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Cacolet
A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.
Cadbait
See .
Cageling
A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird.
Camassia
a genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs.
Campanology
The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art.
candela
the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites.
Cannonade
The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance.
Capcase
A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest.
Carbunculation
The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold.
Carpellary
Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.
Caryophyllin
A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.
Centrifugal filter
A filter, as for sugar, in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action.
Cess
To rate; to tax; to assess.
Chalybeate
Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; .
chandelle
an abrupt climbing turn made by an airplane, in which the plane's momentum is used to achieve a higher than normal rate of climb, without stalling the aircraft.
Checkerwork
Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
Chemosynthesis
Synthesis of organic compounds by energy derived from chemical changes or reactions. of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid.
Chevron
One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
Chih hsien
An official having charge of a hsien, or administrative district, in China; a district magistrate, responsible for good order in his hsien (which see), and having jurisdiction in its civil and criminal cases.
Chimney-breast
The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
chinchy
same as .
Choice
Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
Choke pear
A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.
Chose
A thing; personal property.
Chouan
One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.
Clair-obscur
See .
Clinquant
Tinsel; Dutch gold.
Clodhopper
A rude, rustic fellow.
Cloff
Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
Codefendant
A joint defendant.
Collocation
The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
Color
A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision;
Colubrine
like or related to snakes of the genus .
Commonition
Advice; warning; instruction.
Complexioned
Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; .
Compositor
One who composes or sets in order.
Conceit
To form an idea; to think.
Concomitantly
In company with others; unitedly; concurrently.
Conditory
A repository for holding things; a hinding place.
Confront
Same as .
confused
same as ; .
Consequently
By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.
Considerate
Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of others.
constantan
a copper-nickel alloy composed of approximately 55 per cent copper and 45 per cent nickel, with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; it is used as resistance wire and in thermocouples.
contracting
the act or process of acquiring an infectious disease; contraction; .
Controvertible
Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question.
Coontie
A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the , from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.
Coperant
Operating together; .
Cope
To bargain for; to buy.
Copsy
Characterized by copses.
Corollet
A floret in an aggregate flower.
Corsak
A small foxlike mammal (), found in Central Asia.
Cotyledonous
Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.
Cowhide
The hide of a cow.
Coxcomb
A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.
Crappie
A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus , found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species.
Cream-white
As white as cream.
Creed
To believe; to credit.
Cretinous
Having the characteristics of a cretin.
Crocketing
Ornamentation with crockets.
Croslet
See .
Cross-birth
Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.
cross-linkage
same as ,
Crunode
A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See , under ,
Culture myth
A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.
Cure
Care, heed, or attention.
Curry
To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
Cytherean
Pertaining to the goddess Venus.