Part 1673

<h1>Car wheel</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Car" wheel`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <def>A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.</def>

<h1>Caryatic, Caryatid</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw><hw>Car`y*at"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Car`y*at"id</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to a caryatid.</def>

<h1>Caryatid</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Car`y*at"id</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl.</plu> <plw>Caryatids</plw> <tt>(#)</tt> <ety>[See <er>Caryatides</er>.]</ety> <def>(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.</def>

<h1>Caryatides</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Car`y*at"i*des</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[L., fr. Gr. <?/ (<?/) priestesses in the temple of Diana (the Greek Artemis) at Cary\'91 (Gr. <?/), a village in Laconia; as an architectural term, caryatids.]</ety> <fld>(Arch)</fld> <def>Caryatids.</def>

<note>&hand; Corresponding male figures were called <i>Atlantes</i>, <i>Telamones</i>, and <i>Persians</i>.</note>

<h1>Caryophyllaceous</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Car`y*o*phyl*la"ceous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ clove tree; <?/ nut + <?/ leaf.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.</def>

<h1>Caryophyllin</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Car`y*oph"yl*lin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.</def>

<h1>Caryophyllous</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Car`y*oph"yl*lous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Caryophyllaceous.</def>

<h1>Caryopsis</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Car`y*op"sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Caryopses</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[NL., fr. gr. <?/ hut, kernel + <?/ sight, form.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Casal</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Ca"sal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Gram.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to case; <as>as, a <ex>casal</ex> ending</as>.</def>

<h1>Cascabel</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Cas"ca*bel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Sp. <ets>cascabel</ets> a little bell, also (fr. the shape), a knob at the breech end of a cannon.]</ety> <def>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. <note>[See <i>Illust</i>. of <er>Cannon</er>.]</note></def>

<h1>Cascade</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Cas*cade"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>cascade</ets>, fr. It. <ets>cascata</ets>, fr. <ets>cascare</ets> to ball.]</ety> <def>A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.</def>

<blockquote>The silver brook . . . pours the white <b>cascade</b>. <i>Longjellow.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in <b>cascade</b>. <i>Cawper.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cascade</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Cas*cade"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To fall in a cascade.</def>

<i>Lowell.</i>