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.

A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast.

To defy or challenge.

A charioteer.

An adherent of Descartes.

The philosophy of Descartes.

Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of northern Africa. A native or inhabitant of Carthage.

A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or Carthamus tinctorius.

A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle.

See Cartilaginous.

The act or process of forming cartilage.

Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.

In Spain and Portugal, one who supports the constitution.

One who drives or uses a cart; a teamster; a carter.

A map showing geographically, by shades or curves, statistics of various kinds; a statistical map.

One who makes charts or maps.

Of or pertaining to cartography.

By cartography.

The art or business of forming charts or maps.

The art of telling fortunes with cards.

Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.

the quantity contained in a carton.

One skilled in drawing cartoons.

A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material.

any road or path affording passage especially a rough one.

A way or road for carts.

to perform a cartwheel{2}.

An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.

A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.

A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.

Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.

Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.

A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).

A carucate.

formed by carving or having a design carved into the surface.

Same as Caravel.

Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved.

An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.

One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc.

The act or art of one who carves.

A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year.

One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.

A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

Of or pertaining to a caryatid.

Caryatids.

Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.

an order of plants which corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae.

a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or free-central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); it contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; it corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; it is sometimes classified as a superorder.

A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.

Caryophyllaceous.

A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.

A house or mansion.

a winter melon having a yellowish rind; -- called also casaba melon.

Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.

an Italian adventurer (Giovanni Giacomo Casanova; b. 1725; d. 1798) who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters.

any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.

The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.]

To fall in a cascade.

A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.

the dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative; -- called also cascara sagrada.

A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.

A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.

Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc.

To propose hypothetical cases.

The space between two principals or girders One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.

to turn into cheese; -- of milk.