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A small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc. Atrabiliary capsule. See under Atrabiliary. -- Glisson's capsule, a membranous envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ. -- Suprarenal capsule, an organ of unknown fu…

Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement. A poor, miserable, captive thrall. Milton.

The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.

ide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.

n and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called carbon dioxide. It is a colorless, heavy, irrespirable gas, extinguishing flame, and when breathed destroys life. It can be reduced to a liquid and solid form by intense pressure. It is produced in the fermentation of liquors, and by the combustion and decomposition of organic s…

The depertment of zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.

iting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. Our first cards were to Carabas House. Thackeray.

self from. (b) (Hunting) To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs. Crabb. (c) (Naut.) To untie, throw off, or let go, as a rope. -- To cast off copy, (Print.), to estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will make, or how large the page must be in order that the copy may make a giv…

Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony. [Colloq.] Marryat.

.), any species of beetles of the genus Callosoma and other allied genera of the family Carabidæ which feed habitually upon caterpillars.

ance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.

The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.

Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. [Obs.] Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak.

A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.

The cereals. Crabb.

A California rosaceous shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) which often forms an impenetrable chaparral.

An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm. [Archaic] Between us and there is fixed a great chaos. Luke xvi. 26 (Rhemish Trans. ).

An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles. Chaparral cock; fem. Chaparral hen (Zoöl.), a bird of the cuckoo family (Geococcyx Californianus), noted for running with great speed. It ranges from California to Mexico and eastward to Texas; -- called also road runner, ground cuc…

or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.

Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient. By a charitable construction it may be a sermon. L. Andrews.