CARLING
CARLING, noun A piece of timber in a ship, ranging fore and aft, from one deck beam to another, directly over the keel, serving as a foundation for the body of the ship. On thes...
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CARLING, noun A piece of timber in a ship, ranging fore and aft, from one deck beam to another, directly over the keel, serving as a foundation for the body of the ship. On thes...
CARLISH, CARLISHNESS. [See Churlish.]
CARLISH, CARLISHNESS [See Churlish.]
CARLOCK, noun A sort of isinglass from Russia, made of the sturgeons bladder, and used in clarifying wine.
CARLOT, noun A countryman. [See Carle.]
CARLOVINGIAN, adjective Pertaining to Charlemagne; as the carlovingian race of kings.
CARMAN, noun [car and man.] A man whose employment is to drive a cart, or to convey goods and other things in a cart.
CARMELIN,CARMELITE, adjective Belonging to the order of Carmelites.CARMELITE, noun [from Mount Carmel.]1. A mendicant friar. The Carmelites have four tribes, and they have now t...
CARMINATIVE, noun A medicine, which tends to expel wind, or to remedy colic and flatulencies.
CARMINE, noun A powder or pigment, of a beautiful red or crimson color, bordering on purple, and used by painters in miniature, though rarely, on account of its great price. It ...
CARNAGE, noun1. Literally, flesh, or heaps of flesh, as in shambles.2. Slaughter; great destruction of men; havock; massacre.
CARNAL, adjective1. Pertaining to flesh; fleshly; sensual; opposed to spiritual; as carnal pleasure.2. Being in the natural state; unregenerate.The carnal mind is enmity against...
CARNAL-MINDED, adjective Worldly-minded.
CARNAL-MINDEDNESS, noun Grossness of mind.
CARNALIST, noun One given to the indulgence of sensual appetites.
CARNALITE, noun A worldly-minded man.
CARNALITY, noun1. Fleshly lust, or desires, or the indulgence of those lusts; sensuality.2. Grossness of mind or desire; love of sensual pleasures.
CARNALIZE, verb transitive To make carnal; to debase to carnality.
CARNALLY, adverb In a carnal manner; according to the flesh; in a manner to gratify the flesh or sensual desire. Leviticus 18:20. Romans 8:6.
CARNATION, noun1. Flesh color; the parts of a picture which are naked, or without drapery, exhibiting the natural color of the flesh.2. A genus of plants, Dianthus, so named fro...
CARNATIONED, adjective Made like carnation color.
CARNAVAL, noun The feast or season of rejoicing, before Lent, observed, in Catholic countries, with great solemnity, by feasts, balls, operas, concerts, etc.
CARNELIAN, noun A siliceous stone, a variety of chalcedony, of a deep red, flesh-red, or reddish white color. It is tolerably hard, capable of a good polish, and used for seals....
CARNEOUS, adjective Fleshy; having the qualities of flesh.
CARNEY, noun A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that they cannot eat.
CARNIFICATION, noun A turning to flesh.
CARNIFY, verb intransitive To form flesh; to receive flesh in growth.