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family Canidæ, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.

o hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter.

ns. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catolic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. -- Canonic…

nder capable; to enable; to qualify. By thih instruction we may be capaciated to observe those errors. Dryden.

One whose business is to make or sell caps.

Having feet like those of a goat.

use, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction. [Obs.] Without any of those dresses, or popular captations, which some men use in their speeches. Eikon Basilike.

rocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite. Carbon compounds, Compounds of carbon (Chem.), those compounds consisting largely of carbon, commonly produced by animals and plants, and hence called organic compounds, though their synthesis may be effected in many cases in the laboratory. The formation of the compounds of ca…

He turned to see the carcass of the lion. Judges xiv. 8. This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads. De Foe.

eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sa) lying between those islands and Central America.

A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car.

Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints. The flesh tints in painting are termed carnations. Fairholt.

left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem. Acts. xxi. 15.

found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin. [Written also caseine.]

redit and cash account. -- Cash sales, sales made for ready, money, in distinction from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be delivered on the day of transaction.

rs so, as to resemble small cradle. The string is transferred from the fingers of one to those of another, at each transfer with a change of form. See Cratch, Cratch cradle. -- To let the cat out of the bag, to tell a secret, carelessly or willfully. [Colloq.] -- Bush cat, the serval. See Serval.

A slight remembrance; a trace. We retain a catch of those pretty stories. Glanvill.

al and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor.

series of things connected with each other. I have . . . in no case sought to construct those catenæ of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. C. J. Ellicott.

apostles which are addressed to all the faithful, and not to a particular church; being those of James, Peter, Jude, and John.