CPage 70
- English Word Carpet Definition To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.
- English Word Carpetbag Definition A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
- English Word Carpetbagger Definition An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
- English Word Carpeted Definition of Carpet
- English Word Carpeting Definition of Carpet
- English Word Carpeting Definition The act of covering with carpets.
- English Word Carpeting Definition Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general.
- English Word Carpetless Definition Without a carpet.
- English Word Carpetmonger Definition One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
- English Word Carpetmonger Definition One fond of pleasure; a gallant.
- English Word Carpetway Definition A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field.
- English Word Carphology Definition See Floccillation.
- English Word Carpi Definition of Carpus
- English Word Carping Definition of Carp
- English Word Carping Definition Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.
- English Word Carpintero Definition A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvae, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird.
- English Word Carpogenic Definition Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.
- English Word Carpolite Definition A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.
- English Word Carpological Definition Of or pertaining to carpology.
- English Word Carpologist Definition One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.
- English Word Carpology Definition That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.
- English Word Carpophagous Definition Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.
- English Word Carpophore Definition A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.
- English Word Carpophyll Definition A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. [See Illust. of Gymnospermous.]
- English Word Carpophyte Definition A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.
- English Word Carpospore Definition A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae.
- English Word Carps Definition of Carp
- English Word Carpus Definition The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.
- English Word Carrack Definition See Carack.
- English Word Carrageen Definition Alt. of Carrigeen