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A covered cart.

nguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets. T. Fuller.

Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott.

A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.

A horseman covered with a cataphract. Archers and slingers, cataphracts, and spears. Milton.

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.

A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.

erty; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income. "For loss of catel may recovered be, But loss of tyme shendeth us," quod he. Chaucer.

Covered, or furnished with, cedars.

Covered with wax.

pnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium.

The first discovered asteroid.

A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.

dent of the next, the relation between the first antecedent and the last consequent is discovered. -- Chain shot (Mil.), two cannon balls united by a shot chain, formerly used in naval warfare on account of their destructive effect on a ship's rigging. -- Chain stitch. See in the Vocabulary. -- Chain timber. (Arch.)…

he tissue of the chalaza, instead of entering through the micropyle. It was originally discovered by Treub in Casuarina, and has since been found to occur regularly in the families Betulaceæ and Juglandaceæ. Partial chalazogamy is found in Ulmus, the tube here penetrating the nucleus midway between the chalaza and micr…

of the genus Chamæleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granmulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.

A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell.

A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.

ll chastise me. Shak. I am glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chemists thus discovered and chastised. Boyle.