carvy (karvi)

[ F.carvi, caraway: see car away.] Caraway. [Scotch and prov. Eng.] car-wheel (kärʼhwēl), n. A wheel of a car, especially of a railroad-car. In railroad-cars the wheel Washburn Car-wheel; side elevation and diametric section. καρύα, the walnut-tree, Caryatids. Porch of the Erechtheum at Athens. battle of Thermopylæ, and that it was on this account sacked by the other Greeks, who took the women captive, and to perpetuate this event erected trophies in which figures women en dre ed in the Caryatic manner ner were used to support entablatures. This story is prob a bly imaginary, but no doubt the name and perhaps the idea of the caryatids were derived from Caryæ. Two great statues, Art And Science, Caryatids , lifted up A weight of emblem. Tennyson , Prince , iv. II. a . Pertaining to or of the form of a cary- atid; caryatic. caryatidean (kar"i-at-i-dē'an), a. [ This Caryatidean portico [of the Erechtheum] displays very clearly the arrangement of the ceiling. Encyc. Brit ., II. 408.