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n one's capital, to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it.

A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.

An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements.

A place for careening.

icate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.

with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

Placed in a caroche. [Obs.] Beggary rides caroched. Massenger.

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off. When he dieth he small carry nothing away. Ps. xiix. 17. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence to Russell. Macaulay. The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty mile…

The act or business of transporting from one place to another. Carrying place, a carry; a portage. -- Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade. Jay.

(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

th 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.

A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

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.

iscard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of frust. They have cashiered several of their followers. Addison. He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. Macaulay.

n. O my soul" Ps. xiii. 5. -- To cast forth, to throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit; to send out. -- To cast in one's lot with, to share the fortunes of. -- To cast in one's teeth, to upbraid or abuse one for; to twin. -- To cast lots. See under Lot. -- To cast off. (a) To discard or reject; to…

. . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator.

te, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.

A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.

of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.

A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a graff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix.