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n. [ LL. carrucagium (OF. charuage.), fr. LL. carruca plow, fr. L. carruca coach. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Old Eng. Law.) A tax on every plow or plowland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of plowing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. carucata, carrucata. See Carucage. ] A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ L. caruncula a little piece of flesh, dim. of caro flesh. ] 1. (Anat.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the
caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ka`ros. ] (Med.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. hare, v. t., and scare, v. t. ] Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]