remains of some vegetable body, from which all its volatile matter has been expelled by heat. When crystalized, it forms the diamond; and by means of a galvanic apparatus, it is found to be capable of fusion.

Carbonaceous

CARBONACEOUS, adjective Pertaining to charcoal. [See Carbonic.]

Carbonade

CARBONADE,

CARBONADO, noun In cookery, flesh, fowl or the like, cut across, seasoned and broiled on coals.

CARBONADE, verb transitive To cut or hack.

Carbonado

CARBONADO, n. In cookery, flesh, fowl or the like, cut across, seasoned and broiled on coals.

Carbonate

CARBONATE, verb transitive In chimistry, a compound formed by the union of carbonic acid with a base; as the carbonate of lime; a carbonate of copper.

Carbonated

CARBONATED, adjective Combined with carbon.

Carboncle

CARBONCLE, noun

1. An anthrax; an inflammatory tumor, or painful gangrenous boil or ulcer.

2. A beautiful gem, of a deep red color, with a mixture of scarlet, called by the Greeks anthrax, found in the East Indies. It is foundpure, and adhering to a heavy ferruginous stone, of the emery kind. It is usually a quarter of an inch in length, and two-thirds of that in diameter, of an angular figure. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes exactly of the color of a burning coal.

The carbuncle of the ancients is supposed to have been a garnet.

3. In heraldry, a charge or bearing consisting of eight radii, four of which make a common cross, and the other four, a saltier.

Carbonic

CARBONIC, adjective Pertaining to carbon, or obtained from it. The carbonic acid is a saturated combination of carbon and oxygen. It has been called fixed air, aerial acid, mephitic gas, and cretaceous acid, or acid of chalk. It is found, in some places, in a state of gas; it exists in the atmosphere, and is disengaged from fermenting liquors, and from decomposing vegetable and animal substances. It is heavier than common air, and subsides into low places, vaults and wells.

Carboniferous

CARBONIFEROUS, adjective Producing carbon, or coal.

Carbonization

CARBONIZATION, noun The act or process of carbonizing.

Carbonize

CARBONIZE, verb transitive To convert into carbon by combustion or the action of fire; to expel from wood or other substance all volatile matter.

Carbonized

CARBONIZED, participle passive Converted into carbon or charcoal.

Carbonohydrous

CARBONOHYDROUS, adjective Composed of carbon and hydrogen.

Carbonous

CARBONOUS, adjective carbonous acid is carbon not fully saturated with oxygen.

Carbuncled

CARBUNCLED, adjective Set with carbuncles; spotted.

Carbuncular

CARBUNCULAR, adjective Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

Carbunculation

CARBUNCULATION, noun The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold.

Carburet

CARBURET, noun A combination of carbon with a metal, earth or alkali. A combination of carbon with a simple inflammable or a metal.

Carbureted

CARBURETED, adjective Combined with carbon, or holding carbon in colution; as carbureted hydrogen gas. carbureted hydrogen consists of one prime equivalent of each. carbureted hydrogen gas is called hydro-carbonate, being resolvable into carbonic acid and water, by combustion with oxygen. carbureted is applied to gaseous compounds. Thus we say carbureted hydrogen, instead of carburet of hydrogen.

Carcajo

CARCAJO, noun The glutton, a voracious carnivorous animal.

Carcanet

CARCANET, noun A chain or collar of jewels.

Carcass

CARCASS, noun

1. The body of an animal; usually the body when dead. It is not applied to the living body of the human species, except in low or ludicrous language.

2. The decaying remains of a bulky thing, as of a boat or ship.

3. The frame or main parts of a thing, unfinished or without ornament. This seems to be the primary sense of the word. [See the next word.]

CARCASS, noun An iron case or hollow vessel, about the size of a bomb, of an oval figure, filled with combustible and other substances, as meal-powder, salt-peter, sulphur, broken glass, turpentine, etc., to be thrown from a mortar into a town, to set fire to buildings. It has two or three apertures, from which the fire blazes, and the light sometimes serves as a direction in throwing shells. It is equipped with pistol-barrels, loaded with powder to the muzzle, which explode as the composition burns down to them. This instrument is probably named from the ribs of iron that form it, which resemble the ribs of a human carcass

Carcelage

CARCELAGE, noun Prison fees.

Carceral

CARCERAL, adjective Belonging to a prison.

Carcinoma

CARCINOMA, noun A cancer; also, a turgesence of the veins of the eye.

Carcinomatous

CARCINOMATOUS, adjective Cancerous; like a cancer, or tending to it.

Card

CARD, noun

1. A paper or pasteboard of a oblong figure, on which are painted figures or points; used in games.

2. A blank piece of paper, or the like paper with some writing upon it, used in messages of civility, or business.

3. The paper on which the points of the compass are marked.

Reason the card but passion is the gale.

CARD, verb intransitive To play much at cards; to gain.

CARD, noun An instrument for combing, opening and breaking wool or flax, freeing it from the coarser parts, and from extraneous matter. It is made by inserting bent teeth of wire in a thick piece of leather, and nailing this to a piece of oblong board, to which a handle is attached.

CARD, verb transitive To comb, or open wool, flax, hemp, etc., with a card for the purpose of cleansing it of extraneous matter, separating the coarser parts, and making it fine and soft for spinning.

Card-Maker

CARD-MAKER, noun A maker of cards.

Card-Match

CARD-MATCH, noun A match made by dipping pieces of card in melted sulphur.

Cardamine

CARDAMINE, noun The plant, meadow cresses, or cuckow flower.

Cardamom

CARDAMOM, noun A plant of the genus Amomum, and its seeds, a native of India. The seeds of this plant, which grow in a pod, have a warm aromatic flavor, and are used in medicine.

Carded

CARDED, participle passive Combed; opened; cleansed with cards.

Carder

CARDER, noun One who cards wool; also, one who plays much at cards.

Cardiac

CARDIAC,

CARDIACAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to the heart.

2. Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; having the quality of stimulating action in the system, invigorating the spirits, and giving strength and cheerfulness.

CARDIAC, noun A medicine which excites action in the stomach, and animates the spirits.

Cardiacal

CARDIACAL, a. 1. Pertaining to the heart.2. Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; having the quality of stimulating action in the system, invigorating the spirits, and giving strength and cheerfulness.

Cardialgy

CARDIALGY, noun The heart-burn, a violent sensation of heat and acrimony in the upper or left orifice of the stomach, seemingly at the heart, but rising into the oesophagus. It is called also the cardiac passion.

Cardinal

CARDINAL, adjective Chief, principal, preeminent, or fundamental; as the cardinal virtues, which Pagans supposed to be justice, prudence, temperance and fortitude.

CARDINAL, noun

1. An ecclesiastical prince in the Romish church, who has a voice in the conclave at the election of a Pope, who is taken from their number. The cardinals are divided into three classes or orders, containing six bishops, fifty priests, and fourteen deacons, making seventy. These constitute the sacred college, and compose the Popes council. Originally they were subordinate in rank to bishops; but they have now the precedence. The dress of a cardinal is a red soutaine or cassock, a rocket, a short purple mantle and a red hat.

2. A womans cloke.

CARDINAL-flower, a plant of the genus Lobelia, of many species. They are fibrous-rooted perennials, rising from two to five or six feet high, with erect stalks, ornamented with oblong, oval, spear-shaped simple leaves, and spikes of beautiful monopetalous flowers of scarlet, blue and violet colors. The natives of this country use a decoction of one species, the siphilitica, as a remedy in the venereal disease.

CARDINAL numbers, are the numbers, one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called ordinal numbers.

CARDINAL points, in cosmography, are the four intersections of the horizon with the meridian, and the prime vertical circle, or North and South, East and West. In astrology, the cardinal points are the rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir.

CARDINAL signs, in astronomy, are Aries, Libra, Cancer and Capricorn.

CARDINAL winds, are those which blow from the cardinal points.

Cardinalate

CARDINALATE,

CARDINALIZE, verb transitive To make a cardinal.

Cardinalize

CARDINALIZE, v.t. To make a cardinal.

Cardinalship

CARDINALSHIP, noun The office, rank or dignity of a cardinal.

Carding

CARDING, participle present tense

1. Combing, as flax, wool, etc.

2. The act of playing at cards.

Carding-Machine

CARDING-MACHINE, noun A machine lately invented, for combing, breaking and cleansing wool and cotton. It consists of cylinders, thick set with teeth, and moved by the force of water, steam, etc.

Cardioid

CARDIOID, noun An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart.

Cardite

CARDITE, noun Fossil or petrified shells of the genus Cardium.

Cardoon

CARDOON, noun A species of Cynara, resembling the artichoke, but larger.ARD-TABLE, noun The table appropriated to the use of gamesters, or used for playing cards on.

Care

CARE, noun

1. Concern; anxiety; solicitude; nothing some degree of pain in the mind, from apprehension of evil.

They shall eat bread by weight and with care Ezekiel 4:16.

2. Caution; a looking to; regard; attention, or heed, with a view to safety or protection, as in the phrase, take care of yourself.

A want of care does more damage than a want of knowledge.

3. Charge or oversight, implying concern for safety and prosperity; as, he was under the care of a physician.

That which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 2 Corinthians 6:1.

4. The object of care or watchful regard and attention; as, Is she thy care?

CARE, verb transitive

1. To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned about.

Master, carest thou not that we perish? Mark 4:19.

2. To be inclined or disposed; to have regard to; with for before a noun, and to before a verb. Not caring to observe the wind. Great masters in painting never care for drawing people in the fashion. In this sense the word implies a less degree of concern. The different degrees of anxiety expressed by this word constitute the chief differences in its signification or applications.

Care-Crazed

CARE-CRAZED, adjective [care and craze.] Broken or disordered by care, or solicitude; as a care-crazed mother.

Care-Defying

CARE-DEFYING, adjective Bidding defiance to care.

CARE-DEFYING, adjective Bidding defiance to care.

Care-Tuned

CARE-TUNED, adjective Tuned by care; mournful.

Care-Wounded

CARE-WOUNDED, adjective Wounded with care.

Careen

CAREEN, verb transitive In sea language, to heave or bring a ship to lie on one side, for the purpose of calking, repairing, cleansing, or paying over with pitch, the other side.

CAREEN, verb intransitive To incline to one side, as a ship under a press of sail.

Careened

CAREENED, participle passive Laid on one side; inclined.

Careening

CAREENING, participle present tense Heaving down on one side; inclining.

CAREENING, noun The act of heaving down on one side, as a ship.

Career

CAREER, noun

1. A course; a race, or running; a rapid running; speed in motion.

2. General course of action or movement; procedure; course of proceeding.

Continue and proceed in honors fair career

3. The ground on which a race is run.

4. In the manege, a place inclosed with a barrier, in which they run the ring.

5. In falconry, a flight or tour of the hawk, about 120 yards.

CAREER, verb intransitive To move or run rapidly.

When a ship is decked out in all her canvas, every sail swelled, and careering gayly over the curling waves, how lofty, how gallant she appears!

Careering

CAREERING, participle passive Running or moving with speed.

Careful

CAREFUL, adjective [See Care.]

1. Full of care; anxious; solicitous.

Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things. Luke 10:41.

2. Provident; attentive to support and protect; with of or for.

Thou hast been careful for us with all care. 2 Kings 4:13.

What could a careful father more have done. Dryden.

In present usage careful is generally followed by of; as, careful of health.

3. Watchful; cautious; giving good heed; as, be careful to maintain good works; be careful of your conversation.

4. Filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern, anxiety or trouble; full of cares.

Raised to a careful height.

Carefully

CAREFULLY, adverb

1. With care, anxiety, or solicitude.

Though he sought it carefully with tears. Hebrews 12:17.

2. Heedfully; watchfully; attentively; as, consider these precepts carefully

If thou carefully hearken to the Lord. Deuteronomy 9:1.

3. In a manner that shows care.

Envy, how carefully does it look. Collier.

4. Providently; cautiously..

Carefulness

CAREFULNESS, noun

1. Anxiety; solicitude.

Drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness Ezekiel 12:18.

2. Heedfulness; caution; vigilance, in guarding against evil, and providing for safety.

Careless

CARELESS, adjective [care and less. See Loose.]

1. Having no care; heedless; negligent; unthinking; inattentive; regardless; unmindful; followed by of or about; as a careless mother; a mother careless of or about her children, is an unnatural parent.

2. Free from care or anxiety; whence, undisturbed; cheerful.

Thus wisely careless innocently gay.

3. Done or said without care; unconsidered; as a careless throw; a careless expression.

4. Not regarding with care; unmoved by; unconcerned for; as, careless of money; careless of consequences.

5. Contrived without art.

Carelessly

CARELESSLY, adverb In a careless manner or way; negligently; heedlessly; inattentively; without care or concern.

Carelessness

CARELESSNESS, noun Heedlessness; inattention; negligence; manner without care.

Carentane

CARENTANE, noun A papal indulgence, multiplying the remission of penance by forties.

Caress

CARESS, verb transitive To treat with fondness, affection, or kindness; to fondle; to embrace with tender affection; as a parent a child.

CARESS, noun An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing with tenderness; as conjugal caresses.

Caressed

CARESSED, participle passive Treated or embraced with affection.

Caressing

CARESSING, participle present tense Treating with endearment, or affection.

Caret

CARET, noun In writing, this mark ^, which shows that something, omitted in the line, is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, and should be read in that place.

Cargason

CARGASON, noun A cargo; which see.

Cargo

CARGO, noun The lading or freight of a ship; the goods, merchandize, or whatever is conveyed in a ship or other merchant vessel. The lading within the hold is called the inboard cargo in distinction from horses, cattle and other things carried on deck. The person employed by a merchant to proceed with, oversee and dispose of the lading, is called a supercargo.

Cargoose

CARGOOSE, noun A fowl belonging to the genus Colymbus, called the crested diver. The cheeks and throat are surrounded with a long pendant ruff, of a bright tawny color, edged with black. The breast and belly are of a silvery white. It weighs two pounds and a half.

Cariated

CARIATED, adjective Carious. [See Carious.]

Cariboo

CARIBOO, noun A quadruped of the stag kind.

Carica

CARICA, noun The papaw, a tree bearing a fleshy fruit of the size of a small melon.

Caricature

CARICATURE, noun A figure or description in which beauties are concealed and blemishes exaggerated, but still bearing a resemblance to the object.

CARICATURE, verb transitive To make or draw a caricature; to represent as more ugly than the life.

Caricaturist

CARICATURIST, noun One who caricatures others.

Caricography

CARICOGRAPHY, noun A description of the plants of the genus Carex or sedge.

Caricous

CARICOUS, adjective Resembling a fig an epithet given to tumors that resemble a fig, such as occur often in the piles.

Caries

CARIES, noun The corruption or mortification of a bone; an ulcerated bone.

Carillon

CARILLON, noun A little bell. Also, a simple air in music, adapted to the performance of small bells or clocks. [See Carol.]

Carinate

CARINATE,

CARINATED, adjective In botany, shaped like the keel of a ship; having a longitudinal prominency on the back like a keel; applied to a calyx, leaf or nectary.

Carinated

CARINATED, a. In botany, shaped like the keel of a ship; having a longitudinal prominency on the back like a keel; applied to a calyx, leaf or nectary.

Carinthin

CARINTHIN, noun A mineral from Carinthia, regarded as a variety of hornblend.

Cariosity

CARIOSITY, noun [See Caries.] Mortification, or ulceration of a bone.

Carious

CARIOUS, adjective Mortified; corrupted; ulcerated; as a bone.

Cark

CARK, noun Care; anxiety; concern; solicitude; distress.

CARK, verb intransitive To be careful, anxious, solicitous, concerned.

Carking

CARKING, participle passive Distressing; perplexing; giving anxiety.

Carle

CARLE, noun

1. A rude, rustic, rough, brutal man.

2. A kind of hemp.

CARLE, verb intransitive To act like a churl.

Carline

CARLINE, OR CAROLINE, noun A silver coin in Naples.

Carline-Thistle

CARLINE-THISTLE, noun A genus of plants growing in the south of France, and one a native of Great Britain.

Carling

CARLING, noun A piece of timber in a ship, ranging fore and aft, from one deck beam to another, directly over the keel, serving as a foundation for the body of the ship. On these rest the ledges, on which the planks of the deck are made fast.

Carline-knees are timbers in a ship, lying across from the sides to the hatchway, and serving to sustain the deck.

Carlish

CARLISH, CARLISHNESS. [See Churlish.]

Carlishness

CARLISH, CARLISHNESS [See Churlish.]

Carlock

CARLOCK, noun A sort of isinglass from Russia, made of the sturgeons bladder, and used in clarifying wine.

Carlot

CARLOT, noun A countryman. [See Carle.]

Carlovingian

CARLOVINGIAN, adjective Pertaining to Charlemagne; as the carlovingian race of kings.

Carman

CARMAN, noun [car and man.] A man whose employment is to drive a cart, or to convey goods and other things in a cart.

Carmelin

CARMELIN,

CARMELITE, adjective Belonging to the order of Carmelites.

CARMELITE, noun [from Mount Carmel.]

1. A mendicant friar. The Carmelites have four tribes, and they have now thirty-eight provinces, besides the congregation in Mantua, in which are fifty-four monasteries, under a vicar general, and the congregations of barefooted Carmelites in Italy and Spain. They wear a scapulary, or small woolen habit, of a brown color, thrown over the shoulders.

2. A sort of pear.

Carminative

CARMINATIVE, noun A medicine, which tends to expel wind, or to remedy colic and flatulencies.

Carmine

CARMINE, noun A powder or pigment, of a beautiful red or crimson color, bordering on purple, and used by painters in miniature, though rarely, on account of its great price. It is prepared by dissolving cochineal in an alkaline lye, and precipitating it by alum.

Carnage

CARNAGE, noun

1. Literally, flesh, or heaps of flesh, as in shambles.

2. Slaughter; great destruction of men; havock; massacre.

Carnal

CARNAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to flesh; fleshly; sensual; opposed to spiritual; as carnal pleasure.

2. Being in the natural state; unregenerate.

The carnal mind is enmity against God. Romans 8:7.

3. Pertaining to the ceremonial law; as carnal ordinances. Hebrews 9:10.

4. Lecherous; lustful; libidinous; given to sensual indulgence.

CARNAL-knowledge, sexual intercourse.

Carnal-Minded

CARNAL-MINDED, adjective Worldly-minded.

Carnal-Mindedness

CARNAL-MINDEDNESS, noun Grossness of mind.

Carnalist

CARNALIST, noun One given to the indulgence of sensual appetites.

Carnalite

CARNALITE, noun A worldly-minded man.

Carnality

CARNALITY, noun

1. Fleshly lust, or desires, or the indulgence of those lusts; sensuality.

2. Grossness of mind or desire; love of sensual pleasures.

Carnalize

CARNALIZE, verb transitive To make carnal; to debase to carnality.

Carnally

CARNALLY, adverb In a carnal manner; according to the flesh; in a manner to gratify the flesh or sensual desire. Leviticus 18:20. Romans 8:6.

Carnation

CARNATION, noun

1. Flesh color; the parts of a picture which are naked, or without drapery, exhibiting the natural color of the flesh.

2. A genus of plants, Dianthus, so named from the color of the flower. Among these are the clove-gilliflower, sweet-william, Indian pink, etc.

Carnationed

CARNATIONED, adjective Made like carnation color.

Carnaval

CARNAVAL, noun The feast or season of rejoicing, before Lent, observed, in Catholic countries, with great solemnity, by feasts, balls, operas, concerts, etc.

Carnelian

CARNELIAN, noun A siliceous stone, a variety of chalcedony, of a deep red, flesh-red, or reddish white color. It is tolerably hard, capable of a good polish, and used for seals.

Carnel-work, in ship building, is the putting together the timbers, beams and planks, as distinguished from clinch-work.

Carneous

CARNEOUS, adjective Fleshy; having the qualities of flesh.

Carney

CARNEY, noun A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that they cannot eat.

Carnification

CARNIFICATION, noun A turning to flesh.

Carnify

CARNIFY, verb intransitive To form flesh; to receive flesh in growth.

Carnival

CARNIVAL,

CARNIVORACITY, noun Greediness of appetite for flesh.

Carnivoracity

CARNIVORACITY, n. Greediness of appetite for flesh.

Carnivorous

CARNIVOROUS, adjective Eating or feeding on flesh; an epithet applied to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the lion, tiger, dog, wolf, etc.

Carnosity

CARNOSITY, noun A little fleshy excrescence in the urethra, the neck of the bladder, etc.

Carnous

CARNOUS, adjective Fleshy. [See Carneous.]

Carob

CAROB, noun The carob-tree, Ceratonia siliqua, a native of Spain, Italy, and the Levant. It is an evergreen, growing in hedges, and producing long, flat, brown-colored pods, filled with a mealy, succulent pulp, of a sweetish taste. In times of scarcity, these pods are eaten by poor people, but they are apt to cause griping and lax bowels.

Caroche

CAROCHE, noun A carriage of pleasure.

Caroched

CAROCHED, adjective Placed in a caroche.

Carol

CAROL, noun A song of joy and exultation; a song of devotion; or a song in general.

CAROL, verb intransitive To sing; to warble; to sing in joy or festivity.

CAROL, verb transitive To praise or celebrate in song.

Carolina

CAROLINA, noun The name of two of the Atlantic States in North America, called North carolina and South carolina

Caroline

CARLINE, OR CAROLINE noun A silver coin in Naples.

Caroling

CAROLING, noun A song of praise or devotion.

Carolinian

CAROLINIAN, adjective Pertaining to Carolina.

CAROLINIAN, noun A native or inhabitant of Carolina.

Caromel

CAROMEL, noun The smell exhaled by sugar, at a calcining heat.

Carotid

CAROTID, adjective The carotid arteries, in the body, are two arteries, the right and left, which convey the blood from the aorta to the head and brain. The ancients supposed drowsiness to be seated in these arteries.

Carousal

CAROUSAL, noun s as z. [See Carouse.] A feast or festival.

But in America it signifies a noisy drinking bout, or reveling.

Carouse

CAROUSE, verb intransitive carouz. To drink hard; to guzzle. In the United States, it signifies also to be noisy, as bacchanalians.

CAROUSE, noun A drinking match; a hearty drink or full draught of liquor; a noisy drinking match.

Carouser

CAROUSER, noun A drinker; a toper; a noisy reveler, or bacchanalian.

Carousing

CAROUSING, participle present tense Drinking hard; reveling.

Carp

CARP, verb intransitive Literally, to snap or catch at, or to pick. Hence, to censure, cavil, or find fault, particularly without reason, or petulantly; followed by at.

No, not a tooth or nail to scratch

And at my actions carp and catch. Herbert.

CARP, noun A fish, a species of cyprinus, an excellent fish for ponds. These fishes breed rapidly, grow to a large size, and live to a great age.

Carpal

CARPAL, adjective Pertaining to the wrist.

Carpathian

CARPATHIAN, adjective Pertaining to the Carpates, a range of mountains between Poland, Hungary and Transylvania.

Carpenter

CARPENTER, noun An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, and of ships. Those who build houses are called house-carpenters, and those who build ships are called ship-carpenters.

In New England, a distinction is often made between the man who frames, and the man who executes the interior wood-work of a house. The framer is the carpenter and the finisher is called joiner. This distinction is noticed by Johnson, and seems to be a genuine English distinction. But in some other parts of America, as in New-York, the term carpenter includes both the framer and the joiner; and in truth both branches of business are often performed by the same person. The word is never applied, as in Italy and Spain, to a coach-maker.

Carpentry

CARPENTRY, noun The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, in the construction of buildings; divided into house-carpentry and ship-carpentry.

Carper

CARPER, noun One who carps; a caviler.

Carpet

CARPET, noun

1. A covering for floors, tables, stairs, etc. This covering is usually made of wool, wrought with a needle, or more generally in a loom, but is sometimes made of other materials. The manufacture is of Asiatic origin, but has been introduced into many parts of Europe, and into the United States.

2. Level ground covered, as with grass; as a grassy carpet; a carpet of green grass.

To be on the carpet is to be under consideration; to be the subject of deliberation. The French phrase, to be on the tapis, is used in the like sense.

CARPET-knight, in Shakspeare, is a knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field.

CARPET-monger is used in a like sense.

CARPET, verb transitive To cover with a carpet; to spread with carpets.

Carpet-Walk

CARPET-WALK, noun A walk on smooth turf.

Carpeted

CARPETED, participle passive Covered with a carpet.

Carpeting

CARPETING, noun Cloth for carpets; carpets in general.

Carping

CARPING, participle present tense Caviling; captious; censorious.

CARPING, noun The act of caviling; a cavil; unreasonable censure.

Carpingly

CARPINGLY, adverb Captiously; in a carping manner.

Carpmeals

CARPMEALS, noun A kind of coarse cloth made in the North of England.

Carpolite

CARPOLITE, noun Petrified fruits, of which the most remarkable are nuts converted into silex.

Carpologist

CARPOLOGIST, noun One who describes fruits.

Carpology

CARPOLOGY, noun A description of fruits.

Carpus

CARPUS, noun The wrist, but not an English word.

Carraway

CARRAWAY, noun A kind of apple.

Carriable

CARRIABLE, adjective That may be carried.

Carriage

CARRIAGE, noun

1. The act of carrying, bearing, transporting, or conveying; as the carriage of sounds.

2. The act of taking by an enemy; conquest; acquisition.

3. That which carries, especially on wheels; a vehicle. This is a general term for a coach, chariot, chaise, gig, sulkey, or other vehicle on wheels, as a cannon-carriage on trucks, a block-carriage for mortars, and a truck-carriage. Appropriately the word is applied to a coach; and carts and wagons are rarely or never called carriages.

4. The price or expense of carrying.

5. That which is carried; burden; as baggage, vessels, furniture, etc.

And David left his carriage in the hands of the keeper of the carriage 1 Samuel 17:22.

6. In a moral sense, the manner of carrying ones self; behavior; conduct; deportment; personal manners.

7. Measures; practices; management.

Carriboo

CARRIBOO. [See Cariboo.]

Carrick-Bend

CARRICK-BEND, noun [See Carry.]

1. One who carries; that which carries or conveys; also, a messenger.

2. One who is employed to carry goods for others for a reward; also, one whose occupation is to carry goods for others, called a common carrier; a porter.

3. A pigeon that conveys letters from place to place, the letters being tied to the neck.

Carrion

CARRION, noun

1. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of animals; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.

2. A worthless woman; a term of reproach.

CARRION, adjective Relating to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion as a carrion-crow.

Carronade

CARRONADE, noun A short piece of ordnance, having a large caliber, and a chamber for the powder, like a mortar. This species of cannon is carried on the upper works of ships, as the poop and forecastle, and is very useful in close engagements.

Carroon

CARROON, noun

1. In London, a rent received for the privilege of driving a cart.

2. A species of cherry.

Carrot

CARROT, noun An esculent root, of the genus Daucus, cultivated for the table and for cattle.

Carroty

CARROTY, adjective Like a carrot in color; an epithet given to red hair.

Carrows

CARROWS, noun In Ireland, people who wander about and get their living by cards and dice; strolling gamesters.

Carry

CARRY, verb transitive

1. To bear, convey, or transport, by sustaining and moving the thing carried, either by bodily strength, upon a beast, in a vehicle, or in any kind of water-craft. In general, it implies a moving from the speaker or the place present or near, to a place more distant, and so is opposed to bring and fetch, and it is often followed by from, away, off, out.

He shall carry the lambs in his bosom. Isaiah 40:11.

When he dieth, he shall carry nothing away. Psalms 49:17.

2. To convey; as sound is carried in the air.

3. To effect; to accomplish; to prevail; to gain the object; as, to carry a point, measure, or resolution; to carry a prize; to carry a fortified town by force of arms; sometimes followed by it.

Whose wills will carry it over the rest.

4. To bear out; to face through.

If a man carries it off, there is so much money saved.

5. To urge, impel, lead or draw, noting moral impulse.

Pride or passion will carry a man to great lengths.

Men are carried away with imaginary prospects. See Ephesians 4:14. Hebrews 13:9.

6. To bear; to have.

In some vegetables, we see something that carries a kind of analogy to sense.

7. To bear; to show, display or exhibit to view.

The aspect of every one in the family carries satisfaction.

8. To imply or import.

To quit former tenets carries an imputation of ignorance.

9. To contain or comprise.

He thought it carried something of argument in it, to prove that doctrine.

10. To extend or continue in time, as to carry a historical account to the first ages of the world; but usually with a particle, as to carry up or carry back, to carry forward.

11. To extend in space, as to carry a line or a boundary; or in a moral sense, as to carry ideas very far.

12. To support or sustain.

CARRY camomile on sticks.

13. To bear or produce, as trees.

Set them a reasonable depth, and they will carry more shoots upon the stem.

14. To manage or transact, usually with on; as, to carry on business.

15. To carry ones self, to behave, conduct or demean.

He carried himself insolently. Sometimes with it; as, he carried it high.

16. To remove, lead or drive.

And he carried away all his cattle. Genesis 31:1.

17. To remove; to cause to go.

And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel to Assyria. 2 Kings 18:11.

18. To transport; to affect with extraordinary impressions on the mind. Revelation 17:1.

19. To fetch and bring.

Young whelps learn easily to carry

20. To transfer; as, to carry an account to the ledger.

War was to be diverted from Greece by being carried into Asia.

To carry coals, to bear injuries.

To carry off, to remove to a distance; also, to kill, as to be carried off by sickness.

To carry on,

1. to promote, advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design; to carry on the administration of grace.

2. To manage or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry.

3. To prosecute, continue or pursue; as, to carry on trade or war.

To carry through, to support to the end; to sustain or keep from failing, or being subdued.

Grace will carry a man through all difficulties. Hammond.

To carry out, to bear from within; also, to sustain to the end; to continue to the end.

To carry away, in seamanship, is to break; to carry sail till a spar breaks; as, to carry away a fore-topmast.

CARRY, verb intransitive

1. To run on rotten ground, or on frost, which sticks to the feet, as a hare.

2. To bear the head in a particular manner, as a horse. When a horse holds his head high, with an arching neck, he is said to carry well. When he lowers his head too much, he is said to carry low.

3. To convey; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well; but this is elliptical.

Carry-Tale

CARRY-TALE, noun A tale-bearer.

Carrying

CARRYING, participle present tense Bearing, conveying, removing, etc.

CARRYING, noun A bearing, conveying, removing, transporting.

CARRYING trade, the trade which consists in the transportation of goods by water from country to country, or place to place.

We are rivals with them in navigation and the carrying trade. Federalist, Jay.

CARRYING wind, among horsemen, is a tossing of the nose, as high as the horses ears.

Cart

CART, noun

1. A carriage with two wheels, fitted to be drawn by one horse, or by a yoke of oxen, and used in husbandry or commercial cities for carrying heavy commodities. In Great Britain, carts are usually drawn by horses. In America, horse-carts are used mostly in cities, and ox-carts in the country.

2. A carriage in general.

CART, verb transitive

1. To carry or convey on a cart; as, to cart hay.

2. To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

Cart-Bote

CART-BOTE, noun In English law, wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

Cart-Horse

CART-HORSE, noun A horse that draws a cart.

Cart-Jade

CART-JADE, noun A sorry horse; a horse used in drawing, or fit only for the cart.

Cart-Load

CART-LOAD, noun A load borne on a cart; as much as is usually carried at once on a cart, or as is sufficient to load it.

Cart-Rope

CART-ROPE, noun A rope for binding hay, or other articles on a cart.

Cart-Rut

CART-RUT, noun The cut or track of a cartwheel. [See Route.]

Cart-Tire

CART-TIRE, noun The tire, or iron bands, used to bind the wheels of a cart.

Cart-Way

CART-WAY, noun A way that is or may be passed with carts, or other wheel carriages.

Cart-Wheel

CART-WHEEL, noun The wheel of a cart.

Cart-Wright

CART-WRIGHT, noun An artificer who makes carts.

Carte-blanche. A blank paper, signed at the bottom with a persons name, and sometimes sealed with his seal, given to another person with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases.

Cartage

CARTAGE, noun The act of carrying in a cart, or the price paid for carting.

Carted

CARTED, participle passive Borne or exposed in a cart.

Cartel

CARTEL, noun

1. A writing or agreement between states at war, for the exchange of prisoners, or for some mutual advantage; also, a vessel employed to convey the messenger on this occasion.

2. A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. This sense the word has still in France and Italy; but with us it is obsolete.

CARTEL-ship, is a ship employed in the exchange of prisoners, or in carrying propositions to an enemy.

CARTEL, verb intransitive To defy.

Carter

CARTER, noun The man who drives a cart, or whose occupation is to drive a cart.

Cartesian

CARTESIAN, adjective Pertaining to the philosopher Des Cartes, or to his philosophy, which taught the doctrine of vortexes round the sun and planets.

CARTESIAN, noun One who adopts the philosophy of Des Cartes.

Carthaginian

CARTHAGINIAN, adjective Pertaining to ancient Carthage, a celebrated city on the Northern Coast of Africa, about twelve miles from the modern Tunis. It was founded by the Phenicians, and destroyed by the Romans.

CARTHAGINIAN, noun An inhabitant or native of Carthage.

Carthamus

CARTHAMUS, noun The generic name of Bastard Saffron. [See Safflower.]

Carthusian

CARTHUSIAN, noun One of an order of monks, so called from Chartreuse, the place of their institution. They are remarkable for their austerity. They cannot go out of their cells, except to church, nor speak to any person without leave.

Cartilage

CARTILAGE, noun Gristle; a smooth, solid, elastic substance, softer than bone, of a pearly color and homogeneous texture, without cells or cavities. It is invested with a particular membrane called perichondrium, which in the articular cartilages, is a reflexion of the synovial membrane.

Cartilaginous

CARTILAGINOUS, adjective

1. Pertaining to or resembling a cartilage; gristly; consisting of cartilage.

2. In ichthyology, cartilaginous fishes are those whose muscles are supported by cartilages instead of bones, or whose skeleton is cartilaginous Many of these are viviparous, as the ray and shark, whose young are excluded from an egg hatched within them. Others are oviparous, as the sturgeon. Some of them have no gill-covers, but breathe through apertures, on the sides of the neck or top of the head; others have gill-covers, but destitute of bony rays.

Carting

CARTING, participle present tense Conveying or exposing in a cart.

CARTING, noun The act of carrying in a cart.

Cartoon

CARTOON noun In painting, a design drawn on strong paper, to be afterward calked through and transferred on the fresh plaster of a wall, to be painted in fresco. Also, a design colored for working in Mosaic, tapestry etc.

Cartouch

CARTOUCH, noun

1. A case of wood, about three inches thick at the bottom girt with marlin, holding about four hundred musket balls, and six or eight iron balls of a pound weight, to be fired out of a howitz, for defending a pass. A cartouch is sometimes made of a globular form, and filled with a ball of a pound weight; and sometimes for guns, being of a ball of a half or quarter of a pound weight, tied in the form of a bunch of grapes, on a tompion of wood and coated over.

2. A portable box for charges. [See Cartridge-box.]

3. A roll or scroll on the cornice of a column.

Cartridge

CARTRIDGE, noun [a corruption of cartouch.] A case of pasteboard or parchment, holding the charge of powder or powder and balls, for a cannon, mortar, musket or pistol. The cartridges for small arms, prepared for battle, contain the powder and ball; those for cannon and mortars are made of paste-board, or tin. Cartridges, without balls, are called blank cartridges.

Cartridge-Box

CARTRIDGE-BOX, noun A case, usually of wood, covered with leather, with cells for cartridges. It is worn upon a belt thrown over the left shoulder, and hangs a little below the pocket-hole on the right side.

Cartulary

CARTULARY, noun A register-book, or record, as of a monastery. Blackstone writes it chartulary; and primarily it signifies the officer who has the care of charters and other public papers.

Carucate

CARUCATE, noun As much land as one team can plow in the year.

Caruncle

CARUNCLE, noun

1. A small fleshy excrescence, either natural or morbid.

2. The fleshy comb on the head of a fowl.

Caruncular

CARUNCULAR, adjective In the form of a caruncle.

Carunculated

CARUNCULATED, adjective Having a fleshy excrescence, or soft fleshy protuberance.

Carve

CARVE, verb transitive

1. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at tale.

2. To cut wood, stone or other material into some particular form, with an instrument, usually a chisel; to engrave; to cut figures or devices on hard materials.

3. To make or shape by cutting; as, to carve an image.

4. To apportion; to distribute; to provide at pleasure; to select and take, as to ones self, or to select and give to another.

5. To cut; to hew.

To care out, is to cut out, or to lay out, by design; to plan.

CARVE, verb transitive

1. To cut up meat; followed sometimes by for; as, to carve for all the quests.

2. To exercise the trade of a sculptor.

3. To engrave or cut figures.

CARVE, noun A carucate.

Carved

CARVED, participle passive Cut or divided; engraved; formed by carving.

CARVEL, noun [See Caravel.] The urtica marina, or sea blubber.