Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 23
Cartilaginous (a.) Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
Cartilaginous (a.) (Zool.) Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.
Cartilaginous (a.) Of or relating to cartilage.
Cartilaginous (a.) Difficult to chew [syn: cartilaginous, gristly, rubbery].
Cartman (n.) (pl. - men) One who drives or uses a cart; a teamster; a carter.
Cartographer (n.) One who makes charts or maps. Cartographic
Cartographer (n.) A person who makes maps [syn: cartographer, map maker].
Cartographic (a.) Alt. of Cartographical.
Cartographical (a.) Of or pertaining to cartography.
Cartographic (a.) Of or relating to the making of maps or charts [syn: cartographic, cartographical].
Cartographically (adv.) By cartography.
Cartography (n.) The art or business of forming charts or maps.
Cartography (n.) The making of maps and charts [syn: mapmaking, cartography].
Cartomancy (n.) The art of telling fortunes with cards.
Carton (n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.
Carton pierre, A species of papier-mach['e], imitating stone or bronze sculpture. -- Knight.
Carton (n.) The quantity contained in a carton [syn: carton, cartonful].
Carton (n.) A box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top
Comic strip (n.) A brief sequence of drawings, usually with characters drawn only sketchily, as in a cartoon, with dialog written in "balloons" over a character's head, and depicting a fictional and usually comical incident; -- also called a cartoon.
Each comic strip contains typically from four to six panels arranged horizontally, but widely varying arrangements are published. In modern newspapers, weekly comic strips are in color, and daily strips are usually in black and white. In some, the story depicted may be serialized and continuous, carried over from day to day or week to week. Stories of adventure, drama, mystery or an otherwise non-comical nature depicted in the same style are also called comic strips.
Cartoon (n.) 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.
Cartoon (n.) A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."
Cartoon (n.) same as comic strip.
Cartoon (n.) A motion picture consisting of a series of frames, each being a photograph of a drawing rather than a frame produced by filming a scene of true action, and in which the objects are displaced slightly in succeeding frames so as to give the appearance of motion when projected as a motion picture on the screen. The types of characters portrayed in such films are often similar or identical to those in a comic strip.
Cartoon (n.) A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine [syn: cartoon, sketch].
Cartoon (n.) A film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence [syn: cartoon, animated cartoon, toon].
Cartoon (v.) Draw cartoons of.
Cartoonist (n.) One skilled in drawing cartoons. Cartouch
Cartouches (n. pl. ) of Cartouch.
Cartouch (n.) (Mil.) A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge
Cartouch (n.) (Mil.) A cartridge box.
Cartouch (n.) (Mil.) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
Cartouch (n.) (Mil.) A gunner's bag for ammunition.
Cartouch (n.) (Mil.) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
Cartouch (n.) (Arch.) A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper
Cartouch (n.) (Arch.) 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.
Cartouch (n.) (Egyptian Antiq.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.
Cartouch (n.) A cartridge (usually with paper casing) [syn: cartouche, cartouch].
Pickup, or Pick-up, (n.) [Colloq., Cant, or Slang] Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
Pickup, or Pick-up, (n.) That which picks up; specif.: (Elec.) same as Brush b.
Pickup, or Pick-up, (n.) One that is picked up, as a meal hastily got up for the occasion, a chance acquaintance, an informal game, etc.
Pickup, or Pick-up, (n.) A social companion for the evening who is met without prior arrangement, as at a singles bar; also, the act of joining with such a companion in that fashion.
Pickup, or Pick-up, (n.) (Automobiles) Acceleration; a measure of the ability of a vehicle to accelerate.
Pickup, or Pick-up, (n.) (Electronics) A component of a phonograph which contains the stylus and also components for converting the vibrations of the stylus into electrical impulses for subsequent processing into sound; often referred to as a cartridge; also, the process of converting vibrations into electrical impulses.
Pickup, or Pick-up, (n.) (Electronics) the conversion of sound or light into electrical signals in a sound or image recording or transmitting device.
Pickup, or Pick-up, (n.) (Vehicles) A small truck having an enclosed driver's compartment (cab) but an open rear with usually low sides and a tailgate. Also called pickup truck.
Pickup, or Pick-up, (n.) A hitchhiker who has been picked up.
Cartridge (n.) 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.
Cartridge paper. (b) A rough tinted paper used for covering walls, and also for making drawings upon.
Cartridge (n.) Ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun.
Cartridge (n.) A light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required [syn: magazine, cartridge].
Cartridge (n.) A module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment; "he loaded a cartridge of fresh tape into the tape deck".
Cartridge (n.) An electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable [syn: cartridge, pickup].
Cartularies (n. pl. ) of Cartulary.
Cartulary (n.) A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.
Cartulary (n.) An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers.
Cartway (n.) A way or road for carts.
Cartwright (n.) An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
Cartwright (n.) English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823) [syn: Cartwright, Edmund Cartwright].
Cartwright (n.) A workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons.
Carucage (n.) (Old Eng. Law.) A tax on every plow or plowland.
Carucage (n.) The act of plowing. [R.]
Carucate (n.) 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
Caruncle (n.) Alt. of Caruncula.
Caruncula (n.) (Anat.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.
Caruncula (n.) (Bot.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.
Caruncula (n.) (Zool.) A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc. Caruncular
Caruncula (n.) An outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds [syn: caruncle, caruncula].
Caruncular (a.) Alt. of Carunculous.
Carunculous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles. Carunculate
Carunculous (a.) Resembling a caruncle [syn: caruncular, carunculous].
Carunculate (a.) Alt. of Carunculated.
Carunculated (a.) Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.
Carunculate (a.) Having a caruncle [syn: carunculate, carunculated].
Carus (n.) (Med.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
Carvacrol (n.) (Chem.) A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).
Carved (imp. & p. p.) of Carve.
Carving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carve.
Carve (v. t.) To cut. [Obs.]
Carve (v. t.) 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.
Carve (v. t.) 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.
Carve (v. t.) To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. "To carve a capon." -- Shak.
Carve (v. t.) 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.
Carve (v. t.) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
Who could easily have carved themselves their own food. -- South.
Carve (v. t.) 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 (v. i.) To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
Carve (v. i.) To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.
Carve (n.) A carucate. [Obs.] -- Burrill.
Carve (v.) Form by carving; "Carve a flower from the ice".
Carve (v.) Engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark" [syn: carve, chip at].
Carve (v.) Cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham" [syn: carve, cut up].
Caravel (n.) [written also carvel and caravelle.] (Naut.) A name given to several kinds of vessels.
Caravel (n.) (a) 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.) (b) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.
Caravel (n.) (c) A small fishing boat used on the French coast.
Caravel (n.) (d) A Turkish man-of-war.
Carvel (n.) Same as Caravel.
Carvel (n.) A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Carvelbuilt (a.) (Shipbuilding) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
Carven (a.) 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.
Carven (a.) Made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary); "the carved fretwork"; "an intricately carved door"; "stood as if carven from stone" [syn: carved, carven] [ant: uncarved].
Carvene (n.) An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.
Carver (n.) 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
Carver (n.) One who carves or divides meat at table.
Carver (n.) A large knife for carving.
Carver (n.) United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943) [syn: Carver, George Washington Carver].
Carver (n.) Makes decorative wooden panels [syn: woodcarver, carver].
Carver (n.) An artist who creates sculptures [syn: sculptor, sculpturer, carver, statue maker].
Carver (n.) Someone who carves the meat [syn: cutter, carver].
Carving (n.) The act or art of one who carves.
Carving (n.) A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material. "Carving in wood." -- Sir W. Temple.
Carving (n.) The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.
Carving (n.) A sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape.
Carving (n.) Removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape [syn: carving, cutting].
Carving (n.) Creating figures or designs in three dimensions [syn: sculpture, carving],
Carvist (n.) (Falconary) A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year. -- Booth.
Carvol (n.) (Chem.) One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.
Car wheel () A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck. Caryatic
Car wheel (n.) A wheel that has a tire and rim and hubcap; used to propel the car.
Caryatic (a.) Alt. of Caryatid.
Caryatid (a.) Of or pertaining to a caryatid.
Caryatids (n. pl. ) of Caryatid.
Caryatid (n.) (Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.
Caryatic, Caryatid, (a.) Of or pertaining to a caryatid.
Caryatid (n.) A supporting column carved in the shape of a person.
Caryatides (n. pl.) (Arch) Caryatids.
Note: Corresponding male figures were called Atlantes, Telamones, and Persians.
Caryophyllaceous (a.) (Bot.) Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink
Caryophyllaceous (a.) (Bot.) Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.
Caryophyllaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae.
Caryophyllin (n.) (Chem.) A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.
Caryophyllous (a.) Caryophyllaceous.
Caryopses (n. pl. ) of Caryopsis.
Caryopsis (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Casal (a.) (Gram.) Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.
Cascabel (n.) 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.
Note: [See Illust. of Cannon.]
Cascabel (n.) A bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh [syn: sleigh bell, cascabel].
Cascade (n.) 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. -- Longjellow.
Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. -- Cowper.
Cascade (v. i.) To fall in a cascade. -- Lowell.
Cascade (v. i.) To vomit. [Slang] -- Smollett.
Cascade (n.) A small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
Cascade (n.) A succession of stages or operations or processes or units; "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"
Cascade (n.) A sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden cascade of sparks" [syn: shower, cascade].
Cascade (v.) Rush down in big quantities, like a cascade [syn: cascade, cascade down].
Cascade (v.) Arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible.
Cascalho (n.) A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.
Cascara (n.) The dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative; -- called also cascara sagrada.
Syn: chittam bark, chittem bark.
Cascara buckthorn (Bot.) The buckthorn ({Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada.
Cascara
sagrada () [Sp.]
Holy bark; the bark of the
Chittamwood (n.) A shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast ({Rhamnus purshianus or Rhamnus purshiana), whose bark is the cascara sagrada, used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
Syn: cascara, cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus.
Chittamwood (n.) A deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico.
Syn: false buckthorn, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa.
Chittamwood (n.) A shrubby tree of southern U.S. ({Cotinus obovatus) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called also American smoke tree.
Syn: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus.
Cascara sagrada (n.) Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative [syn: cascara, cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittem bark].
Cascarilla (n.) (Bot.) A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub ({Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.
Cascarilla bark (or Cascarilla) (Med.), 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.
Cascarilla (n.) West Indian shrub with aromatic bark [syn: cascarilla, Croton eluteria].
Cascarillin (n.) (Chem.) A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.
Case (n.) 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.
Case (n.) A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
Case (n.) (Print.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
Note: 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.
Case (n.) An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
Case (n.) (Mining) A small fissure which admits water to the workings. -- Knight.
Cased (imp. & p. p.) of Case.
Casing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Case.
Case (v. t.) 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.
Case (v. t.) To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. [Obs.]
Case (n.) Chance; accident; hap; opportunity. [Obs.]
By aventure, or sort, or cas. -- Chaucer.
Case (n.) That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge. -- Deut. xxiv. 13.
If the case of the man be so with his wife. -- Matt. xix. 10.
And when a lady's in the case You know all other things give place. -- Gay.
You think this madness but a common case. -- Pope.
I am in case to justle a constable, -- Shak.
Case (n.) (Med. & Surg.) A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
A proper remedy in hypochondriacal cases. -- Arbuthnot.
Case (n.) (Law) The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.
Let us consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason. -- Sir John Powell.
Not one case in the reports of our courts. -- Steele.