Part 1671

<h1>Carvacrol</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Car"va*crol</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A thick oily liquid, <chform>C10H13.OH</chform>, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (<spn>Carum carui</spn>).</def>

<h1>Carve</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Carve</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Carved</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Carving</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>ceorfan</ets> to cut, carve; akin to D. <ets>kerven</ets>, G. <ets>kerben</ets>, Dan. <ets>karve</ets>, Sw. <ets>karfva</ets>, and to Gr. <?/ to write, orig. to scatch, and E. <ets>-graphy</ets>. Cf. <er>Graphic</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cut.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Or they will <b>carven</b> the shepherd's throat. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.</def>

<blockquote><b>Carved</b> with figures strange and sweet. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; <as>as, to <ex>carve</ex> a name on a tree</as>.</def>

<blockquote>An angel <b>carved</b> in stone. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We <b>carved</b> not a line, and we raised not a stone. <i>C. Wolfe.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.</def> "To <i>carve</i> a capon." <-- = carve up --> <i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.</def>

<blockquote>My good blade <b>carved</b> the casques of men. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A million wrinkles <b>carved</b> his skin. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.</def>

<blockquote>Who could easily have <b>carved</b> themselves their own food. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.</def>

<blockquote>Lie ten nights awake <b>carving</b> the fashion of a new doublet. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To carve out</col>, <cd>to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out.</cd> "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . <i>carved out<i> his passage."</cs>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>Fortunes were <b>carved out</b> of the property of the crown. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Carve</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Carve</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cut up meat; <as>as, to <ex>carve</ex> for all the guests</as>.</def>

<h1>Carve</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Carve</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A carucate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Burrill.</i>

<h1>Carvel</h1> <Xpage=222>