a. Consisting of, or containing, clay and calcareous earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.Consisting of, or containing, calcareous and siliceous earths. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. calcarius pertaining to lime. See Calx. ] Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calcareous spar. Same as Calcite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being calcareous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. caru, cearu; akin to OS. kara sorrow, Goth. kara, OHG chara, lament, and perh. to Gr. gh^rys voice. Not akin to cure. Cf. Chary. ] 1. A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The care of all the churches. 2 Cor. xi. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

Him thy care must be to find. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Perplexed with a thousand cares. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care. [ 1913 Webster ]

I thank thee for thy care and honest pains. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares. Spenser.

Syn. -- Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard; management; direction; oversight. -- Care, Anxiety, Solicitude, Concern. These words express mental pain in different degress. Care belongs primarily to the intellect, and becomes painful from overburdened thought. Anxiety denotes a state of distressing uneasiness fron the dread of evil. Solicitude expresses the same feeling in a diminished degree. Concern is opposed to indifference, and implies exercise of anxious thought more or less intense. We are careful about the means, solicitous and anxious about the end; we are solicitous to obtain a good, anxious to avoid an evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Cared p. pr. & vb. n. Caring. ] [ AS. cearian. See Care, n. ] To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would not care a pin, if the other three were in. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Master, carest thou not that we perish? Mark. iv. 38. [ 1913 Webster ]

To care for. (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of. (b) To have regard or affection for; to like or love. [ 1913 Webster ]

He cared not for the affection of the house. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having needed care and attention; as, well-cared-for children. Opposite of uncared-for. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Careened p. pr. & vb. n. Careening. ] [ OF. cariner, F. caréner, fr. OF. carène, the bottom of a ship, keel, fr. L. carina. ] (Naut.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. carénage. ] (Naut.) (a) Expense of careening ships. (b) A place for careening. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carrière race course, high road, street, fr. L. carrus wagon. See Car. ] 1. A race course: the ground run over. [ 1913 Webster ]

To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A running; full speed; a rapid course. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a horse is running in his full career. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. [ 1913 Webster ]

An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Falconry) The flight of a hawk. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Careered 3; p. pr. & vb. n. Careering ] To move or run rapidly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Careering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of advancing one's career at the expense of one's personal integrity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A professional who follows a career. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. Free of trouble and worry and care; as, the carefree joys of childhood; carefree millionaires, untroubled financially.
Syn. -- happy, lighthearted, unworried. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. nonchalant in a cheerful manner.
Syn. -- breezy, airy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. cheerfully irresponsible; as, carefree with his money. Opposite of careful.
Syn. -- devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. same as unconcerned. Opposite of concerned.
Syn. -- blithe. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ AS. cearful. ] 1. Full of care; anxious; solicitous. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Be careful [ Rev. Ver. “anxious” ] for nothing. Phil. iv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

The careful plowman doubting stands. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful. [ 1913 Webster ]

The careful cold beginneth for to creep. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

By Him that raised me to this careful height. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Taking care; giving good heed; watchful; cautious; provident; not indifferent, heedless, or reckless; -- often followed by of, for, or the infinitive; as, careful of money; careful to do right. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast been careful for us with all this care. 2. Kings iv, 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

What could a careful father more have done? Dryden.

Syn. -- Anxious; solicitous; provident; thoughtful; cautious; circumspect; heedful; watchful; vigilant. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a careful manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality or state of being careful. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. burdened by cares.
Syn. -- heavy-laden. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ AS. cearleás. ] 1. Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless. [ 1913 Webster ]

My brother was too careless of his charge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He grew careless of himself. Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression. [ 1913 Webster ]

He framed the careless rhyme. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not receiving care; uncared for. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Their many wounds and careless harms. Spenser.

Syn. -- Negligent; heedless; thoughtless; unthinking; inattentive; incautious; remiss; supine; forgetful; regardless; inconsiderate; listless. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a careless manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligence; inattention. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. carena, corrupted fr. quarentena. See Quarantine. ] (Ecol.) A fast of forty days on bread and water. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. caresse, It. carezza, LL. caritia dearness, fr. L. carus dear. See Charity. ] An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wooed her with his soft caresses. Langfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

He exerted himself to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Caressed p. pr. & vb. n. Caressing. ] [ F. caresser, fr. It. carezzare, fr. carezza caress. See Caress., n. ] To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lady caresses the rough bloodhound. Sir W. Scott.

Syn. -- To fondle; embrace; pet; coddle; court; flatter. -- Caress, Fondle. “We caress by words or actions; we fondle by actions only.” Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the act of embracing; holding in one's arms . [ PJC ]

2. foreplay without contact with the genital organs.
Syn. -- caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In caressing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. showing love. caressing words [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. caret there is wanting, fr. carere to want. ] A mark [ ^ ] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., a species of tortoise. ] (Zool.) The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus consisting of the loggerhead turtles.
Syn. -- genus Caretta. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Weary; mournful. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., sedge. ] (Bot.) A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceæ; the sedges. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Zool.) Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Horny on one side and calcareous on the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. cheerfully irresponsible.
Syn. -- carefree, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness.
Syn. -- raffish, rakish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pg. jacaré; of Brazilian origin. ] (Zool.) A cayman. See Yacare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a dance performed by dancers in a line, or several lines, consisting mainly of hand and arm movements; also, the name of the song to which the dance is usually performed. It became popular in 1996. [ PJC ]

a. (Geol.) Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; -- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Excessive care. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too careful. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., fr. Sp. picaro rogue. ] Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Scared p. pr. & vb. n. Scaring. ] [ OE. skerren, skeren, Icel. skirra to bar, prevent, skirrask to shun , shrink from; or fr. OE. skerre, adj., scared, Icel. skjarr; both perhaps akin to E. sheer to turn. ] To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. [ 1913 Webster ]

The noise of thy crossbow
Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To scare away, to drive away by frightening. --
To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. [ 1913 Webster ]

A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person clad in rags and tatters. [ 1913 Webster ]

No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) The black tern. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An alarm of fire. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fire causing alarm. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of silica and calcareous matter. [ 1913 Webster ]