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To cut completely; to cut off. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.

The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.

A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus, or of allied genera.

A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad. [Eng.]

A framework moving on casters, designed to support children while learning to walk.

A car with a grip to clutch a traction cable.

Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth. Gray.

A cart drawn or pushed by hand.

sh; thoughtless. [Colloq.] They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad. Thackeray.

A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left. B. G. Wilder.

One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.

The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in Amphicarpæa, in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground.

Characterized by heterocarpism.

A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.

A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.

Of the nature, or containing, hydrocarbons.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C9H9NO, obtained from certain derivatives of cinnamic acid and closely related to quinoline and carbostyril.

Carbureted hydrogen; also, a hydrocarbon. [Obs.]

A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air, the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position. It is used with some English and European heavy guns.