Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CARE'WOUND-ED, a.

Wounded with care. May.

CAR'GA-SON, n.

A cargo, – which see. Howell.

CAR'GO, n. [W. carg, a load, cargu, to load, from car, a vehicle; Port. carga; Sp. carga, a load, burden, charge; Sp. cargo, a load; cargazon, id.; cargar, to load, to charge; It. carico, a load, or charge; caricare, to load, to charge; Fr. cargaison, a cargo; charge, a charge or load; charger, to load, burden, charge; Arm. carg. See Charge.]

The lading or freight of a ship; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a ship, or other merchant vessel. The lading within the hold is called the inboard cargo, in distinction from horses, cattle, and other things carried on deck. The person employed by a merchant to proceed with, oversee, and dispose of the lading, is called a super-cargo.

CAR'GOOSE, n.

A fowl belonging to the genus Colymbus, called the crested diver. The cheeks and throat are surrounded with a long pendant ruff, of a bright tawny color, edged with black. The breast and belly are of a silvery white. It weighs two pounds and a half.

CA'RI-A-TED, a.

Carious. [Not used. See Carious.]

CAR'I-BOO, n.

A quadruped of the stag kind.

CAR'I-CA, n.

A genus of plants, one species of which is popularly called Papaw; also the trivial name of the species of Ficus which produces the common fig.

CAR'I-CA-TURE, n. [It. caricatura, formed from carica, a load, caricare, to load. See Cargo.]

A figure or description in which beauties are concealed and blemishes exaggerated, but still bearing a resemblance to the object. Encyc.

CAR'I-CA-TURE, v.t.

To make or draw a caricature; to represent as more ugly than the life. Lyttleton.

CAR'I-CA-TUR-ED, pp.

Made ridiculous by grotesque resemblance.

CAR'I-CA-TUR-ING, ppr.

Making ridiculous by grotesque resemblance.

CAR'I-CA-TUR-IST, n.

One who caricatures others.

CAR-I-COG'RA-PHY, n. [L. carex, sedge, and γραφω, to describe.]

A description of the plants of the genus Carex or Sedge. Dewey. Journal of Science.

CAR'I-COUS, a. [L. carica, a fig.]

Resembling a fig; an epithet given to tumors that resemble a fig, such as occur often in the piles. Encyc.

CA'RI-ES, n. [L.]

The mortification of a bone; an ulcer of a bone.

CAR'IL-LON, n. [Fr.]

A little bell. Also, a simple air in music, adapted to the performance of small bells or clocks. [See Carol.] Busby.

CAR'I-NATE, or CAR'I-NA-TED, a. [L. carinatus, from carina, a keel.]

In botany, shaped like the keel of a ship; having a longitudinal prominency on the back like a keel; applied to a calyx, corol or leaf. Martyn.

CA-RIN'THIN, n.

A mineral from Carinthia, regarded as a variety of hornblend. Cleaveland.

CAR'I-OLE, n. [Fr.]

1. A small open carriage.
2. A covered cart.
3. A kind of calash.

CA-RI-OS'I-TY, n. [See Caries.]

Mortification or ulceration of a bone Wiseman.

CA'RI-OUS, a.

Mortified; ulcerated, as a bone. Wiseman.

CARK, n. [W. carc, care, restraint; carcar, a prison, L. carcer; Sax. carc, care; cearcian, to cark, to creak, to grumble. The primary sense is, to strain.]

Care; anxiety; concern; solicitude; distress. [Obs.] Sidney.

CARK, v.i.

To be careful, anxious, solicitous, concerned. [Obs.] Sidney.

CARK'ING, ppr.

Distressing; perplexing; giving anxiety. [Obs.]

CARL, n. [Sax. carl, a male, whence Carolus, Charles. The word signifies primarily, strong, robust. Whence the English carl-cat, and carl-hemp; house-carl, a domestic servant; Ger. kerl, a fellow; kerl-haft, masculine, stout. See Churl.]

1. A rude, rustic, rough, brutal man. [Obs.] [See Churl.]
2. A kind of hemp. Tusser.