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Quality of being burly.

Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. "A bustling wharf." Hawthorne.

Butchery quality.

Caballine aloes. Caballine aloes, an inferior and impure kind of aloes formerly used in veterinary practice; -- called also horse aloes. -- Caballine spring, the fountain of Hippocrene, on Mount Helicon; - - fabled to have been formed by a stroke from the foot of the winged horse Pegasus.

The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.

The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

The broken noise of a goose or a hen.

A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird. [Poetic] Tennyson.

A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.

An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters.

A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament. The frequent calling and meeting of Parlaiment. Macaulay.

The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power. [Written also camerlengo and camarlengo.]

Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod. [Written also capelan and caplin.]

A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.

Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. "Capitolian Jove." Macaulay. Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period of neglect, they were held every fifth…

See Capelin.

The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel. Wright.

A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.

Of or pertaining to the roebuck.

The Mexican chery (Prunus Capollin).