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C91sural \C[91]*su"ral\, a. Of or pertaining to a c[91]sura. {C[91]sural pause}, a pause made at a c[91]sura. | |
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Car wheel \Car" wheel`\, A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck. | |
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Cariole \Car"i*ole\, n. [F. carriole, dim. fr. L. carrus. See {Car}, and {Carryall}.] (a) A small, light, open one-horse carriage. (b) A covered cart. (c) A kind of calash. See {Carryall}. | |
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Carl \Carl\, n. [Icel, karl a male, a man; akin to AS. ceorl, OHG. charal, G. kerl fellow. See {Churl}.] [Written also {carle}.] 1. A rude, rustic man; a churl. The miller was a stout carl. --Chaucer. 2. Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also {carl hemp}. 3. pl. A kind of food. See citation, below. Caring or carl are gray steeped in water and fried the next day in butter or fat. They are eaten on the second Sunday before Easter, formerly called Carl Sunday. --Robinson's Whitby Glossary (1875). | |
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Carl \Carl\, n. [Icel, karl a male, a man; akin to AS. ceorl, OHG. charal, G. kerl fellow. See {Churl}.] [Written also {carle}.] 1. A rude, rustic man; a churl. The miller was a stout carl. --Chaucer. 2. Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also {carl hemp}. 3. pl. A kind of food. See citation, below. Caring or carl are gray steeped in water and fried the next day in butter or fat. They are eaten on the second Sunday before Easter, formerly called Carl Sunday. --Robinson's Whitby Glossary (1875). | |
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Carol \Car"ol\, v. i. To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble. And carol of love's high praise. --Spenser. The gray linnets carol from the hill. --Beattie. | |
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Carol \Car"ol\, Carrol \Car"rol\, n. [OF. carole a sort of circular space, or carol.] (Arch.) A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. A bay window may thus be called a carol. --Parker. | |
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Carol \Car"ol\, n. [OF. carole a kind of dance wherein many dance together, fr. caroler to dance; perh. from Celtic; cf. Armor. koroll, n., korolla, korolli, v., Ir. car music, turn, circular motion, also L. choraula a flute player, charus a dance, chorus, choir.] 1. A round dance. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. The costly feast, the carol, and the dance. --Dryden It was the carol of a bird. --Byron. 3. A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol. Heard a carol, mournful, holy. --Tennyson. In the darkness sing your carol of high praise. --Keble. 4. Joyful music, as of a song. I heard the bells on Christmans Day Their old, familiar carol play. --Longfellow. | |
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Carol \Car"ol\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caroled}, or {Carolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caroling}, or {Carolling}.] 1. To praise or celebrate in song. The Shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness. --Milton. 2. To sing, especially with joyful notes. Hovering swans . . . carol sounds harmonious. --Prior. | |
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Carolus \Car"o*lus\, n.; pl. E. {Caroluses}, L. {Caroli}. [L., Charles.] An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. --Macawlay. | |
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Carrel \Car"rel\, n. See {Quarrel}, an arrow. | |
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Carrel \Car"rel\, n. (Arch.) Same as 4th {Carol}. | |
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Carol \Car"ol\, Carrol \Car"rol\, n. [OF. carole a sort of circular space, or carol.] (Arch.) A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. A bay window may thus be called a carol. --Parker. | |
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Carrol \Car"rol\, n. (Arch.) See 4th {Carol}. | |
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Carryall \Car"ry*all`\, n. [Corrupted fr. cariole.] A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse. | |
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Ceorl \Ceorl\ (k[ecr][ocir]rl or ch[etil]rl), n. [AS. See {Churl}, n.] (O. Eng. Hist.) A freeman of the lowest class; one not a thane or of the servile classes; a churl. | |
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Cereal \Ce"re*al\, a. [L. Cerealis pert. to Ceres, and hence, to agriculture. See {Ceres}.] Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain. | |
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Cereal \Ce"re*al\ n. Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural. | |
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Cerial \Cer"i*al\, a. Same as {Cerrial}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Cerrial \Cer"ri*al\, a. [L. cerreus, fr. cerrus a kind of oak.] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the cerris. Chaplets green of cerrial oak. --Dryden. | |
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Cerule \Cer"ule\, a. [L. caerulus, eguiv. to caeruleus.] Blue; cerulean. [Obs.] --Dyer. | |
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Ceryl \Ce"ryl\, n. [L. cera wax + -yl.] (Chem.) A radical, {C27H55} supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc. | |
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Charily \Char"i*ly\, adv. In a chary manner; carefully; cautiously; frugally. | |
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Charlie \Char"lie\, n. 1. A familiar nickname or substitute for Charles. 2. A night watchman; -- an old name. 3. A short, pointed beard, like that worn by Charles I. 4. As a proper name, a fox; -- so called in fables and familiar literature. | |
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Cheerily \Cheer"i*ly\, adv. In a cheery manner. | |
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Cheerly \Cheer"ly\, a. Gay; cheerful. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Cheerly \Cheer"ly\, adv. Cheerily. [Archaic] --Tennyson. | |
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Choir \Choir\, n. [OE. quer, OF. cuer, F. ch[d2]ur, fr. L. chorus a choral dance, chorus, choir, fr. Gr. [?], orig. dancing place; prob. akin to [?] inclosure, L. hortus garden, and E. yard. See {Chorus}.] 1. A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service. [Formerly written also {quire}.] 2. That part of a church appropriated to the singers. 3. (Arch.) The chancel. {Choir organ} (Mus.), one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. {Choir screen}, {Choir wall} (Arch.), a screen or low wall separating the choir from the aisles. {Choir service}, the service of singing performed by the choir. --T. Warton. | |
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Choral \Cho"ral\, a. [LL. choralis, fr. L. chorus. See {Chorus}.] Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony. {Choral service}, a service of song. | |
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Choral \Cho"ral\, n. (Mus.) A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals. [Sometimes written {chorale}.] | |
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Choral \Cho"ral\, n. (Mus.) A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals. [Sometimes written {chorale}.] | |
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Chorally \Cho"ral*ly\, adv. In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony. | |
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Churl \Churl\, a. Churlish; rough; selfish. [Obs.] --Ford. | |
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Churl \Churl\, n. [AS. ceorl a freeman of the lowest rank, man, husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles (orig., man, male), and perh. to Skr. j[be]ra lover. Cf. {Carl}, {Charles's Wain}.] 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. [bd]A peasant or churl.[b8] --Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. --Emerson. 2. A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor. A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood. --Sir P. Sidney. 3. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf. --Drayton. | |
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Churly \Churl"y\, a. Rude; churlish; violent. --Longfellow. | |
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Eve \Eve\, n. [See {Even}, n.] 1. Evening. [Poetic] Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. --Thomson. 2. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. [bd]On the eve of death.[b8] --Keble. {Eve churr} (Zo[94]l), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also {night churr}, and {churr owl}. | |
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Goatsucker \Goat"suck`er\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to {Caprimulgus} and allied genera, esp. the European species ({Caprimulgus Europ[91]us}); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also {goat-milker}, {goat owl}, {goat chaffer}, {fern owl}, {night hawk}, {nightjar}, {night churr}, {churr-owl}, {gnat hawk}, and {dorhawk}. | |
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Coral \Cor"al\, n. [Of. coral, F, corail, L. corallum, coralium, fr. Gr. kora`llion.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa. Note: The large stony corals forming coral reefs belong to various genera of {Madreporaria}, and to the hydroid genus, {Millepora}. The red coral, used in jewelry, is the stony axis of the stem of a gorgonian ({Corallium rubrum}) found chiefly in the Mediterranean. The {fan corals}, {plume corals}, and {sea feathers} are species of {Gorgoniacea}, in which the axis is horny. Organ-pipe coral is formed by the genus {Tubipora}, an Alcyonarian, and {black coral} is in part the axis of species of the genus {Antipathes}. See {Anthozoa}, {Madrepora}. 2. The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color. 3. A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything. {Brain coral}, or {Brain stone coral}. See under {Brain}. {Chain coral}. See under {Chain}. {Coral animal} (Zo[94]l.), one of the polyps by which corals are formed. They are often very erroneously called {coral insects}. {Coral fish}. See in the Vocabulary. {Coral reefs} (Phys. Geog.), reefs, often of great extent, made up chiefly of fragments of corals, coral sands, and the solid limestone resulting from their consolidation. They are classed as {fringing reefs}, when they border the land; {barrier reefs}, when separated from the shore by a broad belt of water; {atolls}, when they constitute separate islands, usually inclosing a lagoon. See {Atoll}. {Coral root} (Bot.), a genus ({Corallorhiza}) of orchideous plants, of a yellowish or brownish red color, parasitic on roots of other plants, and having curious jointed or knotted roots not unlike some kinds of coral. See Illust. under {Coralloid}. {Coral snake}. (Zo) (a) A small, venomous, Brazilian snake {(Elaps corallinus)}, coral-red, with black bands. (b) A small, harmless, South American snake ({Tortrix scytale}). {Coral tree} (Bot.), a tropical, leguminous plant, of several species, with showy, scarlet blossoms and coral-red seeds. The best known is {Erythrina Corallodendron}. {Coral wood}, a hard, red cabinet wood. --McElrath. | |
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3. A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede. 4. A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb. --Milton. 5. A turn revolution; rotation; compass. According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves. --South. [He] throws his steep flight in many an a[89]ry wheel. --Milton. {A wheel within a wheel}, [or] {Wheels within wheels}, a complication of circumstances, motives, etc. {Balance wheel}. See in the Vocab. {Bevel wheel}, {Brake wheel}, {Cam wheel}, {Fifth wheel}, {Overshot wheel}, {Spinning wheel}, etc. See under {Bevel}, {Brake}, etc. {Core wheel}. (Mach.) (a) A mortise gear. (b) A wheel having a rim perforated to receive wooden cogs; the skeleton of a mortise gear. {Measuring wheel}, an odometer, or perambulator. {Wheel and axle} (Mech.), one of the elementary machines or mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle, and used for raising great weights, by applying the power to the circumference of the wheel, and attaching the weight, by a rope or chain, to that of the axle. Called also {axis in peritrochio}, and {perpetual lever}, -- the principle of equilibrium involved being the same as in the lever, while its action is continuous. See {Mechanical powers}, under {Mechanical}. {Wheel animal}, or {Wheel animalcule} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of rotifers having a ciliated disk at the anterior end. {Wheel barometer}. (Physics) See under {Barometer}. {Wheel boat}, a boat with wheels, to be used either on water or upon inclined planes or railways. {Wheel bug} (Zo[94]l.), a large North American hemipterous insect ({Prionidus cristatus}) which sucks the blood of other insects. So named from the curious shape of the prothorax. {Wheel carriage}, a carriage moving on wheels. {Wheel chains}, or {Wheel ropes} (Naut.), the chains or ropes connecting the wheel and rudder. {Wheel cutter}, a machine for shaping the cogs of gear wheels; a gear cutter. {Wheel horse}, one of the horses nearest to the wheels, as opposed to a leader, or forward horse; -- called also {wheeler}. {Wheel lathe}, a lathe for turning railway-car wheels. {Wheel lock}. (a) A letter lock. See under {Letter}. (b) A kind of gunlock in which sparks were struck from a flint, or piece of iron pyrites, by a revolving wheel. (c) A kind of brake a carriage. {Wheel ore} (Min.), a variety of bournonite so named from the shape of its twin crystals. See {Bournonite}. {Wheel pit} (Steam Engine), a pit in the ground, in which the lower part of the fly wheel runs. {Wheel plow}, or {Wheel plough}, a plow having one or two wheels attached, to render it more steady, and to regulate the depth of the furrow. {Wheel press}, a press by which railway-car wheels are forced on, or off, their axles. {Wheel race}, the place in which a water wheel is set. {Wheel rope} (Naut.), a tiller rope. See under {Tiller}. {Wheel stitch} (Needlework), a stitch resembling a spider's web, worked into the material, and not over an open space. --Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework). {Wheel tree} (Bot.), a tree ({Aspidosperma excelsum}) of Guiana, which has a trunk so curiously fluted that a transverse section resembles the hub and spokes of a coarsely made wheel. See {Paddlewood}. {Wheel urchin} (Zo[94]l.), any sea urchin of the genus {Rotula} having a round, flat shell. {Wheel window} (Arch.), a circular window having radiating mullions arranged like the spokes of a wheel. Cf. {Rose window}, under {Rose}. | |
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Corol \Cor"ol\ (k?r"?l), n. (Bot.) A corolla. | |
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Proper \Prop"er\, a. [OE. propre, F. propre, fr. L. proprius. Cf. {Appropriate}.] 1. Belonging to one; one's own; individual. [bd]His proper good[b8] [i. e., his own possessions]. --Chaucer. [bd]My proper son.[b8] --Shak. Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, Betwixt true valor and an empty boast. --Dryden. 2. Belonging to the natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper instincts and appetites. Those high and peculiar attributes . . . which constitute our proper humanity. --Coleridge. 3. Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper element for fish; a proper dress. The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope. In Athens all was pleasure, mirth, and play, All proper to the spring, and sprightly May. --Dryden. 4. Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome. [Archaic] [bd]Thou art a proper man.[b8] --Chaucer. Moses . . . was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child. --Heb. xi. 23. 5. Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; -- opposed to {common}; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city. 6. Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper; the garden proper. 7. (Her.) Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge. {In proper}, individually; privately. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. {Proper flower} [or] {corolla} (Bot.), one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower. {Proper fraction} (Arith.) a fraction in which the numerator is less than the denominator. {Proper nectary} (Bot.), a nectary separate from the petals and other parts of the flower. -- {Proper noun} (Gram.), a name belonging to an individual, by which it is distinguished from others of the same class; -- opposed to {common noun}; as, John, Boston, America. {Proper perianth} [or] {involucre} (Bot.), that which incloses only a single flower. {Proper receptacle} (Bot.), a receptacle which supports only a single flower or fructification. | |
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Corolla \Co*rol"la\ (k?-r?l"l?), n. [L. corolla a little crown or garland, dim. of corona. See {Crown}.] (Bot.) The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals. It is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note under {Blossom}. | |
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Proper \Prop"er\, a. [OE. propre, F. propre, fr. L. proprius. Cf. {Appropriate}.] 1. Belonging to one; one's own; individual. [bd]His proper good[b8] [i. e., his own possessions]. --Chaucer. [bd]My proper son.[b8] --Shak. Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, Betwixt true valor and an empty boast. --Dryden. 2. Belonging to the natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper instincts and appetites. Those high and peculiar attributes . . . which constitute our proper humanity. --Coleridge. 3. Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper element for fish; a proper dress. The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope. In Athens all was pleasure, mirth, and play, All proper to the spring, and sprightly May. --Dryden. 4. Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome. [Archaic] [bd]Thou art a proper man.[b8] --Chaucer. Moses . . . was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child. --Heb. xi. 23. 5. Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; -- opposed to {common}; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city. 6. Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper; the garden proper. 7. (Her.) Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge. {In proper}, individually; privately. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. {Proper flower} [or] {corolla} (Bot.), one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower. {Proper fraction} (Arith.) a fraction in which the numerator is less than the denominator. {Proper nectary} (Bot.), a nectary separate from the petals and other parts of the flower. -- {Proper noun} (Gram.), a name belonging to an individual, by which it is distinguished from others of the same class; -- opposed to {common noun}; as, John, Boston, America. {Proper perianth} [or] {involucre} (Bot.), that which incloses only a single flower. {Proper receptacle} (Bot.), a receptacle which supports only a single flower or fructification. | |
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Corolla \Co*rol"la\ (k?-r?l"l?), n. [L. corolla a little crown or garland, dim. of corona. See {Crown}.] (Bot.) The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals. It is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note under {Blossom}. | |
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Corral \Cor*ral"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corraled} (-r?ld" [or] -r?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Corralling}.] To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything. --Bartlett. | |
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Corral \Cor*ral"\ (k?r-r?l"; Sp. k?r-r?l"), n. [Sp., a yard, a yard for cattle, fr. corro a circle or ring, fr. L. currere to run. Cf. {Kraal}.] A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc. | |
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Crail \Crail\ (kr[amac]l), n. [See {Creel}.] A creel or osier basket. | |
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Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Crawled} (kr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crawling}.] [Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. kr[aum]la to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch.] 1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew. 2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner. He was hardly able to crawl about the room. --Arbuthnot. The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes. --Byron. | |
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Crawl \Crawl\ (kr?l), n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal. | |
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Crawl \Crawl\, n. [Cf. {Kraal}.] A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Crawly \Crawl"y\ (kr?l"?), a. Creepy. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Creel \Creel\ (kr[emac]l), n. [Gael. craidhleag basket, creel.] 1. An osier basket, such as anglers use. --Sir W. Scott. 2. (Spinning) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Creole \Cre"ole\ (kr?"?l), n. [F. cr[?]ole, Sp. criollo, from an American negro word, perh. a corruption of a Sp. criadillo, dim. of criado servant, formerly also, child, fr. L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create. Cf. {Create}.] One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico. Note: [bd]The term creole negro is employed in the English West Indies to distinguish the negroes born there from the Africans imported during the time of the slave trade. The application of this term to the colored people has led to an idea common in some parts of the United States, though wholly unfounded, that it implies an admixture greater or less of African blood.[b8] --R. Hildreth. Note: [bd]The title [Creole] did not first belong to the descendants of Spanish, but of French, settlers, But such a meaning implied a certain excellence of origin, and so came early to include any native of French or Spanish descent by either parent, whose nonalliance with the slave race entitled him to social rank. Later, the term was adopted by, not conceded to, the natives of mixed blood, and is still so used among themselves. . . . Besides French and Spanish, there are even, for convenience of speech, 'colored' Creoles; but there are no Italian, or Sicilian, nor any English, Scotch, Irish, or 'Yankee' Creoles, unless of parentage married into, and themselves thoroughly proselyted in, Creole society.[b8] --G. W. Cable. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Creole \Cre"ole\ (kr?"?l), a. Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles. Note: In New Orleans the word Creole is applied to any product, or variety of manufacture, peculiar to Louisiana; as, Creole ponies, chickens, cows, shoes, eggs, wagons, baskets, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Crewel \Crew"el\ (kr?"?l), n. [Perh. for clewel, dim. of clew a ball of thread; or cf. D. krul curl, E. curl. [root]26.] Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cruel \Cru"el\ (kr[udd]"[ecr]l), n. See {Crewel}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cruel \Cru"el\ (kr[udd]"[ecr]l), a. [F. cruel, fr. L. crudelis, fr. crudus. See {Crude}.] 1. Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless. Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy. --Jer. vi. 22,23. 2. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery. Cruel wars, wasting the earth. --Milton. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was cruel. --Gen. xlix. 7. 3. Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh. You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cruelly \Cru"el*ly\, adv. 1. In a cruel manner. 2. Extremely; very. [Colloq.] --Spectator. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Crull \Crull\ (kr[usdot]l), a. [See {Curl}.] Curly; curled. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cryal \Cry"al\ (kr?"al), n. [Cf. W. creyr, cryr, crychydd. Cf. {Cruer} a hawk.] The heron [Obs.] --Ainsworth. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cureall \Cure"*all`\ (k?r"?l`), n. A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curial \Cu"ri*al\, a. Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as, the curial etiquette of the Vatican. -- n. A member of a curia, esp. of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curl \Curl\ (k[ucir]rl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Curled} (k[ucir]rld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Curling}.] [Akin to D. krullen, Dan. kr[94]lle, dial. Sw. krulla to curl, crisp; possibly akin to E. crook. Cf. {Curl}, n., {Cruller}.] 1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. --Cascoigne. 2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. Of his tortuous train, Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve. --Milton. 3. To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament. Thicker than the snaky locks That curledMeg[91]ra. --Milton. Curling with metaphors a plain intention. --Herbert. 4. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. Seas would be pools without the brushing air To curl the waves. --Dryden. 5. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curl \Curl\ (k[ucir]rl), n. [Akin to D. krul, Dan. kr[94]lle. See {Curl}, v. ] 1. A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form. Under a coronet, his flowing hair In curls on either cheek played. --Milton. 2. An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity. If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes. --Sir I. Newton. 3. A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. {Blue curls}. (Bot.) See under {Blue}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curl \Curl\, v. i. 1. To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground. Thou seest it [hair] will not curl by nature. --Shak. 2. To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls. [bd]Cirling billows.[b8] --Dryden. Then round her slender waist he curled. --Dryden. Curling smokes from village tops are seen. --Pope. Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. --Byron. He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. --Bret Harte. 3. To play at the game called curling. [Scot.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Curia \[d8]Cu"ri*a\ (k?"r?-?), n.; pl. {Curle} (-[?]). [L.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) (a) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. (b) The place of assembly of one of these divisions. (c) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house. 2. (Middle Ages) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. --Burrill. 3. (Law) Any court of justice. 4. The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also {curia Romana}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curlew \Cur"lew\ (k[ucir]r"l[umac]), n. [F. courlieu, corlieu, courlis; perh. of imitative origin, but cf. OF. corlieus courier; L. currere to run + levis light.] (Zo[94]l.) A wading bird of the genus {Numenius}, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill. Note: The common European curlew is {N. arquatus}. The long-billed ({N. longirostris}), the Hudsonian ({N. Hudsonicus}), and the Eskimo curlew ({N. borealis}, are American species. The name is said to imitate the note of the European species. {Curlew Jack} (Zo[94]l.) the whimbrel or lesser curlew. {Curlew sandpiper} (Zo[94]l.), a sandpiper ({Tringa ferruginea, [or] subarquata}), common in Europe, rare in America, resembling a curlew in having a long, curved bill. See Illustation in Appendix. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curly \Curl"y\ (k?rl"?), a. Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curule \Cu"rule\ (k[umac]"r[udd]l), a. [L. curulis, fr. currus a chariot: cf. F. curule.] 1. Of or pertaining to a chariot. 2. (Rom. Antiq.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official. Note: The curule chair was usually shaped like a camp stool, and provided with curved legs. It was at first ornamented with ivory, and later sometimes made of ivory and inlaid with gold. {Curule dignity} right of sitting in the curule chair. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Carl, GA (town, FIPS 13184) Location: 34.00496 N, 83.81134 W Population (1990): 263 (106 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Carroll, IA (city, FIPS 11080) Location: 42.06918 N, 94.86469 W Population (1990): 9579 (3779 housing units) Area: 13.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 51401 Carroll, NE (village, FIPS 8010) Location: 42.27635 N, 97.19106 W Population (1990): 237 (114 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68723 Carroll, OH (village, FIPS 12252) Location: 39.79995 N, 82.70336 W Population (1990): 558 (206 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 43112 | |
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Charlo, MT (CDP, FIPS 13900) Location: 47.44239 N, 114.17068 W Population (1990): 358 (150 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Cherry Hill, NJ (CDP, FIPS 12310) Location: 39.90234 N, 74.99611 W Population (1990): 69319 (25773 housing units) Area: 62.8 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 08002, 08003, 08034 | |
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Coral, MI Zip code(s): 49322 | |
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Corley, WV Zip code(s): 26621 | |
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Corolla, NC Zip code(s): 27927 | |
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Corral, ID Zip code(s): 83322 | |
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Correll, MN (city, FIPS 13384) Location: 45.23182 N, 96.16270 W Population (1990): 60 (33 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56227 | |
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Crawley, WV Zip code(s): 24931 | |
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Creola, AL (city, FIPS 18304) Location: 30.89690 N, 88.00980 W Population (1990): 1896 (743 housing units) Area: 37.8 sq km (land), 2.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 36525 Creola, OH Zip code(s): 45622 | |
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Creole, LA Zip code(s): 70632 | |
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Crowell, TX (city, FIPS 17948) Location: 33.98358 N, 99.72408 W Population (1990): 1230 (599 housing units) Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79227 | |
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Crowley, CO (town, FIPS 18750) Location: 38.19358 N, 103.85847 W Population (1990): 225 (88 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Crowley, LA (city, FIPS 18650) Location: 30.21261 N, 92.37593 W Population (1990): 13983 (5798 housing units) Area: 11.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 70526 Crowley, TX (city, FIPS 17960) Location: 32.57733 N, 97.35807 W Population (1990): 6974 (2430 housing units) Area: 16.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76036 | |
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Curlew, IA (city, FIPS 17895) Location: 42.97947 N, 94.73721 W Population (1990): 56 (41 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50527 Curlew, WA Zip code(s): 99118 | |
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Cyril, OK (town, FIPS 19000) Location: 34.89937 N, 98.20218 W Population (1990): 1072 (532 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73029 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
crayola /kray-oh'l*/ n. A super-mini or -micro computer that provides some reasonable percentage of supercomputer performance for an unreasonably low price. Might also be a {killer micro}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CORAL 1. {Class Oriented Ring Associated Language}. 2. A {deductive database} and {logic programming} system based on {Horn-clause} rules with extensions like {SQL}'s {group-by} and {aggregation} operators. CORAL was developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is implemented in C++ and has a {Prolog}-like {syntax}. Many evaluation techniques are supported, including {bottom-up fixpoint evaluation} and top-down {backtracking}. {Modules} are separately compiled; different evaluation methods can be used in different modules within a single program. Disk-resident data is supported via an interface to the {Exodus} storage manager. There is an on-line help facility. It requires {AT&T} {C++} 2.0 (or {G++} soon) and runs on {Decstation} and {Sun-4}. {(ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/)}. (1993-01-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CORAL 66 A real-time system programming language derived from {JOVIAL} and {ALGOL 60}. It was adopted as the British military standard from 1970 until the arrival of {Ada}. ["Official Definition of CORAL 66", P.M. Woodward et al, HMSO, London, 1970]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
crayola /kray-oh'l*/ A {super-minicomputer} or {super-microcomputer} that provides some reasonable percentage of {supercomputer} performance for an unreasonably low price. A crayola might also be a {killer micro}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CRL Carnegie Representation Language. {Carnegie Group, Inc.} Frame language derived from SRL. Written in Common LISP. Used in the product Knowledge Craft. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Churl in Isa. 32:5 (R.V. marg., "crafty"), means a deceiver. In 1 Sam. 25:3, the word churlish denotes a man that is coarse and ill-natured, or, as the word literally means, "hard." The same Greek word as used by the LXX. here is found in Matt. 25:24, and there is rendered "hard." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Coral Heb. ramoth, meaning "heights;" i.e., "high-priced" or valuable things, or, as some suppose, "that which grows high," like a tree (Job 28:18; Ezek. 27:16), according to the Rabbins, red coral, which was in use for ornaments. The coral is a cretaceous marine product, the deposit by minute polypous animals of calcareous matter in cells in which the animal lives. It is of numberless shapes as it grows, but usually is branched like a tree. Great coral reefs and coral islands abound in the Red Sea, whence probably the Hebrews derived their knowledge of it. It is found of different colours, white, black, and red. The red, being esteemed the most precious, was used, as noticed above, for ornamental purposes. |