Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CART, v.t.

1. To carry or convey on a cart; as, to cart hay.
2. To expose in a cart, by way of punishment.

CART'AGE, n.

The act of carrying in a cart, or the price paid for carting.

CAR'TA-RET, n. [Mexican.]

A cot. – Stephens.

CART'-BOTE, n.

In English law, wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

CARTE'-BLANCHE, n. [cart-blansh; Fr. white paper.]

A blank paper, signed at the bottom with a person's name, and sometimes sealed with his seal, given to another person with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. – Encyc.

CART'ED, pp.

Borne or exposed in a cart.

CAR'TEL, n. [It. cartello; Fr. Sp. and Port. cartel; from L. chartula.]

1. A writing or agreement between states at war, for the exchange of prisoners, or for some mutual advantage; also, a vessel employed to convey the messenger on this occasion.
2. A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. This sense the word has still in France and Italy, but with us it is obsolete. Cartel-ship, is a ship employed in the exchange of prisoners, or in carrying propositions to an enemy.

CAR'TEL, v.i.

To defy. [Obs.] – B. Jonson.

CART'ER, n.

The man who drives a cart, or whose occupation is to drive a cart.

CAR-TE'SIAN, a. [carte'zhun.]

Pertaining to the philosopher Des Cartes, or to his philosophy, which taught the doctrine of vortexes round the sun and planets.

CAR-TE'SIAN, n.

One who adopts the philosophy of Des Cartes.

CAR-THA-GIN'I-AN, a.

Pertaining to ancient Carthage, a celebrated city on the northern coast of Africa, about twelve miles from the modern Tunis. It was founded by the Phenicians, and destroyed by the Romans.

CAR-THA-GIN'I-AN, n.

An inhabitant or native of Carthage.

CARTH'A-MUS, n.

The generic name of Bastard Saffron. [See Safflower.]

CART'-HORSE, n.

A horse that draws a cart.

CAR-THU'SIAN, n. [carthu'zhun.]

One of an order of monks, so called from Chartreuse, the place of their institution. They are remarkable for their austerity. They can not go out of their cells, except to church, nor speak to any person without leave. – Encyc.

CAR'TIL-AGE, a.

Pertaining to the order of monks above named. – Chambers.

CAR'TIL-AGE, n. [L. cartilago; Fr. cartilage. I suspect this and the English gristle to be the same word; the r being transposed, cartil for cratil.]

Gristle; a smooth, solid, elastic substance, softer than bone, of a pearly color and homogeneous texture, without cells or cavities. It is invested with a particular membrane called perichondrium, which in the articular cartilages, is a reflexion of the synovial membrane. – Cyc. Wistar.

CAR-TI-LAG'IN-OUS, a.

1. Pertaining to or resembling a cartilage; gristly; consisting of cartilage. – Ray.
2. In ichthyology, cartilaginous fishes are those whose muscles are supported by cartilages instead of bones, or whose skeleton is cartilaginous. Many of these are viviparous, as the ray and shark, whose young are excluded from an egg hatched within them. Others are oviparous, as the sturgeon. Some of them have no gill-covers, but breathe through apertures, on the sides of the neck or top of the head; others have gill-covers, but destitute of bony rays. – Encyc. Ed. Encyc.

CART'ING, n.

The act of carrying in a cart.

CART'ING, ppr.

Conveying or exposing in a cart.

CART'-JADE, n.

A sorry horse; a horse used in drawing, or fit only for the cart. – Sidney.

CART'-LOAD, n.

A load borne on a cart; as much as is usually carried at once on a cart, or as is sufficient to load it.

CAR-TOG'RA-PHER, n.

One who makes charts.

CAR-TO-GRAPH'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to cartography.