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One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus, which articulates with the ulna and corresponds to the cuneiform in man.

a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike. Unciform bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus at the bases of the fourth and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.

Having one valve; as, a univalve shell or pericarp.

unsuitable; -- usually followed by for. "Unmeet for a wife." Tennyson. And all unmeet our carpet floors. Emerson. -- Un*meet"ly, adv. -- Un*meet"ness, n.

A machine for cleaning carpets, tapestry, upholstered work, etc., by suction.

valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.

A ditch on the outside of the counterscarp, usually full of water.

A thin membrane surrounding the sporocarps of quillworts Isoetes).

s of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other positions. -- Venetian carpet, an inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes. -- Venetian chalk, a white compact or steatite, used for mark…

Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.

The carp; -- so called on account of its cunning. Walton.

e of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story. When she weaved the sleided silk. Shak. Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves. Ld. Lytton.

the first list of 1828. [Cant, Cambridge Univ., Eng.] C. A. Bristed. Fox wedge. (Mach. & Carpentry) See under Fox. -- Spherical wedge (Geom.), the portion of a sphere included between two planes which intersect in a diameter.

In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.

a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.

n gray, whisking his riding rod. J. Fletcher. I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another. Walpole.

An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.

f small Crustacea, as the Limnoria, and the boring amphipod (Chelura terebrans). -- Wood carpet, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth. Knight. -- Wood cell (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the pri…

A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.

yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery, gloves, and the like.