<B>Carib, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a group of indian tribes of northeastern South America. They now live in the Amazon River Valley, the Caribbean islands, and the Guianas. Only a few are left. <DD><B> 2. </B>any Indian speaking a Cariban language. <DD><B> 3. </B>a language family found primarily in northeastern South America, in Guiana, northern Brazil, Venezuela, and parts of Columbia and Peru, and to a lesser extent in Central America and the West Indies. </DL>
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<B>Cariban, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> denoting or having to do with the Carib language family. <DD><I>noun </I> the Carib language family. </DL>
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<B>Caribbean, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with the Caribbean Sea or the islands in it. <BR> <I>Ex. the Caribbean climate, the Caribbean sugarbird.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with the Caribs. <DD><I>noun </I> (British.) a native or inhabitant of one of the Caribbean islands. </DL>
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<B>caribe, </B>noun. <B>=piranha.</B></DL>
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<B>caribou, </B>noun, pl. <B>-bous</B> or (collectively) <B>-bou.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large deer of North America closely related to the reindeer. Caribou are found in wooded and tundra areas of Alaska and Canada, and formerly in Maine. </DL>
<B>caricaturable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> susceptible to an exaggerated description; easy to caricature <BR> <I>Ex. ... as caricaturable a rich uncle ... as one would wish to see (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>caricatural, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of the nature of caricature; resembling a caricature. <BR> <I>Ex. In radio and television the caricatural conception that a writer is a necessary evil to have around a show has grown too popular (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
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<B>caricature, </B>noun, verb, <B>-tured,</B> <B>-turing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a picture, cartoon, description, or the like, that ridiculously exaggerates the peculiarities of a person or the defects of a thing. <BR> <I>Ex. Caricatures of celebrities appear daily in the newspapers.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the art of making such pictures, cartoons, or descriptions. <BR> <I>Ex. His eye for detail made him a master of caricature. The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature (Macaulay).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>an imitation or rendering of something by ridiculous exaggeration of the flaws and deformities in the original. <BR> <I>Ex. He raised his feet high, as if in a caricature of Germans in a movie comedy doing the goose step (James T. Farrell).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make a caricature of. <BR> <I>Ex. Uncle Sam is often caricatured as a tall, thin man with chin whiskers, red and white striped pants, a swallow-tailed coat, and a tall, silk hat. The appointed fate of the Renaissance architects, to caricature whatever they imitated (John Ruskin).</I> </DL>
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<B>caricature plant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a plant of the acanthus family growing in Indonesia, having curious variegations of the leaves which sometimes look like drawings of grotesque human profiles. </DL>
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<B>caricaturist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who draws, paints, or writes caricatures. </DL>
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<B>Caricom</B> or <B>CARICOM, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a common market established in 1974 by ten countries of the eastern Caribbean. <BR> <I>Ex. Haiti and Surinam applied to join Caricom, and diplomatic relations were established between Caricom countries and Cuba (Philippe Decraene).</I> </DL>
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<B>caricous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> resembling a fig. <BR> <I>Ex. a caricous swelling.</I> </DL>
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<B>caries, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the decay of the teeth, bones, or tissues. <BR> <I>Ex. so much stress on caries prevention rather than good gum health (Parade).</I> </DL>
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<B>carillon, </B>noun, verb, <B>-lonned,</B> <B>-lonning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a set of bells arranged for playing melodies. The bells are played upon with hammers, either by hand or by a keyboard or other mechanism. <DD><B> 2. </B>a melody played on such bells. <DD><B> 3a. </B>a part of an organ imitating the sound of bells. <DD><B> b. </B>a musical instrument consisting of a set of metal plates arranged horizontally on a frame and played by striking with hammers. <DD><B> 4. </B>a bell tower. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to play a carillon. </DL>
<B>carillonic bells,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an electronic device which duplicates the sound of bells, consisting of small pieces of tuned bell metal struck by a tiny rod, and played from akeyboard like that of a piano. The sound is electronically amplified. </DL>
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<B>carillonneur, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who plays a carillon. </DL>
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<B>carina, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Zoology.) a structure or part having the form of a ridge or keel, such as the middle ridge on the breastbone of most birds. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Botany.) the lower, keel-shaped pair of petals, characteristic of flowers of the pea family. </DL>
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<B>Carina, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the four constellations into which the large southern constellation Argo has been divided; the Keel. It contains Canopus, a large, extremely bright star. </DL>
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<B>carinal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or resembling a carina. </DL>
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<B>carinate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> shaped like or having a carina, or keel. </DL>
<B>carination, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a carinate or keellike formation. </DL>
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<B>cariniform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> shaped like a carina or keel; carinate </DL>
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<B>carioca, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a dance of South America similar to the samba. <DD><B> b. </B>music for such a dance. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>Caricoa,</B> a native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro. </DL>
<B>cariole, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a small carriage drawn by one horse, used especially in the 1800's. <DD><B> b. </B>a covered cart. <DD><B> 2. </B>a light, open sleigh drawn by one or two horses or sometimes by dogs. Also, <B>carriole.</B> </DL>
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<B>cariosity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>carious state or condition. <DD><B> 2. </B>a carious formation. </DL>
<B>carjack, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to steal by force an automobile with a driver in it. <BR> <I>Ex. Sunday, Bush signed a bill that makes carjacking a federal crime (USA Today).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> the act or crime of stealing an automobile by force. </DL>
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<B>car jockey,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a person employed to take cars in and out of a parking lot or garage. </DL>
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<B>cark, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a troubled state of mind; distress (especially in <I>cark and care</I>). <BR> <I>Ex. The swart mechanic comes to drown his cark and care (Longfellow).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to burden with care; harass; vex; trouble. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to be anxious; fret oneself. <BR> <I>Ex. The old man carked about the uncertainties of life.</I> </DL>
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<B>carking, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>troublesome; worrying. <BR> <I>Ex. Some carking care that would not be driven away (Dickens).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of persons: <DD><B> a. </B>fretting; anxious. <DD><B> b. </B>toiling. <DD><B> c. </B>miserly. adv. <B>carkingly.</B> </DL>
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<B>car knocker,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a railroad employee who checks cars for mechanical failure. </DL>
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<B>carl</B> or <B>carle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Archaic.) <DD><B> a. </B>a peasant; rustic. <DD><B> b. </B>a serf; bondman. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Scottish.) <DD><B> a. </B>a boor; churl. <DD><B> b. </B>a fellow. </DL>
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<B>carlet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a file with a triangular cross section, having two cutting sides and one side smooth, formerly used in making combs. </DL>
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<B>carl-hemp, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the female or pistillate plant of hemp, which is harvested after the male or staminate plant. </DL>
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<B>carlin</B> or <B>carline</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a woman, especially an old one (often implying contempt or disparagement). <DD><B> 2. </B>a witch or one charged with being such. </DL>
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<B>carline</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any plant of a genus of thistlelike composites of Europe, especially one species whose involucral scales are so sensitive to moisture (hygroscopic) that they serve as a natural weatherglass. </DL>
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<B>carline</B> (3), noun. <B>=carling.</B></DL>
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<B>carling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the short fore-and-aft timbers between deck beams in the framework of a ship's deck. </DL>
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<B>carlings, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) peas, especially parched peas. <BR> <I>Ex. Many persons [in England] eat carlings ... on Carling Sunday (Elizabeth H. Sechrist).</I> </DL>
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<B>Carling Sunday,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the fifth Sunday in Lent. </DL>
<B>Carlism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>support of the claims to the throne by Don Carlos (1788-1855), pretender to the Spanish throne, or his descendants. <DD><B> 2. </B>support of Charles X of France, following his forced abdication in 1830, and the elder branch of the Bourbons, especially after 1830. n., adj. <B>Carlist.</B> </DL>
