Webster's Dictionary 1913

1108

Carat

Car″at (kăr″ăt), n. [F. carat (cf. It. carato, OPg. quirate, Pg. & Sp. quilate), Ar. qīrāt bean or pea shell, a weight of four grains, a carat, fr. Gr. κεράτιον a little horn, t...

1109

Caravan

Car″a‐van (kăr″ȧ‐văn or kăr‐ȧ‐văn″; 277), n. [F. caravane (cf. Sp. caravana), fr. Per. karwān a caravan (in sense 1). Cf. Van a wagon.] 1. A company of travelers, pilgrims, or m...

1110

Caravaneer

Car′a‐van‐eer″ (?), n. [Cf. F. caravanier.] The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.

1111

Caravansary

Car′a‐van″sa‐ry (?), n.; pl.Caravansaries (#). [F. caravansérai, fr. Per. karwānsarāï; karwān caravan + -sarāï palace, large house, inn.] A kind of inn, in the East, where carav...

1112

Caravel

Car″a‐vel (kăr″ȧ‐vĕl), n. [F. caravelle (cf. It. caravella, Sp. carabela), fr. Sp. caraba a kind of vessel, fr. L. carabus a kind of light boat, fr. Gr. κάραβοσ a kind of light ...

1113

Caraway

Car″a‐way (kăr″ȧ‐wā̍), n. [F. carvi (cf. Sp. carvi and al-caravea, al-carahueya, Pg. al-caravia) fr. Ar. karawīā, karwīā fr. Gr. κάρον; cf. L. careum.] 1. (Bot.) A biennial plan...

1114

Carbamic

Car‐bam″ic (kär‐băm″ĭk), a. [Carbon + amido.] (Chem.) Pertaining to an acid so called.Carbamic acid(Chem.), an amido acid, NH2.CO2H, not existing in the free state, but occurrin...

1115

Carbamide

Car‐bam″ide (kär‐băm″ĭd or –īd), n. [Carbonyl + amide.] (Chem.) The technical name for urea.

1116

Carbamine

Car‐bam″ine (kär‐băm″ĭn or –ēd), n.(Chem.) An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.

1117

Carbanil

Car″ba‐nil (?), n. [Carbonyl + aniline.] (Chem.) A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.

1118

Carbazol

Car″ba‐zol (?), n. [Carbon + azo + -ol.] (Chem.) A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines.

1119

Carbazotate

Car‐baz″o‐tate (?), n.(Chem.) A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.

1120

Carbazotic

Car′ba‐zot″ic (?), a. [Carbon + azole.] Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen.Carbazotic acid(Chem.), picric acid. See under Picric.

1121

Carbide

Car″bide (?), n. [Carbon + -ide.] (Chem.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; — formerly termed car...

1122

Carbimide

Car″bi‐mide (?), n. [Carbon + imide] (Chem.) The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.

1123

Carbine

Car″bine (?), n. [F. carbine, OF. calabrin carabineer (cf. Ot. calabrina a policeman), fr. OF & Pr. calabre, OF. cable, chable, an engine of war used in besieging, fr. LL. chada...

1124

Carbineer

Car′bi‐neer″ (?), n. [F. carabinier.] (Mil.) A soldier armed with a carbine.

1125

Carbinol

Car″bi‐nol (?), n. [Carbin (Kolbe's name for the radical) + -ol.] (Chem.) Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; — also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of ...

1126

Carbohydrate

Car′bo‐hy″drate (?), n. [Carbon + hydrate.] (Physiol. Chem.) One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) ca...

1127

Carbohydride

Car′bo‐hy″dride (?), n. [Carbon + hydrogen.] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon.

1128

Carbolic

Car‐bol″ic (kär‐bŏl″ĭk), a. [L. carbo coal + oleum oil.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also p...

1129

Carbolize

Car″bo‐lize (kär″bō̍‐līz), v. t.(Med.) To apply carbolic acid to; to wash or treat with carbolic acid.

1130

Carbon

Car″bon (kär″bŏn), n. [F. carbone, fr. L. carbo coal; cf. Skr. çrā to cook.] (Chem.) An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compoun...

1131

Carbon (2)

Car″bon, n.(Elec.) A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp; also, a plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.

1132

Carbon process

Car″bon process. (Photog.) A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbo...

1133

Carbon steel

Carbon steel. Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; — opposed to alloy steel.

1134

Carbon transmitter

Carbon transmitter. A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used.