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ons to goodness; one who uses canting language. The day when he was a canter and a rebel. Macaulay.

roughness of the see. Goldsmith. Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude. Macaulay.

ernment; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital" Macauly.

Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. "Capitolian Jove." Macaulay. Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period of neglect, they were held every fifth…

as, an army or a garrison capitulates. The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. Macaulay.

Belonging to the Carangidæ, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.

A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or goldon mackerel.

A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines.

The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it.

embling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.

A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine. Carding engine, Carding machine, a machine for carding cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the action of cylinders, or drum covered with wire-toothed cards, revoling nearly in contact with each other, at different rates of speed, or in op…

c character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay.

d himself to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command. Macaulay.

e that has most of the look of a caricature. I. Taylor. A grotesque caricature of virtue. Macaulay.

Flesh of slain animals or men. A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage. Macaulay.

lings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.

omfort. (b) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage. (c) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part. (d) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.

motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.

carried Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence to Russell. Macaulay. The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles. Bacon.

Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box. Carton pierre (, a species of papier-maché, imitating stone or bronze sculpture. Knight.