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To cover with, or as with, a canopy. "A bank with ivy canopied." Milton.

lied. 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, to complete the connection.

oad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor. In the capacious recesses of his mind. Bancroft.

A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest. A capcase for your linen and your plate. Beau. & Fl.

A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.

The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.

A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.

ting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team. A trainband captain eke was he. Cowper. The Rhodian captain, relying on . . . the lightness of his vessel, passed, in open day, through all the guards. Arbuthnot.

power, teritory, or jurisdiction of a captain general; as, the captaincy general of La Habana (Cuba and its islands).

o harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. Captious restraints on navigation. Bancroft.

The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing. A rotten carcass of a boat. Shak.

tinue; as, to carry on a design. (b) To manage, conduct, or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry or trade. -- To carry out. (a) To bear from within. (b) To put into execution; to bring to a successful issue. (c) To sustain to the end; to continue to the end. -- To carry through. (a) To convey through the midst of. (b…

A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. Packing all his goods in one poor cart. Dryden.

to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

lace where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. [Obs.] This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. Sir W. Temple. £20,000 are known to be in her cash. Sir R. Winwood.

er; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.

A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds, signed by the cashier.

To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee. Luke xix. 48.

A forked stick with elasti band for throwing small stones, etc.

Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony. [Colloq.] Marryat.