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e in which the principle of the cantalever is applied. It is usually a trussed bridge, composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers which they overhang, thus forming cantalevers which meet over the space to be spanned or sustain a third portion, t…

A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.

A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.

Art to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. A captius and suspicious. Stillingfleet. I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to adbide the test of a captious controversy. Bwike.

A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.

a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portions being dissolved away). If the process stops here it is called single transfer; if the image i…

g its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.

Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.

An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpeter, sulphur, and kieselguhr.

A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle.

The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed.

es; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual. For ye are yet carnal. 1 Car. iii. 3. Not sunk in carnal pleasure. Milton rnal desires after miracles. Trench.

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.

rm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.

A small war club, esp. of savages; -- so called because of its supposed use in crushing the skull.

ek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic.

r the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.

power is ill understood." Ure. Catalytic force, that form of chemical energy formerly supposed to determine catalysis.

the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.

face at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode. Faraday. Cathode ray (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode in a vacuum tube, by the electrical discharge.