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re apple. A codling when 't is almost an apple. Shak. Codling moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Carpocapsa Pomonella), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop.

Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed.

An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.

The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.

mall pocket compass fitted with a sundial to tell the hour of the day. -- Compass plane (Carp.), a plane, convex in the direction of its length on the under side, for smoothing the concave faces of curved woodwork. -- Compass plant, Compass flower (Bot.), a plant of the American prairies (Silphium laciniatum), not un…

A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles.

; as, a coördination of functions. "Coördination of muscular movement by the cerebellum." Carpenter.

The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.

One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates. Carpenter.

A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.

e ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

xposed; hidden. Covered way (Fort.), a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ravelin.

n extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.

ptious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper. When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature. I. Watts. You know who the critics are the men who have failed in litera…

A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [Written also crumcloth.]

One of the carpal bones usually articulating wich the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.

art; skill; dexterity. [Archaic] Let my right hand forget her cunning. Ps. cxxxvii. 5. A carpenter's desert Stands more in cunning than in power. Chapman.

Like the carp (Cyprinus). -- n.

Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.