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Cartouch: Definition and part of speech

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Cartouch

  1. n. An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.
  2. n. A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge
  3. n. A cartridge box.
  4. n. A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
  5. n. A gunner’s bag for ammunition
  6. n. A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
  7. n. A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper
  8. n. A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form.

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.

Cartilaginous: Definition and part of speech

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Cartilaginous

  1. a. Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.

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.