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Bean. & Fl.


2. To cut or hack, as in fighting.
[Obs.]


I'll so carbonado your shanks.

Shak.


Car`bo*na"do (?), n.; pl.
Carbonadoes (#). [Pg., carbonated.]
(Min.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil,
and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded
fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying
from compact to porous.


Car`bo*na"rism (?), n. The
principles, practices, or organization of the
Carbonari.


||Car`bo*na"ro (?), n.; pl.
Carbonari (#). [It., a coal man.] A member
of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the
early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing
the government into a republic.


&fist; The origin of the Carbonari is uncertain, but
the society is said to have first met, in 1808, among the
charcoal burners of the mountains, whose phraseology they
adopted.


Car`bon*a*ta"tion (?), n. [From
Carbonate.] (Sugar Making) The saturation of
defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas.


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