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To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid. We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. 1 Thess. ii. 7.

A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.

An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells. [Also written Chillostomata.]

Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination. I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice. Bacon.

With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak.

Looking around everi way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger. "Circumspective eyes." Pope.

An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.

To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.

Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.

o disentangle the cables when twisted. -- To clear up, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears.

Supplied with clients. [R.] The least cliented pettifiggers. R. Carew.

A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." Milton. "Clods of blood." E. Fairfax. The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon.

Strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close prisoner.

To wear clothes. [Poetic] Care no more to clothe eat. Shak.

city, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary. I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant. Bp. Stillingfleet.

poor cottager contenteth himself with cob for his walls, and thatch for his covering. R. Carew.

One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.

A quoit. [Obs.] Carew.

To commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation. His eye commends the leading to his hand. Shak. Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. Luke xxiii. 46.