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CAPTIVATION. n. s. [from captivate.] The act of taking one captive. CAPTIVE. n. s. [captif, Fr. captivus, Lat.]

1. One taken in war; a prisoner to an enemy. You have the captives, Who were the opposites of this day's strife. Sbak. This is no other than that forced respect a aptive pays to his conqueror, a slave to his lord. Rogers. Thy captives: 1 ensure the penal claim. Pope. 2. It is used with to before the captor.

Free from shame

If thou say Antony lives, 't is well;
Or friends with Cæsar, or not captive to him.
Shakspeare.

My mother, who the royal sceptre sway'd, Was captive to the cruel victor made! Dryden. 3. One charmed or ensnared by beauty or excellence.

My woman's heart

Grossly grew captive to his honey words. Shaks. CAPTIVE. adj. [captivus, Lat.] Made prisoner in war; kept in bondage or confinement, by whatever means.

But fate forbids; the Stygian floods oppose, And with nine circling streams the captive souls inclose. Dryden. To CAPTIVE. v. a. [from the noun. It was used formerly with the accent on the last syllable, but now it is on the first.] To take prisoner; to bring into a condition of servitude.

But being all defeated save a few, Rather than fly, or be captiv'd, herself she slew.

Spenser.

Thou leavest them to hostile sword
Of heathen and profane, their carcasses
To dogs and fowls a prey, or else captiv'd. Milt.
What further fear of danger can there be?
Beauty, which captives all things, sets me free.

Still lay the god: the nymph surpris'd,
Yet mistress of herself, devis'd
How she the vagrant might inthral,
And captive him who captives all.
CAPTIVITY. n. s. [captivité,
captivitas, low Latin.]

Dryden.

Prior.

French;

1. Subjection by the fate of war; bondage; servitude to enemies,

This is the serjeant,

Who, like a good and hardy soldier, fought 'Gainst my captivity.

Shakspeare.

There in captivity he lets them dwell The space of seventy years; then brings them back,

Lememb'ring mercy,

Milton.

The name of Ormond will be more celebrated in his captivity, than in his greatest triumphs. Dryden.

a. Slavery; servitude.

For men to be tied, and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment; and though there be reason to the contrary, not to listen unto it. Hooker.

The apostle tells us, there is a way of bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Decay of Piety.

When love's well tim'd, 't is not a fault to love;

The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together. Addison.

CAPTOR.n.3. [from capio, to take, Lat.] He that takes a prisoner, or a prize. CAPTURE. n. s. [capture, Fr. captura, Lat.]

1. The act or practice of taking any thing. The great sagacity, and many artifices, used by birds, in the investigation and capture of their prey. Derbam.

2. The thing taken; a prize. CAPUCHED. adj. [from capuce, Fr. a hood.] Covered over as with a hood. They are differently cuculleted and capuched upon the head and back; and, in the cicada, the eyes are more prominent. Brown. CAPUCHIN. n. s. A female garment, consisting of a cloak and hood, made in imitation of the dress of capuchin monks; whence its name is derived.

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CAR, CHAR, in the names of places, seem to have relation to the British caer, a city. Gibson's Camden. CAR. n. s. [car, Welsh; karre, Dutch; chaz, Saxon; carrus, Lat.]

1. A small carriage of burden, usually drawn by one horse or two."

When a lady comes in a coach to our shops, it must be followed by a car loaded with Wood's money. Swift. 2. In poetical language, any vehicle of dignity or splendour; a chariot of war, or triumph.

Henry is dead, and never shall revive:
Upon a wooden coffin we attend;
And death's dishonourable victory
We with our stately presence glorify,
Like captives bound to a triumphant car. Sbal.
Wilt thou aspire to guide the heav'nly car,
And with thy daring folly burn the world?

And the gilded car of day
His glowing axle doth allay
In the steep Atlantick stream,

Shakspeare.

Milton.

See where he comes, the darling of the war! See millions crowding round the gilded car! Prior.

3. The Charles' wain, or Bear; a constellation.

Ev'ry fixt and ev'ry wand'ring star, The Pleiads, Hyads, and the Northern Car. Dryden. CARABINE.n. s. [carabine, Fr.] A CARBINE. small sort of fire-arm, shorter than a fusil, and carrying a ball of twenty-four in the pound, hung by the light horse at a belt over the left shoulder. It is a kind of medium between the pistol and the musket, having its barrel two feet and a half long. CARABINIER. n. s. [from carabine.] A sort of light horse carrying longer carabines than the rest, and used sometimes on foot. Chambers. CA'RACK. 7. S. [caraca, Spanish.] A large ship of burden; the same with those that are now called galleons.

In which river, the greatest carack of Portugal may ride afloat ten miles within the forts. Raleigh.

The bigger whale like some huge caract lay, Which wanteth sea-room with her foes to play. Waller.

CA'RACOLE. n. s. [caracole, Fr, from caracol, Span. a snil.] An oblique tread,

traced out in semi-rounds, changing from one hand to another, without observing a regular ground.

When the horse advance to charge in battle, they ride sometimes in caracoles, to amuse the enemy, and put them in doubt whether they are about to charge them in the front or in the flank. Farrier's Dict. TO CA'RACOLE. v. n. [from the noun.] To move in caracoles. CA'RAT.

CARACT.} n. s. [carat, Fr.]

1. A weight of four grains, with which diamonds are weighed.

2. A manner of expressing the fineness of gold.

A mark, being an ounce Troy, is divided into twenty-four equal parts, called caracts, and each caract into four grains: by this weight is distinguished the different fineness of their gold; for if to the finest of gold be put two caracts of alloy, both making, when cold, but an ounce, or twenty-four caracts, then this gold is said to be twenty-two caracts fine. Cocker.

Thou best of gold, art worst of gold; Other, less fine in carat, is more precious. Shak. CARAVAN. n. s. [caravanne, Fr. from the Arabick.] A troop or body of merchants or pilgrims, as they travel in the East.

They set forth

Their airy caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing - Easing their flight. Milton's Paradise Lost.

When Joseph, and the Blessed Virgin Mother, had lost their most holy Son, they sought him in the retinues of their kindred, and the caravans of the Galilean pilgrims. Taylor. CARAVA'NSARY, n. s. [from caravan.] A house built in the eastern countries for the reception of travellers.

The inns which receive the caravans in Persia, and the eastern countries, are called by the name of caravansaries. Spectator.

The spacious mansion, like a Turkish caravansary, entertains the vagabond with only bare lodging. Pope's Letters. CA'RAVEL. 2. S. [caravela, Span.] A CA'RVEL, light, round, old-fashioned ship, with a square poop, formerly used in Spain and Portugal. CA'RAWAY. n. s. [carum, Lat.] A plant; sometimes found wild in rich moist pastures, especially in Holland and Lincolnshire. The seeds are used in medicine and confectionary. Miller. CARBONA'DO. n. s. [carbonnade, Fr. from carbo, a coal, Lat.] Meat cut across, to be broiled upon the coals. If I come in his way willingly, let him make Shakspeare.

a carbonado of me. To CARBONA'Do. v. a. [from the noun.] To cut or hack.

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Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes,

Shakspeare.

It is believed that a carbuncle does shine in the dark like a burning coal; from whence it hath its name. Wilkins. Carbuncle is a stone of the ruby kind, of a rich blood-red colour. Woodward. 2. Red spots or pimples breaking out upon the face or body.

It was a pestilent fever, but there followed no carbuncle, no purple or livid spots, or the like, the mass of the blood not being tainted. Bacon. Red blisters rising on their paps appear, And flaming carbuncles, and noisome sweat.

Dryden.

CA'R BUNCLED. adj. [from carbuncle.]

1. Set with carbuncles.

An armour all of gold; it was a king's.-He has deserv'd it, were it carbuncled Like holy Phœbus' car.

Shakspeare. 2. Spotted; deformed with carbuncles. CARBUNCULAR. adj. [from carbuncle.] Belonging to a carbuncle; red like a carbuncle. CARBUNCULA'TION. n. s. [carbunculatio, Lat.] The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, either by excessive heat or excessive cold.

Harris. CA'RCANET. n. s. [carcan, Fr.] A chain or collar of jewels.

Say that I linger'd with you at your shop, To see the making of her carcanit. Shakspeare. I have seen her beset and bedeckt all over with emeralds and pearls, and a carcanet about her neck. Hakerill on Providence.

CARCASS. n. s. [carquasse, Fr.] 1. A dead body of any animal.

To blot the honour of the dead, And with foul cowardice his carcass shame, Whose living hands immortaliz'd his name. Spen. Where cattle pastur'd late, now scatter'd lies, With carcasses and arms, th' insanguin'd field Deserted. Milton.

If a man visits his sick friend in hope of legacy, he is a vulture, and only waits for the Taylor.

carcass.

The scaly nations of the sea profound, Like shipwreck'd carcasses, are driven aground. Dryden.

2. Body in a ludicrous sense. :

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To day how many would have given their ho

nours

To 've sav'd their carcasses!

Shakspeare.

He that finds himself in any distress, either of carcass or of fortune, should deliberate upon the matter before he prays for a change. L'Estrange. The decayed parts of any thing; the ruins; the remains.

A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast.

Shakspeare. The main parts, naked, without completion or ornament; as, the walls of a house.

What could be thought a sufficient motive to have had an eternal carcass of an universe, wherein the materials and positions of it were eternally laid together? Hale's Origin of Mankind. [In gunnery.] A kind of bomb, usually oblong, consisting of a shell or case, sometimes of iron with holes, more commonly of a coarse strong stuff, pitched over and girt with iron hoops, filled with combustibles, and thrown from a mortar. Harris.

CARCELAGE. . s. [from carcer, Lat.]

Prison fees.

Dict.

With burnish'd neck of verdant gold. Milton. CARCINO'MA. n. s. [from wx, a

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crab.] A particular ulcer, called a cancer, very difficult to cure. A disorder likewise in the horny coat of the eye, is thus called. Quincy CARCINO'MATOUS: adj. [from carcinoma.] Cancerous; tending to a cancer. CARD. n. s. [carte, Fr. charta, Lat.] 1. A paper painted with figures used in games of chance or skill.

A vengeance on your crafty wither'd hide!
Yet I have fac'd it with a card of ten. Shaksp.
Soon as she spreads her hand, th' aerial guard
Descend, and sit on each important card;
First, Ariel perch'd upon a matadore. Pope.
2. The paper on which the winds are
marked for the mariner's compass.
Upon his cards and compass firms his eye,
The masters of his long experiment.
The very points they blow;

All the quarters that they know,
I' th' shipman's card.

Spenser.

Shakspeare.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. Shaksp. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail; Reason the card, but passion is the gale. Pope. 3. [kaarde, Dutch.] The instrument with which wool is combed, or comminuted, or broken for spinning. To CARD. v. a. [from the noun.] To comb, or comminute wool with a piece of wood, thick set with crooked wires. The while their wives do sit Beside them, carding wool.

Go, card and spin,

May's Virgil.

And leave the business of the war to men. Dryd. To CARD. v. n. To gain; to play much at cards: as, a carding wife. CARDAMOʻMUM. n. s. [Lat.] A medicinal seed, of the aromatick kind, contained in pods, and brought from the East Indies. Chambers.

CA'RDER. N. s. [from card.]

1. One that cards wool.

'The clothiers all have put off

The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers. Shaksp. 2. One that plays much at cards. CARDIACAL. adj. [xgia, the heart.] CARDIACK. Cordial; having the quality of invigorating the spirits. CARDIALGY. n. s. [from gia, the heart, and y, pain.] The heart-burn; a pain supposed to be felt in the heart, but more properly in the stomach, which sometimes rises all along from thence up to the esophagus, occasioned by some acrimonious matter. Quincy. CARDINAL. adj. [cardinalis, Lat.] Principal; chief.

The divisions of the year in frequent use with astronomers, according to the cardinal intersections of the zodiack; that is, the two equinoctals, and both the solstitial points. Brown.

His cardinal perfection was industry. Clarend. CARDINAL. n. s. One of the chief governors of the Romish church, by whom the pope is elected out of their own number, which contains six bishops, fifty priests, and fourteen deacons, who constitute the sacred college, and are chosen by the pope.

A cardinal is so stiled, because serviceable to the apostolick see, as an axle or hinge on which

the whole government of the church turns ;"er as they have, from the pope's grant, the hinge and government of the Romish church. Aylife. You hold a fair assembly;

You are a churchman, or, I'll tell you, cardinal, I should judge now unhappily. Shakspeare. CARDINAL'S FLOWER. n. s. [rapuntium, Lat. A flower.

The species are, 1. Greater rampions with a crimson spiked flower, commonly called the scarlet cardinal's flower. 2. The blue çardinal's flower. Miller. CARDINALATE. Įn. s. [from cardinal] CARDINALSHIP. The office and rank of a cardinal.

An ingenious cavalier, hearing that an old friend of his was advanced to a cardinalete, went to congratulate his eminence upon his new honour. L'Estrange. CA'RDMAKER. n. s. [from card and make.] A maker of cards.

n.

Am not 1,Christophero Sly, by occupation a CA'RDMATCH. cardmaker?" Shakspeare's Taming of the Shrew. s. [from card and match.] A match made by dipping pieces of card in melted sulphur.

Take care, that those may not make the most noise who have the least to sell; which is very observable in the venders of cardmatches.

Addison.

CARDUUS. See THISTLE. CARE. n. s. [cape, Saxon.] 1. Solicitude; anxiety; perturbation of mind; concern.

Or, if I would take care, that care should be For wit that scorn'd the world, and liv'd like me. Dryden. Nor sullen discontent, nor anxious care, Ev'n though brought thither, could inhabit there. Drydes.

Raise in your soul the greatest care of fuinlling the divine will. Wake's Preparation for Death, 2. Caution; often in the phrase, to base

a care.

Well, sweet Jack, have a care of thyself.

Shakspeare. The foolish virgins had taken no care for a further supply, after the oil, which was at first put into their lamps, was spent, as the wise had done. Tillotson.

Begone! the priest expects you at the altar.But, tyrant, have a care, I come not thither.

3. Regard; charge; heed in protection and preservation.

4.

A. Philips. order to

If we believe that there is a God, that takes care of us, and we be careful to please him, this cannot but be a mighty comfort to us. Tilletsen. It is a loose and vague word, implying attention or inclination, in any degree more or less: It is commonly used in the phrase, to take care.

You come in such a time, As if propitious fortune took a care To swell my tide of joys to their full height. Dryden,

We take care to fratter ourselves with imaginary scenes and prospects of future happiness. Atterb, 5. The object of care, of caution, or of love.

O my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows! When that my care could not withhold thy riots, What wilt thou do when riot is thy care? Shak Flush'd were his cheeks, and glowing were his

eves:

Is she thy care? is she thy cure? he cries. Dryd

Your safety, more than mine, was then my care: Lest of the guide bereft, the rudder lost, Your ship should run against the rocky coast.

The wily fox,

Dryden.

Who lately filch'd the turkey's callow care. Gay. None taught the trees a nobler race to bear, Or more improv'd the vegetable care. Pope. To CARE. v. n. [from the noun.] 1. To be anxious or solicitous; to be in concern about any thing.

She cared not what pain she put her body to, since the better part, her mind, was laid under so much agony. Sidney. As the Germans, both in language and manners, differed from the Hungarians, so were they always at variance with them; and therefore much cared not, though they were by him subdued. Knolles's History of the Turks.

Well, on my terms thou wilt not be my heir; If thou car'st little, less shall be my care. Dryd. 2. To be inclined; to be disposed: with for before nouns, or to before verbs. Not caring to observe the wind, Or the new sea explore.

Waller.

The remarks are introduced by a compliment to the works of an author, who, I am sure, would not care for being praised at the expence of another's reputation.

Addison.

Having been now acquainted, the two sexes did not care to part. Addison.

Great masters in painting never care for drawing people in the fashion. Spectator. 3. To be affected with; to have regard to: with for.

You doat on her that cares not for your love. Shakspeare. There was an ape that had twins; she doated upen one of them, and did not much care for tother. L'Estrange. Where few are rich, few care for it; where Temple. many are so, many desire it. CA'RECRAZED. adj. [from care and craze.] Broken with care and solicitude.

These both put off, a poor petitioner, A carecraz'd mother of many children. Shaksp. To CAREʼEN. v. a. [cariner, Fr. from carina, Lat. A term in the sea language.] To lay a vessel on one side, to calk, stop up leeks, refit, or trim the other side. Chambers.

To CARE'EN, v. n. To be in the state of carcening.

CARE'ER. n.s. [carriere, Fr.]

1. The ground on which a race is run; the length of a course.

They had run themselves too far out of breath, to go back again the same career.

2. A course; a race.

Sidney.

What rein can hold licentious wickedness, When down the hill he holds his fierce career? Shakspeare.

3. Height of speed; swift motion.

It is related of certain Indians, that they are able, when a horse is running in his full career, to stand upright on his back. Wilkins,

Practise them now to curb the turning steed, Mocking the foe; now to his rapid speed To give the rein, and, in the full career,

To draw the certain sword, or send the pointed spear.

Prior.

4. Course of action; uninterrupted procedure.

Shali quips and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour?

Shakspeare,

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Welcome, thou pleasing slumber; Awhile embrace me in thy leaden arms, And charm my careful thoughts.

Luke.

Denbam.

2. Provident; diligent: with of or for.

Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? 2 Kings. To cure their mad ambition, they were sent To rule a distant province, each alone: What could a careful father more have done? Dryden. 3. Watchful; cautious: with of. It concerns us to be careful of our conversations.

Ray. 4. Subject to perturbations; exposed to troubles; full of anxiety; full of solicitude.

By him that rais'd me to this careful height, From that contented hap which I enjoy'd. Shak. CAREFULLY. adv. [from careful.]

1. In a manner that shows care.

Envy, how carefully does it look! how meagre Collier. and ill-complexioned! 2. Heedfully; watchfully; vigilantly; attentively.

You come most carefully upon your hour. Shakspeare. By considering him so carefully as I did before my attempt, I have made some faint resemblance of him. Dryden.

All of them, therefore, studiously cherished the memory of their honourable extraction, and carefully preserved the evidences of it. Atterb. 3. Providently. 4. Cautiously.

CA'REFULNESS.

n. s. [from careful.] Vigilance; heedfulness; caution. The death of Selymus was, with all careful ness, concealed by Ferhates. Knolles. CA'RELESLY. adv. [from careless.] Negligently; inattentively; without care; heedlesly.

There he him found all carelesly display'd In secret shadow from the sunny ray. F. Queen. Not content to see That others write as carelesly as he. Waller. CA'RELESNESS. n. s. [from careless.] Heedlesness; inattention; negligence; absence of care; manner void of care.

For Coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate him, manifests the true knowledge he has in their disposition, and, out of his noble carelesness, lets them plainly see it. Shakspeare. Who, in the other extreme, only doth Call a rough carelesness good fashion; Whose cloak his spurs tear, or whom he spits on, He cares not. Done. It makes us to walk warily, and tread sure, for

fear of our enemies; and that is better than to be flattered into pride and carelesness. Taylor. The ignorance or carelesness of the servants canhardly leave the master disappointed. Temple. I who at some times spend, at others spare, Divided between carelesness and care.

Pope.

CA'RELESS. adj. [from care.] 1. Having no care; feeling no solicitude; unconcerned; negligent; inattentive ; heedless; regardless; thoughtless; neglectful; unheeding; unthinking; unmindful: with of or about.

Knowing that if the worst befal them, they shall lose nothing but themselves; whereof they seem very careless. Spenser. Nor lose the good advantage of his grace, By seeming cold, or careless of his will. Shaksp. A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house. Ben Jonson.

A father, unnaturally careless of his child, sells or gives him to another man. Locke.

2. Cheerful; undisturbed.

Thus wisely careless, innocently gay, Cheerful he play'd.

In my cheerful morn of life,

Pope.

When nurs'd by careless solitude I liv'd,
And sung of nature with unceasing joy,
Pleas'd have I wander'd through your rough

domain.

Thomson.

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Careless of thunder from the clouds that break, My only omens from your looks I take. Granv. To CARE'SS. v. a. [caresser, Fr. from carus, Lat.] To endear; to fondle ; to treat with kindness.

If I can feast, and please, and caress my mind with the pleasures of worthy speculations, or vir tuous practices, let greatness and malice vex and abridge me, if they can. South.

CARE'SS. n. s. [from the verb.] An act of endearment; an expression of tenderness.

He, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses,

Milton.

There are some men who seem to have brutal minds wrapt up in human shapes; their very caresses are crude and importune. L'Estrange. After his successour had publickly owned himself a Roman catholick, he began with his first caresses to the church party. Swift. CA'RET. n. s. [caret, Lat. there is want. ing.] A note which shows where something interlined should be read. CARĞASON. n. s. [cargaçon, Spanish.] A cargo. Not used.

My body is a cargason of ill humours. Howel. CARGO, n. s. [charge, Fr.] The lading of a ship; the merchandise or wares contained and conveyed in a ship.

In the hurry of the shipwreck, Simonides was the only man that appeared unconcerned, notwithstanding that his whole fortune was at stake in the cargo. L'Estrange. A ship whose cargo was no less than a whole world, that carried the fortune and hopes of all posterity. Burnet's Theory.

This gentleman was then a young adventurer in the republick of letters, and just fitted out for the university with a good cargo of Latin and Greek. Addison.

CA'RICOUS Tumour. [from carica, a fig, Lat.] A swelling in the form of a fig. CARIES n. 3. [Latin.] That rottenness which is peculiar to a bone. Quiner. Fistulas of a long continuance, are, for the most part, accompanied with ulcerations of the Wiseman, CARIO'SITY. n. s. [from carious.] Rotgland, and caries in the bone.

tenness.

This is too general, taking in all cariesity and ulcers of the bones. Wiseman's Surgery. CAʼRIOUS, adı. [cariosus, Lat.] Rotten. I discovered the blood to arise by a carious tooth. Wiseman's Surgery. CARK. n. J. [ceanc, Saxon.] Care; anxiety; solicitude; concern; heedfulness. Obsolete.

And Klaius taking for his younglings cark, Lest greedy eyes to them might challenge lay, Busy with oker did their shoulders mark. Sidney. He down did lay

His heavy head, devoid of careful cark. Spenser. To CARK. v. n. [cearcan, Saxon.] To be careful; to be solicitous; to be anxious. It is now very little used, and always in an ill sense.

I do find what a blessing is chanced to my life, from such muddy abundance of carking agonies, to states which still be adherent. Sidney.

What can be vainer, than to lavish out our lives in the search of trifles, and to lie carking for the unprofitable goods of this world? L'Estr Nothing can supersede our own carkings and contrivances for ourselves, but the assurance that God cares for us. Decay of Piety. CARLE. n. s. [ceorl, Saxon.] 1. A mean, rude, rough, brutal man. We now use churl.

The carle beheld, and saw his guest Would safe depart, for all his subtile sleight. Spenser.

Answer, thou carle, and judge this riddle right, I'll frankly own thee for a cunning wight. Gay. The editor was a covetous carle, and would have his pearls of the highest price. Bentley 2. A kind of hemp.

The fimble to spin and the carl for her seed.
Tusier.

CARLINE THISTLE. [carlina, Lat.] A plant.

Miller. CARLINGS. n. s. [In a ship.] Timbers lying fore and aft, along from one beam to another; on these the ledges rest, on which the planks of the deck are made fast. Harris.

CARMAN. n. s. [from car and man.] A man whose employment it is to drive

cars.

If the strong cane support thy walking hand, Chairmen no longer shall the wall command; E'en sturdy carmen shall thy nod obey, And rattling coaches stop to make thee way. Gey. CARMELITE. n. s. [carmelite, Fr.] A sort of pear.

CARMINATIVE. adj. [supposed to be so called, as having vim carminis, the power of a charm.]

Carminatives are such things as dilute and relax at the same time, because wind occasions a spasm, or convulsion, in some parts. Whatever promotes insensible perspiration, is carminative; for wind is perspirable matter retained in the body. Arbuthnot on Aliments.

Carminative and diuretick
Will damp all passion sympathetick.

Swift.

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