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leet. Shak. He carried away all his cattle. Gen. xxxi. 18. Passion and revenge will carry them too far. Locke.

c., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade. Jay.

To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. Who could easily have carved themselves their own food. South.

eparate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. Macaulay. To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.

hat which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency. Losses that befall them by mere casualty. Sir W. Raleigh.

, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.

n of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.

ly feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.

Adherence to the doctrines of the church of Rome, or the doctrines themselves.

A fight in which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes.

devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

mes . . . But where there is true friendship there needs none. Shak. Al ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. Chesterfield.

That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

r measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations.

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.

To censure; to blame. [Obs.] He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them. Holland.

lted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks. Channel bar, Channel iron (Arch.), an iron bar or beam having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel. -- Channel bill (Zoöl.), a very large Australian cucko (Scythrops Novæhollandiæ. -- Channel…

The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap. "Open your chaps again." Shak.

nally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

ed to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.