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Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.

An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.

One who carps; a caviler. Shak.

iginally, also, a wrought cover for tables. Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets. T. Fuller.

A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.

An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [U. S.]

1. The act of covering with carpets.

Without a carpet.

One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.

A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. Ray.

See Flaccillation.

Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious. -- Carp"ing*ly, adv.

A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvæ, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird.

Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.

A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.

Of or pertaining to carpology.

One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.

That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.