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Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess. Tennyson. He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival Byron.

Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

y drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

for inclosing cartridges. (b) A rough tinted paper used for covering walls, and also for making drawings upon.

nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.

Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.

The act of making into a castle.

The act or process of making cast or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold.

The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp.

indrical spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin.

A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues.

composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as diastase, or ptyalin) on starch.

in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise. Upon the rising of the curtain. I was very much surprised with the great consort of catcalls which was exhibited. Addison.

A cincture, girdle, or belt; -- chiefly used in English as a dressmaking term.

Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.

Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. Watts.

Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.

The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.

The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.

s of plates of whalebone [see Baleen.] hanging down from the upper jaw on each side, thus making a strainer, through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed. (b) The Denticete, including the dolphins and sperm whale, which have teeth. Another suborder (Zeuglodontia) is extinct. The Sirenia were former…