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A fresh-water herbivorous fish (Cyprinus carpio.). Several other species of Cyprinus, Catla, and Carassius are called carp. See Cruclan carp.

A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works in Scotland.

A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage. Etym: [U.S.]

trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade. Jay.

artes. -- Cartesian devil, a small hollow glass figure, used in connection with a jar of water having an elastic top, to illustrate the effect of the compression or expansion of air in changing the specific gravity of bodies. -- Cartesion oval (Geom.), a curve such that, for any point of the curve mr + m'r' = c, wher…

A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade. Longjellow. Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. Cawper.

A small fissure which admits water to the workings. Knight.

Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Waterland.

-- To cast the lead (Naut.), to sound by dropping the lead to the botton. -- To cast the water (Med.), to examine the urine for signs of disease. [Obs.]. -- To cast up. (a) To throw up; to raise. (b) To compute; to reckon, as the cost. (c) To vomit. (d) To twit with; to throw in one's teeth.

A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.

An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and of the eel.

A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.

ibe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee.

meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.

A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.

A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.

A species of divination, which was perforned by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.

A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water. Philips.