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A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or goldon mackerel.

Expelling wind from the body; warning; antispasmodic. "Carmenative hot seeds." Dunglison.

The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.

distance of a point from lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing geometric quantities, invented by Descartes. -- 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 speci…

model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.

r who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.

The quantity contained in a cask.

one; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Bl…

s between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.

Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.

f any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.

That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish. Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains. Shak.

ly oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.

A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevallé.

To be wanting; to fail; to pass away. The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deut. xv. 11.

An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.

The state of being central; tendency towards a center. Meantime there is a great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence. R. W. Emerson.

One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis).