CPage 86
- English Word Caravel Definition A name given to several kinds of vessels.
- English Word Caravel Definition The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.
- English Word Caravel Definition A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.
- English Word Caravel Definition A small fishing boat used on the French coast.
- English Word Caravel Definition A Turkish man-of-war.
- English Word Caraway Definition A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.
- English Word Caraway Definition A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.
- English Word Carbamic Definition Pertaining to an acid so called.
- English Word Carbamide Definition The technical name for urea.
- English Word Carbamine Definition An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.
- English Word Carbanil Definition A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.
- English Word Carbazol Definition A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines.
- English Word Carbazotate Definition A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.
- English Word Carbazotic Definition Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen.
- English Word Carbide Definition A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.
- English Word Carbimide Definition The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.
- English Word Carbine Definition A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry.
- English Word Carbineer Definition A soldier armed with a carbine.
- English Word Carbinol Definition Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.
- English Word Carbohydrate Definition One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.