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contorted, but alfo here and there dilated, to moderate 
the motion of the blood. Ray. 
CAROU'GE POINT, the northernmoft extremity of 
the illand of St, Domingo, in the Weft-Indies : twenty- 
five miles north from the town of St. Jago. 
CAROU'GES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Orne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Alenpon : four leagues north-welt of Alenpon. 
CAROVl'GNO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Otranto : three miles eaft of Oftuni. 
CAROU'SAL, / A feftival. Now pronounced with the 
accent upon the Jccond fyllablc ; Dry den accents it on the JirJl ; 
This game, thefe caroufat ? Afcanius taught, 
And building A'iba to the Latins brought. Dryden. 
To CAROU'SE,. v. n. [ caronjfer , Fr. from gar aufz , all 
out, Germ.] To drink ; to quaff; to drink largely : 
Under the fitadow of friendly boughs 
They fit caroifmg, where their liquor grows. Waller. 
To CAROU'SE, v. a. To drink tip lavifhly : 
Our chearful guefts- caroufe the fparkling tears 
Of the rich grape, whilff mufic charms their ears. Denham. 
CAROU'SE, /. A drinking match : 
Waffe in wild riot what your land allows, 
There ply the early feaft, and late caroufe. Pope. 
A hearty dole of liquor.—He had'fo many eyps watching 
over him, as he could not drink a full caroufe of fack, but 
the ftate was advertifed thereof within & few hours. Davies. 
C AROU'SER,/. A drinker ; a toper : 
The bold caroufer , and advent’ring dame, 
Nor fear the fever, nor refufe the flame ; 
Safe in his (kill, from all conflraint fet free 
But confcious fhame, remorfe, and piety. Granville. 
CAROX'YLON,/ [from fopor, and |vAon, lig¬ 
num. ] In botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, order 
xndnogynia. The generic characters are—Calyx : perian- 
tliiurn two-leaved, fuborbiculate, rude, concave within, 
keeled on the outfide, very thin at the edge, eredt, fhorter 
than the corolla. Corolla: one-petalled, five-parted; tube 
none ; border fegments obtufe, broad, roundifli, concave- 
curled, membraneous, expanding, yellowifli or dufky pur- 
pliflt ; nedtary Rales five, inferted into the middle of the 
corolla, fomewhat narrower and (horter, and connate with 
it at the bottom ; they are placed on the converging fruit, 
are ovate, fliarpilh, concave, membraneous, yellowifli with 
a greenifli bafe. Stamina : filaments five, inferted into the 
fide of the germ, fhorter than the corolla, white, capilla¬ 
ry ; anthera; very final 1 . Piffillum: germ fuperior, conic, 
fmooth ; .ftyle Ample, fhorter than the corolla, eredt, white; 
fiigmas two, revolute, whitifti, feldom Ample. Pericar- 
piiim : none. Seed one, depreffed, round, green, fpiral, 
clothed with a very thin membrane, covered with the 
permanent filaments and nedtary ,—^EJfcntial CharaEler. Co¬ 
rolla five-petalled. Nedtary five-leaved, converging, in- 
fdrted info the corolla. Seed clothed. 
There is but one fpecies, called Caroxylon falfola. 
The root is perennial ; fiem arborefeent, eredt, very 
branching, naked ; branches fcattered, (tiff, . flexuofe, 
fpreading, fubdivided ; axils loaded with otlier leaves. 
It differs from Salfola in having manifeftly one ftyle, a fruit 
in a veflel, or rather the feed coated witii the calycine ap- 
pendicles or nedtary converging, a two-leaved calyx, and 
a nedtary :.from / biabafts , to which it approaches very near, 
in the nectary, and two-leaved calyx. In Africa they ufe 
the allies, with mutton diet, to make foap. 
CARP,/, in ichthyology. See Cyprinus. 
To CARP, v.n. [carpo , Lat.] To qenfure; to cavil ; 
to find fault : with at before the thing or perfon cenfured. 
—Tertullian even often, through dilcontentment, carpetk 
injurioufly at them, as though they did it even when they 
were free from Inch meaning. Hooker. 
My honed homely words were carp'd and cenfur’d, 
Tor want of courtly (file. Dryden. 
CAR 
CAR'PAS, a town near the eaftern point of the if!and 
of Cyprus, in the Mediterranean. 
CARPA'TES, or Alpes Bastarnicar, in the an¬ 
cient geography, a range of mountains, running out be¬ 
tween Poland, Hungary, and Tranfylvania ; now called 
the Carpathian Mountains. Their fummits are moftly co¬ 
vered witii woods, and on their tides are laid to grow the 
moft delicious grapes in the world. 
CAR'PATHOS, a town of South America, in the 
country of Peru, and jurifdidtion of Guamalies; moft of 
the inhabitants are weavers, or employed in manufactur¬ 
ing baizes and ferges. 
CAR'PATHUS, an ifland in the Mediterranean, be¬ 
tween Rhodes and Crete, now called Scapanto. It gave 
its name to a part of the neighbouring tea, thence called 
the Carpathian Sea, between Rhodes and Crete. Carpa- 
fhus was at firft inhabited by fonie Cretan foldiers of Mi¬ 
nos. It was twenty miles in circumference, and was 
fometimes called Tetrapolis, from its four capital cities. 
CARP/E'A, a dance anciently in ufe among the Athe¬ 
nians and MagnefianS, performed by two perfons, the one 
adting a labourer, the other a robber. The labourer, 
laying by his arms, goes to ploughing and lowing, (till 
looking warily about him as if afraid of being furprifed: 
the robber at length appears, and the labourer, quitting 
his plough, betakes himfelf to his arms, and fights in de¬ 
fence of his oxen. The whole was performed to the found 
of flutes, and in cadence. Sometimes the robber was 
overcome, and fometimes the labourer; the victor’s re¬ 
ward being the oxen and plough. The defign of the ex- 
ercife was to teach and accuftom the peafants to defend 
themfelves againft the attacks of ruffians. 
CAR'PE MEALS,/- cloth made in the northern parts of 
England, of a coarfe kind ; mentioned in 7 Jac. r. c. 16. 
CAR'PENED, a village of Italy, in the Trevifan, on 
the Brenta, where the Auftrians were defeated by the 
republican French ; the Auftrians loft 100 killed, and 900 
prifoners : thirteen miles north of Vienna. 
C ARPENTA'RI A, a large bay on the northern coaft 
of New Holland, difeovered in 1618. Lat. 10. 20. S. 
Ion. 130. 50. E.Greenwich. 
CAR'PENTER,/ \_charfentier, Fr.] An artificer in 
wood; a builder of houfes or fhips. He was formerly 
diftinguifhed from a joiner, as performing larger and 
ftronger works: 
In burden’d veftels firft with fpeedy care, 
His plenteousflores do feafon’d timbers fend; 
Thither the brawny carpenters repair, 
And, as the furgeons of maim’d (hips, attend. Dryden. 
CAR'PENTERS’ COMPANY, of the city of Lon¬ 
don, was incorporated, anno 1476. Their arms are ar¬ 
gent, a cheveron ingrafted between three pair of cornpafles 
pointing towards the bafe, and a little extended. Their 
hall is (ituated on the north fide of London wall. 
CARPENTIER' (Peter), prior of Doncheri, born at 
Charleville in 1697, entered early into the congregation of 
St. Maur, where lie acquired great efteem for his learn¬ 
ing: but being prefented to a rich benefice by the abbd 
de Pompone, and patronifed by the miniftry, he went into 
the order of Cluni. He palled his time at Paris, culti¬ 
vating literature and rummaging libraries. He died in 
December 1767, aged 70. He is partly author of the 
edition of the gloflary of Du Cange, 6 vols. folio. He 
alfo wrote Alphabetum tyronianum, folio, 1747. 
CARPENTRAS', an ancient town of France, in the 
county of Venaiflin, fituated on the river Aufon, the Ice 
of a hi (hop, with many vefliges of Roman magnificence ; 
it is furrounded with walls, and contains about 12,000 in¬ 
habitants': twelve miles norlh-eaft of Avignon. 
CAR'PF.NTRY, / the trade or bulinelsofa carpenter, 
and one of tiie arts fubfervient to architedl me. For the 
pradlicul rules' of this profellion, fee Architecturk, 
vol. ii. p. 98, &c. and thofc who wifh for further ex¬ 
amples, 
