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of the modern city of Constantinople. [ Written also Bizantine.] Byzantine church, the Eastern or Greek church, as distinguished from the Western or Roman or Latin church.See under Greek. -- Byzantine empire, the Eastern Roman or Greek empire from A.D. 364 or A.D. 395 to the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, A.…

mall cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres.

The act or state of declining or sinking. [Obs.] Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton.

Partnership; as to go in cahoot with a person. [Slang, southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.

A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. [Written also camas, cammas, and quamash.]

mall cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]

In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.

the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket. [Sometimes spelt Capstern, but improperly.] Capstan bar, one of the long bars or levers by which the capstan is worked; a handspike.. -- To pawl the capstan, to drop the pawls so that they will catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prevent the…

Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sa) lying between those islands and Central America.

keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).

feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse. The swains were preparing for a carousal. Sterne.

ll; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc. [Western U. S.]

Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [Obs.] Johnson.

A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.

One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.

e whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.

A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible.