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In Spain and Portugal, one who supports the constitution.

To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. "To carve a capon." Shak.

(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

Chance; accident; hap; opportunity. [Obs.] By aventure, or sort, or cas. Chaucer.

he bark of several species of Cinnamommum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached.

A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch] We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage. Smollett. If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. Sir W. Scott.

A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved.

Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag.

One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.

One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.

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.

rtune. The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. Bp. Buret. The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. Woodward.

ddison. To catch at, to attempt to seize; to be egger to get or use. "[To] catch at all opportunities of subverting the state." Addison. -- To catch up with, to come up with; to overtake.

n from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc. Ure. Dunglison.

he eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to suport the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.

To cry like a crow, rook, or raven. Rising and cawing at the gun's report. Shak.

The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.

omposed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts. cellular telephone, a portable radio- telephone transmitting and receiving the radio-telephonic signals from one of a group of transmitter-receiver stations so arranged that they provide adequate signal contact for such telephones over a certain geogra…

A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.

The middle or central portion of anything.