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in this state becomes the common soda water of the shops, and the carbonated water of natural springs. Combined with lime it constitutes limestone, or common marble and chalk. Plants imbibe it for their nutrition and growth, the carbon being retained and the oxygen given out. -- Carbonic oxide (Chem.), a colorless ga…

The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. Her complexion of the delicate carnation. Ld. Lytton.

Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.

or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes. Sharp (Richardson's Dict. )

tale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long. Casbew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible afte…

drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases. The consideration of these nice and puzzling question in the science of ethics has given rise, in modern times, to a particular department of it, distinguish…

Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fatched. -- Cat`a*chres"tic*al*ly, adv. [A] catachrestical and improper way of speaking. Jer. Taylor.

subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.

A boy kept for unnatural purposes.

Unnatural; contrary to nature. [R.] Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.

A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

ouragement of stock breeding; -- usually accompanied with the exhibition of other agricultural and domestic products and of implements.

A way or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

High-spirited. [Obs.] "The people are naturally not valiant, and not much cavalier." Suckling.

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

ry, to another nation, by treaty. The people must cede to the government some of their natural rights. Jay.

A person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.

Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.

n he was in a certain city. Luke. v. 12. About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum. Macaulay. For certain, assuredly. -- Of a certain, certainly.

A cosmetic containing white lead. To distinguish ceruse from natural bloom. Macaulay.