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The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.

is of a pubic character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay.

lifornia woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvæ, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird.

The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management. The passage and whole carriage of this action. Shak. Carriage horse, a horse kept for drawing a carriage. -- Carriage porch (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those…

The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.

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.

Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance. Abney.

Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.

That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish. Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains. Shak.

n, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto.

A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water. Philips.

A stem structure or stem axis of a plant, viewed as a whole. -- Cau*lom"ic (#), a.

of motion; quickness; swiftness. Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. Johnson.

which the essential element of every tissue, either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of cells having been formed from the development of the germ cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants ans animals, are to be considered as a mass of minute cells communicating…

onsists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cem…

Relating to, or containing, a census. He caused the whole realm to be described in a censual roll. Sir R. Baker.

he Erytheræa Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.

An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.

The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.