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oublet. Shak. To carve out, to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." Shak. Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. Macaulay.

A device for recording the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale.

A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long. Casbew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the ca…

Addison. He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. Macaulay.

hrow out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.

o chiefly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. Macaulay. To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.

A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.

A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.

ing, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.

e. See under Proximate. -- To make common cause with, to join with in purposes and aims. Macaulay.

Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned. Celebrated for the politeness of his manners. Macaulay.

ison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. The heroic confessor in his cell. Macaulay.

ed in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere. Dryden. A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. Macaulay.

A cenotaph. [R.] Lord Cobham honored him with a cenotaphy. Macaulay.

censorship. Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay.

d condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited. Macaulay.

A centrifugal machine.

g near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis).

ty. Luke. v. 12. About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum. Macaulay. For certain, assuredly. -- Of a certain, certainly.