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The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.

To sprinkle, as with drops. The yellow carp, in scales bedropped with gold. Pope.

Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.

A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.

To spread or cover over. The carpet which bespread His rich pavilion's floor. Glover.

A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel. Encyc. Brit.

Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.

Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp. Gray.

To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

hard bite. I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. Walton.

A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.

The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.

sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying. Knight. Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W. M. Buchanan.

oup of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).

The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.

That they breed abundantly in the earth. Gen. viii. 17. The mother had never bred before. Carpenter. Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. Shak.

A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc. Brussels carpet, a kind of carpet made of worsted yarn fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread. The worsted, which alone shows on the upper surface in drawn up in loops to form the pattern. -- Brussels ground, a name given to the han…