Boothale :: Boothale (v. t. & i.) To forage for booty; to plunder.

Breathable :: Breathable (a.) Such as can be breathed.

Breathableness :: Breathableness (n.) State of being breathable.

Cantharidal :: Cantharidal (a.) Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster..

Cantharides :: Cantharides (n. pl.) See Cantharis.

Cantharides :: Cantharides (pl. ) of Canthari.

Cantharidin :: Cantharidin (n.) The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms..

Cantharis :: Cantharis (n.) A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine..

Carthaginian :: Carthaginian (a.) Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of northern Africa..

Carthaginian :: Carthaginian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Carthage.

Carthamin :: Carthamin (n.) A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or Carthamus tinctorius..

Catharical :: Catharical (a.) Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

Catharical :: Catharical (a.) Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid..

Catharine Wheel :: Catharine wheel () See catherine wheel.

Catharist :: Catharist (n.) One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

Catharsis :: Catharsis (n.) A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc..

Cathartic :: Cathartic (a.) Alt. of Catharica.

Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

Cathartin :: Cathartin (n.) The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina..

Cathay :: Cathay (n.) China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.).

Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

Centrolecithal :: Centrolecithal (a.) Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal..

Chaetognatha :: Chaetognatha (n. pl.) An order of free-swimming marine worms, of which the genus Sagitta is the type. They have groups of curved spines on each side of the head..

Chilognatha :: Chilognatha (n. pl.) One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together..

Chlormethane :: Chlormethane (n.) A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride..

Cisleithan :: Cisleithan (a.) On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian.

Cithara :: Cithara (n.) An ancient instrument resembling the harp.

Citharistic :: Citharistic (a.) Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara..

Colcothar :: Colcothar (n.) Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis..

Coothay :: Coothay (n.) A striped satin made in India.

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