According to the flesh, to the world, or to human nature; in a manner to gratify animal appetites and lusts; sensually.

A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

Adapted to eating flesh. A carnassial tooth; especially, the last premolar in many carnivores.

Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.

The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.

Having a flesh color.

The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.

a genus of plants consisting of one species, the saguaro.

A variety of chalcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good polish, and often used for seals.

Consisting of, or like, flesh; carnous; fleshy.

A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat.

Of or pertaining to flesh; pertaining to or designating a hygroscopic monobasic acid, C10H15O5N3, obtained as a cleavage product from an acid of muscle tissue.

The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman.

The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh.

To form flesh; to become like flesh.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin.

A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Catholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday.

An order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though some of them, as the bears, also eat vegetable food. The teeth are large and sharp, suitable for cutting flesh, and the jaws powerful.

Greediness of appetite for flesh.

One of the Carnivora.

Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.

Of or pertaining to flesh; fleshy.

An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree.

A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach.

Placed in a caroche.

Dead body; carrion.

To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble.

A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.

A coin. See Carline.

A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents.

A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols.

A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.

Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.

An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I.

To make a carom.

See Caramel.

A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs.

Of or pertaining to stupor; as, a carotic state.

One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head. [See Illust. of Aorta.]

Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as, the carotid gland.

A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.

A cylindrical roll of tobacco; as, a carotte of perique.

A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse.

To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially.

a continuous belt oriented horizontally or near-horizontally around a central structure, driven in a circular motion by some mechanism, which carries luggage delivered from the luggage hold of an airplane to air travelers; -- used at airports.

One who carouses; a reveler.

That carouses; relating to a carouse.

In the manner of a carouser.

A fresh-water herbivorous fish (Cyprinus carpio.). Several other species of Cyprinus, Catla, and Carassius are called carp. See Cruclan carp.

Of or pertaining to the carpus, or wrist. One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

Of or pertaining to a range of mountains in Austro-Hungary, called the Carpathians, which partially inclose Hungary on the north, east, and south.

Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.

bearing or consisting of carpels. Opposite of acarpelous.

A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore.

An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.

a California evergreen shrub (Carpenteria californica) having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers.

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of working in timber; carpentry.

One who carps; a caviler.

To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.

An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865)-- used now for any politician moving to a new location to take advantage of more favorable chances for election-->.

covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination; as, the carpeted hallway; a flower-carpeted hillside. Opposite of uncarpeted.

The act of covering with carpets.

Without a carpet.

One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.

A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field.

See Floccillation.

a natural family used in some classification systems to include the genera Carpinus; Ostryopsis; and Ostryopsis.

Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.

A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larv/, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird.

a genus of birds including the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) and purple finch (Carpodacus purpurea).

Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.

A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.

Of or pertaining to carpology.

One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.

That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.

Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. [See Illust. of Gymnospermous.]

A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.

A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red alg/.

of or relating to a carpospore.

The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.

See Carack.

The Brazilian kite (Polyborus Brasiliensis); -- so called in imitation of its notes.

See Caraway.

Same as 4th Carol.

Capable of being carried.

That which is carried; burden; baggage.

a type of bolt threaded only at the end opposite the head, used mostly for fastening pieces of timber together, and inserted into pre-drilled holes.

a small building usually near a large residence or part of an estate, used for keeping coaches, carriages, or other vehicles; -- also called coach house. It is now (1998) obsolescent and its function has been taken over by the garage, which is usually attached to a residence or main building. Carriage houses are still found on older estates, though not usually used for their original purpose.

Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages.

one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only, usually in two or three lanes.

See Caribou.

A carack. See Carack.

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

A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.

a colloidal material obtained from seaweed or Irish moss, used as an thickening or emulsifying agent and for stabilizing foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.

Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.

See 4th Carol.

A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. The term carrel, of the same has largely superseded its use.

See Carom.

In the Philippines, a light, two-wheeled, boxlike vehicle usually drawn by a single native pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.

A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.

An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.

Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.

A strolling gamester.

A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.

A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.

The act or business of transporting from one place to another.

A carack.

A talebearer.

Low, fertile land; a river valley.

feeling nauseous due to the movement of a car or other land vehicle; -- similar to airsick and seasick.

To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.

a horse kept for pulling carts; a horse bred or used for drawing heavy loads.

as much as will fill or load a cart; the quantity that a cart holds. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc., one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load.

The act of carrying in a cart.

Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

Bill of fare.