Cartilaginous (a.) Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
Cartilaginous (a.) Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.
Cartman (n.) One who drives or uses a cart; a teamster; a carter.
Cartographer (n.) One who makes charts or maps.
Cartographic (a.) Alt. of Cartographical
Cartographical (a.) Of or pertaining to cartography.
Cartographically (adv.) By cartography.
Cartography (n.) The art or business of forming charts or maps.
Cartomancy (n.) The art of telling fortunes with cards.
Carton (n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.
Cartoon (n.) A design or study 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.
Cartoon (n.) A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."
Cartoonist (n.) One skilled in drawing cartoons.
Cartouches (pl. ) of Cartouch
Cartouch (n.) A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge
Cartouch (n.) A cartridge box.
Cartouch (n.) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
Cartouch (n.) A gunner's bag for ammunition
Cartouch (n.) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
Cartouch (n.) A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper
Cartouch (n.) A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form.
Cartouch (n.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.
Cartridge (n.) A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material.
Cartularies (pl. ) of Cartulary
Cartulary (n.) A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.
Cartulary (n.) An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers.
Cartway (n.) A way or road for carts.
Cartwright (n.) An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
Carucage (n.) A tax on every plow or plowland.
Carucage (n.) The act of plowing.
Carucate (n.) A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.
Caruncle (n.) Alt. of Caruncula
Caruncula (n.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.
Caruncula (n.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.
Caruncula (n.) A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.
Caruncular (a.) Alt. of Carunculous
Carunculous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.
Carunculate (a.) Alt. of Carunculated
Carunculated (a.) Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.
Carus (n.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
Carvacrol (n.) A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).
Carved (imp. & p. p.) of Carve
Carving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carve
Carve (v. t.) To cut.
Carve (v. t.) To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.
Carve (v. t.) To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.
Carve (v. t.) To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.
Carve (v. t.) To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.
Carve (v. t.) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
Carve (v. t.) To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Carve (v. i.) To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
Carve (v. i.) To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.
Carve (n.) A carucate.
Carvel (n.) Same as Caravel.
Carvel (n.) A species of jellyfish; sea blubber.
Carvelbuilt (a.) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
Carven (a.) Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved.
Carvene (n.) An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.
Carver (n.) One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc.
Carver (n.) One who carves or divides meat at table.
Carver (n.) A large knife for carving.
Carving (n.) The act or art of one who carves.
Carving (n.) A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material.
Carving (n.) The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.
Carvist (n.) A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year.
Carvol (n.) One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.
Car wheel () A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.
Caryatic (a.) Alt. of Caryatid
Caryatid (a.) Of or pertaining to a caryatid.
Caryatids (pl. ) of Caryatid
Caryatid (n.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.
Caryatides (n. pl.) Caryatids.
Caryophyllaceous (a.) Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink
Caryophyllaceous (a.) Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.
Caryophyllin (n.) A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.
Caryophyllous (a.) Caryophyllaceous.
Caryopses (pl. ) of Caryopsis
Caryopsis (n.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.
Casal (a.) Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.
Cascabel (n.) The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.]
Cascade (n.) A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.
Cascade (v. i.) To fall in a cascade.
Cascade (v. i.) To vomit.
Cascalho (n.) A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.
Cascara sagrada () Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
Cascarilla (n.) A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.
Cascarillin (n.) A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.
Case (n.) A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
Case (n.) A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
Case (n.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
Case (n.) An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
Case (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
Cased (imp. & p. p.) of Case
Casing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Case
Case (v. t.) To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
Case (v. t.) To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.
Case (n.) Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.
Case (n.) That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.
Case (n.) A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
Case (n.) The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.