Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 18
Carat (n.) （鑽石等的重量單位）克拉（= 200毫克）；（金子的純度單位）開 A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.
Note: A mass of metal is said to be so many carats fine, according to the number of twenty-fourths of pure gold which it contains; as, 22 carats fine (goldsmith's standard) = 22 parts of gold, 1 of copper, and 1 of silver.
Carat (n.) A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
Carat (n.) The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold [syn: karat, carat, kt].
Carat, () weights. A carat is a weight equal to three and one-sixth grains, in diamonds, and the like. Jac. L. Dict. See Weight.
Caravan [C] (n.) （來往於沙漠的）商隊，香客隊伍，移民隊伍；（移動著的）車隊；有篷卡車（或拖車）；露營拖車；【英】（可用牲口或汽車拖曳的）活動房屋 A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.
Caravan (n.) A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.
Caravan (n.) A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van.
Caravan (n.) A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety" [syn: caravan, train, wagon train].
Caravan (n.) A camper equipped with living quarters [syn: van, caravan].
Caravan (v.) Travel in a caravan.
Caravaneer (n.) The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.
Caravansaries (n. pl. ) of Caravansary.
Caravansary (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court.
Caravel (n.) A name given to several kinds of vessels.
Caravel (n.) The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.
Caravel (n.) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.
Caravel (n.) A small fishing boat used on the French coast.
Caravel (n.) A Turkish man-of-war.
Caraway (n.) (Bot.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family ({Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.
Caraway (n.) A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.
Caraways, or biscuits, or some other [comfits]. -- Cogan.
Caraway (n.) A Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed [syn: caraway, Carum carvi].
Caraway (n.) Leaves used sparingly in soups and stews.
Caraway, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 1349
Housing Units (2000): 606
Land area (2000): 2.320450 sq. miles (6.009937 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.320450 sq. miles (6.009937 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11410
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.759143 N, 90.323051 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72419
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Caraway, AR
Caraway
Carbamic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to an acid so called.
Carbamic acid (Chem.), An amido acid, H2N.CO2.H, not existing in the free state, but occurring as a salt of ammonium in commercial ammonium carbonate; -- called also amido formic acid.
Carbamide (n.) (Chem.) The technical name for urea.
Carbamide (n.) The chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics [syn: urea, carbamide].
Carbamine (n.) (Chem.) An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.
Carbanil (n.) (Chem.) A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.
Carbazol (n.) (Chem.) A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines.
Carbazotate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.
Carbazotic (a.) Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen.
Carbazotic acid (Chem.), Picric acid. See under Picric.
Carbide (n.) (Chem.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.
Compare: Isocyanic
Isocyanic (a.) (Chem.) Designating an acid isomeric with cyanic acid.
Isocyanic acid, An acid metameric with cyanic acid, and resembling it in its salts. It is obtained as a colorless, mobile, unstable liquid by the heating cyanuric acid. Called technically carbimide.
Carbimide (n.) (Chem.) The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.
Carbine (n.) (Mil.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry.
Carbineer (n.) (Mil.) A soldier armed with a carbine.
Compare: Methyl
Methyl (n.) [See Methylene.] (Chem.) A univalent hydrocarbon radical, CH3-, not existing alone but regarded as an essential residue of methane, and appearing as a component part of many derivatives; as, methyl alcohol, methyl ether, methyl amine, etc. [Formerly written also methule, methyle, etc.]
Methyl alcohol (Chem.), A light, volatile, inflammable liquid, CH3.OH, obtained by the distillation of wood, and hence called wood alcohol or wood spirit; tecnically referred to as methanol; -- called also methol, carbinol, etc.
Methyl amine (Chem.), A colorless, inflammable, alkaline gas, CH3.NH2, having an ammoniacal, fishy odor. It is produced artificially, and also occurs naturally in herring brine and other fishy products. It is regarded as ammonia in which a third of its hydrogen is replaced by methyl, and is a type of the class of substituted ammonias.
Methyl ether (Chem.), A light, volatile ether CH3.O.CH3, obtained by the etherification of methyl alcohol; -- called also methyl oxide or dimethyl ether.
Methyl green. (Chem.) See under Green, n.
Methyl orange. (Chem.) See Helianthin.
Methyl violet (Chem.), An artificial dye, consisting of certain methyl halogen derivatives of rosaniline.
Carbinol (n.) (Chem.) Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.
Carbohydrate (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) 碳水化合物，醣 [C] [U]；【口】含醣食物 [P] One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, {C6H12O6}.
Carbohydrate (n.) An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain [syn: {carbohydrate}, {saccharide}, {sugar}].
Carbohydride (n.) (Chem.) A hydrocarbon.
Carbolic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.
Carbolize (v. t.) (Med.) To apply carbolic acid to; to wash or treat with carbolic acid.
Carbon (n.) (Chem.) An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite.
Carbon (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.
Carbon (n.) A sheet of carbon paper.
Carbon (n.) A carbon copy.
Carbon compounds, Compounds of carbon (Chem.), Those compounds consisting largely of carbon, commonly produced by animals and plants, and hence called organic compounds, though their synthesis may be effected in many cases in the laboratory.
The formation of the compounds of carbon is not dependent upon the life process. -- I. Remsen carbon copy, originally, a copy of a document made by use of a carbon paper, but now used generally to refer to any copy of a document made by a mechanical process, such as xerographic copying.
Carbon dioxide, Carbon monoxide. (Chem.) See under Carbonic.
Carbon light (Elec.), An extremely brilliant electric light produced by passing a galvanic current through two carbon points kept constantly with their apexes neary in contact.
Carbon point (Elec.), A small cylinder or bit of gas carbon moved forward by clockwork so that, as it is burned away by the electric current, it shall constantly maintain its proper relation to the opposing point.
Carbon paper, A thin type of paper coated with a dark-colored waxy substance which can be transferred to another sheet of paper underneath it by pressing on the carbon paper. It is used by placing a sheet between two sheets of ordinary writing paper, and then writing or typing on the top sheet, by which process a copy of the writing or typing is transferred to the second sheet below, making a copy without the need for writing or typing a second time. Multiple sheets may be used, with a carbon paper placed above each plain paper to which an impression is to be transferred. In 1997 such paper was still used, particularly to make multiple copies of filled-in purchase invoice forms, but in most applications this technique has been superseded by the more faithful xerographic reproduction and computerized printing processes.
Carbon tissue, Paper coated with gelatine and pigment, used in the autotype process of photography. -- Abney.
Gas carbon, A compact variety of carbon obtained as an incrustation on the interior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carbon rods of pencils for the voltaic, arc, and for the plates of voltaic batteries, etc.
Carbon (n.) An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C, atomic number 6].
Carbon (n.) A thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper [syn: carbon paper, carbon].
Carbon (n.) A copy made with carbon paper [syn: carbon, carbon copy].
Carbon
Symbol: C
Atomic number: 6
Atomic weight: 12.01115
Carbon is a member of group 14 of the periodic table. It has three allotropic forms of it, diamonds, graphite and fullerite. Carbon-14 is commonly used in radioactive dating. Carbon occurs in all organic life and is the basis of organic chemistry. Carbon has the interesting chemical property of being able to bond with itself, and a wide variety of other elements.
Carbon -- U.S. County in Montana
Population (2000): 9552
Housing Units (2000): 5494
Land area (2000): 2047.991068 sq. miles (5304.272289 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 14.195141 sq. miles (36.765246 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2062.186209 sq. miles (5341.037535 sq. km)
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 45.313192 N, 109.087584 W
Headwords:
Carbon
Carbon, MT
Carbon County
Carbon County, MT
Carbon -- U.S. County in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 58802
Housing Units (2000): 30492
Land area (2000): 381.037035 sq. miles (986.881348 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.197095 sq. miles (16.050401 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 387.234130 sq. miles (1002.931749 sq. km)
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location:
40.887766 N, 75.704111 W
Headwords:
Carbon
Carbon, PA
Carbon County
Carbon County, PA
Carbon -- U.S. County in Utah
Population (2000): 20422
Housing Units (2000): 8741
Land area (2000): 1478.457821 sq. miles (3829.188016 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.115818 sq. miles (15.839896 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1484.573639 sq. miles (3845.027912 sq. km)
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 39.627056 N, 110.767483 W
Headwords:
Carbon
Carbon, UT
Carbon County
Carbon County, UT
Carbon -- U.S. County in Wyoming
Population (2000): 15639
Housing Units (2000): 8307
Land area (2000): 7896.138587 sq. miles (20450.904187 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 67.892012 sq. miles (175.839496 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7964.030599 sq. miles (20626.743683 sq. km)
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 41.698637 N, 106.906874 W
Headwords:
Carbon
Carbon, WY
Carbon County
Carbon County, WY
Carbon, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 334
Housing Units (2000): 136
Land area (2000): 0.158337 sq. miles (0.410090 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.158337 sq. miles (0.410090 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10198
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.598974 N, 87.107510 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47837
Note:
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Carbon, IN
Carbon
Carbon, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 28
Housing Units (2000): 28
Land area (2000): 0.708502 sq. miles (1.835011 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.708502 sq. miles (1.835011 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10585
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.050208 N, 94.825171 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Carbon, IA
Carbon
Carbon, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
Population (2000): 224
Housing Units (2000): 120
Land area (2000): 1.019955 sq. miles (2.641672 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.019955 sq. miles (2.641672 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12736
Located
within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.270302 N, 98.828445 W
ZIP
Codes (1990): 76435
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Carbon,
TX
Carbon
Carbonaceous (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon. Carbonade
Carbonaceous (a.) Relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon [syn: carbonaceous, carbonous, carbonic, carboniferous].
Carbonade (n.) Alt. of Carbonado.
Carbonado (n.) (Cookery) Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop. [Obs.]
Carbonado
Carbonadoed (imp. & p. p.) of Carbonade.
Carbonadoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carbonade.
Carbonado (v. t.) Alt. of Carbonade.
Carbonade (v. t.) To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. [Obs.]
A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed. -- Bean. & Fl.
Carbonade (v. t.) To cut or hack, as in fighting. [Obs.]
I'll so carbonado your shanks. -- Shak.
Carbonadoes (n. pl. ) of Carbonado.
Carbonado (n.) (Min.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.
Carbonado (n.) An inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing [syn: carbonado, black diamond].
Carbonado (n.) A piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled.
Carbonado, WA -- U.S. town in Washington
Population (2000): 621
Housing Units (2000): 210
Land area (2000): 0.406435 sq. miles (1.052663 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.406435 sq. miles (1.052663 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09970
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 47.079724 N, 122.051433 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 98323
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Carbonado, WA
Carbonado
Carbonarism (n.) The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.
Carbonari (n. pl. ) of Carbonaro.
Carbonaro (n.) A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.
Note: The origin of the Carbonari is uncertain, but the society is said to have first met, in 1808, among the charcoal burners of the mountains, whose phraseology they adopted.
Carbonatation (n.) (Sugar Making) The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. -- Knight.
Carbonate (n.) (Chem.) 碳酸鹽；碳酸脂 A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.
Carbonate (n.) A salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3).
Carbonate (v.) 使含二氧化碳；使成碳酸鹽 Turn into a carbonate.
Carbonate (v.) Treat with carbon dioxide; "Carbonated soft drinks".
Carbonate (n.) [ C ] (Specialized) 碳酸鹽A salt containing carbon and oxygen together with another chemical.
Carbonated (a.) 含二氧化碳的 Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.
Carbonated (a.) Having carbonation (especially artificially carbonated).
Carbone (v. t.) To broil. [Obs.] "We had a calf's head carboned". -- Pepys.
Carbonic (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide.
Carbonic acid (Chem.), An acid HO.CO.OH, not existing separately, which, combined with positive or basic atoms or radicals, forms carbonates. In common language the term is very generally applied to a compound of carbon and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called carbon dioxide. It is a colorless, heavy, irrespirable gas, extinguishing flame, and when breathed destroys life. It can be reduced to a liquid and solid form by intense pressure. It is produced in the fermentation of liquors, and by the combustion and decomposition of organic substances, or other substances containing carbon. It is formed in the explosion of fire damp in mines, and is hence called after damp; it is also know as choke damp, and mephitic air. Water will absorb its own volume of it, and more than this under pressure, and in this state becomes the common soda water of the shops, and the carbonated water of natural springs. Combined with lime it constitutes limestone, or common marble and chalk. Plants imbibe it for their nutrition and growth, the carbon being retained and the oxygen given out.
Carbonic oxide (Chem.), A colorless gas, CO, of a light odor, called more correctly carbon monoxide. It is almost the only definitely known compound in which carbon seems to be divalent. It is a product of the incomplete combustion of carbon, and is an abundant constituent of water gas. It is fatal to animal life, extinguishes combustion, and burns with a pale blue flame, forming carbon dioxide.
Carbonic (a.) Relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon [syn: carbonaceous, carbonous, carbonic, carboniferous].
Carbonide (n.) A carbide. [R.]
Carboniferous (a.) Producing or containing carbon or coal.
Carboniferous age (Geol.), The age immediately following the Devonian, or Age of fishes, and characterized by the vegetation which formed the coal beds. This age embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the Carboniferous, and Permian. See Age of acrogens, under Acrogen.
Carboniferous formation (Geol.), The series of rocks (including sandstones, shales, limestones, and conglomerates, with beds of coal) which make up the strata of the Carboniferous age or Carboniferous period. See the Diagram under Geology.
Carboniferous (a.) Of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era; "carboniferous rock system".
Carboniferous (a.) Relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon [syn: carbonaceous, carbonous, carbonic, carboniferous].
Carboniferous (n.) From 345 million to 280 million years ago [syn: Carboniferous, Carboniferous period].
Carbonization (n.) The act or process of carbonizing.
Carbonization (n.) the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens).
Syn: carbonisation.
Carbonization (n.) The destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens) [syn: carbonization, carbonisation].
Carbonized (imp. & p. p.) of Carbonize.
Carbonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carbonize.
Carbonize (v. t.) To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.
Carbonize (v. t.) To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.
Carbonize (v.) Unite with carbon; "carburize metal" [syn: carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise].
Carbonize (v.) Turn into carbon, as by burning; "carbonize coal" [syn: carbonize, carbonise].
Carbonometer (n.) An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means.
Compare: Oxalyl
Oxalyl (n.) (Chem.) A hydrocarbon radical ({C2O2) regarded as a residue of oxalic acid and occurring in derivatives of it.
Oxalyl (n.) (Chem.) An old name for carbonyl.
Oxalyl (n.) (Chem.) An old name for carboxyl.
Carbonyl (n.) (Chem.) The radical ({CO)'', occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.
Note: Though denoted by a formula identical with that of carbon monoxide, it is chemically distinct, as carbon seems to be divalent in carbon monoxide, but tetravalent in carbonyl compounds.
Carbonyl chloride (Chem.), A colorless gas, COCl2, of offensive odor, and easily condensable to liquid. It is formed from chlorine and carbon monoxide, under the influence of light, and hence has been called phosgene, or phosgene gas; -- called also carbon oxychloride. It is used in chemical synthesis, and was also used as a poison gas in World War I.
Carbonyl (a.) Relating to or containing the carbonyl group [syn: carbonyl, carbonylic].
Carbonyl (n.) A compound containing metal combined with carbon monoxide.
Compare: Oxyquinoline
Oxyquinoline (n.) (Chem.) Hydroxy quinoline; a phenol derivative of quinoline, -- called also carbostyril.
Carbostyril (n.) A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids.
Carboxide (n.) (Chem.) A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide.
Potassium carboxide, A grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium.
Compare: Oxalyl
Oxalyl (n.) (Chem.) A hydrocarbon radical ({C2O2) regarded as a residue of oxalic acid and occurring in derivatives of it.
Oxalyl (n.) (Chem.) An old name for carbonyl.
Oxalyl (n.) (Chem.) An old name for carboxyl.
Carboxyl (n.) (Chem.) The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl.
Carboxyl (a.) Relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical [syn: carboxyl, carboxylic].
Carboxyl (n.) The univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids [syn: carboxyl, carboxyl group].
Carboy (n.) A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.
Carboy (n.) A large bottle for holding corrosive liquids; usually cushioned in a special container.
Carbuncle (n.) (Min.) 【礦】紅玉 A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.
Carbuncle (n.) (Med.) 【醫】癰；紅斑 A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.
Carbuncle (n.) (Her.) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also {escarbuncle}.
Carbuncle (n.) Deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets.
Carbuncle (n.) An infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus.
Carbuncle, () (Ex. 28:17; 39:10; Ezek. 28:13). Heb. barkath; LXX. smaragdos; Vulgate, smaragdus; Revised Version, marg., "emerald." The Hebrew word is from a root meaning "to glitter," "lighten," "flash." When held up to the sun, this gem shines like a burning coal, a dark-red glowing coal, and hence is called "carbunculus", i.e., a little coal. It was one of the jewels in the first row of the high priest's breastplate. It has been conjectured by some that the garnet is meant. In Isa. 54:12 the Hebrew word is _'ekdah_, used in the prophetic description of the glory and beauty of the mansions above. Next to the diamond it is the hardest and most costly of all precious stones.
Compare: Decorated
Decorated (a.) Having decorations. [Narrower terms: beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly; bedaubed; bespectacled, monocled, spectacled; braided; brocaded, embossed, raised; buttony; carbuncled; champleve, cloisonne, enameled; crested, plumed having a decorative plume); crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested; embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; encircled, ringed, wreathed; fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked out; feathery, feathered, plumy; frilled, frilly, ruffled; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid; inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; paneled, wainscoted; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled; tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out]
Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.
Syn: adorned.
Carbuncled (a.) Set with carbuncles.
He has deserves it [armor], were it carbuncled Like holy Phabus' car. -- Shak.
Carbuncled (a.) Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; marked with red sores; pimpled and blotched. "A carbuncled face." -- Brome.
Carbuncled (a.) Afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle [syn: carbuncled, carbuncular]
Carbuncled (a.) Set with carbuncles.
Carbuncular (a.) Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.
Carbuncular (a.) Afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle [syn: carbuncled, carbuncular].
Carbunculation (n.) The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold. -- Harris.
Compare: Carbide
Carbide (n.) (Chem.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.
Carburet (n.) (Chem.) A carbide. See Carbide. [Archaic]
Carbureted (imp. & p. p.) of Carburet.
Carburetted () of Carburet.
Carbureting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carburet.
Carburetting () of Carburet.
Carburet (v. t.) To combine or to impregnate with carbon, as by passing through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize.
By carbureting the gas you may use poorer coal. -- Knight.
Carburet (v.) Combine with carbon.
Carburetant (n.) Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases.
Carbureted (a.) (Chem.) Combined with carbon in the manner of a carburet or carbide.
Carbureted (a.) Saturated or impregnated with some volatile carbon compound; as, water gas is carbureted to increase its illuminating power. [Written also carburetted.]
Carbureted hydrogen gas, Any one of several gaseous compounds of carbon and hydrogen, some of with make up illuminating gas.
Light carbureted hydrogen, Methane ({CH4"> Light carbureted hydrogen, methane ({CH4), also called
marsh gas, and fire damp. Carburetor
Carburetor, Carburettor (n.) (Chem.) An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power. [Written also carburettor.]
Carburetor, Carburettor (n.) One that carburets; specif., an apparatus in which air or gas is carbureted, as by passing it through a light petroleum oil. The carburetor for a gasoline engine is usually either a surface carburetor, or alternatively a float carburetor (called also float-feed carburetor, or spray carburetor). In the former air is charged by being passed over the surface of gasoline. In the latter a fine spray of gasoline is drawn from an atomizing nozzle by a current of air induced by the suction of the engine piston, the supply of gasoline being regulated by a float which actuates a needle valve controlling the outlet of the feed pipe. Alcohol and other volatile inflammable liquids may be used instead of gasoline.
Carburetor (n.) Mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion [syn: carburetor, carburettor].
Carburization (n.) (Chem.) The act, process, or result of carburizing.
Carburized (imp. & p. p.) of Carburize.
Carburizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carburize.
Carburize (v. t.) (Chem.) To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile hydrocarbons.
Carburize (v.)
Unite with carbon; "carburize metal" [syn: carbonize, carbonise,
carburize, carburise].
Compare: Glutton
Glutton (n.) One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
Glutton (n.) Fig.: One who gluts himself.
Gluttons in murder, Wanton to destroy. -- Granville
Glutton (n.) (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal ({Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelid[ae], about the size of a large badger; called also wolverine, wolverene and carcajou. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
Glutton bird (Zool.), The giant fulmar ({Ossifraga gigantea); -- called also Mother Carey's goose, and mollymawk.
Compare: Wolverene
Wolverene, Wolverine (n.) (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal ({Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger; called also glutton and carcajou. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
Wolverene, Wolverine (n.) A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan. [U. S.]
Carcajou (n.) (Zool.) The wolverene; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene.
Carcajou (n.) Stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal [syn: wolverine, carcajou, skunk bear, Gulo luscus].
Carcanet (n.) A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkanet and carcant.] -- Shak.
Carcase (n.) See Carcass.
Carcasses (n. pl. ) of Carcass.
Carcass (n.) A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.
He turned to see the carcass of the lion. -- Judges xiv. 8.
This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads. -- De Foe.
Carcass (n.) The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule. "To pamper his own carcass." -- South.
Lovely her face; was ne'er so fair a creature.
For earthly carcass had a heavenly feature. -- Oldham.
Carcass (n.) The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing.
A rotten carcass of a boat. -- Shak.
Carcass (n.) (Mil.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.
A discharge of carcasses and bombshells. -- W. Iving.
Carcase (n.) The dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food [syn: carcase, carcass].
Carcase, () Contact with a, made an Israelite ceremonially unclean, and made whatever he touched also unclean, according to the Mosaic law (Hag. 2:13; comp. Num. 19:16, 22; Lev. 11:39).
Compare: Calcavella
Calcavella (n.) A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos. [Written also Calcavellos or Carcavelhos.]
Carcavelhos (n.) A sweet wine. See Calcavella.
Carcelage (n.) Prison fees. [Obs.]
Carcel lamp () A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.
Carceral (a.) Belonging to a prison. [R.] -- Foxe.
Carcinological (a.) Of or pertaining to carcinology.
Compare: Malacostracology
Malacostracology (n.) That branch of Zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
Carcinology (n.) (Zool.) The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.
Compare: Cancer
Cancer (n.) (Zool.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.
Cancer (n.) (Astron.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.
Cancer (n.) (Astron.) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.
Cancer (n.) (Med.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.
Note: Four kinds of cancers are recognized: (1) Epithelial cancer, or Epithelioma, in which there is no trabecular framework. See Epithelioma. (2) Scirrhous cancer, or Hard cancer, in which the framework predominates, and the tumor is of hard consistence and slow growth. (3) Encephaloid cancer, Medullary cancer, or Soft cancer, in which the cellular element predominates, and the tumor is soft, grows rapidy, and often ulcerates. (4) Colloid cancer, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three varieties are also called carcinoma.
Cancer cells, Cells once believed to be peculiar to cancers, but now know to be epithelial cells differing in no respect from those found elsewhere in the body, and distinguished only by peculiarity of location and grouping.
Cancer root (Bot.), The name of several low plants, mostly parasitic on roots, as the beech drops, the squawroot, etc.
Tropic of Cancer. See Tropic.
Carcinoma (n.) (Med.) A form of malignant cancer arising from epithelial tissue.
The term was earlier applied to all forms of cancer, or to certain non-malignant forms. It is contrasted with sarcoma, a malignant form of cancer arising from connective tissue.
See Cancer. -- Dunglison. -- Stedman.
Carcinoma (n.) Any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer.
Carcinomatous (a.) Of or pertaining to carcinoma.
Carcinomatous (a.) Being or relating to carcinoma; "a carcinomatous lesion".
Carcinosys (n.) The affection of the system with cancer.