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.

Pertaining to the Carthusian.

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.

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.

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

a book in which detailed written records of cases are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work. Such books are often used as supplements to texts in law schools.

covered or protected with or as if with a case; as, knights cased in steel.

the quantity contained in a case.

To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.

Having the surface hardened, as iron tools.

The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel.

Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.

A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin.

Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate.

A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window.

Having a casement or casements.

A soluble product (proteose) formed in the gastric and pancreatic digestion of casein and caseinogen.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy.

A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks.

Same as Casein.

A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.

A Chinese coin.

able to be converted into ready money; as, a cashable check; cashable gambling chips.

A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.

a box for holding cash.

converted into currency; -- of financial instruments; as, a cashed check.

A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long.

To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust.

One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs.

A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Tibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.

A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere.

See Catechu.

The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

Dried dung of cattle used as fuel.

A small country house.

a business establishment that combines a casino and a hotel.

To put into a cask.

To put into, or preserve in, a casket.