CARMINE.H. S. A bright red or crimson colour, bordering on purple, used by painters in miniature. It is the most valuable product of the cochineal mastick, and of an excessive price. Chambers. CA'RNAGE, 14, S. [carnage, Fr. from caro, carnis, Lat. 1. Slaughter; havock; massacre. He brought the king's forces upon them rather as to carnage than to fight, insomuch as, without any great loss or danger to themselves, the greatest Hayward. part of the seditious were slain. 2. Heaps of flesh. Such a scent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable! and taste His ample maw with human carnage fill'd, 1. Fleshly; not spiritual. Thou dost justly require us to submit our un- From that pretence Milton. Not such in carnal pleasure: for which cause, Among the beasts no mate for thee was found. Milton. A glorious apparition! had not doubt, And carnal fear, that day dimm'd Adam's eye. Milton. He perceives plainly, that his appetite to spiritual things abates, in proportion as his sensual appetite is indulged and encouraged; and that carnal desires kill not only the desire, but even the power, of tasting purer delights. Atterb. 2. Lustful; lecherous; libidinous. This carnal cur Preys on the issue of his mother's body. Shaksp. CARNALITY. n. s. [from carnal.] 1. Fleshly lust; compliance with carnal desires. If godly, why do they wallow and sleep in all the carnalities of the world, under pretence of South. christian liberty? 2. Grossness of mind. He did not institute this way of worship, but because of the carnality of their hearts, and the proneness of that people to idolatry. Tillotson. CARNALLY.adv. [from carnal.] According to the flesh; not spiritually. Where they found men in diet, attire, furniture of house, or any other way, observers of civility and decent order, such they reproved, as being sarnally and earthly minded. Hooker. In the sacrament we do not receive Christ carnally, but we receive him spiritually; and that of itself is a conjugation of blessings and spi Dict. ritual graces. Taylor's Wortby Communicant. CA'RNALNESS. n. s. Carnality. CARNATION. n. s. [carnes, Lat.] The name of the natural flesh colour, from which perhaps the flower is named; the name of a flower. And lo the wretch! whose vile, whose insect Laid this gay daughter of the spring in dust The common carnelion has its name from its in paler, when it is called the female cornelion; At the same time I think, I deliberate, I purpose, I command: in inferiour faculties, I walk, I see, I hear, I digest, I sanguify, I carnify. Hale's Origin of Mankind. CARNIVAL. n. s. [carnaval, Fr.] The feast held in the popish countries before Lent; a time of luxury. The whole year is but one mad carnival; and we are voluptuous not so much upon desire or appetite, as by way of exploit and bravery. Decay of Piety. CARNIVOROUS. adj. [from carnis and voro.] Flesh-eating; that of which flesh is the proper food. In birds there is no mastication or comminution of the meat in the mouth; but in such as are not carnivorous, it is immediately swallowed into the crop or craw. Ray on the Creation. Man is by his frame, as well as his appetite, Arbuthnot on Aliments. a carnivorous animal. CARNOʻSITY. n. s. [carnosité, Fr.] Fleshy excrescence. By this method, and by this course of diet, with sudorifics, the ulcers are healed, and that Wiseman. carnosity resolved. CARNOUS. adj. [from caro, carnis, Lat.] Fleshy. 1 The first or outward part is a thick and carnons covering, like that of a walnut; the second, a dry and flosculous coat, commonly called mace. Brown's Vulgar Errours. The muscle whereby he is enabled to draw himself together, the academists describe to be a distinct carnous muscle, extended to the ear. Ray on the Creation. CA'ROB, or St. John's Bread. [soliqua, Lat.] A tree very common in Spain, and in some parts of Italy, where it produces a great quantity of long, flat, brown-coloured pods, which are thick, mealy, and of a sweetish taste. These pods are eaten by the poorer inhabitants. Miller. CARO'CHE. n. s. [from carosse, Fr.] A coach; a carriage of pleasure. It is used in the comedy of Albumazar, but now it is obsolete. CAROL. n. s. [carola, Ital. from choreola, 1. A song of joy and exultation. And let the Graces dance unto the rest, The whiles the maidens do their carol sing, Oppos'd to her, on t' other side advance 2. A song of devotion. No night is now with hymn or carol blest. 3. A song in general. The card they began that hour, How that a life was but a flower. Shakspeare. To CA'ROL. v. n. [carolare, Ital.] To sing; to warble; to sing in joy and festivity. Hark, how the cheerful birds do chant their lays, And carol of love's praise. Spenser. This done, she sung, and caroll'd out so clear, That men and angels might rejoice to hear. Dryd. Hov'ring swans, their throats releas'd From native silence, carol sounds harmonious. Prior. To CA'ROL. v. a. To praise; to celebrate in song. She with precious viol'd liquors heals, For which the shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness loud in rustick lays. Milton. CAROTID, adi. [carotides, Lat.] Two arteries which arise out of the ascending trunk of the aorta, near where the subclavian arteries arise. The carotid, vertebral, and splenetick arteries, are not only variously contorted, but also here and there dilated, to moderate the motion of the blood. Ray on the Creation. ·CAROUSAL. n. s. [from carouse. It seems more properly pronounced with the accent upon the second syllable; but Dryden accents it on the first.] A festival. This game, these carousals Ascanius taught, And building alba to the Latins brought. Dryd. To CARO USE. v. n. [carouser, Fr. from gar ausz, all out, Germ.] To drink; to quaff; to drink largely. He calls for wine: a health, quoth he; as if Raleigh. Now hats fly off, and youths carouse, Healths first go round, and then the house, The brides came thick and thick. Suckling. Under the shadow of friendly boughs They sit carousing, where their liquor grows. Waller. To CARO'USE. v. a. To drink up lavishly. Now my sick fool, Roderigo, Whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side CARO'USE. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. A drinking match. Waste in wild riot what your land allows, There ply the early feast, and late carouse. Pope. 2. A hearty dose of liquor. He had so many eyes watching over him, as he could not drink a full carouse of sack, but the state was advertised thereof within few hours after. Davies on Ireland. Please you, we may contrive this afternoon, And quaffca carouses to our mistress' health. Shak CARO'USER. n. s. [from carouse.] A drinker; a toper. The bold carouser, and adventʼring dame, Nor fear the fever, nor refuse the flame; Safe in his skill, from all constraint set free But conscious shame, remorse, and piety. Granv. CARP, n s.[carpe, Fr.] A pond fish. A friend of mine stored a pond of three or four acres with carps and tench. Hale. To CARP. v. n. [carpo, Lat.] To censure; to cavil; to find fault: with at before the thing or person censured. Tertullian even often, through discontentment, carpeth injuriously at them, as though they did it even when they were free from such meaning. Hooker. This your all-licens'd fool Does hourly carp and quarrel, breaking forth Herbert. My honest homely words were carp'd and cen sur'd, For want of courtly stile. Dryden. CARPENTER. n. s. [charpentier, Fr.] An artificer in wood; a builder of houses and ships. He is distinguished from a joiner, as the carpenter performs larger and stronger work. This work performed with advisement good, Godfrey his carpenters, and men of skill In all the camp, sent to an aged wood. Fairfax. In building Hiero's great ship, there were three hundred carpenters employed for a year together. Wilkins. In burden'd vessels first with speedy care, His plenteous stores do season'd timbers send; Thither the brawny carpenters repair, And, as the surgeons of maim'd ships, attend. Dryden CARPENTRY. n. s. [from carpenter.] The trade or art of a carpenter. It had been more proper for me to have introduced carpentry before joinery, because necessity did doubtless compel our forefathers to use the conveniency of the first, rather than the extravagancy of the last. Moxon's Mech. Exer. CARPER, n. s. [from To carp.] A caviller; a censorious man. I have not these weeds, By putting on the cunning of a carper. Shaksp. CARPET. n. s. [karpet, Dutch.] 1. A covering of various colours, spread upon floors or tables. Be the Jacks fair within, the Jills fair without, carpets laid, and every thing in order? Shakspeare. Against the wall, in the middle of the half pace, is a chair placed before him, with a table and carpet before it. Becen. 2. Ground variegated with flowers, and level and smooth. Go signify as much, while here we march Upon the grassy carpet of this plain. Shakspeare, The carpet ground shall be with leaves o'erspread, And boughs shall weave a cov'ring for your head. Dryden. 3. Any thing variegated. The whole dry land is, for the most part, covered over with a lovely carpet of green grass, and other herbs. Ray 4. Carpet is used, proverbially, for a state of ease and luxury; as, a carpet knight, a knight that has never known the field, and has recommended himself only at table. He is knight, dubbed with unhacked rapier, and on carpet consideration. Shakspeare 5. To be on the carpet [sur le tapis, Fr.] is to be the subject of consideration; an affair in hand. CAR To CARPET. v. a. [from the noun.] To spread with carpets. We found him in a fair chamber, richly hanged and carpeted under foot, without any degrees to the state; he was set upon a low throne, richly adorned, and a rich cloth of state over his head, Bacon. of blue sattin embroidered. The dry land we find every where naturally carpeted over with grass, and other agreeable Derbam. wholesome plants. CARPING. particip. adj. [from To carp.] Captious; censorious. No carping critick interrupts his praise, No rival strives but for a second place. Granville. Lay aside therefore a carping spirit, and read even an adversary with an honest design to find out his true meaning; do not snatch at little Watts. lapses, and appearances of mistake. CARPINGLY, adv. [from carping.] Captiously; censoriously. We derive out of the Latin at second hand by the French, and make good English, as in these adverbs, carpingly, currently, actively, colourably. Camden's Remains. CARPMEALS. n. s. A kind of coarse cloth made in the north of England. Phillips. CARPUS. n.s. [Latin.] The wrist, so named by anatomists, which is made up of eight little bones, of different figures and thickness, placed in two ranks, four in each rank. They are strongly tied together by the ligaments which come from the radius, and by the annulary ligament. Quincy Though in my face there's no affected frowny Let them have ever so learned lectures of 7. Management; manner of transacting. The manner of carriage of the business, was You must distinguish between the motion of The loaded carriers from their evening hive. Dryden. 2. One whose profession or trade is to carry goods for others. I have rather made it my choice to transcribe all, than to venture the loss of my originals by Pierce's Letters. post or carrier. The roads are crowded with carriers, laden Swift. with rich manufactures. I found one of the bones of the carpus lying 3. A messenger; one who carries a més loose in the wound. Wiseman's Surgery. CA'RRACK. See CARACK. Nay, you shall see mine orchard, where, in an The unequal agitation of the winds, though material to the carriage of sounds farther or less way, yet do not confound the articulation. Bacon. If it seem so strange to move this obelisk for so little space, what may we think of the carriage Wilkins. of it out of Egypt? 2. Conquest; acquisition. Soly man resolved to besiege Vienna, in good hope that, by the carriage away of that, the other cities would, without resistance, be yielded. Knolles's History of the Turks. 3. Vehicle; that in which any thing is carried. What horse or carriage can take up and bear away all the loppings of a branchy tree at once? Watts. 4. The frame upon which cannon is car- 5. He commanded the great ordnance to be laid upon carriages, which before lay bound in great unwieldy timber, with rings fastened thereto, and could not handsomely be removed to or fro. Knolles's History of the Turks. Behaviour; personal manners. Before his eyes he did cast a mist, by his own insinuation, and by the carriage of his youth, that expressed a natural princely behaviour. Bacon. sage. The welcome news is in the letter found: The carrier's not commission'd to expound; It speaks itself. Dryden's Religio Laici, 4. The name of a species of pigeons, so called from the reported practice of some nations, who send them with letters tied to their necks, which they carry to the place where they were bred, however remote. There are tame and wild pigeons; and of tame Walton. there are croppers, carriers, runts. CARRION. n. s. [charogne, Fr.] 1. The carcass of something not proper for food. 2. They did eat the dead carrions, and one another soon after; insomuch that the very carcasses they scraped out of their graves. Spenser on Ireland. It is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Shakspeare. Ravens are seen in flocks where a carrion lies, Dryden. Criticks, as they are birds of prey, have ever Not all that pride that makes thee swell, The wolves will get a breakfast by my death; Yet scarce enough their hunger to supply, For love has made me carrion ere I die. Dryden, 3. A name of reproach for a worthless woman. Shall we send that foolish carrion, Mrs. Quickly, to him, and excuse his throwing into the water? Shakspeare. CA'RRION. adj. [from the substantive.] Relating to carcasses; feeding upon carcasses. Match to match I have encounter'd him, And make a prey for carrion kites and crows, Ev'n of the bonny beasts he lov'd so well. Shakspeare. The charity of our death-bed visits from one another, is much at a rate with that of a carrion crow to a sheep; we smell a carcass. L'Estrange. CA'RROT. n. s. [carote, Fr. daucus, Lat.] An esculent root. Carrots, though garden roots, yet they do well in the fields for seed. Mortimer. His spouse orders the sack to be immediately opened, and greedily pulls out of it half a dozen bunches of carrots. Dennis. CA'RROTINESS. n. s. [from carroty.] Redness of hair. CA'RROTY. adj. [from carrot.] of red hair, on account of its resemblance in colour to carrots. CA'RROWS. n. s. [an Irish word.] Spoken The carrows are a kind of people that wander up and down to gentlemen's houses, living only upon cards and dice; who, though they have little or nothing of their own, yet will they play for much money. Spenser on Ireland. To CA'RRY. v. a. [charier, Fr. from currus, Lat.] 1. To convey from a place: opposed to bring, or convey to a place: often with a particle, signifying departure,as arvay, off. "When he dieth he shall carry nothing arvay. I mean to carry her away this evening by the Prior. They exposed their goods with the price marked, then retired; the merchants came, left the price which they would give upon the goods, and retired; the Seres returning, carried off either their goods or money, as they liked best. Arbuth. 2. To transport. They began to carry about in beds those that were sick. Mark. The species of audibles seem to be carried more manifestly through the air, than the species of visibles. Bacon. Where many great ordnance are shot off together, the sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles upon the land. Bacon. 3. To bear; to have about one. Do not take out bones like surgeons I have met with, who carry them about in their pockets. Wiseman's Surgery. 4. To take; to have with one. If the ideas of liberty and volition were carried along with us in our minds, a great part of the difficulties that perplex men's thoughts would be easier resolved. Locke. I have listened with my utmost attention for 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. To convey by force. Swift. Go, carry sir John Falstaff to the Fleet; Take all his company along with him. Shaksp. To effect any thing. There are some vain persons, that whatsoever goeth alone, or moveth upon greater means, if they have never so little hand in it, they think it is they that carry it. Bacon. Oft-times we lose the occasion of carrying a business well thoroughly by our too much haste. Ben Jonson's Discovery, These advantages will be of no effect, unless we improve them to words, in the carrying of our main point: To gain in competition. Adaisen. Shakspeare. How many stand for consulships?Three, they say; but it is thought of every one Coriolanus will carry it. Shakspeare. I see not yet how any of these six reasons can be fairly avoided; and yet if any of them hold good, it is enough to carry the cat'se. Saunderson. The latter still enjoying his place, and continuing a joint commissioner of the treasury, still opposed, and commonly carried away every thing against him. Clarenden. To gain after resistance. The count wooes your daughter, Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty; What a fortune does the thick lips owe, Are you all resolv'd to give your voices? By these, and the like arts, they promised themselves that they should easily carry it; so that they entertained the house all the morning with other debates. Clarendon If the numerousness of a train must carry it, virtue may go follow Astræa, and vice only will be worth the courting. Glanville. Children, who live together, often strive for mastery, whose wills shall carry it over the rest. Lacke. In pleasures and pains, the present is apt to carry it, and those at a distance have the disadvantage in the comparison. Locke. 10. To bear out; to face through: with it. If a man carries it off, there is so much money saved; and if he be detected, there will be something pleasant in the frolick. L'Estrange II. To continue external appearance. My niece is already in the belief that he's mad; we may carry it thus for our pleasure and his penance. Shakspeare. 12. To manage; to transact. The senate is generally as numerous as our house of commons; and yet carries its resolutions so privately, that they are seldom known. Addir. 13. To behave; to conduct: with the reciprocal pronoun. Neglect not also the examples of those that have carried themselves ill in the same place. Bacon. He attended the king into Scotland, where he Wotton. did carry himself with much singular sweetness 14. Sometimes with it; as, she carries it 15. To bring forward; to advance in any progress. It is not to be imagined how far constancy will carry a man; however, it is better walking slowly in a rugged way, than to break a leg and Locke. be a cripple. This plain natural way, without grammar, can them to great elegancy and politeness in carry Locke. their language. There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes, as that of avarice. Swift. 16. To urge; to bear forward with some kind of external impulse. Men are strongly carried out to, and hardly South. took off from, the practice of vice. He that the world, or flesh, or devil, can carry away from the profession of an obedience to Christ, is no son of the faithful Abraham. Hammond's Practical Catechism. Ill nature, passion, and revenge, will carry them too far in punishing others; and therefore God hath certainly appointed government to restrain the partiality and violence of men. Loake. 17. To bear; to have; to obtain. In some vegetables, we see something that carries a kind of analogy to sense; they contract their leaves against the cold; they open them to the favourable heat. Hale's Origin of Mankind. 18. To exhibit; to show; to display on the outside; to set to view. The aspect of every one in the family carries so much satisfaction, that it appears he knows Addison. his happy lot. 19. To imply; to import. It carries too great an imputation of ignorance, lightness, or folly, for men to quit and renounce their former tenets, presently, upon the offer of an argument which they cannot immediately Locke. answer. 20. To contain; to comprise. He thought it carried something of argument in it, to prove that doctrine. Watts on the Mind. 21. To have annexed; to have any thing joined: with the particle with. There was a righteous and a searching law, directly forbidding such practices; and they knew that it carried with it the divine stamp. South. There are many expressions, which carry with Locke. them to my mind no clear ideas. The obvious portions of extension, that affect Our senses, carry with them into the mind the idea of finite. Locke, 22. To convey or bear any thing united or adhering, by communication of motion. We see also manifestly, that sounds are carried with wind: and therefore sounds will be heard further with the wind than against the Bacon's Natural History. wind. 23. To move or continue any thing in a certain direction. His chimney is carried up through the old rock, so that you see the sky through it, notwithstand ing the rooms lie very deep. Addison on Italy. 24. To push on ideas, arguments, or any thing successive in a train. Manethes, that wrote of the Egyptians, hath carried up their government to an incredible diHalt's Origin of Mankind, stance. 25. To receive; to endure. Not in use. Some have in readiness so many odd stories, as there is nothing but they can wrap it into a tale, to make others carry it with more pleasure. Bacon. 26. To support; to sustain. Carry camomile, or wild thyme, or the green strawberry, upon sticks, as you do hops upon poles. Bacon's Natural History 27. To bear, as trees. Set them a reasonable depth, and they will Bacon. carry more shoots upon the stem. 28. To fetch and bring, as dogs. Young whelps learn easily to carry; young Ascham. popinjays learn quickly to speak. Το Old Parr lived to one hundred and fifty-three years of age, and might have gone further, if the change of air had not carried him off. Temple. 30. To carry on. To promote; to help forward. It carries on the same design that is promoted by authors of a graver turn, and only does it in Addison. another manner. 31. To continue; to put To carry on. forward from one stage to another. By the administration of grace, begun by our blessed Saviour, carried on by his disciples, and to be completed by their successours to the world's end, all types that darkened this faith Spratt. are enlightened. Æneas's settlement in Italy was carried on through all the oppositions in his way to it, both Addison. by sea and land. 32. To carry on. To prosecute; not to let To CA'RRY. v.n. 1. A hare is said by hunters to carry, when she runs on rotten ground, on on frost, and it sticks to her feet. 2. A horse is said to carry well, when his neck is arched, and he holds his head high; but when his neck is short and ill-shaped, and he lowers his head, he is said to carry logy. CA'RRY-TALE. N.s. [from carry and tale.] A talebearer. Some carry-tale, some pleaseman, some slight zany, Shakspeare. Told our intents before. CART. 22.5. See Car. [cræt, crat, Sax.] 1. A carriage in general. The Scythians are described by Herodotus to lodge always in carts, and to feed upon the milk of mares. Temple. Triptolemus, so sung the Nine, Strew'd plenty from his cart divine. Dryden. 2. A wheel-carriage, used commonly for |