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One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites. Milner.

Self-sufficiency. [Obs.] Milton.

A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.

A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.

The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca). The bois d'arc seems to be the characteristic growth of the black prairies. U. S. Census (1880).

The wolverence; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene.

A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkenet and carcant.] Shak.

See Carcass.

r of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast. He turned to see the carcass of the lion. Judges xiv. 8. This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads. De Foe.

A sweet wine. See Calcavella.

A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superbundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.

Prison fees. [Obs.]

Belonging a prison. [R.] Foxe.

Of or pertaining to carcinology.

The depertment of zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.

A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to carcinoma.

The affection of the system with cancer.

Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement. Animal charcoal, a fine charcoal prepared by calcining bones in a closed vessel; -- used as a filtering agent in sugar refining, and as an absorbent and disinfectant. -- Charcoal blacks, the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, pea…

The commander or chief of a thousand men.