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Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares.

The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. They did eat the dead carrions. Spenser.

A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper.

Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink.

A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.

Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet- shaped upper petal, as in aconite.

a reprobate. Lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1 Cor. ix. 27.

To emend; to correct. [Obs.]

Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism. The keenest castigation of her slanderers. W. Irving.

One who castigates or corrects.

Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.

roneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator.

pcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.

Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.

The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.

To instruct by asking questions, receiving answeres, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith.

Diagonal. [Colloq.]

A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.) Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Tennyson.

In the Corinthian capital, one of the 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.