Carton

[Fr. See CARTOON.] Cardboard; pasteboard. -A box made of pasteboard; as, a carton of raisins. (Sometimes written cartoon.) Cartoon, ( kär - toon ',) n. [It. cart one, pasteboard; an augmentative, from Lat. charta , paper.] ( Painting .) A word used by artists to signify the full-seized drawings or studies made in chalks, or body-color ( tempera , as it is called in Italy), preparatory to executing any great work either in oil-color or fresco. C. are also made when the design is to be copied in tapestry. The great master seldom commenced any extensive picture without first making studies or C. in chiaroscuro. Many of those by Rafaelle, And. Mantegna, Do men i chino, the Caracci, and others, remain to attest the laborious diligence and care with which their great works were accomplished. By this means the composition, drawing, expre ion, and light and shade, were all perfected before the coloring of the picture was attempted. -Also a sketchy picture or caricature, usually of larger size than the ordinary illustrations, in a periodical or a newspaper. -v. To make a C.; to represent in a C. Cartouch, ( kär - toosh ' , ) n. [Fr. cartouche , from It. cartocchio, augmentative of charta .] ( Arch .) A tablet intended to receive an inscription which resembles a scroll of paper rolled up at the ends. It is also applied to the modillion that supports the corona of a cornice used in interior decoration. In Egyptian architecture the expre ion denotes the oval or elliptical figures that are carved on columns and other parts of a temple to receive hieroglyphic inscriptions of different kinds. ( Mil .) A canvas or leather cartridge-box; a case for holding musket-balls and powder; a wooden bomb; a ticket of leave, or dismi al, given to a soldier. Cartouche, ( kär - tōōsh ',) Louis DOMINIQUE, the most famous robber of modern times, who, for years, kept the French capital in terror by the audacity of his depredations. He was at length captured and executed, 1721. Cartridge, ( kärʻtrij , n. [Fr. cartouche; It. cartoccio , from Lat. charta , paper.] A paper case containing the exact charge of a musket, rifle, or fowling-piece, including both powder and bullet. - The charge of powder for a heavy gun made up in a bag of serge. - For sporting purposes, C. are made up containing a quantity of small shot without powder. C. for pistols and most of the breech-loading fire-arms are usually copper cylinders, having at the base fulminating powder, which inflames the charge of gunpowder upon being struck by the hammer, or by means of an electrical current, in the case of heavy ordnance.