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To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.

A song or air for one or more voices, of Provençal origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal.

Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use; as:

Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacæ.

A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidæ. -- n.

A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards.

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.

The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh.

A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet. "The grassy carpet of this plain." Shak. Carpet beetle or Carpet bug (Zoöl.), a small beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariæ), which, in the larval state, does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; -- also called buffalo bug. -- Carpet knight. (a) A knight wh…

One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy. Caseous degeneration, a morbid process, in scrofulous or consumptive persons, in which the products of inflammation are converted into a cheesy substance which is neither absorbed nor organized.

ous king of Ethiopia. Cassiopeia's Chair, a group of six stars, in Cassiopeia, somewhat resembling a chair.

tine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black.

A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.

Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.