Cartography Car·tog"ra·phy noun [ Confer French
cartographie . See
Card , and
-graphy .]
The art or business of forming charts or maps.
Cartomancy Car"to·man`cy noun [ Confer French
cartomancie . See
Card , and
-mancy .]
The art of telling fortunes with cards.
Carton Car"ton (kär"tŏn)
noun [ French See
Cartoon .]
Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box. Cartoon Car·toon" noun [ French
carton (cf. Italian
cartone pasteboard, cartoon); from Latin
charta . See 1st
card .]
1. A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael. 2. A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."
Cartoonist Car·toon"ist noun One skilled in drawing cartoons.
Cartouch Car·touch" noun ;
plural Cartouches . [ French
cartouche , Italian
cartuccia ,
cartoccio , cornet, cartouch, from Latin
charta paper. See 1st
Card , and confer
Cartridge .]
1. (Mil.) (a) A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge .
(b) A cartridge box. (c) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon. (d) A gunner's bag for ammunition .
(e) A military pass for a soldier on furlough. 2. (Architecture) (a) A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper .
(b) A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form. 3. (Egyptian Antiq.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.
Cartridge Car"tridge (kär"trĭj)
noun [ Formerly
cartrage , corrupted from French
cartouche . See
Cartouch .]
(Mil.) A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material. Ball cartridge ,
a cartridge containing a projectile. --
Blank cartridge ,
a cartridge without a projectile. --
Center-fire cartridge ,
a cartridge in which the fulminate occupies an axial position usually in the center of the base of the capsule, instead of being contained in its rim. In the Prussian needle gun the fulminate is applied to the middle of the base of the bullet. --
Rim-fire cartridge ,
a cartridge in which the fulminate is contained in a rim surrounding its base. --
Cartridge bag ,
a bag of woolen cloth, to hold a charge for a cannon. --
Cartridge belt ,
a belt having pockets for cartridges. --
Cartridge box ,
a case, usually of leather, attached to a belt or strap, for holding cartridges. --
Cartridge paper .
(a) A thick stout paper for inclosing cartridges. (b) A rough tinted paper used for covering walls, and also for making drawings upon.
Cartulary Car"tu·la·ry noun ;
plural Cartularies . [ Late Latin
cartularium ,
chartularium , from Latin
charta paper: confer French
cartulaire . See 1st
Card .]
1. A register, or record, as of a monastery or church. 2. An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers.
Cartway Cart"way` noun A way or road for carts.
Cartwright Cart"wright` noun [
Cart +
wright .]
An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
Carucage Car"u·cage noun [ Late Latin
carrucagium (OF.
charuage .), from Late Latin
carruca plow, from Latin
carruca coach.]
1. (Old Eng. Law.) A tax on every plow or plowland. 2. The act of plowing. [ R.]
Carucate Car"u·cate noun [ Late Latin
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.
Caruncle Car"un·cle Ca*run"cu*la noun [ Latin caruncula a little piece of flesh, dim. of caro flesh.] 1. (Anat.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis , in the inner angle of the eye. 2. (Botany) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed. 3. (Zoology) A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.
Caruncular, Carunculous Ca·run"cu·lar, Ca·run"cu·lous adjective Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.
Carunculate, Carunculated Ca·run"cu·late, Ca·run"cu·la`ted adjective Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.
Carus Ca"rus (kā"rŭs)
noun [ New Latin , from Greek
ka`ros .]
(Medicine) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
Carvacrol Car"va·crol (kär"vȧ*krōl)
noun (Chemistry) A thick oily liquid, C 10 H 13 .OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway ( Carum carui ).
Carve Carve (kärv)
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Carved (kärvd);
present participle & verbal noun Carving .] [ Anglo-Saxon
ceorfan to cut, carve; akin to Dutch
kerven , German
kerben , Danish
karve , Swedish
karfva , and to Greek
gra`fein to write, orig. to scratch, and English
- graphy . Confer
Graphic .]
1. To cut. [ Obsolete]
Or they will carven the shepherd's throat.
Spenser.
2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet.
Coleridge.
3. To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree. An angel carved in stone.
Tennyson.
We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone.
C. Wolfe.
4. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. "To
carve a capon."
Shak. 5. To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting. My good blade carved the casques of men.
Tennyson.
A million wrinkles carved his skin.
Tennyson.
6. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. Who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
South.
7. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
Shak.
To carve out ,
to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[ Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . .
carved out his passage."
Shak. Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown.
Macaulay.
Carve Carve intransitive verb 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.
Carve Carve noun A carucate. [ Obsolete]
Burrill.
Carvel Car"vel noun [ Contr. from
caravel .]
1. Same as Caravel . 2. A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.
Carvelbuilt Car"vel·built adjective (Shipbuilding) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
Carven Car"ven adjective Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. [ Poetic]
A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree.
Bp. Hall.
The carven cedarn doors.
Tennyson.
A screen of carven ivory.
Mrs. Browning.
Carvene Car"vene noun [ French
carvi caraway.]
An oily substance, C 10 H 16 , extracted from oil caraway.
Carver Carv"er noun 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 chisel."
Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes.
Sharp (Richardson's Dict. )
2. One who carves or divides meat at table. 3. A large knife for carving.
Carving Carv"ing noun 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 decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.
Carvist Car"vist noun [ 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.
Carvol Car"vol noun (Chemistry) One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.
Caryatic, Caryatid Car`y·at"ic, Car`y·at"id adjective Of or pertaining to a caryatid.
Caryatid Car`y·at"id noun ;
plural Caryatids . [ See
Caryatides .]
(Architecture) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.
Caryatides Car`y·at"i·des noun plural [ Latin , from Greek ... priestesses in the temple of Diana (the Greek Artemis) at Caryæ (Gr. ...), a village in Laconia; as an architectural term, caryatids.]
(Arch) Caryatids. » Corresponding male figures were called
Atlantes ,
Telamones , and
Persians .
Caryophyllaceous Car`y·o·phyl·la"ceous adjective [ Greek ... clove tree; ... nut + ... leaf.]
(Botany) (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 and the carnation are the types.
Caryophyllin Car`y·oph"yl·lin noun (Chemistry) A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.
Caryophyllous Car`y·oph"yl·lous adjective Caryophyllaceous.
Caryopsis Car`y·op"sis noun ;
plural Caryopses . [ New Latin , from gr. ... hut, kernel + ... sight, form.]
(Botany) 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.
Casa Ca"sa noun [ Spanish or Italian , from Latin
casa cabin.]
A house or mansion. [ Spanish Amer. & Phil. Islands]
I saw that Enriquez had made no attempt to modernize the old casa , and that even the garden was left in its lawless native luxuriance.
Bret Harte.
Casal Ca"sal adjective (Gram.) Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.
Cascabel Cas"ca·bel noun [ Spanish
cascabel a little bell, also (fr. the shape), a knob at the breech end of a cannon.]
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 .]
Cascade Cas·cade" (kăs*kād")
noun [ French
cascade , from Italian
cascata , from
cascare to fall.]
A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade .
Longfellow.
Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade .
Cowper.
Cascade Cas·cade" intransitive verb 1. To fall in a cascade. Lowell. 2. To vomit. [ Slang]
Smollett.
Cascade method Cas·cade" meth"od (Physics) A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily liquefiable, and so on.
Cascade system Cascade system (Electricity) A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary circuit of one is connected to the secondary circuit of the other, the primary circuit of the latter being connected to the source of supply; also, a system of electric traction in which motors so connected are employed. The cascade system is also called tandem, or concatenated , system ; the connection a cascade, tandem, or concatenated , connection , or a concatenation ; and the control of the motors so obtained a tandem, or concatenation , control . In the cascade system of traction the cascade connection is used for starting and for low speeds up to half speed. For full speed the short- circuited motor is cut loose from the other motor and is either left idle or (commonly) connected direct to the line.
Cascalho Cas·cal"ho noun [ Portuguese , a chip of stone, gravel.]
A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.
Cascara buckthorn Cas"ca·ra buck"thorn` (Botany) The buckthorn ( Rhamnus Purshiana ) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada.
Cascara sagrada Cas"ca·ra sa·gra"da [ Spanish ] Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn ( Rhamnus Purshianus ), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
Cascarilla Cas`ca·ril"la noun [ Spanish , small thin bark, Peruvian bark, dim. of
cáscara bark.]
(Botany) A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub ( Croton Eleutheria ); also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark (
or Cascarilla )
(Medicine) ,
the bark of Croton Eleutheria . It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication.
Cascarillin Cas`ca·ril"lin noun (Chemistry) A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.
Cascaron Cas`ca·ron" noun [ Spanish
cascarón .]
Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc. [ Western U. S.]
Case Case (kās)
noun [ Old French
casse , French
caisse (cf. Italian
cassa ), from Latin
capsa chest, box, case, from
capere to take, hold. See
Capacious , and confer 4th
Chase ,
Cash ,
Enchase , 3d
Sash .]
1. A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book. 2. A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments. 3. (Print.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type. »
Cases for type are usually arranged in sets of two, called respectively the
upper and the
lower case. The
upper case contains capitals, small capitals, accented and marked letters, fractions, and marks of reference: the
lower case contains the small letters, figures, marks of punctuation, quadrats, and spaces.
4. An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case ; a window case . 5. (Mining) A small fissure which admits water to the workings. Knight.
Case Case transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Cased ;
present participle & verbal noun Casing .]
1. To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose. The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.
Prescott.
2. To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. [ Obsolete]
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