Helen Fenton

Cartulary: Definition and part of speech

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Cartulary

  1. n. An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers.
  2. n. A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Carucate: Definition and part of speech

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Carucate

  1. n. A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; — by some said to be about 100 acres.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Caruncula: Definition and part of speech

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Caruncula

  1. n. A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.
  2. n. A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.
  3. n. An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.