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"Section C"

(Mil.) A hollow case or shell,
filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer,
to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.


A discharge of carcasses and
bombshells.

W. Iving.


||Car`ca*vel"hos (?), n. A
sweet wine. See Calcavella.


Car"ce*lage (?), n. [LL.
carcelladium, carceragium, fr. L. carcer
prison.] Prison fees. [Obs.]


Car"cel lamp` (?). [Named after Carcel, the
inventor.] A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in
which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by
clockwork.


Car"cer*al (?), a. [L.
carceralis, fr. carcer prison.] Belonging to a
prison.
[R.] Foxe.


Car`ci*no*log"ic*al (?), a. Of
or pertaining to carcinology.


Car`ci*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; a
crab + -logy.] (Zoöl.) The department of
zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters,
crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and
crustaceology.


||Car`ci*no"ma (?), n. [L.


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