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Caravel (n.)

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.

Caravel (n.)

A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.

Caravel (n.)

A name given to several kinds of vessels.

Caraway (n.)

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.

Caraway (n.)

A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.

Carbamic (a.)

Pertaining to an acid so called.

Carbamide (n.)

The technical name for urea.

Carbamine (n.)

An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.

Carbanil (n.)

A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.

Carbazol (n.)

A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines.

Carbazotate (n.)

A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.

Carbazotic (a.)

Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen.

Carbide (n.)

A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.

Carbimide (n.)

The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.

Carbine (n.)

A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry.

Carbineer (n.)

A soldier armed with a carbine.

Carbinol (n.)

Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.

Carbohydrate (n.)

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.

Carbohydride (n.)

A hydrocarbon.

Carbolic (a.)

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.