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A carbide. [R.]

Producing or containing carbon or coal. Carboniferous age (Geol.), the age immediately following the Devonian, or Age of fishes, and characterized by the vegatation which formed the coal beds. This age embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the Carboniferous, and Permian. See Age of acrogens, under Acrogen. --…

An explosive consisting essentially of nitroglycerin, wood meal, and some nitrate, as that of sodium.

The act or process of carbonizing.

To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means.

b7, occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.

A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

The clavicle.

The small pastern bone of the horse and allied animals.

A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

Lit., for whose benefit; incorrectly understood, it came to be used in the sense, of what good or use; and hence, (what) purpose; object; specif., the ultimate object of life.

The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.

A white crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caotchouc.

ss; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant. Was never prince so meek and debonair. Spenser.

Debonairness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Courteously; elegantly.

The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy. Sterne.

To deprive of carbonic acid.

The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.