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The expression carded led directly to the similar one of mingled. Warburton proposed 'scarded, which was adopted till this explanation appeared, and was certainly very specious. CARD. The mariner's compass. Properly the paper on which the points of the wind are marked.

All the quarters that they know
I' the shipman's card.
We're all like sea cards,

Macb., i, 3.

All our endeavours and our motions,
As they do to the north, still point at beauty.
B. & Fl. Chances, i, 11.

Hence to speak by the card, meant to
speak with great exactness, true to a
point.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. Haml., v, 1. CARD OF TEN. A tenth card; one as high as a ten. See to FACE IT, where instances are given. The phrase of a card of ten was possibly derived, by a jocular allusion, from that of a hart of ten, in hunting, which meant a full-grown deer; one past six years of age.

A great large deer-what head?
Forked; a hart of ten.
B. Jons. Sad Sheph., i, 6.
In the Chances, a card of five is men-
tioned.

Whether a card of ten was properly
a cooling card, I have not discovered,
but certain it is that the expressions
are united in the following passage:
And all lovers, he only excepted, are cooled with a
card of ten.
Euph. Engl., O, 2.

See COOLING CARD. CARDECU. Quart d'écu, the quarter of a crown, i. e., fifteen-pence, or thereabouts. So written in the old editions of Shakespeare; the modern editors give quart d'écu. The other is the spelling of the time.

Did I not yester-morning
Bring you in a cardecu there from the peasant,
Whose ass I'd driven aside?

B. & Fl. Bloody Brother, iv, 2.
With a new cassock lin'd with cotton,
With cardecues to call his pot in.

Ballad in Acad. of Compl., ed. 1713, p. 243.

I compounded with them for a cardakew, which is
eighteenpence English, to be carried to the top of the
mountaine.
Coryat, vol. i, p. 77.

See QUART D'Ecu.

+CARE. To wish.

One of these questions related to our manner of living, and the place where, because I had heard he had a

great plantation in Virginia, and I told him I did not care to be transported. CARE-CLOTH.

Fortunes of Moll Flanders, 1722.

A square cloth held over the head of a bride by four men, one at each corner. Probably from the care supposed to be taken of the bride, by this method. The name remained when the practice was disused. A sermon is referred to, by one William Whately, entitled "A Care-cloth, or a Treatise of the Cumbers and Troubles of Matrimony." Lond., 4to, 1624. See Brand's Pop. Ant., 4to ed., vol. ii, p. 68. Or it might mean square cloth, carré. CAREIRES, or CAREER. То pass the carriere, a military phrase for running the charge in a tournament or attack. Here used metaphorically:

And so conclusions pass'd the careires.
Mer. W., i, 1.
They [horses] after the first shrink at the entering of
the bullet, doo pass their carriere, as though they had
verie little hurt. Sir John Smythe's Discourses, 1589.
To stop, to start, to pass carier, to bound,
To gallop straight, or round, or any way.
Harr, Ariost., xxxviii, 35.

To run the career was an equivalent expression:

Full merrily

Hath this brave manage, this career, been run

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Wail we the wight whose absence is our cark, The sun of all the world is dim and dark.

Ibid.

Spens. Novemb., 66.
+All that we get by toyle, or industry,
Our backes and bellies steale continually:
For though men labour with much care and carke,
Lie with the lamb downe, rise up with the larke,
Sweare and forsweare, deceave, and lie and cog,
And have a conscience worse then any dog.
Taylor's Workes, 1630.

To CARK. To be careful or thoughtful. It is often joined with to care, as if not perfectly synonymous.

Why knave, I say, have I thus cark'd and car'd,
And all to keep thee like a gentleman?

Lord Cromwell, Sh. Supp., ii, 377.
In times past neither did I labor, carcke, nor care,
For business, for family, for foode, nor yet for fare.
North's Plut., p. 392, E.
That rather carked to satisfie his desire, than coveted
to observe his promised faith.

Painter's Palace of Pleasure, vol. ii, sign. A, 8. +A lusty youth in prime of years, his fathers only

child,

Who Theodorus had to name, of courage stout and

wild,

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Spelt sometimes karkanet, see Herrick,

p. 11, and carquenet.

Golden carquenets

Embraced her neck withall.

Chapman, in Elton's Hesiod, p. 381. +A number of well-arted things, round bracelets, buttons brave,

Whistles and carquenets. Chapman, Il., xviii. It seems to be used erroneously for casket, in this passage: [See CASKNET.] That since the Fates had tane the gem away, He might but see the carknet where it lay. Brown, Brit. Past., ii, 139. CARLE. A boor, or countryman. This and the word churl are both derived from the Saxon ceorl, a husbandman. The latter has been since confined to the sense of an ill-tempered brutish person.

Or could this carle,

A very drudge of nature's, have subdued me In my profession? Cymb., v, 2. Nor full nor fasting can the carle take rest. Hall, Sat., iv, 6. We find also carlot; if intended for a name, yet a name formed from the

sense.

And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds That the old carlot once was master of.

As you like it, iii, 5. This character,

CARLO BUFFONE. in Jonson's Every Man out of his Humour, is said to have been intended

for one "Charles Chester, a bold impertinent fellow,—a perpetual talker, who made a noise like a drum in a room." Aubrey Papers, p. 514. +CARM. A Carmelite friar. Fr.

Better it were withouten harm
For to become a Celestine,
A grey friar, Jacobin, or a Carm,
An hermit, or a friar Austine.

Compt. of them too late Maryed.

+CARMINIST. Used by Nash in the sense of a writer of ballads. CARNADINE. Red, or carnation colour; or a stuff of that colour.

Grograms, sattins, velvet fine,
The rosy colour'd carnardine.

Any thing for a Quiet Life, Com.

Hence Shakespeare's word to incarnardine, q. v. +CARNELS. The tonsils.

The carnels in the throate, tonsillæ. Withals' Dictionarie, ed. 1608, p. 281. +CARNIDGE. Used in the following extract for cornage, a tenure of land by the duty of blowing the horn to give notice of invasion.

To find out some precedents where his majesty's subjects, that hold their lands by knight's service or by escuage, or by carnidge, which last is blowing of a horn upon the marches of Scotland or Wales before they were annexed to the crown. Letter dated 1637. Some article which

+CARNOGGIN.

was characteristic of Wales.

A herd of goats, or runts, or ought
That country yeilds; flannel, carnoggins,
Store of metheglin in thy waggons.

Wit and Drollery, 1682, p. 203.
Minshew says a

CAROCH. A coach.

large coach. Carocchio, Ital., or carocho, Span., as if made from carro de ocho, a coach and eight. The size of it seems confirmed by the following passage:

Have with them for the great caroch, six horses, And the two coachmen, with my ambler bare, And my three women. B. Jons. Dev. is an Ass, iv, 2. One only way is left me to redeem all:Make ready my caroch. B. & Fl. Custom of C., iii, 4. + Moreover, that during all the time of his empire he neither tooke up any man to sit with him in his carroch, nor admitted any privat person to be his companion in the honourable estate of consull, as princes have been wont to do. Holland's Ammianus Marcellinus, 1609. Minshew, whom Dr. Johnson follows in this instance, derives coach from Kotczy, the name for this kind of carriage in Hungary, where he says. it was invented. Mr. Whalley thinks caroche the primitive word, and coach only a smoother way of pronouncing it. He derives caroche, carosse, and carrozza, Ital., from the Italian words carro rozzo, a red carriage. But it should be observed that cocchio, coche, and coach are also used in those three languages; and it seems not likely that the three countries should all have softened carrozza exactly in the same manner. See Mr. Whalley's note on B. Jons. Cynthia's Revels, iv, 2. Besides this, we have direct evidence that a caroch and a coach were different carriages:

+No cost for dyet she at all requires,
No charge for change of changeable attires,
No coaches, or carroaches she doth crave,
No base attendance of a pand'ring knave,
Perfumes and paintings she abhorres and hates,
Nor doth she borrow haire from other pates.
Taylor's Workes, 1630.

No, nor your jumblings
In horslitters, in coaches or caroaches.
Ram Alley, O. Pl., v, 475.
Nay, for a need, out of his easy nature,
May'st draw him to the keeping of a coach
For country, and carroch for London.

Greene's Tu Quoque, O. Pl., vii, 28. Coaches are said to have been first brought into England in 1564, by William Boonen, a Dutchman, who became coachman to queen Elizabeth. Junius mentions Koets, Dutch for a litter, as one of the etymologies. †CAROLET. A form of poetical composition.

I will repeat a carowlet in rime.

Drayton's Shepherds Garland, 1593. CAROUSE is well known in the sense of a drinking bout; but it meant originally a large draught or bumper fairly emptied. Skinner and Minshew derive it from gar ausz, Germ., meaning all out.

Robin here's a carouse to good king Edward's self.
George a Greene, O. Pl., iii, 51.
Then in his cups you shall not see him shrink,
To the grand devil a carouze to drink.
Drayt. Mooncalf, p. 483.

CARPET KNIGHTS. Knights dubbed in peace, on a carpet, by mere court favour; not in the field, for military prowess. Some have thought that there was actually an order of Knights of the Carpet. So the compiler of Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica, in Pendragon. But if it was anything like an order, it was only one of social jocularity, like that of the Odd Fellows, &c. It seems only to have been a mock title, given to some knights who were not furnished with any better, at queen Mary's accession. It was also perfectly current as a term of great contempt. Cotgrave translates mignon de couchette, "a carpet knight, one that ever loves to be in women's chambers." See in Couchette.

Randle Holmes thus describes them: All such as have studied law, either civil or common, phisick, or any other arts and sciences, whereby they have become famous and serviceable to the court, city, or state, and thereby have merited honour, worship, or dignity, from the sovereign and fountain of honour, if it be the king's pleasure to knight any such persons, seeing they are not knighted as soldiers, they are not therefore to use the horseman's title or spurs; they are only termed simply, miles and milites, knight or knights of the carpet, or knights of the green-cloth, to distinguish them from knights that are dubbed as soldiers are in the field.

Academy of Armoury, B. iii, p. 57. Shakespeare seems to have defined their claims with great exactness:

He is a knight, dubb'd with unhack'd rapier, and on
carpet consideration.
Twel. N., iii, 4.
Now looks my master just like one of our carpet
knights, only he's somewhat the honester of the two.
Honest Wh., O. Pl., iii, 310.
See also the notes on these passages.
There your carpet kuights

Who never charged beyond a mistress' lips,
Are still most keen and valiant.

Massing. Unn. Comb., iii, 3.

A knight, and valiant servitor of late,
Plain'd to a lord and counsellor of state,
That captains in these daies were not regarded,
And only carpet-knights were well rewarded.

Harringt. Epig., iv, 65.
Hence a carpet-shield is mentioned:
Can I not touch some upstart carpet-shield
Of Lolio's sonne, that never saw the field?

Hall's Sat., iv, 4.

A trencher-knight was probably sy

nonymous:

Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick. Love's L. L., v, 2. CARPET-MONGER. The same as +CARPET-PEERE, carpet-knight.

and CARPET

SQUIRE, are also used in the same sense as carpet-knight.

No, they care not for the false glistering of gay garments, or insinuating curtesie of a carpet-peere.

Nash, Pierce Penilesse, 1592. For that the valiant will defend her fame, When carpet squires will hide their heads with shame. Turberville's Tragicall Tales, 1567. +CARPET-TRADE. The behaviour of the carpet-knight, flattery.

What should I saie, father? this noble duke had no maner of skill in carpet-trade.

Riche, Farewell to Militarie Profession, 1581. CARRACK, or CARACK. Caraca, Span. A large ship of burden; a galleon.

;

But here's the wonder, though the weight would sink A Spanish carrack, without other ballast He carrieth them all in his head, and yet He walks upright, B. & Fl. Elder Bro., i, 2. They are made like carracks, only strength and stowB. & F., Coxc., act i. What a bouncing bum she has too, There's sail enough for a carrack. Wild G. Chace, v, 4. Erroneously written carect, in the following passage:

age.

So Archimedes caught holde with a hooke of one of the greatest carects or hulkes of the king. North's Plut., 338, C. +CARRAINE. The old form of carrion. Fr. caroigne.

Seeing no man then can death escape, Nor hire him hence for any gaine, We ought not feare his carraine shape, He onely brings evell men to paine. Paradyse of Daynty Devises, 1576. CARRAWAY, or CARAWAY. The carum carui of Linnæus. A plant, the seeds of which being esteemed carminative and stomachic, are still used in confections, cakes, &c. Nay, you shall see mine orchard: where, in an arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin of mine own grating, with a dish of carraways, and so forth. 2 Hen. IV,V,

This passage has given rise to conjectures and disputes. The truth is, that apples and carraways were a favorite dish, and are said to be still served up on particular days at Trinity College, Cambridge. Old customs are longer retained in colleges, than, perhaps, in any other places. I find in an old book entitled the Haven of Health, by Thomas Cogan, the following confirmations of the practice. After stating the virtues of the seed, and some of the uses, he

says,

For the same purpose careway seeds are used to be made in comfits, and to be eaten with apples, and surely very good for that purpose, for all such things as breed wind, would be eaten with other things that breake wind. Quod semel admonuisse sat erit. P. 53. Again, in his chapter on Apples,

Howbeit wee are woont to eat carawayes or biskets, or some other kinde of comfits, or seeds together with apples, thereby to breake winde engendered by them: and surely this is a verie good way for students. P. 101. The date of the dedication to this book is 1584.

CARRECT, or CARACT, for carrat.
Weight or value of precious stones.

As one of them, indifferently rated,
And of a carrect of this quantity,
May serve in peril of calamity
To ransom great kings from captivity.

Jew of Malta, O. Pl., viii, 307. But doth his caract, and just standard keep In all the prov'd assays. B. Jons., vol. vii, p. 4. CARREFOUR, French. A place where four ways meet. Phil. Holland has used it as an English word:

He would in the evening walke here and there about
the shops, hostelries, carrefours; and crosse streets.
Tr. of Amm. Marc., p. 3.

Carfax, Oxford, is possibly a corrup

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they cast,

And sat upon them. Chapman, Hom. Il., xxiii, 115.
We took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.
Acts xxi, 15.

+CAROL-WINDOW. A bow-window. In 1572, the Carpenters' Company of the city of London ordered "a caroll-window to be made in the place wher the window now standethe in the gallerie."" Jupp's Historical Account, p. 223. +CARRY-CASTLE. A name used by writers of the Elizabethan age for an elephant. Silkewormes and their Flies, by T. M., 1599, p. 34.

+CARRY-KNAVE. A common prostitute.
And I doe wish with all my heart that the superfluous
number of all our hyreling hackney carryknaves, and
hurry-whores, with their makers and maintainers
were there.
Taylor's Workes, 1630.
CARRY-TALE. In use before the

present word talebearer.
Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany.
Love's L. L., v, 2.

This carry-tale, dissensious jealousy. Shakesp. Venus and Adonis, Suppl., i, 435. CART, was formerly used for car, and seems to have been constantly applied to that of Phoebus.

Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round.
Haml. Player's Trag., iii, 2.

It is by no means clear that Shakespeare meant any burlesque in that part of the speech:

When Titan is constrayned to forsake
His lemman's couche, and clymeth to his cart.
Gascoigne's Works, sign. f, 1.
Too soone he clamme into the flaming carte,
Whose want of skill did set the earth on fire.

Gorboduc, 4to, B, 4 b. In O. Pl. i, 121, where this play is reprinted, it is altered to carre. +CART-TAKER. The officer who pressed carts and other vehicles into the service of the court.

Purveyors, cart-takers, and such insolent officers as were grievances to the people.

Wilson's Life of James 1, 1653, p. 11. CARVEL, for caravel. A small ship. See CARAVEL. CARWHICHET, CARWITCHET, or CARRAWHICHET. A pun or quibble, as appears clearly in the first example. I can find neither fixed orthography, nor probable derivation, for this jocular term. Mr. G. Mason fancied a French origin, but with little success.

All the foul i' the fair, I mean all the dirt in Smithfield,-
that's one of master Littlewit's carwhichets now,-will
be thrown at our banner to-day, if the matter does not
please the people.
B. Jons. Barth. Fair, v, 1.
He has all sorts of echoes, rebuses, chrongrams, &c.,
besides carwitchets, clenches, and quibbles.
Butler's Rem., ii, 120.
Sir John had always his budget full of punns, conun-
drums, and carrawitchets,-at which the king laught
till his sides crackt. Arbuthnot, Dissert. on Dumpling.
+Devices to make the Thames run on the north side
of London (which may very easily be done, by remov-
ing London to the Banke-side), of planting the Ile of
Dogs with whiblins, corwhichets, mushromes, and
tobacco.
Taylor's Workes, 1630.

CASAMATE, for casemate. Casamatta, Ital. A term in fortification, meaning a particular kind of bastion.

To beat those pioneers off, that carry a mine
Would blow you up at last. Secure your casamates.
B. Jons. Staple of N., i, 1.
I can make nothing else of chasemates,
in the following lines:

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B. & Fl. Love's Pilg., ii, 2.

That is, they had flayed me like a rabbit. It appears by the context that "the rest," alluded to, had actually been stripped. +CASE-WORM. The caddis, a favorite bait of the angler.

The case-worme, the dewe-worme, the gentile, the flye, the small roache, and suche-like, are for their turnes according to the nature of the waters, and the times, and the kindes of fishes. Booke of Angling, 1606. +CASHED. Cashiered. Fr. cassé.

That of the bandes under her majesties paie, such as shal be found weake and decaied to be cashed, and with the nomberes remayninge to suplie the defects of thother bandes, or elles those bandes to be renforced by other her majesties subjectes serving in those countreys. Letter of the Earl of Leicester, 1585.

+CASKNET. A small casket.

Sir, I must thank you for the visit you vouchsafed me in this simple cell, and whereas you please to call it the cabinet that holds the jewell of our times, you may rather term it a wicker casknet that keeps a jet ring, or a horn lantern that holds a small taper of cours Howell's Familiar Letters, 1650.

wax.

+To CASKE. Apparently, to strike.
The day hath been, this body which thou seest
Now falling to the earth, but for these props,
Hath made as tall a souldier as your selfe
Totter within his saddle: and this hand
Now shaking with the palsie, caske the bever
Of my proud foe, untill he did forget
What ground hee stood upon.

Weakest goeth to the Wall, 1618.

To CASSE. To break or deprive of an office; to disband. Casser, French; from which language we have many military terms.

But when the Lacedæmonians saw their armies cassed,
and that the people were gone their way.
North's Plut., 180, E.
He changed officers, cassed companies of men of armes.
Danet's Comines, sign. V, 6.

This was probably the word now
printed cast, in some passages of
Othello.

You are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice.

Othel., ii, 3.

Cassed undoubtedly shows the origin

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So it is printed in the folio of 1647. The term is not yet disused in the army; the rejected horses in a troop are called cast horses. The term indeed comes accidentally so near to cast, in the sense of cast off, that they have been confounded. Thus cast clothes, means clothes left off; and I fancy a cast mistress, is to be understood as a metaphor, alluding to left off garments.

+At whose becke two princes, namely, Veteranio and Gallus, although at divers times were in manner of common souldiors, and no better, thus cassed.

Holland's Ammianus Marcel., 1609.

CASSOCK. Any loose coat, but particularly a military one. Shakespeare, speaking of soldiers, says,

Half of the which dare not shake the snow from off their cassocks, lest they should shake themselves to pieces. All's W., iv, 3. This small piece of service will bring him clean out of love with the soldier for ever. He will never come within the sign of it, the sight of a cassock, or a musket-rest again. B. Jons. Every Man in H., ii, 5. Cassocks, however, are mentioned also in different passages as a dress used by old men, by rustics, and even by women. See Mr. Steevens's note on the first-cited passage. Also O. Pl., v, 154. They are now only clerical. CAST, 8.

A share, or allotment.
As for example, for your cast o' manchets
Out o' th' pantry,

I'll allow you a goose out of the kitchin.

B. & Fl. Wit at sev. W., iv, 1. To CAST, was sometimes used for to cast up, in the sense of to reject from the stomach.

These verses too, a poyson on 'em, I can't abide 'em,
they make me ready to cast, by the banks of Helicon.
B. Jons. Poetast., i, 1.
Let him cast till his maw come up, we care not.
B. & Fl. Spanish Curate, iv, 7.
The porter in Macbeth quibbles be-
tween this sense of the word and
that which implies to throw a person
in wrestling. Speaking of the wine
he had drunk, he says,

Though he took up my legs sometimes, yet I made a
shift to cast him.
Mach., ii, 3.
+If you cast the medicine, you may take it the second,
third, or fourth time, by the whole, half, or less mea-
sure as your stomach will bear it.

of the term; but it was already+CAST.

The Countess of Kents Choice Manual, 1676. Style; manner.

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