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A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold. [Turkey]

A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.

A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [Prov. Eng.]

To curl or friz, as the hair. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

human skull reported, by Prof. J. D. Whitney, as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented anti…

erized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person.

To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak.

es called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry. Like light canes, that first rise big and brave. B. Jonson.

One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe. Cabins and clearing greeted the eye of the passing canoeman. Parkman.

h church. -- Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a dishop to traveling clergymam or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the cammunion, and to distinguish them from heretics. -- Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient cleargy who lived in communi…

Chaucer puts into the mouths of certain pilgrims to Canterbury. Hence, any tale told by travelers pass away the time.

To search thoroughly; to engage in solicitation by traversing a district; as, to canvass for subscriptions or for votes; to canvass for a book, a publisher, or in behalf of a charity; -- commonly followed by for.

A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest. A capcase for your linen and your plate. Beau. & Fl.

An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

, Parior caretc. , (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished for the comfort of travelers.

A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.

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.

Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody. [Obs.] This carnal cur Preys on the issue of his mother's body. Shak. Carnal knowledge, sexual intercourse; -- used especially of an unlawful act on the part of the man.

A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.

ly drawn by a single native pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.