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.

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

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.

the quantity a cask will hold.

a genus of white egrets.

A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.

To render useless or void; to quash; to annul; to reject; to send away.

See Cassava.

A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot.

To render void or useless; to vacate or annul.

The act of annulling.

A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.

A small war club, esp. of savages; -- so called because of its supposed use in crushing the skull.

A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain.

Same as Seggar.

A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.

An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.

Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite.

The French lavender (Lavandula St/chas) The goldilocks (Chrysocoma Linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.

a type of tropical American thorny shrub or small tree (Acacia farnesiana); it bears fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery.

A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.

A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.

A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points.

The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.

A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia.

Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black.

A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius.

Clothed with a cassock.

a box, or vase, with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.

Raw sugar; sugar not refined.

A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc.