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ments of fatirical painting, which, like poetry of the fame 
denomination, may he molt efficacioufly employed in the 
caufe of virtue and decorum, by holding up to public no¬ 
tice many offenders againft both, who are not amenable 
to any other tribunal; and who, though they contemptu- 
ouffy defy all ferious reproof, tremble at the thoughts of 
feeing their vices or follies attacked by the keen fhafts of 
ridicule.” 
CAR'ICOUS, adj. [from carica , Lat. a fig.] An epi¬ 
thet given to fuch tumours as refemble the lhape of a fig. 
They are frequently found in the piles. 
CAR'ICUM, f. [from Caricus, its inventor.] A medi¬ 
cine for deterging ulcers. It is prepared of the black hel¬ 
lebore, cantharides, and feveral other ingredients. 
CARIDIEN', an ifland of Afia, in the Indian Sea, near 
the w'elt coaft of the ifland of Ceylon : twelve miles long, 
and two wide. Lat. 8. 30. N. Ion. 79. 55. E. Greenwich. 
CA'RIEBOEF MOUNTAINS, a ridge of mountains 
in the weftern part of North America. Lat. 58.45. N. 
Ion. 115. W. Greenwich. 
CA'RIES, J. That rottennefs which is peculiar to a 
bone. Quincy. —Fiftulas of a long continuance are for the 
moll part accompanied with ulcerations of the gland, and 
caries in the bone. Wifeman. —For the caules and cure, lee 
Surgery. 
CARIGNAN', a town of France, in the department of 
the Ardennes, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCl 
of Sedan’; formerly a provoltihip, and called Ivoy, belong¬ 
ing to the dukes of Luxemburg, the dukes of Burgundy, 
and to the houfe of Auftria; but at length ceded to Louis 
XIV. who changed the name, and erefted it into a duchy. 
It is fituated on the Chiers : three leagues eaft-fouth-eaft 
of Sedan, and three and a half north-welt of Montmedy. 
CARIGNA'NO, a town of Piedmont, in the diftriCl: 
of Savigliano, and capital of a principality, to which it 
gives name, on the Po. In 1326, it was plundered and 
burned by the French ; and in 1544, the fortifications, ex¬ 
cept the citadel, were razed, and the greater part of the 
churches deltroyed : three miles north-north-w'eft of Car- 
magnola, and eight fouth of Turin. 
CARIGNA'NO, a town of the ifland of Sardinia: fif¬ 
teen miles weft-north-v r eft of Terra Nuova. 
CA'RIGUE, an ifland of Ireland, on the north coaft of 
the county of Kerry, in the river Shannon : thirty-three 
miles weft of Limerick. 
CA'RILLONS,yi Mufical clocks, or chimes. 
CARIMCURI'NI, f. in botany. SeeJusnciA. 
CARIMGO'LA,/! in botany. See Pontederia. 
CAR'IMON, one of the chief towns in the kingdom 
of Yohor, which occupies the fouthern extremity of the 
Cherfonefe, in the peninfula of Malaya, or Malacca. 
CAR'IMON JA'VA, a clufter of iflands in the Indian 
Sea. Lat. 5.48. S. Ion. 109.15. E. Greenwich. 
CARIMPA'NA, f. in botany. See Borassus. 
CARIMTUM'BA, f. in botany. See Nepeta. 
CARI'NA, f. A Latin term, properly fignifying the 
keel of a fhip ; or that piece of timber running along the 
bottom of the fhip, from head to ftern, upon which the 
whole ftruftureis built or framed. Carina is alio ufed for the 
whole capacity or bulk of a fhip ; containing the hull, or 
all the fpace below the deck. Hence the word is fome- 
times ufed by a figure for the whole fhip. The Romans 
gave the name carina to all buildings in form of a fhip ; as 
we ftill give the name nave to the middle or principal vault 
of our Gothic churches, becaufe it has that figure. 
Carina, among anatomifts, is ufed to denote the fpina 
dorfi ; as like wife the fibrous rudiments or embryo of 
a chick appearing in an incubated egg. The carina con- 
fifts of the entire vertebra, as they appear after ten or 
twelve days incubation. It is thus called, becaufe crook¬ 
ed in form of the keel of a fhip. Bofanilts, for the like 
reafon, ufe the word carina to exprefs the lower petal of a 
papilionaceous flower. 
CARI'NftE, f. Women hired among the ancient Ro- 
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mans to weep at funerals: they were thus called from Ca- 
ria, the country whence molt of them came. 
CARINA'NA, Carine'na, or Sarigke'na, a town of 
Spain in Arragon, about 4^ miles from Longaris, contain¬ 
ing 2036 inhabitants, and two convents. 
CAR'INATED, a'dj. Tapering off like the keel of a 
fhip; commonly ufed of the backs and bellies of fifties. 
CARI'NI, a town of Sicily, pleafantly lituate in 
a fertile valley, furrounded by high rocks, and in 
a well-cultivated diftriCl:, abounding in wine, grain oF 
various kinds, olives, and all forts of fruit. The town is 
Angularly neat, contains 7000 inhabitants, and gives title 
of prince to the family of Grua, who inhabit an old 
Gothic caftle feated on a rock. It is diftant one mile from 
the fea fliore, and eighteen miles from Palermo. 
CA'RINISII POINT, a cape of Ireland, on the fouth- 
weft coaft. Lat. 51. 37. N. Ion. 9. 58. W. Greenwich. 
CARINO'LA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and country of Lavora, the fee of a biftiop, fuifragan 
of Capua: thirteen miles north-eaft of Capua. 
CARIN'THIA, a country of Germany, in Auftria, 
bounded on the north by Stiria and Saltzburg, on the eaft 
by Stiria, on the fouth by the late Venetian territories 
and Carniola, and on the weft by the Tyrol. The coun¬ 
try is very mountainous and woody; in the mountains are 
mines of iron and lead. There are many fertile valleys, 
which yield wheat and other grain, but not fuificient to 
fupply the wants of the inhabitants. In this duchy are 
thirty-one towns; the inhabitants are partly defeended 
from the ancient Germans, and partly from the Wends; 
they are almoft wholly Roman catholics. The principal 
manufactures are thole of iron and iteel. Carinthia is 
divided into Lower and Upper. The principal towns of 
Lower Carinthia are Clagenfurt, Saint Veit, Saint Andree, 
Woftsberg, and Gurk; the principal towns of Upper Ca¬ 
rinthia are Villach and Gmund. A great number of lakes 
are found in Carinthia, the largeft of which, called Wordt- 
Jee, is eight miles long, and abounds in fifh. The princi¬ 
pal rivers are the Drau, the Gail, the Moll, the Lifer, 
the Gian, the Gurk, and the Lavanf. 
CARI'NUS (M. Aurelius), a Roman who attempted 
to fucceed his father Carus as emperor. He was famous 
for his debaucheries and cruelties. Dioclefian defeated him 
in Dalmatia. He was killed by a foldier whole wife he 
had debauched, A. D. 268. 
CARIOPHYLLAS'TER,/ in botany. See Dodontea. 
CARIOS'ITY, f. Rottennefs.—This is too general, tak¬ 
ing in all cariojity and ulcers of the bones. Wifeman. 
CA'RIOUS, adj. [ cariafus , Lat.] Rotten.—I difeover- 
ed the blood to arife by a carious tooth. Wifeman. 
CARI'PI, f. A body of cavalry in the Turkilh army. 
See Turkey. 
CARIPOUS', a nation of South America, inhabiting a 
country to the north of the river Amazon, w r ho are at 
perpetual war with the Caribbees. 
CA'RISBROOK CASTLE, an ancient caftle in the 
Ifle of Wight, where Charles I. was imprifoned. It has 
a governor and a garrifon. See Newport. 
CARIS'SA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs pentan- 
dria, order monogynia, natural order contortae. The ge¬ 
neric characters are—Calyx: perianthium very fmall, five- 
parted, acute, permanent. Corolla: monopetalous, fun¬ 
nel-form; tube cylindrical, bellying at the mouth, longer 
than the border; border five-parted, flat, divifions oblong. 
Stamina: filaments five, very lhort, in the top of the 
tube; antherae oblong, within the mouth. Piftillum : 
germ roundilh ; ftyle filiform, length of the ftamens ; ftig- 
ma rather Ample. Pericarpium : berries two, oblong, bi¬ 
locular (according to Rumphius). Seeds feven or eight, 
oval, comprefled.— EJfential Character. Corolla contorted ; 
berries two, many-feeded. 
Species. 1. Carifla carandas: leaves elliptic, obtufe. 
A tree with dichotomous branches; leaves oppofite, pe- 
tioled, obtufe, glofly, quite entire; fpines axillary, but 
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