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To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel. Prince John caracoled within the lists. Sir W. Scott.

eled, boxlike vehicle usually drawn by a single native pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.

uct, or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry or trade. -- To carry out. (a) To bear from within. (b) To put into execution; to bring to a successful issue. (c) To sustain to the end; to continue to the end. -- To carry through. (a) To convey through the midst of. (b) To support to the end; to sustain, or keep from fa…

To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose. His filth within being cast. Shak. Neither shall your vine cast her fruit. Mal. iii. 11 The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the viper, etc. Bacon.

Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [Obs.] Johnson.

A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward.

A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The mane is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.

oth in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.

The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.

de adequate signal contact for such telephones over a certain geographical area. The area within which one transmitter may service such portable telephones is called its "cell.

(Biol.) The central mass of an aster from which the rays extend and within which the centrosome lies when present; the attraction sphere. The name has been used both as excluding and including the centrosome, and also to designate a modified mass of protoplasm about a centrosome whether aster rays are developed or not…

A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

s. -- Charcoal drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with charcoal. See Charcoal, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present many finished drawings are made with it. -- Charcoal point, a carbon pencil prepared for use un an electric light app…

To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc. Their battering cannon charged to the mouths. Shak.

To give birth; to produce young. This queen Genissa childing died. Warner. It chanced within two days they childed both. Latimer.

A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]

A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. [Obs.] Blount.

That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall." Bacon.

curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.