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A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin.

and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday. The carnival at Venice is everywhere talked of. Addison.

An order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though some of them, as the bears, also eat vegetable food. The teeth are large and sharp, suitable for cutting flesh, and the jaws powerful.

Greediness of appetite for flesh. [Sportive.] Pope.

One of the Carnivora.

Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.

Of a pertaining to flesh; fleshy. A distinct carnose muscle. Ray.

Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering. [Consciences] overgrown with so hard a carnosity. Spelman. The olives, indeed be very small there, and bigger than capers; yet commended they are for their carnosity. Holland.

An ideal heat-engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four successive operations: (1) Isothermal expansion to a desired point; (2) adiabatic expansion to a desired point; (3) isothermal compression to such a point that (4) adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state.…

found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree.

A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach. [Obs.] To mount two-wheeled caroches. Butler.

Placed in a caroche. [Obs.] Beggary rides caroched. Massenger.

Dead body; carrion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. The costly feast, the carol, and the dance. Dryden It was the carol of a bird. Byron.

r study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. A bay window may thus be called a carol. Parker.

A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.

See Pinkboot.

A coin. See Carline.

A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser.

A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.