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<hw>Car"do</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Cardies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu>) <ety>[L., a hinge.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The basal joint of the maxilla in insects.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The hinge of a bivalve shell.</def>

<h1>Cardol</h1> <Xpage=218>

<hw>Car"dol</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. Ana<ets>cardium</ets> generic name of the cashew + L. <ets>oleum oil</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A yellow oil liquid, extracted from the shell of the cashew nut.</def>

<h1>Cardoon</h1> <Xpage=218>

<hw>Car*doon"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>cardon</ets>. The same word as F. <ets>cardon</ets> thistle, fr. L. <ets>carduus</ets>, <ets>cardus</ets>, LL. <ets>cardo</ets>. See 3d <er>Card</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A large herbaceos plant (<spn>Cynara Cardunculus</spn>) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a sald.</def>

<h1>Care</h1> <Xpage=218>

<hw>Care</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>caru</ets>, <ets>cearu</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>kara</ets> sorrow Goth. <ets>kara</ets> lament, and to <ets>Gr</ets>. <ets><?/ voice</ets>. <ets>Not akin to cure</ets>. Cf. <er>Chary</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.</def>

<blockquote><b>Care</b> keeps his wath in every old man's eye, And where <b>care</b> lodges, sleep will never lie. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>care</b> of all the churches. <i>2 Car. xi. 28</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Him thy <b>care</b> must be to find. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Perlexed with a thousand <b>cares</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; <as>as, take <ex>care</ex>; have a <ex>care</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote>I thank thee for thy <b>care</b> and honest pains. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The object of watchful attention or anxiety.</def>

<blockquote>Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved <b>cares</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard; management; direction; oversight. -- <er>Care</er>, <er>Anxiety</er>, <er>Solicitude</er>, <er>Concern</er>. These words express mental pain in different degress. <i>Care</i> belongs primarily to the intellect, and becomes painful from overburdened thought. <i>Anxiety</i> denotes a state of distressing uneasiness fron the dread of evil. <i>Solicitude</i> expresses the same feeling in a diminished dagree. <i>Concern</i> is opposed to <i>indifference</i>, and implies exercise of anxious thought more or less intense. We are <i>careful</i> about the means, <i>solicitous</i> and <i>anxious</i> about the end; we are <i>solicitous</i> to obtain a good, <i>axious</i> to avoid an evil.</syn>

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<hw>Care</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cared</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Caring</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>cearian</ets>. See <er>Care</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>To be anxious or solictous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.</def>

<blockquote>I would not <b>care</b> a pin, if the other three were in. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Master, <b>carest</b> thou not that we perish? <i>Mark. iv. 38.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To care for</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To have under watchful attention; to take care of.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To have regard or affection for; to like or love.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>He <b>cared</b> not for the affection of the house. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Careen</h1> <Xpage=218>

<hw>Ca*reen"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Careened</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Careening</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OF. <ets>cariner</ets>, F. <ets>car\'82ner</ets>, fr. OF. <ets>car\'8ane</ets>, the bottom of a ship, keel, fr. L. <ets>carina</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.</def>

<h1>Careen</h1> <Xpage=218>

<hw>Ca*reen"</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.</def>

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