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or load a cart. In excavating and carting sand, gravel, earth, etc., one third of a cubic yard of the material before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load. -- Cart rope, a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any strong rope. -- To put (or get or set) the cart before the horse, to invert the order of r…

from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.

iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.

l solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.

eans of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as diastase, or ptyalin) on starch.

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

A rodent of the genera cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea pig (Cavia cabaya). Cavies are natives of South America. Water cavy (Zoöl.), The capybara.

l spirits." "Celestial light," Milton. Celestial city, heaven; the heavenly Jerusalem. Bunyan. -- Celestial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appoined by heaven. S. W. Williams.

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

to blame; to express disapprobation of. I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty. Shak.

te plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).

ue; azure. Cowper. Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. Bryant.

tinct from that of the lord chamberlain of the Household, whose functions relate to the royal housekeeping.

strange face, his strange chant. Macaulay. Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian. Chant royal Etym: [F.], in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain. -- Gregorian chant. See under Gregorian.…

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

aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

here a chapter meets, esp. a cathedral chapter. -- The chapter of accidents, chance. Marryat.

orm of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance. [Archaic]

One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.

A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. Coleridge.