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The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.

A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.

A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.] Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital. Sir W. Scott.

.] -- Horse car, or Street car, an ommibus car, draw by horses or other power upon rails laid in the streets. [U. S.] -- Palace car, Drawing- room car, Sleeping car, Parior caretc. , (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished for the comfort of travelers.

The amount paid by one road the use of cars of another road.

A staircase in a spiral form. En caracole ( Etym: [F.], spiral; -- said of a staircase.

To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

the the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.

llow of the shoulder in a nearly perpendicular position. In this position the soldier is said to stand, and the musket to be held, at carry. -- To carry all before one, to overcome all obstacles; to have uninterrupted success. -- To carry arms (a) To bear weapons. (b) To serve as a soldier. -- To carry away. (a) (Na…

The price paid for carting.

skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.

A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres. Burrill.

ic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication.

nces; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.

A place 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.

A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.

To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope. "Let it be cast and paid." Shak. You cast the event of war my noble lord. Shak.

Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.

he lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.

Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.