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A piece or point of land, extending beyind the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promonotory; a headland. Cape buffalo (Zoöl.) a large and powerful buffalo of South Africa (Bubalus Caffer). It is said to be the most dangerous wild beast of Africa. See Buffalo, 2. -- Cape jasmine, Cape jassamine. See Jasmine. -…

e point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying dowm.

To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet.

An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge.

To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat Byron.

ptain 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.

kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor.

A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.

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

curs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.

To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. [Obs.] A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed. Bean. & Fl.

reen glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.

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.

A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. Our first cards were to Carabas House. Thackeray.

Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity. The care of all the churches. 2 Car. xi. 28 Him thy care must be to find. Milton. Perlexed with a thousand cares. Shak.

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

A grand division of birds, including all existing flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone.

Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.

Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares.

A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.