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A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales. [Written also kantry.]

A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap. Cap of a cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; -- now called an apron. -- Cap in hand, obsequiously; submissively. -- Cap of liberty. See Liberty cap, under Liberty. -- Cap of maintenance, a cap of state carried before th…

oasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod. [Written also capelan and caplin.]

The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choirmaster. [Written also kepellmeister.]

or, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. [Written also capercaillie, capercaili.]

A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.

caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. [Written also caravanserai and caravansera.]

olatile carbon compound; as, water gas is carbureted to increase its illuminating power. [Written also carburetted.] Carbureted hydrogen gas, any one of several gaseous compounds of carbon and hydrogen, some of with make up illuminating gas. -- Light carbureted hydrogen, marsh gas, CH4; fire damp.

rough or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power. [Written also carburettor.]

A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkenet and carcant.] Shak.

A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. Dunglison.

A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.

son or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody. [Formerly written caricatura.] The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature. I. Taylor. A grotesque caricature of virtue. Macaulay.

us seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]

ch of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring.

antly in the seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin. [Written also caseine.]

A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. [Written also kerseymere.]

out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator.

Passing opportunities seized; snatches. It has been writ by catches with many intervals. Locke.

A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc. [Written also ketchup.]