Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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

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.