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In a candid manner.

The quality of being candid.

Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.

See cantharis.

The active principe of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms.

Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidæ. -- n.

Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus.

Belonging to the Carangidæ, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.

The technical name for urea.

A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.

The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.

A hydrocarbon.

A carbide. [R.]

ound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide. Potassium carboxide, a grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium.

An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart.

One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head.

Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as, the carotid gland.

together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material. Ball cartridge, a cartridge containing a projectile. -- Blank cartrige, a cartridge without a projectile, -- Center-fire cartridge, a cartridge in which the fulminate occupies an axial position usually in the center of the base of the caps…

Of or pertaining to a caryatid.