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Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.

-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.

To make a carom.

See Caramel.

A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs. Simmonds.

Of or pertaining to stupor; as, a carotic state.

One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head.

Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as, the carotid gland.

A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.

A cylindrical roll of tobacco; as, a carotte of perique.

A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse. The swains were preparing for a carousal. Sterne.

A large draught of liguor. [Obs.] "A full carouse of sack." Sir J. Davies. Drink carouses to the next day's fate. Shak.

One who carouses; a reveler.

That carouses; relating to a carouse.

In the manner of a carouser.

; to censure words or actions without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at. Carping and caviling at faults of manner. Blackw. Mag. And at my actions carp or catch. Herbert.

Of or pertaining to the carpus, or wrist. -- n.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

Of or pertaining to a range of mountains in Austro-Hungary, called the Carpathians, which partially inclose Hungary on the north, east, and south.

ed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore.