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son, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood. Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother. Wordsworth.

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.

The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.

The state of being brothers or a brother.

The state or quality of being brotherly.

Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.

A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs. Simmonds.

Of or pertaining to stupor; as, a carotic state.

One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head.

Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as, the carotid gland.

A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.

A cylindrical roll of tobacco; as, a carotte of perique.

An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.

Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.

ondary elevations due to two or more expansions of the artery in the same beat. -- Ca*tac"rotism (#), n.

Quality or state of being catacrotic. -- Cat`a*di*crot"ic (#), a.

Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.

The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

See Cerate.

A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.