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all vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.

A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.

Car miles collectively.

A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.

The water buffalo. [Phil. Islands]

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidæ. -- n.

A carbine.

A carbineer.

Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus.

A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects.

See Carack.

A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs.

ican bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards.

erly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. [Spelt also carrack.] The bigger whale like some huge carrack law. Waller.

A staircase in a spiral form. En caracole ( Etym: [F.], spiral; -- said of a staircase.

An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewerly is made.

A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies.

Var. of Karakul, a kind of fur.

A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft.

See Carrageen.