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Same as 2d Carte.

The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.

line. [Obs.] They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart. Bacon.

nce; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc. [They] rammed me in with foul shirts, and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins. Shak.

In the United States navy, designating such a gun using fixed ammunition or metallic cartridge cases; -- distinguished from breech- loading (abbr. B. L.), applied to all guns loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns in the navy also sometimes include automatic or semiautomatic rapi…

of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike. [Trades-union Cant] J. McCarthy.

One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.

A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.

Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.

In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. (b) (Surg.)

The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger. Halliwell.

[Obs.] Shak. Arch rim (Phonetics), the line between the gums and the palate. -- Rim-fire cartridge. (Mil.) See under Cartridge. -- Rim lock. See under Lock.

ssion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-fire; -- said of cartridges; also, using rim-fire cartridges; as, a rim-fire gun. Such cartridges are now little used.

or the like. The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar. Milton. How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar. Gay.

One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.

An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.

eing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin.

by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. Macaulay.