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To cut or hack, as in fighting. [Obs.] I'll so carbonado your shanks. Shak.

The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or caold. Harris.

g through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize. By carbureting the gas you may use poorer coal. Knight.

To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. [Obs.] You card your beer, if you guests being to be drunk. -- half small, half strong. Greene.

A woman's short cloak with a hood. Where's your cardinal! Make haste. Lloyd.

Christmas or Easter carol. Heard a carol, mournful, holy. Tennyson. In the darkness sing your carol of high praise. Keble.

the rich grape. Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. Young.

To defy or challenge. [Obs.] You shall cartel him. B. Jonson.

If the case of the man be so with his wife. Matt. xix. 10. And when a lady's in the case. You know all other things give place. Gay. You think this madness but a common case. Pope. I am in case to justle a constable, Shak.

o throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose. His filth within being cast. Shak. Neither shall your vine cast her fruit. Mal. iii. 11 The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the viper, etc. Bacon.

o take arms against a sea of troubles. " Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young.

ment. [Colloq.] -- To catch one's eye, to interrupt captiously while speaking. [Colloq.] "You catch me up so very short." Dickens. -- To catch up, to snatch; to take up suddenly.

An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

y subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. What counsel give you in this weighty cause! Shak.

, 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.

Caution; prudent; wary. [Obs.] "Cautelous, though young." Drayton.

l of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction. In way of caution I must tell you. Shak. Caution money, money deposited by way of security or guaranty, as by a student at an English university.

us general. Cautious feeling for another's pain. Byron. Be swift to hear; but cautious of your tongue. Watts.

To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. Shak.

to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday. Fron even unto shall ye celebrate your Sabbath. Lev. xxiii. 32.