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the canons of a canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior cleargy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their supriors. -- Canonical punishments, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. -- Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those for which capital p…

A all for bidders at a public sale; an auction. "To sell their leases by cant." Swift.

mposed 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, to complete the connection.

rmometric degrees, and this difference is the measure of, or depends upon, whzt is called their capacity for heat. See Specific heat, under Heat.

r a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. Their horses clothed with rich caparison. Drylen.

envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ. -- Suprarenal capsule, an organ of unknown function, above or in front of each kidney.

action. [Obs.] Without any of those dresses, or popular captations, which some men use in their speeches. Eikon Basilike.

To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. [Obs.] Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak.

To take prisoner; to capture. Their inhabitans slaughtered and captived. Burke.

rbon, commonly produced by animals and plants, and hence called organic compounds, though their synthesis may be effected in many cases in the laboratory. The formation of the compounds of carbon is not dependent upon the life process. I. Remsen -Carbon dioxide, Carbon monoxide. (Chem.) See under Carbonic. -- Carbon l…

ined 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 gas, CO, of a light odor, called more correctly carbon monoxide. It is almost the only definitely known compou…

Not receiving care; uncared for. [R.] Their many wounds and careless hatms. Spemser.

Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sa) lying between those islands and Central America.

; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind. Because of the carnality of their hearts. Tillotson.

r crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

ime of riotous excess. Tennyson. He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival Byron.

n order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though some of them, as the bears, also eat vegetable food. The teeth are large and sharp, suitable for cutting flesh, and the jaws powerful.

he olives, indeed be very small there, and bigger than capers; yet commended they are for their carnosity. Holland.

Joyful music, as of a song. I heard the bells on Christmans Day Their old, familiar carol play. Longfellow.

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