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th beds of coal) which make up the strata of the Carboniferous age or period. See the Diagram under Geology.

ome bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing. A rotten carcass of a boat. Shak.

pression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

died; inconsiderate; spontaneouse; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression. He framed the careless rhyme. Beatie.

See Caramel.

An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.

The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.

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.

or by temptation. -- To carry coals, to bear indignities tamely, a phrase used by early dramatists, perhaps from the mean nature of the occupation. Halliwell. -- To carry coals to Newcastle, to take things to a place where they already abound; to lose one's labor. -- To carry off (a) To remove to a distance. (b) To…

An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.

One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.

A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window. A casement of the great chamber window. Shak.

A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. Bescherelle.

An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4.

To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee. Luke xix. 48.

One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.

Designating, pertaining to, or characterized by, that form of pulse tracing, or sphygmogram, in which the descending portion of the curve is marked by secondary elevations due to two or more expansions of the artery in the same beat. -- Ca*tac"rotism (#), n.

The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.

skill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology.

m the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of cauda galli. See the Diagram under Geology.