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A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds.

cal, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections. Several of Charlemagne's capitularies. Hallam.

l.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir. -- Cardinal signs (Astron.) Aries, Lidra, Cancer, and Capricorn. -- Cardinal teeth (Zoöl.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See Bivalve. -- Cardinal veins (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm…

Caries.

Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.

One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.

n inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries. [Written also coistrel.]

-- Collar day, a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary orders, wear the collars of those orders. -- To slip the collar, to get free; to disentangle one's self from difficulty, labor, or engagement. Spenser.

have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead. Monmouth commanded the English auxiliaries. Macaulay. Such aid as I can spare you shall command. Shak.

ts written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.

Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.

rganized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.

Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sifficiency without excess. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words -- health, peace, and competence. Pope. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Shak.

A confectioner. [Obs.] He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. 1 Sam. viii. 13.

To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part.

nd of the United Kingdom, out of which are paid the interest of the national debt, the salaries of the civil list, etc.

a dictionary. Men fergot, or feared, to consult . . . ; they were content to consult liberaries. Whewell.

One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities. No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave. Shak.

onsisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.