CAM SUPPLEMENT CAT 



ti'itida, fo-ind in the interior of that conti- 1 CARAIPA, a celebrated cure for the itch it 

 nent and at Sierra Leone. produced from one of this species, C. finci- 



CAMEK>TKD SHELLS, a characteristic of &\culuta of South America, belonging to the 

 series of gKells of Cephalopoda, now almost genus 7'f-rnstromiacece, and known as the 

 wholly e_.anct It si-rnifles that the shells ' balsam of Tamacoari. 



are divided by ransverse partitions into CARAITES, a Jewish sect distinguished by 

 a number of chambers traversed by a their rejec-tion of the interpretation of the 

 siphon. Rat'bis and the Cabbala, and their close &>! 



CAMPANCLARIA. See PARTHENOGENESIS, hesion to the letter and original text of the 



CAMPHEXE, or CAMPHOGEXE, one of the Hebrew Scriptures. 



hydro-carbons, consisting of ten atoms of CAKCERES, the cells constructed ; n the 

 carbon and eight of hydrogen, whose equiva- buildings of the great circuses of the ancients, 

 lent is 68; the ten atoms of carbon being at the starting point, for receiving the cha- 

 = 60. It is thus the same as oil of tur- riots and horses of the competitors, and so 



pen tine. 



CAMPHROXE, a volatile product giver 

 forth when camphor vapour is passed ovei 

 red-hot lime. 



CANEPHORO:, a term signifying " basket 

 bearers," applied to figures of young persons 



arranged as to facilitate their equal and 

 simultaneous starting m the race. 



CARIMTIS, inflammation of the heart. 



CARDOELIS, a genus of posseriue birds, 

 or conirostral perchers, including the C'ir- 

 duelis elegant, or goldfinch, and a number 



of either sex bearing on their heads bas- of other siskins less arboreal in their habits 

 kets with fruits and other offerings for sacri- " 



flee, employed as a feature of architecture. 



CANICULAR DAYS. See DOG DAYS. 



CANICULAR YEAR, the solar year of the 

 ancient Egyptians, because its commenee- 



than the true finches. 



CARMINATIVES, medicines to alleviate 

 flatulence and its effects. 



CARNEIA, a festival observed at Sparta 

 and other Greek cities in honour of Carneius 



rxent was fixed by the helical rising of the or Apollo. 

 Dog Star, Canicula, which coincided then' CARPADELICM, a botanical term some- 

 with the annual inundation of the Nile I times applied to inferior multi-celled inde- 



CANNELCRES, the name given to the cir ' hiscent fruits, containing one seed in each 

 cular grooves in the cylinders of cylindro- cell, 

 conoidal shot | CARPAL, applied to the wrist ; as carpal 



CANTILEVER, a wood bracket or support, ' bones, the bones of the wrist, 

 fitted into the wall of a house, from which ; CARPOLITES, fossil seeds and fruits, 

 it projects to support the eaves with their CARPDS, the wrist in human anatomy, 

 cornice and mouldinz. j and the corresponding segment of the skele- 



CAPE WEED, the Roccella tinctoria, a ton in comparative anatomy. In man it is 

 lichen, yielding dyeing matter, imported irom composed of eight small bones, arranged in 

 the Cape de Verds. the form of an arch for strength and self- 



CAPIBARA, sometimes called the Water- protection : they are respectively called 

 hog, a rodent quadruped of aquatic habits, scaphoidft, lunare, cuneiforme, and pin- 

 typical of the genus ITydrocJicerus. It is forme, composing in their arrangement the 

 the largest of all known rodent quadrupeds, first row ; and trapezium, trapezr>i(les, os 

 and is found in the proximity of the South magnum, and unciforme, forming the 

 American rivers. second row. 



CAPILLAMEXTUM, an old synonym of CARTHAMINE, the colouring principle of 

 " filament." safflower. 



CAPO D' OPERA (PI. CAPI D* OPERA,) a CASEINE, that nitrous constituent of milk 

 synonym of the French expression, chef- which forms the chief substance of cheese. 

 d'aeuvre, and English " master-piece." It is only coagulable by acids, and, so far as 



CAPSILL. This expression of modern yet known, by rennet, the well known curd- 

 engineering is a blundered application of li.-i matter obtained from the decomposition 

 the word "sill;" as "window sill," signi- of tie fo :rth stomach or rennet-bag of 

 fying the lower horizontal part of a fram- calves. 



ing ; " cap sill," evidently first used in the CASSELL YELLOW, Turner's Te'low, or 

 sense of " top sill," is now very frequently Patent Yellow, a yellow pigment composed 

 used to designate the horizontal beam at the of chloride and oxide of lead, 

 top of timber framings, as in bridges, Ac. ! CASSIDEOCS, the helmet-like upper leaf of 



CAPYBARA. See CAPIBARA. a flower petal, such as is seen in the monk's- 



CARABINE-A-TIGE, a French rifle of special hood or aconite. It forms the hood from 

 construction, consisting of an iron projection which the former name is derived. (Lat., 

 from the breech, in the centre of the bore, cassis, " a helmet.") 



so constructed that when the bullet is driven CATACHRESIS, in rhetoric, a trope which 

 home in loading, it is expanded on this pin, uses the name of one thing to express 

 by the force of ramming, Uiso the grooves of another ; a metaphor, 

 the barrel CATAPETALUS, the characteristic of the 



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