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A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.

Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.

A law or rule. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self- slaughter. Shak.

g clergymam or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the cammunion, and to distinguish them from heretics. -- Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient cleargy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid that the monastic, and more restrain…

rranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody.

t size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior.

property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.

A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.

To act as captain of; to lead. [R.] Men who captained or accompanied the exodus from existing forms. Lowell.

The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process. [R.] Bouvier.

A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to an acid so called. Carbamic acid (Chem.), an amido acid, NH2.CO2H, not existing in the free state, but occurring as a salt of ammonium in commercial ammonium carbonate; -- called also amido formic acid.

iamond, and Graphite. Carbon compounds, Compounds of carbon (Chem.), those compounds consisting largely of carbon, commonly produced by animals and plants, and hence called organic compounds, though their synthesis may be effected in many cases in the laboratory. The formation of the compounds of carbon is not dependen…

r obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide. Carbonic acid (Chem.), an acid H2CO3, not existing separately, which, combined with positive or basic atoms or radicals, forms carbonates. On common language the term is very generally applied to a compound of carbon and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called carbon dioxide. It…

An explosive consisting essentially of nitroglycerin, wood meal, and some nitrate, as that of sodium.

A beautiful crystalline compound, SiC, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.

The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or caold. Harris.

ton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

Checking or arresting the heart's action.

ration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.