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sacred college. The clerics of the supreme Chair are called Cardinals, as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the hinge by which all things are moved. Pope Leo IX.

To move or run rapidly. areering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving.

Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering. [Consciences] overgrown with so hard a carnosity. Spelman. The olives, indeed be very small there, and bigger than capers; yet commended they are for their carnosity. Holland.

An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree.

To sing, especially with joyful notes. Hovering awans . . . carol sounds harmonious. Prior.

or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets. T. Fuller.…

1. The act of covering with carpets.

e kept for drawing a carriage. -- Carriage porch (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those who alight from vehicles at the door; -- sometimes erroneously called in the United States porte-cochère.

r. (a) A thick stout paper for inclosing cartridges. (b) A rough tinted paper used for covering walls, and also for making drawings upon.

A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.

, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.

A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.

The armor or plate covering some fishes.

To instruct by asking questions, receiving answeres, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith.

See catherine wheel.

A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife. [Spelt also catlin.] Crobb.

A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net. Spenser.