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A kind of bazaar. [Obs.] She says she went to the burse for patterns. Old Play.

A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. Imperfect cadence. (Mus.) See under Imperfect.

A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana.

Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.

The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic. [Written also colombo, columbo, and calombo.] American calumba, the Frasera Carolinensis, also called American gentian. Its root has been used…

A secret organization formed at Naples, Italy, early in the 19th century, and used partly for political ends and partly for practicing extortion, violence, etc. -- Ca*mor"rist (#), n.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor. Camphoric acid, a white crystallizable substance, C10H16O4, obtained from the oxidation of camphor.

ndia, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization. Mineral caoutchouc. See under Mineral.

eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards.

The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.

A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.

A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.

ing beetle. There are many kinds, belonging mostly to the family Silphidæ. -- Carrion buzzard (Zoöl.), a South American bird of several species and genera (as Ibycter, Milvago, and Polyborus), which act as scavengers. See Caracara. -- Carrion crow, the common European crow (Corvus corone) which feeds on carrion, inse…

A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.

march this way or that way. Sowth. I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak.

To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.

Celebration; solemnization. [Obs.] The celebrity of the marriage. Bacon.

e or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.

Same as Chalaza.

Having or bearing chalazas.