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Quality of being calcareous.

Chamber; house; -- used in Ca"ma*ra dos Pa"res, and Ca"ma*ra dos De`pu*ta"dos. See Legislature.

Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

Cancellarean. [R.]

A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.

sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude. Care keeps his wath in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. Shak.

Weary; mournful. Shak.

To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.

Expense of careening ships.

A race course: the ground run over. To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney.

Full of care; anxious; solicitous [Archaic] Be careful [Rev. Ver. "anxious"] for nothing. Phil. iv. 6. The careful plowman doubting stands. Milton.

In a careful manner.

Quality or state of being careful.

Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted. Spenser. Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. Shak.

In a careless manner.

The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.

A fast of forty days on bread and water. [Obs.]

ession of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness. Wooed her with his soft caresses. Langfellow. He exerted himself to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command. Macaulay.

In caressing manner.

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