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canty dame." Wordsworth [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Contented with little, and canty with mair. Burns.

ent. With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet.

Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.

lec.), a small cylinder or bit of gas carbon moved forward by clockwork so that, as it is burned away by the electric current, it shall contantly maintain its proper relation to the opposing point. -- Carbon tissue, paper coated with gelatine and pigment, used in the autotype process of photography. Abney. -- Gas car…

undant constituent of water gas. It is fatal to animal life, extinguishes combustion, and burns with a pale blue flame, forming carbon dioxide.

ast Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.

gh the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant. Cardiac passion (Med.) cardialgia; heartburn. [Archaic] -- Cardiac wheel. (Mach.) See Heart wheel.

A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardisc palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.

A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works in Scotland.

k of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication.

The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.

Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

le of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. Dunglison.

A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.

security. He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands. Bp. Burnet.

To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement. Bp. Burnet.

To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices. The Salii sing and cense his altars round. Dryden.

A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.

or reprimand; condemnatory judgment. Excommunication or other censure of the church. Bp. Burnet.