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Crossbarres; marked with cross lines. Grew.

A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon.

A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.

A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages. A birch canoe, with paddles, rising, falling, on the water. Longfellow.

one who travels in a canoe. Cabins and clearing greeted the eye of the passing canoeman. Parkman.

ike, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. "Golden canoniec and beds of state." Dryden.

To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. They canton out themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world. Locke.

Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.

Cantoral staff, the official staff or baton of a cantor or precentor, with which time is marked for the singers.

States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.

ecause it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization. Mineral caoutchouc. See under Mineral.

One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.

A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. Clarke.

ily Carambucidæ; one of the long-horned beetles. The larvæ usually bore into the wood or bark of trees and shurbs and are often destructive. See Girdler, Pruner.

de 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.

by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.

Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; marked with red sores; pimpled and blotched. "A carbuncled face." Brome.

A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkenet and carcant.] Shak.

A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card. Shak.

not care a pin, if the other three were in. Shak. Master, carest thou not that we perish Mark. iv. 38. To care for. (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of.