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Car"pet*bag`ger (?), n. An
adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking
private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the
United States after the Civil War (1865). [U. S.]

Car"pet*ing, n. 1.
The act of covering with carpets.

2. Cloth or materials for carpets;
carpets, in general.

The floor was covered with rich
carpeting.

Prescott.

Car"pet*less, a. Without a
carpet.

Car"pet*mon`ger (?), n.
1. One who deals in carpets; a buyer and
seller of carpets.

2. One fond of pleasure; a gallant.
Shak.

Car"pet*way` (?), n.
(Agric.) A border of greensward left round the margin
of a plowed field. Ray.

Car*phol"o*gy (kär*f&obreve;l"&osl;*j&ybreve;),
n. [Gr. ka`rfos any small dry body +
-logy: cf. F. carphologie.] (Med.) See
Floccillation.

Carp"ing (kärp"&ibreve;ng), a.
Fault-finding; censorious caviling.


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