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One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale. Carpal angle (Zoöl.), the angle at the last joint of the folded wing of a bird.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

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.

A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]

A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel. Carrier pigeon (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home. -- Carrier shell (Zoöl.), a univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called bec…

se for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.

ed 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.

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.

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

A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum. They beat the chamade, and sent us carte blanche. Addison.

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke.

A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.

A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.

A Carthusian.

See Cartulary.

A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.