Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAR'NE-OUS, a. [L. carneus, from caro, flesh.]

Fleshy; having the qualities of flesh. – Ray.

CAR'NEY, n.

A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that they cannot eat. – Chambers.

CAR-NI-FI-CA'TION, n. [Infra.]

A turning to flesh. – Chambers.

CAR'NI-FY, v.i. [from L. caro, carnis, flesh.]

To form flesh; to receive flesh in growth. – Hale.

CAR'NI-VAL, n. [L. carnivale, farewell to meat.]

A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Catholic countries, during the week before Lent.

CAR-NIV'O-RA, n. [plu.]

An order of animals which subsist on flesh, as the hyena. – Cuvier.

CAR-NIV-O-RAC'I-TY, n. [Infra.]

Greediness of appetite for flesh. – Pope.

CAR-NIV'O-ROUS, a. [L. caro, flesh, and voro, to eat.]

Eating or feeding on flesh; an epithet applied to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the lion, tiger, dog, wolf, &c.

CAR-NOS'I-TY, n. [Fr. carnosité, from L. caro, flesh.]

A little fleshy excrescence in the urethra, the neck of the bladder, &c.

CAR'NOUS, or CAR'NOSE, a.

Fleshy. [See Carneous.]

CAR'OB, n. [Sp. algarroba; It. carruba.]

The carob-tree, Ceratonia siliqua, a native of Spain, Italy, and the Levant. It is an evergreen, grossing in hedges, and producing long, flat, brown-colored pods, filled with a mealy succulent pulp, of a sweetish taste. In times of scarcity, these pods are eaten by poor people, but they are apt to cause griping and lax bowels. – Encyc.

CA-ROCHE', n. [carōsh; It. carrozza. See Car.]

A carriage of pleasure. – Burton.

CA-ROCH'ED, a.

Placed in a caroche. – Beaum.

CAR'OL, n. [It. carola; W. carawl; Arm. coroll, a dance; W. cor, Corn. karol, a choir.]

A song of joy and exultation; a song of devotion; or a song in general. – Dryden. Spenser. Bacon. Milton.

CAR'OL, v.i. [It. carolare; W. caroli; Arm. carolli, to dance, to sing love songs.]

To sing; to warble; to sing in joy or festivity. – Prior. Shak.

CAR'OL, v.t.

To praise or celebrate in song. – Milton.

CAR-O-LI'NA, n. [from Carolus, Charles II.]

The name of two of the Atlantic states in North America, called North Carolina and South Carolina.

CAR'OL-ING, n.

A song of praise or devotion. – Spenser.

CAR-O-LIN'I-AN, a.

Pertaining to Carolina.

CAR-O-LIN'I-AN, n.

A native or inhabitant of Carolina.

CAR-O-LIT'IC, a.

Decorated with branches.

CAR'O-MEL, n.

The smell exhaled by sugar, at a calcining heat. – Ure.

CA-ROT'ID, a. [Gr. καρωτιδες.]

The carotid arteries in the body, are two arteries, the right and left, which convey the blood from the aorta to the head and brain. The ancients supposed drowsiness to be seated in these arteries. Gr. καρος.

CA-ROUS'AL, n. [s as z. See Carouse.]

A feast or festival. – Johnson. But in America it signifies a noisy drinking bout, or reveling.

CA-ROUSE', n. [carouz'.]

A drinking match; a hearty drink or full draught of liquor; a noisy drinking match.