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tensions to goodness; one who uses canting language. The day when he was a canter and a rebel. Macaulay.

bury ball (Bot.), a species of Campanula of several varietes, cultivated for its handsome bell-shaped flowers. -- Canterbury gallop, a gentle gallop such as was used by pilgrims riding, to Canterbury; a canter. -- Canterbury table, one of the tales which Chaucer puts into the mouths of certain pilgrims to Canterbury.…

Of or belonging to a cantor. Cantoral staff, the official staff or baton of a cantor or precentor, with which time is marked for the singers.

of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.

ppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.

An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the ermy.

Belonging to the Carangidæ, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.

p to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

Belonging a prison. [R.] Foxe.

at she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.

readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.

A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.

A kind of food. See citation, below. Caring or carl are gray steeped in water and fried the next day in butter or fat. They are eaten on the second Sunday before Easter, formerly called Carl Sunday. Robinson's Whitby Glossary (1875).

The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed.

Joyful music, as of a song. I heard the bells on Christmans Day Their old, familiar carol play. Longfellow.

Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.

prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

ing object or part. (d) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.

y on dead animals; -- also called sexton beetle and burying beetle. There are many kinds, belonging mostly to the family Silphidæ. -- Carrion buzzard (Zoöl.), a South American bird of several species and genera (as Ibycter, Milvago, and Polyborus), which act as scavengers. See Caracara. -- Carrion crow, the common Eu…