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[Celt. car, wood, and pino, the head; alluding to its use in making yokes for cattle.] ( Bot. ) The Horn-beam, a genus of trees, order Corylacea. The C. American a is a small tree, 12-20 feet high, common in woods throughout the U. States. The wood is very fine-grained, compact and white, covered with a light gray or ash-colored bark. Leaves 2-4 inches long, half as wide, petiolate. From the ends of the branches hang the long, loose, pale green, leafy aments, consisting of alternate pairs of enlarged scales, with a dark-colored nut at the base of each. It blo oms in April and May. Carpocrates, a native of Alexandria, who in the 2d century revived several Gnostic errors. He rejected the Old Testament and the gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke; denied the resurrection of the dead; and advocated the most licentious mode of life. Mosheim calls him "the worst of all the Gnostics." Carpocratian, ( kar - po - krai's han,) n. A follower of CARPOCRATES, q. v. the Bru els, but the wire has a groove in its upper surface, Fig. 521, and instead of being drawn out, it is liberated by pa ing a sharp knife through the worsted loop into this groove, and thus making a velvet pile surface instead of the looped thread. Kidder minster C., sometimes called Scotch C., present the same pattern on both sides, with the colors reversed; thus, if red stars are shown on a white ground on one side, the other side will present white stars on a red ground. These C. consist, for the most part, of the interweaving of two cloths, which are woven at the same time, each cloth being perfect in itself, and nece arily of different color. Tapes try C. are made in a manner similar to that in which Bru els and Will on C. are manufactured; but only one yarn is used instead of five or more of different colors, as in the C. just named. This yarn is dyed at different parts of its length, to suit the requirements of the pattern, and as the whole pattern is printed on the yarns, the machinery required is of a far le complicated nature than when it is required to pull many yarns of different colors above the surface of the cloth which forms the basis in order to produce the desired design. Az minster C. are made at Axminster, in Devons hire, in a manner similar to that in which Turkey C. are manufactured. Tufts of worsted are tied to a warp of strong linen and secured by a linen weft. The proce is tedious, and the C. are nece arily expensive; they are made in one piece, to suit the size of the rooms for which they are required. Ingrain C., so called because made of only two ply or thickne es. The colors are reversed on either side, and the warps as well as the filling may be cotton or worsted. They are made by the Jacquard attachment, and mostly woven on hand-looms. Dutch and Venetian C. are much alike in their manufacture. The patterns adopted are usually stripes. The chain -A township of Clarke co. consists of stripes of woollen yarns of different colors, Carracci, See CARACCI. and the filling is of wool, hemp, or cotton. The Printed Car'rack, n. See CARACK. Felt C. are made of coarse wools, brought into a compact ma by the proce of felting, and the pattern is imprinted in colors by means of rollers on which it is cut. Within a few years the C. industry has developed to such an extent in the U. States, that our production, as above stated, is much larger than that of any other country. Philadelphia, the chief seat of the C. industry, has more than 5,000 looms employed on ingrain carpets alone, and furnishes nearly all the cheap stair carpets used in the U. States. In 1890 its carpet product was worth $22,396,604-half the production of the whole U. S. New York and Ma . are also large producers. -v. a. To cover with a carpet; to spread with carpets. Carpet-bag, n. A travelling-bag; a kind of valise, originally made of carpeting. Carpet-bag'ger, n . A term applied, in the southern part of the United States, to a certain cla of Northern immigrants, especially to those desiring political prefer ment.