CPage 114
- English Word Caryatic Definition Alt. of Caryatid
- English Word Caryatid Definition Of or pertaining to a caryatid.
- English Word Caryatid Definition A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.
- English Word Caryatides Definition Caryatids.
- English Word Caryatids Definition of Caryatid
- English Word Caryophyllaceous Definition Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink
- English Word Caryophyllaceous Definition Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.
- English Word Caryophyllin Definition A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.
- English Word Caryophyllous Definition Caryophyllaceous.
- English Word Caryopses Definition of Caryopsis
- English Word Caryopsis Definition A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.
- English Word Casal Definition Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.
- English Word Cascabel Definition The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.]
- English Word Cascade Definition A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.
- English Word Cascade Definition To fall in a cascade.
- English Word Cascade Definition To vomit.
- English Word Cascalho Definition A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.
- English Word Cascara sagrada Definition Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
- English Word Cascarilla Definition A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.
- English Word Cascarillin Definition A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.