Webster's Dictionary 1913

1459

Cartway

Cart″way′ (?), n. A way or road for carts.

1460

Cartwright

Cart″wright′ (?), n. [Cart + wright.] An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.

1461

Carucage

Car″u‐cage (?), n. [LL. carrucagium (OF. charuage.), fr. LL. carruca plow, fr. L. carruca coach.]1. (Old Eng. Law.) A tax on every plow or plowland.2. The act of plowing.

1462

Carucate

Car″u‐cate (?), n. [LL. carucata, carrucata. See Carucage.] A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; — by some said to be about 100 acres. Burrill.

1463

Caruncle

{ Car″un‐cle (?), ‖Ca‐run″cu‐la (?), } n. [L. caruncula a little piece of flesh, dim. of caro flesh.] 1. (Anat.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, ...

1464

Caruncular

{ Ca‐run″cu‐lar (?), Ca‐run″cu‐lous (?), } a. Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.

1465

Carunculate

{ Ca‐run″cu‐late (?), Ca‐run″cu‐la′ted (?), } a. Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.

1466

Carus

‖Ca″rus (kā″rŭs), n. [NL., fr. Gr. κάροσ.] (Med.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.

1467

Carvacrol

Car″va‐crol (kär″vȧ‐krōl), n.(Chem.) A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).

1468

Carve

Carve (kärv), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Carved (kärvd); p. pr. & vb. n.Carving.] [AS. ceorfan to cut, carve; akin to D. kerven, G. kerben, Dan. karve, Sw. karfva, and to Gr. γράφειν to...

1469

Carve (2)

Carve, v. i. 1. To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.2. To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.

1470

Carve (3)

Carve, n. A carucate. Burrill.

1471

Carvel

Car″vel (?), n. [Contr. fr. caravel.] 1. Same as Caravel.2. A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.

1472

Carvelbuilt

Car″vel‐built (?), a.(Shipbuilding) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

1473

Carven

Car″ven (?), a. Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved.A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree.Bp. Hall.The carven cedarn doors.Tennyson.A screen of carven ivory....

1474

Carvene

Car″vene (?), n. [F. carvi caraway.] An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.

1475

Carver

Carv″er (?), n. 1. One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. “The carver's ch...

1476

Carving

Carv″ing, n. 1. The act or art of one who carves.2. A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material. “Carving in wood.” Sir W. Temple.3. The whole body of decor...

1477

Carvist

Car″vist (?), n. [A corruption of carry fist.] (Falconary) A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year. Booth.

1478

Carvol

Car″vol (?), n.(Chem.) One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.

1479

Caryatic

{ Car′y‐at″ic (?), Car′y‐at″id (?), } a. Of or pertaining to a caryatid.

1480

Caryatid (2)

Car′y‐at″id (?), n.; pl.Caryatids (#). [See Caryatides.] (Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

1481

Caryatides

‖Car′y‐at″i‐des (?), n. pl.(Arch) Caryatids.☞ Corresponding male figures were called Atlantes, Telamones, and Persians.

1482

Caryophyllaceous

Car′y‐o‐phyl‐la″ceous (?), a.(Bot.) (a) Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink. (b) Belonging to the family of which the pink a...

1483

Caryophyllin

Car′y‐oph″yl‐lin (?), n.(Chem.) A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.

1484

Caryophyllous

Car′y‐oph″yl‐lous (?), a. Caryophyllaceous.

1485

Caryopsis

Car′y‐op″sis (?), n.; pl.Caryopses (#). (Bot.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are in...