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ferent rates of speed, or in opposite directions, The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called sivers.

; concern; solicitude. Care keeps his wath in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. Shak.

Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted. Spenser. Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. Shak.

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes. Sharp (Richardson's Dict. )

d. -- Cat hook (Naut.), a strong hook attached to a cat block. -- Cat nap, a very short sleep. [Colloq.] -- Cat o' nine tails, an instrument of punishment consisting of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle; -- formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back. -- Cat's cradle, game played, esp. by…

ontagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.

Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral walks. Pope.

An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.

A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.

a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit. (b) To submit; to yield. [Slang] H. Kingsley.

A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.

hackeray. A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed each other about their sweethearts. C. Kingsley.

An iron blok used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers. Chair days, days of repose and age. -- To put into the chair, to elect as president, or as chairman of a meeting. Macaulay. -- To take the chair, to assume the position of president, or of chairman of a meeting.

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

Partnership in power; equal share of authority. [Obs.] Beauté ne sleighte, strengthe ne hardyness, Ne may with Venus holde champartye. Chaucer.

m church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front. Chancel aisle (Arch.), the aisle which passes on either side of or around the chancel. -- Chancel arch (Arch.), the arch which spans the main opening, leading to the chancel -- Chancel casement, the principal window in a chancel. Tennyson.…

To make music upon; to tune. [Obs. & R.] Here we our slender pipes may safely charm. Spenser.

A distinguishing mark, above the elow, on the sleeve of a noncommisioned officer's coat.

ncipal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrallly, near together.