Carbine

A small-arm with a short barrel, adapted for the use of cavalry, and first employed in the army of Henry II., of France, in 1559. Also written carabine. Carbineers, Dragoons Also armed witji carabineers. carbines, who occasionally acted as —infantry. written Carban Monoxide. — A gas owing its poisonous action to the fact that it combines with hemoglobin to form a di ociable compound and thereby takes the place of oxygen. It has about 300 times the affinity for hemoglobin that ox …