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 Macb., i, 3. All our endeavours and our motions, Hence to speak by the card, meant to 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? Whether a card of ten was properly 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 B. & Fl. Bloody Brother, iv, 2. Ballad in Acad. of Compl., ed. 1713, p. 243. I compounded with them for a cardakew, which is 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. To run the career was an equivalent expression: Full merrily Hath this brave manage, this career, been run Love's L. L., v, 2. From the Wail we the wight whose absence is our cark, The sun of all the world is dim and dark. Ibid. Spens. Novemb., 66. 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, Lord Cromwell, Sh. Supp., ii, 377. 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, 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 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, 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 Wit and Drollery, 1682, p. 203. 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, nor your jumblings 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. 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 Who never charged beyond a mistress' lips, Massing. Unn. Comb., iii, 3. A knight, and valiant servitor of late, Harringt. Epig., iv, 65. 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. As one of them, indifferently rated, 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 Carfax, Oxford, is possibly a corrup tion of this. they cast, And sat upon them. Chapman, Hom. Il., xxiii, 115. +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. present word talebearer. 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. It is by no means clear that Shakespeare meant any burlesque in that part of the speech: When Titan is constrayned to forsake 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,- CASAMATE, for casemate. Casamatta, Ital. A term in fortification, meaning a particular kind of bastion. To beat those pioneers off, that carry a mine 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. 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, This was probably the word now You are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice. Othel., ii, 3. Cassed undoubtedly shows the origin 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. 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, Though he took up my legs sometimes, yet I made a of the term; but it was already+CAST. The Countess of Kents Choice Manual, 1676. Style; manner. |