Carat (n.) A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.
Caravan (n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.
Caravan (n.) A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.
Caravan (n.) A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van.
Caravaneer (n.) The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.
Caravansaries (pl. ) of Caravansary
Caravansary (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court.
Caravel (n.) A name given to several kinds of vessels.
Caravel (n.) The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.
Caravel (n.) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.
Caravel (n.) A small fishing boat used on the French coast.
Caravel (n.) A Turkish man-of-war.
Caraway (n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.
Caraway (n.) A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.
Carbamic (a.) Pertaining to an acid so called.
Carbamide (n.) The technical name for urea.
Carbamine (n.) An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.
Carbanil (n.) A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.
Carbazol (n.) A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines.
Carbazotate (n.) A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.
Carbazotic (a.) Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen.
Carbide (n.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.
Carbimide (n.) The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.
Carbine (n.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry.
Carbineer (n.) A soldier armed with a carbine.
Carbinol (n.) Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.
Carbohydrate (n.) One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.
Carbohydride (n.) A hydrocarbon.
Carbolic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.
Carbolize (v. t.) To apply carbolic acid to; to wash or treat with carbolic acid.
Carbon (n.) An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite.
Carbonaceous (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.
Carbonade (n.) Alt. of Carbonado
Carbonado (n.) Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop.
Carbonadoed (imp. & p. p.) of Carbonade
Carbonadoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carbonade
Carbonado (v. t.) Alt. of Carbonade
Carbonade (v. t.) To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil.
Carbonade (v. t.) To cut or hack, as in fighting.
Carbonadoes (pl. ) of Carbonado
Carbonado (n.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.
Carbonarism (n.) The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.
Carbonari (pl. ) of Carbonaro
Carbonaro (n.) A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.
Carbonatation (n.) The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas.
Carbonate (n.) A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.
Carbonated (a.) Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.
Carbone (v. t.) To broil. [Obs.] "We had a calf's head carboned".
Carbonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide.
Carbonide (n.) A carbide.
Carboniferous (a.) Producing or containing carbon or coal.
Carbonization (n.) The act or process of carbonizing.
Carbonized (imp. & p. p.) of Carbonize
Carbonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carbonize
Carbonize (v. t.) To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.
Carbonize (v. t.) To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.
Carbonometer (n.) An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means.
Carbonyl (n.) The radical (CO)'', occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.
Carbostyril (n.) A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids.
Carboxide (n.) A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide.
Carboxyl (n.) The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl.
Carboy (n.) A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.
Carbuncle (n.) A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East 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.
Carbuncle (n.) A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.
Carbuncle (n.) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle.
Carbuncled (a.) Set with carbuncles.
Carbuncled (a.) Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; marked with red sores; pimpled and blotched.
Carbuncular (a.) Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.
Carbunculation (n.) The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold.
Carburet (n.) A carbide. See Carbide
Carbureted (imp. & p. p.) of Carburet
Carburetted () of Carburet
Carbureting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carburet
Carburetting () of Carburet
Carburet (v. t.) To combine or to impregnate with carbon, as by passing through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize.
Carburetant (n.) Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases.
Carbureted (a.) Combined with carbon in the manner of a carburet or carbide.
Carbureted (a.) Saturated or impregnated with some volatile carbon compound; as, water gas is carbureted to increase its illuminating power.
Carburetor (n.) An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power.
Carburization (n.) The act, process, or result of carburizing.
Carburized (imp. & p. p.) of Carburize
Carburizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carburize
Carburize (v. t.) To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile hydrocarbons.
Carcajou (n.) The wolverene; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene.
Carcanet (n.) A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar.
Carcase (n.) See Carcass.
Carcasses (pl. ) of Carcass
Carcass (n.) A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.
Carcass (n.) The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.
Carcass (n.) The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing.
Carcass (n.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.
Carcavelhos (n.) A sweet wine. See Calcavella.
Carcelage (n.) Prison fees.
Carcel lamp () A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.
Carceral (a.) Belonging to a prison.
Carcinological (a.) Of or pertaining to carcinology.
Carcinology (n.) The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.
Carcinoma (n.) A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer.
Carcinomatous (a.) Of or pertaining to carcinoma.
Carcinosys (n.) The affection of the system with cancer.