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A race course: the ground run over. To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney.

Same as Carl, 3. Carling Sunday, a Sunday in Lent when carls are eaten. In some parts of England, Passion Sunday. See Carl, 4.

Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine. Carminic acid. Same as Carmine, 3.

Same as 4th Carol.

en; baggage. [Obs.] David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem. Acts. xxi. 15.

Same as Caravel.

Same as Casein.

A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long. Casbew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the ca…

Same as Casque. [Obs.]

Same as Seggar.

Same as Castleguard.

communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorus and insipid. Castor-oil plant. Same as Palma Christi.

A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.

urve is marked by secondary elevations due to two or more expansions of the artery in the same beat. -- Ca*tac"rotism (#), n.

Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

sity and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.

Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine- wheel window.

s in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the o…

Same as Catchup, and Ketchup.

A gung of slaves. Same as Coffle.