Name Report For First Name CARY:
CARY
First name CARY's origin is Irish. CARY means "of the dark ones". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CARY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cary.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with CARY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with CARY - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming CARY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CARY AS A WHOLE:
caryl caryn carynn carysNAMES RHYMING WITH CARY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ary) - Names That Ends with ary:
tamary cleary hilary hillary mary rosemary aeary conary dary gary keary leary sheary zachary zackary zakary gearyRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ry) - Names That Ends with ry:
kundry khairy barry jory avery emery perry salisbury thiery ambry cherry devery dory ivory kerry margery merry sherry amery amory carbry cory darry derry ellery emory farry flannery gerry gilvarry gorry gregory harry jeffery jeffry jerry larry mallory montgomery mukonry murry rorry rory sallsbury terry thierry torry tory zackery dimitry stanbury kendry fakhry cundry khoury landry roxbury amaury henry aubry corry destry devry garryNAMES RHYMING WITH CARY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (car) - Names That Begins with car:
car cara caradawc caradoc carah caraid caraidland caralyn caramichil cardew caree carel carelton caress caressa caresse carew carey cari carilla carilyn carilynne carina carine carisa carissa carl carla carlaisa carlat carlatun carleen carleigh carlene carleton carletta carley carlie carlin carling carlino carlisle carlita carlo carlomagno carlos carlota carlotta carlson carlton carly carlyle carm carma carman carme carmel carmela carmelide carmelina carmeline carmelita carmella carmelo carmen carmencita carmi carmia carmichael carmina carmine carmita carmon carmontieh carmya carnation carnell carney caro carol carola carolan carolann carolanne carole caroliana carolin carolina caroline carolos carolus carolyn carolyne carolynn carona carr carrado carraig carree carressaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CARY:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'y':
cacey cadby cady cagney cailey cailsey caitly caley cally caly camey casey cassidy cassy cathly cathy cauley cawley cerny chaisly chancey chaney chantay chardonnay charity charley charly chassidy chauncey chauncy chelsey chelsy cheney chesley chesney chevy choncey chrissy christy cicely cicily cidney cindy clady clancy clay cluny coby codey cody colbey colby coley conley connolly conny conroy conway cony cooey cooley cooney corby corday corey corky corley correy cortney courtenay courtnay courtney covey cranley cranly crissy cristy crosley crosly crowley culley cully curney cydney cymberly cyndy cyneley cziganyEnglish Words Rhyming CARY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CARY AS A WHOLE:
apothecary | noun (n.) One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes. |
bibliothecary | noun (n.) A librarian. |
caducary | adjective (a.) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation. |
caryatic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Caryatid |
caryatid | noun (n.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a caryatid. |
caryatides | noun (n. pl.) Caryatids. |
caryophyllaceous | adjective (a.) Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink |
adjective (a.) Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types. |
caryophyllin | noun (n.) A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor. |
caryophyllous | adjective (a.) Caryophyllaceous. |
caryopsis | noun (n.) 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. |
emphyteuticary | noun (n.) One who holds lands by emphyteusis. |
formicary | noun (n.) The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. |
pecary | noun (n.) See Peccary. |
peccary | noun (n.) A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles. |
piscary | noun (n.) The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters. |
potecary | noun (n.) An apothecary. |
pothecary | noun (n.) An apothecary. |
scary | noun (n.) Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. |
adjective (a.) Subject to sudden alarm. | |
adjective (a.) Causing fright; alarming. |
suburbicary | adjective (a.) Being in the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome. |
tunicary | noun (n.) One of the Tunicata. |
vaccary | noun (n.) A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture. |
vicary | noun (n.) A vicar. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CARY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ary) - English Words That Ends with ary:
abecedary | noun (n.) A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. |
ablutionary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to ablution. |
accessary | noun (n.) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. |
adjective (a.) Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. |
accustomary | adjective (a.) Usual; customary. |
acetary | noun (n.) An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear. |
actionary | noun (n.) Alt. of Actionist |
actuary | noun (n.) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally. |
noun (n.) The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances. |
additionary | adjective (a.) Additional. |
admaxillary | adjective (a.) Near to the maxilla or jawbone. |
adminiculary | adjective (a.) Adminicular. |
adversary | noun (n.) One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe. |
adjective (a.) Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic. | |
adjective (a.) Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit. |
aestuary | noun (n. & a.) See Estuary. |
alary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. |
alimentary | adjective (a.) Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. |
allodiary | noun (n.) One who holds an allodium. |
alveary | noun (n.) A beehive, or something resembling a beehive. |
noun (n.) The hollow of the external ear. |
alveolary | adjective (a.) Alveolar. |
ampullary | adjective (a.) Resembling an ampulla. |
ancillary | adjective (a.) Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. |
anniversary | noun (n.) The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. |
noun (n.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope. | |
noun (n.) The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day. | |
adjective (a.) Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. |
annuary | noun (n.) A yearbook. |
adjective (a.) Annual. |
annulary | adjective (a.) Having the form of a ring; annular. |
antidotary | adjective (a.) Antidotal. |
antiphonary | noun (n.) A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained. |
antiquary | noun (n.) One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to antiquity. |
apiary | noun (n.) A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse. |
apocrisiary | noun (n.) Alt. of Apocrisiarius |
arbitrary | adjective (a.) Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. |
adjective (a.) Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. | |
adjective (a.) Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government. |
arborary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal. |
armamentary | noun (n.) An armory; a magazine or arsenal. |
armillary | noun (n.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles. |
arrectary | noun (n.) An upright beam. |
articulary | noun (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. |
atrabiliary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys. |
adjective (a.) Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. |
auctary | noun (n.) That which is superadded; augmentation. |
auctionary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer. |
auxiliary | noun (n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise. |
noun (n.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force. | |
adjective (a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. | |
(sing.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish. | |
(sing.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae. |
aviary | noun (n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house. |
aweary | adjective (a.) Weary. |
axillary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve. |
adjective (a.) Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. |
bacillary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bacilli; produced by, or containing, bacilli; bacillar; as, a bacillary disease. |
balneary | noun (n.) A bathing room. |
barbary | noun (n.) The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon. |
basilary | noun (n.) Relating to, or situated at, the base. |
noun (n.) Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action. |
beggary | noun (n.) The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. |
noun (n.) Beggarly appearance. | |
adjective (a.) Beggarly. |
benedictionary | noun (n.) A collected series of benedictions. |
beneficiary | noun (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds. |
noun (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate. | |
adjective (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession. | |
adjective (a.) Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts. |
bicentenary | noun (n.) The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. |
biliary | adjective (a.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. |
binary | noun (n.) That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality. |
adjective (a.) Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things). |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CARY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (car) - Words That Begins with car:
cariccio | noun (n.) A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice. |
noun (n.) A caprice; a freak; a fancy. |
car | noun (n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart. |
noun (n.) A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad. | |
noun (n.) A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity. | |
noun (n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper. | |
noun (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator. | |
noun (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc. | |
noun (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish. |
carabid | noun (n.) One of the Carabidae, a family of active insectivorous beetles. |
adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidae. |
carabine | noun (n.) A carbine. |
carabineer | noun (n.) A carbineer. |
caraboid | adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus. |
carabus | noun (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects. |
carac | noun (n.) See Carack. |
caracal | noun (n.) A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs. |
caracara | noun (n.) A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards. |
carack | noun (n.) A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. |
caracole | noun (n.) A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left. |
noun (n.) A staircase in a spiral form. | |
verb (v. i.) To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel. |
caracoly | noun (n.) An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewelry is made. |
caracore | noun (n.) Alt. of Caracora |
caracora | noun (n.) A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies. |
carafe | noun (n.) A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft. |
carageen | noun (n.) Alt. of Caragheen |
caragheen | noun (n.) See Carrageen. |
carambola | noun (n.) An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry. |
caramel | noun (n.) Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc. |
noun (n.) A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor. |
carangoid | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish. |
caranx | noun (n.) A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or golden mackerel. |
carapace | noun (n.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals. |
carapato | noun (n.) A south American tick of the genus Amblyomma. There are several species, very troublesome to man and beast. |
carapax | noun (n.) See Carapace. |
carat | noun (n.) The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed. |
noun (n.) A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold. |
caravan | noun (n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa. |
noun (n.) A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts. | |
noun (n.) A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van. |
caravaneer | noun (n.) The leader or driver of the camels in caravan. |
caravansary | noun (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. |
caravel | noun (n.) A name given to several kinds of vessels. |
noun (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. | |
noun (n.) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden. | |
noun (n.) A small fishing boat used on the French coast. | |
noun (n.) A Turkish man-of-war. |
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. |
carbamic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an acid so called. |
carbamide | noun (n.) The technical name for urea. |
carbamine | noun (n.) An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor. |
carbanil | noun (n.) A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid. |
carbazol | noun (n.) A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines. |
carbazotate | noun (n.) A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate. |
carbazotic | adjective (a.) Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen. |
carbide | noun (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 | noun (n.) The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic. |
carbine | noun (n.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry. |
carbineer | noun (n.) A soldier armed with a carbine. |
carbinol | noun (n.) Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type. |
carbohydrate | noun (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 | noun (n.) A hydrocarbon. |
carbolic | adjective (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. |
carbon | noun (n.) An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite. |
noun (n.) A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp; also, a plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery. |
carbonaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon. |
carbonade | noun (n.) Alt. of Carbonado |
verb (v. t.) To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut or hack, as in fighting. |
carbonado | noun (n.) Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop. |
noun (n.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous. | |
verb (v. t.) Alt. of Carbonade |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CARY:
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
catalepsy | noun (n.) Alt. of Catalepsis |
catchfly | noun (n.) A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly. |