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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.]

ression 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.

is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.

Weary; mournful. Shak.

Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.

A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceæ; the sedges.

pret. of Carve. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A cargo. [Obs.]

ssel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight. Cargoes of food or clothing. E. Everett.

A species of grebe (Podiceps crisratus); the crested grebe.

A large, long-legged South American bird (Dicholophus cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc. See Seriema.

A native of the Caribbee islands or the coaste of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the West India islands.

Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sa) lying between those islands and Central America.

A Carib.