cargazont (kargazon)

[Also written car gas on; Sp. car gazon (F. cargaison ), a cargo, aug. of cargo, carga, a load: see cargo1.] A cargo. The ship Swan was sailing home with a car gazon valued at £80,000. Howell , Letters, I. vi. 42. cargeese, n. Plural of cargoose. cargol (kär'gō), n.; pl. cargoes or cargos (-gōz). [Sp., also carga, a burden, load, freight, cargo (= Pg. cargo, a charge, office, carga, a burden, load, It. carico, carica, also carco, OF. charge (AF. * cark, kark, > ME. kark, cark: see cark ), F. charge, a burden, etc., > E. charge, n.), E. charge, v.: see charge.] 1. The lading or freight of a ship; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is con veyed in a ship or other merchant ve el. The lading within the hold is called the inboard cargo, in distinction from freight, such as horses and cattle, carried on deck. The term is usually applied to goods only, but in a le technical sense it may include persons. Ve els from foreign countries have come into our ports and gone out again with the cargoes they brought. S. Adams , in Bancroft's Hist. Const., I. 457. 2. [Appar. a slang use, perhaps of other origin. Cf. cargo2.] A term of contempt applied to a man, usually explained as "bully" or "bra vo": found only in the following pa age. Will the royal August us cast away a gentleman of worship, a captain and a commander, for a couple of condemned caitiff calumnious cargos ? B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. To break out a cargo. See break. cargo2t (kärgō), interj . [Appar. a corruption of It. cancro , a canker, used also, like E. pox , as an imprecation: see canker . Le prob. based on It. coraggio , courage, used as an encouraging exclamation: see courage .] An exclamation of surprise or contempt. But cargo! my fiddlestick cannot play without rosin. Wilkins, Miseries of Enforced Marriage (1607). Twenty pound a year For three good lives? Cargo ! hai Trincalo! T. Tomkis (?), Albumazar. cargo-block (kärgō-blok), n. A tackle for itself automatically. More health and happine betide my liege, Than can my care - tun'd tongue deliver him. Shak . , Rich. II., iii. 2. care-worn (kar'worn), a . Worn, oppre ed, or burdened with care; showing marks of care or anxiety: as, he was weary and care - worn ; a care-worn countenance. And Philip's rosy face contracting grew Careworn and wan. Tennyson , Enoch Arden. Carex (kā'reks), n. [L., a sedge or rush.] 1. A large genus of plants, natural order Cypera cea ; the sedges. They are perennial, gra -like herbs, growing chiefly in wet places, with triangular solid culms and unisexual flowers aggregated in spikelets. The herbage is coarse and innutritious, and the genus is of comparatively little value. A variety of C. acuba , however, cargoose (kär'gös), n.; pl. cargeese (-gēs). [ IMG:content-3145.png:[subsumed][merged small][graphic] Doe of the Virginia Deer ( Cariacus virginia nus). cariama, çariama (kär-, sär-i-ä'mä), n. [Braz. cariama (Bri on, Mare grave), later written çariama, ceriema, sariama, seriema, seriama. ] 1. The native name of a grallatorial bird of South America, the seriema.-2. [ cap.] [NL.] A genus of birds (Bri on, 1760), the type being the seriema, the Palamedea cristata (Linnæus), Micro dactylus marc grav i i (Geoffroy St. Hilaire), Dicholophus cristatus (Illiger), now usually called Cariama cristata: a bird of uncertain affinities, sometimes cla ed with cranes, sometimes with hawks, and again left by itself. Cariamidæ (kar-i-am'i-de), n. pl. [NL. (Bonaparte, 1850), Gray, 1871) is found as a subfamily name. Besides the seriema, the family contains a related though quite distinct species, Chunga bur meister i. Also called Dicholophidæ. cariamoid (kar'i-a-moid), a. Pertaining to or having the characters of the Cariamoidea. Cariamoideæ (kar"i-a-moi'dē-ē), n. pl. [NL., Carian (kā'ri-an), (kā'ri-an), a. and n. [ II. n. A native of Caria, or the language of the primitive people of Caria, who were dispo e ed by the Greeks. po e ed by