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An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements.

ny merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess. Tennyson. He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival Byron.

Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

quid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).

box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.

An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. Blacktone.

equally divided. "When there was an equal vote, the governor had the casting voice." B. Trumbull. -- Casting weight, a weight that turns a balance when exactly poised.

d to a cat block. -- Cat nap, a very short sleep. [Colloq.] -- Cat o' nine tails, an instrument of punishment consisting of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle; -- formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back. -- Cat's cradle, game played, esp. by children, with a string looped on the fingers…

A dupe; a tool; one who, or that which, is used by another as an instrument to a accomplish his purposes.

The science which treats of catadioptric phenomena, or of the used of catadioptric instruments.

One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.

as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise. Upon the rising of the curtain. I was very much surprised with the great consort of catcalls which was exhibited. Addison.

hness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine. Eustachian catheter. See under Eustachian. -- Prostatic catheter, one adapted for passing an enlarged prostate.

An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences 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…

A little cat; a kitten. "Cat nor catling." Drummond.

A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror. [Obs.]

Catlike; feline Drummond.

A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.

A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed in the lungs, which are designated cavities or vomicæ. Quain. Body cavity, the coelum. See under Body.