Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAR'LISH, or CAR'LISH-NESS, a.

See CHURLISH.

CAR'LOCK, n.

A sort of isinglass from Russia, made of the sturgeon's bladder, and used in clarifying wine. – Encyc.

CAR'LOT, n.

A countryman. [See Carle.] [Not used.] – Shak.

CAR-LO-VIN'GI-AN, a.

Pertaining to Charlemagne; as, the Carlovingian race of kings.

CAR'MAN, n. [car and man.]

A man whose employment is to drive a cart, or to convey goods and other things in a cart.

CAR'ME-LIN, or CAR'MEL-ITE, a.

Belonging to the order of Carmelites. – Weever.

CAR'MEL-ITE, n. [from Mount Carmel.]

1. A mendicant friar. The Carmelites have four tribes, and they have now thirty-eight provinces, besides the congregation in Mantua, in which are fifty-four monasteries, under a vicar general, and the congregations of barefooted Carmelites in Italy and Spain. They wear a scapulary, or small woolen habit, of a brown color, thrown over the shoulders. – Encyc.
2. A sort of pear.

CAR-MIN'A-TIVE, a.

Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic.

CAR-MIN'A-TIVE, n. [L. carmen, a charm, because it acts suddenly, as a charm is supposed to do, and because among the ancients, its operation was accompanied by the singing of a stanza.]

A medicine, which tends to expel wind, or to remedy colic and flatulencies.

CAR'MINE, n. [Fr. carmin; Sp. carmin; Port. carmim; It. carminio; from the same root as crimson; Port. carmesim, crimson; Sp. carmesi, crimson and cochineal powder; It. chermisi, crimson, and chermes, cochineal, kermes; Ar. قِرْمِزٌ kirmiz, kirmizon, a berry, and an insect, used in dyeing.]

A powder or pigment, of a beautiful red or crimson color, bordering on purple, and used by painters in miniature, though rarely, on account of its great price. It is prepared by dissolving cochineal in an alkaline lye, and precipitating it by alum. – Encyc. Nicholson.

CAR'NAGE, n. [Fr. carnage; Sp. carniceria, carnage, and shambles; It. carnaggio, flesh-meat, and carnaccia, carrion; Port. carnagem, from L. caro, flesh.]

1. Literally, flesh, or heaps of flesh, as in shambles.
2. Slaughter; great destruction of men; havock; massacre. – Hayward.

CAR'NAL, a. [Fr. charnel; L. carnalis, from caro, flesh.]

1. Pertaining to flesh; fleshly; sensual; opposed to spiritual; as, carnal pleasure.
2. Being in the natural state; unregenerate. The carnal mind is enmity against God. – Rom. viii.
3. Pertaining to the ceremonial law; as, carnal ordinances. – Heb. ix. 10.
4. Lecherous; lustful; libidinous; given to sensual indulgence. – Shak. Carnal knowledge, sexual intercourse.

CAR'NAL-ISM, n.

The indulgence of carnal appetites.

CAR'NAL-IST, n.

One given to the indulgence of sensual appetites. – Burton.

CAR'NAL-ITE, n.

A worldly-minded man. – Anderson.

CAR-NAL'I-TY, n.

1. Fleshly lust or desires, or the indulgence of those lusts; sensuality. – South.
2. Grossness of mind or desire; love of sensual pleasures. – Tillotson.

CAR'NAL-IZE, v.t.

To make carnal; to debase to carnality. – Scott.

CAR'NAL-LY, adv.

In a carnal manner; according to the flesh; in a manner to gratify the flesh or sensual desire. – Lev. xviii. 20. Rom. viii. 6.

CAR-NAL-MIND-ED, a.

Worldly-minded. – More.

CAR-NAL-MIND-ED-NESS, n.

Grossness of mind. – Ellis.

CAR-NA'TION, n. [Fr. carnation, the naked part of a picture, flesh color; It. incarnatino; carnagione, complexion; Sp. carnaza; Port. carnaz, from L. caro, flesh.]

1. Flesh color; the parts of a picture which are naked or without drapery, exhibiting the natural color of the flesh. – Encyc.
2. The popular name of a species of the genus of plants called Dianthus, so named from the color of the flower.

CAR-NA'TION-ED, a.

Made like carnation color.

CAR'NA-VAL, n. [Sp. and Port. carnaval; Fr. carnaval; It. carnovale, from L. caro, flesh.]

The feast or season of rejoicing, before Lent, observed in Catholic countries, with great solemnity, by feasts, balls, operas, concerts, &c. – Encyc.

CAR-NEL'IAN, n. [Fr. cornaline; Sp. cornerina.]

A silicious stone, a variety a chalcedony, of a deep red, flesh-red, or reddish white color. It is tolerably hard, capable of a good polish, and used for seals. – Encyc. Cleaveland.

CARNEL-WORK, n.

Carnel-work in ship building, is the putting together the timbers, beams and planks, as distinguished from clinch-work. – Encyc.