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5,161 words match “CAR”

CARTOONIST n.
One skilled in drawing cartoons.
CARTOUCH n. 8 definitions
A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge.
CARTRIDGE n.
held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material. Ball cartridge, a cartridge containing a projectile. -- Blank cartrige, a cartridge without a projectile, -- Center-fire cartridge, a cartridge in which the fulminate occupies an axial position usually in the center of the base of the…
CARTULARY n. 2 definitions
A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.
CARTWAY n.
A way or road for carts.
CARTWRIGHT n.
An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
CARUCAGE n. 2 definitions
A tax on every plow or plowland.
CARUCATE n.
A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres. Burrill.
CARUNCLE; CARUNCULA n. 3 definitions
A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.
CARUNCULAR; CARUNCULOUS a.
Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.
CARUNCULATE; CARUNCULATED a.
Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.
CARUS n.
Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
CARVACROL n.
ick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).
CARVE v. 10 definitions
To cut. [Obs.] Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. Spenser.
CARVEL n. 2 definitions
Same as Caravel.
CARVELBUILT a.
Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
CARVEN a.
Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. [Poetic] A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.
CARVENE n.
An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.
CARVER n. 3 definitions
One who carves; one who shapes 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. )
CARVING n. 3 definitions
The act or art of one who carves.
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