CALY
First name CALY's origin is Irish. CALY means "slender". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CALY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of caly.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with CALY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming CALY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CALY AS A WHOLE:
calypso calynda calysta jacalynNAMES RHYMING WITH CALY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (aly) - Names That Ends with aly:
daly nathaly kealy mihaly gedaly kaly healyRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ly) - Names That Ends with ly:
moly kim-ly bily wetherly skelly aisly aracely beverly bly carly chaisly charly cicely cicily cymberly dolly eily elly emily gormly jilly joely kally karly keely lilly lily marily molly neely nelly polly sally shelly tilly ashly billy blakely bradly brocly bromly burly connolly cranly crosly donnally donnelly dunly ely farly farnly greely hagly hanly hawly hrapenly huntly huxly karoly kelly kenly kennelly kirkly laidly lawly lindly linly manly marly morly nally priestly rally reilly scully stanly tally thornly townly tully wally waverly weatherly willy yardly zachely hurly cully sully sheply seely ridgely everlyNAMES RHYMING WITH CALY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cal) - Names That Begins with cal:
cal cala caladh calais calan calandra calandre calandria calantha calanthe calbert calbex calbhach calchas calder caldre caldwell caldwiella cale caleb caleigh caley calfhie calfhierde calhoun cali caliana calibom calibome calibor caliborne calibum calibumus caliburn calico calida calidan calin calinda calissa calista calix callaghan callahan calldwr callee calleigh calleigha callel calles calli callia calliah callie calliegha calligenia calliope callista calliste callisto callough callum cally callyr calogrenant calum calvagh calvert calvex calvina calvinoRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ca) - Names That Begins with ca:
cabal cabe cable cacamwri cacanisius cace cacey cachamwri caci cacia cadabyr cadan cadassi cadby cadda caddaham caddari caddaric caddarik caddawyc cade cadee cadell caden cadena cadence cadencia cadenza cadeoNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CALY:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'y':
cady cagney cailey cailsey caitly camey carbry carey carley carney cary casey cassidy cassy cathly cathy cauley cawley cerny chancey chaney chantay chardonnay charity charley chassidy chauncey chauncy chelsey chelsy cheney cherry chesley chesney chevy choncey chrissy christy cidney cindy clady clancy clay cleary cluny coby codey cody colbey colby coley conary conley conny conroy conway cony cooey cooley cooney corby corday corey corky corley correy corry cortney cory courtenay courtnay courtney covey cranley crissy cristy crosley crowley culley cundry curney cydney cyndy cyneley cziganyEnglish Words Rhyming CALY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CALY AS A WHOLE:
acalycine | adjective (a.) Alt. of Acalysinous |
acalysinous | adjective (a.) Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope. |
apocalypse | noun (n.) The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament. |
noun (n.) Anything viewed as a revelation; a disclosure. | |
noun (n.) One of a numerous class of writings proceeding from Jewish authors between 250 b. c. and 150 a. d., and designed to propagate the Jewish faith or to cheer the hearts of the Jewish people with the promise of deliverance and glory; or proceeding from Christian authors of the opening centuries and designed to portray the future. |
apocalyptic | noun (n.) Alt. of Apocalyptist |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Apocalyptical |
apocalyptical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation. |
apocalyptist | noun (n.) The writer of the Apocalypse. |
calycifloral | adjective (a.) Alt. of callyciflorous |
calyciform | adjective (a.) Having the form or appearance of a calyx. |
calycinal | adjective (a.) Alt. of Calycine |
calycine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a calyx; having the nature of a calyx. |
calycle | noun (n.) A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside. |
calycled | adjective (a.) Calyculate. |
calycozoa | noun (n. pl.) A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida. |
calycular | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle. |
calyculate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Calyculated |
calyculated | adjective (a.) Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx. |
calymene | noun (n.) A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age. |
calyon | noun (n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc. |
calypso | noun (n.) A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ N. |
calyptra | noun (n.) A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body. |
calyptriform | adjective (a.) Having the form a calyptra, or extinguisher. |
calyx | noun (n.) The covering of a flower. See Flower. |
noun (n.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae. |
eucalyn | noun (n.) An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, -- whence its name. |
eucalyptol | noun (n.) A volatile, terpenelike oil extracted from the eucalyptus, and consisting largely of cymene. |
eucalyptus | noun (n.) A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia. |
gonocalyx | noun (n.) The bell of a sessile gonozooid. |
nectocalyx | noun (n.) The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish of medusa. |
noun (n.) One of the zooids of certain Siphonophora, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and acting as a swimming organ. |
nematocalyx | noun (n.) One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia. |
scaly | adjective (a.) Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish. |
adjective (a.) Resembling scales, laminae, or layers. | |
adjective (a.) Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow. | |
adjective (a.) Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CALY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (aly) - English Words That Ends with aly:
acrocephaly | noun (n.) Loftiness of skull. |
acromegaly | noun (n.) Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face. |
anomaly | noun (n.) Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous. |
noun (n.) The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform. | |
noun (n.) The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion of a planet. | |
noun (n.) Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type. |
brachycephaly | noun (n.) Alt. of Brachycephalism |
coaly | noun (n.) Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal. |
dolichocephaly | noun (n.) Alt. of Dolichocephalism |
glossolaly | noun (n.) The gift of tongues. Farrar. |
logodaedaly | noun (n.) Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words. |
megalocephaly | noun (n.) The condition of having an abnormally large head. |
paly | adjective (a.) Pale; wanting color; dim. |
adjective (a.) Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately. |
pasilaly | noun (n.) A form of speech adapted to be used by all mankind; universal language. |
plagiocephaly | noun (n.) Oblique lateral deformity of the skull. |
scaphocephaly | noun (n.) A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped. |
shaly | adjective (a.) Resembling shale in structure. |
shoaly | adjective (a.) Full of shoals, or shallow places. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CALY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cal) - Words That Begins with cal:
cal | noun (n.) Wolfram, an ore of tungsten. |
calabar | noun (n.) A district on the west coast of Africa. |
calabarine | noun (n.) An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean. |
calabash | noun (n.) The common gourd (plant or fruit). |
noun (n.) The fruit of the calabash tree. | |
noun (n.) A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. |
calaboose | noun (n.) A prison; a jail. |
calade | noun (n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches. |
caladium | noun (n.) A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food. |
calaite | noun (n.) A mineral. See Turquoise. |
calamanco | noun (n.) A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked. |
calamar | noun (n.) Alt. of Calamary |
calamary | noun (n.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid. |
calambac | noun (n.) A fragrant wood; agalloch. |
calambour | noun (n.) A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac; -- used by cabinetmakers. |
calamiferous | adjective (a.) Producing reeds; reedy. |
calamine | noun (n.) A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc. |
calamint | noun (n.) A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme. |
calamist | noun (n.) One who plays upon a reed or pipe. |
calamistration | noun (n.) The act or process of curling the hair. |
calamistrum | noun (n.) A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs. |
calamite | noun (n.) A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite. |
calamitous | adjective (a.) Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. |
adjective (a.) Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. |
calamity | noun (n.) Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals. |
noun (n.) A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery. |
calamus | noun (n.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood. |
noun (n.) A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors. | |
noun (n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill. |
calando | adjective (a.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness. |
calash | noun (n.) A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage. |
noun (n.) In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front. | |
noun (n.) A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure. | |
noun (n.) A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage. |
calaverite | noun (n.) A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California. |
calcaneal | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries. |
calcaneum | noun (n.) One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare. |
calcar | noun (n.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. |
noun (n.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla. | |
noun (n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight. | |
noun (n.) A spur, or spurlike prominence. | |
noun (n.) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot. |
calcarate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Calcarated |
calcarated | adjective (a.) Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred. |
adjective (a.) Armed with a spur. |
calcareous | adjective (a.) Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. |
calcareousness | noun (n.) Quality of being calcareous. |
calcariferous | adjective (a.) Lime-yielding; calciferous |
calcarine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain. |
calcavella | noun (n.) A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos. |
calceated | adjective (a.) Fitted with, or wearing, shoes. |
calced | adjective (a.) Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites. |
calcedon | noun (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones. |
calcedonic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Calcedonian |
calcedonian | adjective (a.) See Chalcedonic. |
calceiform | adjective (a.) Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate. |
calceolaria | noun (n.) A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name. |
calceolate | adjective (a.) Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform. |
calces | noun (n. pl.) See Calx. |
(pl. ) of Calx |
calcic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime. |
calciferous | adjective (a.) Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime. |
calcific | adjective (a.) Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles. |
calcification | noun (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue. |
calcified | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Calcify |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CALY:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'y':
cachexy | noun (n.) A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle). |
cachinnatory | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter. |
cacochymy | noun (n.) A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood. |
cacodoxy | noun (n.) Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy. |
cacography | noun (n.) Incorrect or bad writing or spelling. |
cacology | noun (n.) Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words. |
cacophony | noun (n.) An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables. |
noun (n.) A combination of discordant sounds. | |
noun (n.) An unhealthy state of the voice. |
cacotechny | noun (n.) A corruption or corrupt state of art. |
caddy | noun (n.) A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in. |
cadency | noun (n.) Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages. |
cadgy | adjective (a.) Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton. |
caducary | adjective (a.) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation. |
caducity | noun (n.) Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. |
cady | noun (n.) See Cadie. |
cajolery | noun (n.) A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. |
calcinatory | noun (n.) A vessel used in calcination. |
calcography | noun (n.) The art of drawing with chalk. |
calculary | noun (n.) A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to calculi. |
calculatory | adjective (a.) Belonging to calculation. |
calefactory | noun (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room. |
noun (n.) A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with. | |
adjective (a.) Making hot; producing or communicating heat. |
calendary | adjective (a.) Calendarial. |
calidity | noun (n.) Heat. |
caliginosity | noun (n.) Darkness. |
caligraphy | noun (n.) See Caligraphy. |
callidity | noun (n.) Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. |
calligraphy | noun (n.) Fair or elegant penmanship. |
callosity | noun (n.) A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction. |
calmy | noun (n.) Tranquil; peaceful; calm. |
caloricity | noun (n.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat. |
calorimetry | noun (n.) Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies. |
calumniatory | adjective (a.) Containing calumny; slanderous. |
calumny | noun (n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. |
calvary | noun (n.) The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of Jerusalem. |
noun (n.) A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion. | |
noun (n.) A cross, set upon three steps; -- more properly called cross calvary. |
cambistry | noun (n.) The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc. |
campanology | noun (n.) The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art. |
canary | noun (n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. |
noun (n.) A canary bird. | |
noun (n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird. | |
noun (n.) A quick and lively dance. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds. | |
adjective (a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone. | |
verb (v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. |
candidacy | noun (n.) The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship. |
candroy | noun (n.) A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing. |
candy | noun (n.) A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds. |
verb (v. t.) To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger. | |
verb (v. t.) To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup. | |
verb (v. t.) To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy. | |
verb (v. i.) To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time. | |
verb (v. i.) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass. | |
verb (v. t.) A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc. |
cankery | adjective (a.) Like a canker; full of canker. |
adjective (a.) Surly; sore; malignant. |
cannery | noun (n.) A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on. |
cannonry | noun (n.) Cannon, collectively; artillery. |
canny | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cannei |
canonicity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon. |
canonry | noun (n. pl.) A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon. |
canopy | noun (n.) A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. |
noun (n.) An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc. | |
noun (n.) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a canopy. |
cantatory | adjective (a.) Containing cant or affectation; whining; singing. |
canterbury | noun (n.) A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made. |
noun (n.) A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc. |
canthoplasty | noun (n.) The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease. |
canticoy | noun (n.) A social gathering; usually, one for dancing. |
canty | adjective (a.) Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry. |
cany | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes. |
capability | noun (n.) The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. |
noun (n.) Capacity of being used or improved. |
capacity | noun (n.) The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things. |
noun (n.) The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling. | |
noun (n.) Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing. | |
noun (n.) Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter. | |
noun (n.) Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. |
caperberry | noun (n.) The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment. |
noun (n.) The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado). |
capercally | noun (n.) A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. |
capillarity | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being capillary. |
noun (n.) The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction. |
capillary | noun (n.) A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute. |
noun (n.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels. | |
adjective (a.) Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action. |
capitulary | noun (n.) A capitular. |
noun (n.) The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council. | |
noun (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections. | |
adjective (a.) Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular. |
capnomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke. |
capsulary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous. |
captaincy | noun (n.) The rank, post, or commission of a captain. |
captainry | noun (n.) Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship. |
captivity | noun (n.) The state of being a captive or a prisoner. |
noun (n.) A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; bondage. |
caracoly | noun (n.) An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewelry is made. |
caravansary | noun (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. |
caraway | noun (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. |
noun (n.) A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. |
carboy | noun (n.) A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc. |
carcinology | noun (n.) The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology. |
cardialgy | noun (n.) A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion. |
cardioinhibitory | adjective (a.) Checking or arresting the heart's action. |
cardiolgy | noun (n.) The science which treats of the heart and its functions. |
cardiometry | noun (n.) Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation. |
cariosity | noun (n.) Caries. |
carnality | noun (n.) The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind. |
carnary | noun (n.) A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house. |
carney | noun (n.) A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat. |
carnivoracity | noun (n.) Greediness of appetite for flesh. |
carnosity | noun (n.) A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth. |
noun (n.) Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering. |
carpellary | adjective (a.) Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels. |
carpentry | noun (n.) The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings. |
noun (n.) An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter. |
carpetway | noun (n.) A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. |
carphology | noun (n.) See Floccillation. |
carpology | noun (n.) That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit. |
carraway | noun (n.) See Caraway. |
carroty | adjective (a.) Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc. |
carry | noun (n.) A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage. |
verb (v. t.) To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off. | |
verb (v. t.) To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child. | |
verb (v. t.) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide. | |
verb (v. t.) To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures. | |
verb (v. t.) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther. | |
verb (v. t.) To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election. | |
verb (v. t.) To get possession of by force; to capture. | |
verb (v. t.) To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply. | |
verb (v. t.) To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns. | |
verb (v. t.) To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance. | |
verb (v. i.) To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry. | |
verb (v. i.) To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well. | |
verb (v. i.) To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck. | |
verb (v. i.) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare. |
cartography | noun (n.) The art or business of forming charts or maps. |
cartomancy | noun (n.) The art of telling fortunes with cards. |
cartulary | noun (n.) A register, or record, as of a monastery or church. |
noun (n.) An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers. |
cartway | noun (n.) A way or road for carts. |
cassidony | noun (n.) The French lavender (Lavandula Stoechas) |
noun (n.) The goldilocks (Chrysocoma Linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed. |
cassioberry | noun (n.) The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida. |
cassowary | noun (n.) A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc. |
castaway | noun (n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked. |
noun (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. | |
adjective (a.) Of no value; rejected; useless. |
castellany | noun (n.) The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle. |
castigatory | noun (n.) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. |
adjective (a.) Punitive in order to amendment; corrective. |
castlery | noun (n.) The government of a castle. |
casualty | noun (n.) That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency. |
noun (n.) Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty. | |
noun (n.) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. |
casuistry | adjective (a.) The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases. |
adjective (a.) Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals. |