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An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game. Nares.

See under Cartridge.

The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.

(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.

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

Pertaining to the bone, or carts, large, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch. -- n.

A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

One of the jointed antenniform appendage of the posterior somites of cartain insects. Packard.

The native carbonate of lead.

Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.

espitous or turfy plant has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting. Martyn.

A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool. Knight.

The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).

Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall. Camden.

, or connecting a chain with an object. (b) (Railroad) Supplementary coupling together of cars with a chain. -- Chain gang, a gang of convicts chained together. -- Chain hook (Naut.), a hook, used for dragging cables about the deck. -- Chain mail, flexible, defensive armor of hammered metal links wrought into the fo…

t intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge.

A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two- wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig. Shak. Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view with scorn two pages and a chair. Pope.

One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior.

A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thoroughbraces. It is usually drawn by one horse.