Cardinal Bird

An American song bird or finch, line of print or writing to show that something wanting and interlined or on the margin ought to be inserted. color with a purple shade, prepared from coch i¬ neal, and having acid properties. Asia, but now in Europe, reared in artificial ponds, and latterly also imroduced into America. The leather carp is almost wanting in scales, and the mirror carp has only a few large scales. wood for the construction of buildings. A car¬ penter frames and puts together roofs, partitions, and floors of buildings; a joiner makes the doors, shutters, stairs, mantle-pieces, and other parts requiring more neat joining. the floor, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, and straw, and made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed on the floor. Bru els carpet is made of worsted yarn on a foundation web of strong linen thread, the worsted being drawn up in loops to show the pattern. Kidder¬ minster carpet is an ingrain carpeting chiefly made at Kidder minster, England. Tapestry some¬ what resembles Bru els, the warp being printed at intervals before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the carpet. Turkish carpets and Per¬ sian carpets are made similarly with woolen threads on a linen warp, and are similar in color and in softne . Axminster carpets arc like Turk¬ ish, but are made with worsted, and are very handsome. Moquette, Chenille, and Will on are velvety carpets. used to convey letters from a distant point to its home. It has been used in war.