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The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or caold. Harris.

A carbide. See Carbide [Archaic]

Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases.

Combined with carbon in the manner of a carburet or carbide.

n apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power. [Written also carburettor.]

One that carburets; specif., an apparatus in which air or gas is carbureted, as by passing it through a light petroleum oil. The carburetor for a gasoline engine is usually either a surface carburetor, or a float, float-feed, or spray, carburetor. In the former air is charged by being passed over the surface of gasolin…

The act, process, or result of carburizing.

To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

The wolverence; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene.

A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkenet and carcant.] Shak.

See Carcass.

er of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast. He turned to see the carcass of the lion. Judges xiv. 8. This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads. De Foe.

A sweet wine. See Calcavella.

A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superbundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.

Prison fees. [Obs.]

Belonging a prison. [R.] Foxe.

Of or pertaining to carcinology.

The depertment of zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.

A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to carcinoma.