अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

Caryatids.

of Caryatid

Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink

Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.

A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.

Caryophyllaceous.

of Caryopsis

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.

Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.

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. [See Illust. of Cannon.]

A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.

To fall in a cascade.

To vomit.

A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.

Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.

A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.

That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.

A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.