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divert the king’s thoughts from any imprefiion the other 
might make upon him ; but the place lord Falkland Hum. 
bled upon was yet more fuited to his deftiny than the 
the other had been to the king’s ; being the following 
exprefiions of Evander, upon the death ot his (on Pallas, 
AEn. xi. 152. 
O Pallas: thou haft fail’d thy plighted word. 
To fight with caution, not to tempt the fword, 
I warn’d thee, but in vain : for well I knew 
What perils youthful ardour would purfite; 
That boiling blood would carry thee too far ; 
Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war. 
O cm ft elfay of arms, difaftrous doom, 
Prehide of bloody fields, and fights to come. 
He wrote feveral eflavs, both poetical and political ; and 
in fome of the king’s declarations, fuppolcd to be penned 
by lord Falkland, we find the firft regular definition of 
tlie Englifh conftitution that occurs in any compofition 
publiflied by authority. His predeceffor, the firft vilcount 
Cary, was ennobled for being the firft who gave king 
James an account of queen Elizabeth’s death. Several 
of his poems are preferved in Nichols’s SeleCI Collection. 
See the article Heraldry, vol. ix. p. 620. 
CA'RY (Robert), a learned chronologer,bornatCook- 
ington in Devonfiiire, about 1615. He took his degrees 
at Oxford, and was created LL. D. in 1644. Alter his 
return from his travels, he was prefented to the reCtory 
of Portlemouth, near Kinglbridge, in Devonfiiire; but not 
long after, lie was drawn over by the prelbyterian minif- 
ters^ and chofen moderator of that part of the fecond divi- 
lion of the county of Devon, which was appointed to meet 
at Kinglbridge. Neverthelefs, upon the reftoration of 
Charles II. hewasoneof the firft that congratulated that 
prince upon his return, and foon after was preferred to the 
archdeaconry of Exeter: but in 1664 he was on lome pre¬ 
tence ejeCted out of it. The reft of his days he (pent at 
his rectory at Portlemouth; and died, aged feventy-three, 
in 168S. He publiflied his Palao/ogia Chronica, or a chro¬ 
nological Account of ancient Times, in three parts, Lond, 
1677, fol. He was (killed in poetry, both Latin and Eng- 
lilh ; but his only publication of this kind was thofc hymns 
of our church which are appointed to be read after the 
leflbns, together with the creed, &c. 
CA'RY, a town of the American States, in the ftateof 
Virginia: forty miles weft of Richmond. 
CA'RY, a river of Ireland, which runs into the fea 
near Ballycaftle, in the county of Antrim. 
CA f RYA, in ancient geography, a country of Arcadia. 
Alfo a city of Laconia. Here a feftival was oblerved in 
honour of Diana Caryatis. It was then ufual for virgins 
to meet at the celebration, and join in a certain dance, 
laid to have been firft inftituted by Caftor and Pollux. 
CARYA'TES, or Caryat'ides,/. ["from Carya , a 
city taken by the Greeks, who led may the women cap¬ 
tives : and, to perpetuate their llavery, reprefented them 
in building as charged with burdens.] An order of co¬ 
lumns or pilafters, under the figures of women drefied in 
long robes, ferving to fupport entablatures, See. See 
Architecture, vol. ii. p.72, Plate XX 1 IJ. and, for 
their true origin, the article Egypt, vol. vi. p.376, and 
the correfpondent Engraving. 
CAR'YL (Jofeph), author of a moft laborious com¬ 
mentary on Job, which in fome editions makes thirteen 
volumes quarto, or two volumes folio. He was born in 
London in 1602, and was fome time a commoner at Exe¬ 
ter College, Oxford. He preached feveral years with ap- 
plaufe before the honourable fociety of Lincoln’s Inn. 
In 1653 he was appointed one of the triersfor the appro¬ 
bation of minifters, and was fent by the parliament to at¬ 
tend Charles I. at Holmby-houfe ; he was alfo one of the 
commitlioners in the treaty of the I fie of Wight. He and 
Dr. Owen were by order of parliament fent in 165010 at¬ 
tend on Cromwell in Scotland, and to officiate as minifters. 
He was ejeCted in 1662, after which he gathered a con¬ 
gregation in the neighbourhood of St. Magnus, near 
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London-bridge, to which he preached as the times would 
permit. He was a man of learning, and of indefatigable 
induftry; and left a confiderable number of lermons. 
CAR'YLL (John), an Englifh poet, fecretary to queen 
Mary, confort of James II. and one who followed the 
fortunes of his abdicated mafter ; who rewarded him, firft 
with knighthood, and then with the honorary titles of 
Earl Caryll and Baron Dartford. How long hecontinued 
in that fcrvice is not known ; but he was in England in 
the feign of queen Anne, and recommended the fubjeCc 
of the Rape of the Lock to Mr. Pope, who at its publi¬ 
cation add re (fed it to him. He w^as alfo the intimate 
friend of Pipe’s Unfortunate Lady. He was the author 
of two plays : viz. The Englifh Princefs, or the-Death of 
Richard III. and Sir Solomon, or the Cautious Coxcomb. 
In 1700, he publiflied The Pfalros of David, tranflated 
from the Vulgate, 121110. In Tonfon’s edition of Ovid’s 
Epiftles, that of Brifeis to Achilles is faid to be by 
John Caryll, efq. and in Nicholls’s SeleCt Collection, 
vol. ii. the firft eclogue of Virgil is tranflated by the fame 
poet. He was living in 1717 ; but the time of his death 
is not known. 
CARYOCAR', f. [from xupvx, or xapeor, a nut, and 
Kctfo, the head.] In botany, a genus of the clafs polyandria, 
order tetragynia. The generic characters are—Calyx : 
perianthium quinquepartite, coloured ; divifions obtufe, 
concave, deciduous. Corolla: petals five, oval, concave, 
large. Stamina: filaments numerous, filiform ; antherae 
oblong. Piftillum: germ globofe ; ftyles four (fometimes 
fewer); ftigmas obtufe. Pericarpium : drupe flefhy, fphe- 
rical, very large. Seed: nuts four (one to four), oval- 
triquetrous, reticulated with furrows, angulated with a 
future on one fide.— E/fential Characler. Calyx five-parted; 
petals five; ftyles ufually four ; drupe with feur nuts, re¬ 
ticulated with furrows. 
Only one fpecies, called Caryocar nuciferum. It is a tall 
tree, with ternate leaves, calyx and corolla purple; drupe 
the fize of the human head; nuts efculent, having the 
tafte of almonds. Native of Berbice and Eflequibo. 
CARYOCOS'T 1 NUM, /. [from xxpvov, the caryophyl- 
lus, and j/oj-iro;, compofed of the coftus.] An eleCtuary, 
named from its ingredients. 
CARYOPHYLLAi'US,y'. in helminthology, a genus of 
the order of vermes inteftina; the characters of which are : 
body round ; mouth dilated and fringed. There is but 
one fpecies known, viz. Caryophyllreus pifeium ; which 
inhabits the inteftines of various frefli-water fifti, particu¬ 
larly the carp, tench, jefes, and bream. The body is clay- 
colour, nearly an inch long; rounded at the hind-part, 
and broader before. See a correct figure of it in the an. 
nexed Engraving. 
CARYOPHYLLAS'TER,/. in botany. See Dooo. 
N jE A. 
C ARYOPHY LLA'T A,/. in botany. See Anemone, 
Geum, and Dry as. 
C ARYOPHYLLE'zE, f in botany, the twenty-fecond 
of Linnaeus’s Natural Order of Plants. See vol. iii. p. 296. 
CARYOPHYL'LO AFFI'NIS,/. See Dianthus. 
CARYOPHYX'LUM, f. in botany. See Sarracenia. 
C ARYOPHYL'LUS, J. [y.ccpvov iprTAo;, Gr. nut-leaf.] 
The Clove-Tree ; in botany, a genus of the clafs poly¬ 
andria, order monogynia, natural order hefperideae. The 
generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium of the fruit 
iuperior, quadripartite, acute, fmall, permanent; perian¬ 
thium of the flower fuperior, tetraphyllous; leaflets 
roundifli, concave, deciduous. Corolla: petals four, 
roundifti, crenate, fmaller than the calyx of the flower. 
Stamina : filaments numerous, capillary ; antheras fimple. 
Piftillum : germ inferior, oblong, large, terminating in 
the calyx of the fruit; ftyle fimple, inferted into the 
quadrangular receptacle ; ftigma fimple. Pericarpium: 
oval, unilocular, terminated by the hardened converging 
calyx of the fruit, umhilicate. Seed Angle, oval, large. 
EJJential Charader. Calyx four-leaved, duplicate; corolla 
four-petalled ; berry one-feeded, inferior. 
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