caracal (karakal)

[F. caracal, said to be 813 cept a spot under each eye, and has tufts of long black hair which terminate the ears, whence its name. It po e es great strength and ferocity, and is sometimes used Caracal (Lynx caracal). Car a mania gum It. caragolo, also caragnolo, caragnola, a snail, winding stair, caracollo, a caracole, = OF. ca querole, F. dial. coquereulle, a snail. Origin uncertain; erroneously derived by the Spanish Academy from L. cochlea, coclea, a snail, snails hell: see cochlea.] 1. In the manège, a semiround or half-turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or to the left. - 2. In arch., a spiral staircase. caracole (kar'a-kōl), v. i.; pret. and pp. car a coled, ppr. caracoling. [ Prince John caracoled within the lists at the head of his jovial party. Scott , Ivanhoe, I. 92. Gay youths, in rich brilliant dre es, caracole up to the carriages on fiery steeds. J. E. Cooke , Virginia Comedians, II. xxi. 2. To wheel, as cavalry. IMG:content-3109.png:[graphic] in the chase of the smaller quadrupeds and of the larger kinds of birds. It has been supposed to be the lynx of caracol i, n. See caracoly. called anak - el - ard. the ancients, and is sometimes called Persian lynx. Also caracara (kar-a-kar'a), n. [So called in imita tion of their hoarse cry.] The popular name of the hawks of the subfamily Polyborince and Ibycter, and Daptrius, all of which are confined genera Polyborus, Phalcobænus, Senex, Milvago, to America. The name is specially applicable to the species of Polyborus, of which there are several, as P. cherivay, P. auduboni, and P. lutosus, of the southern United States and warmer parts of America. These are saltatory, habits, preying chiefly upon carrion. The head large, vulture-like hawks, of terrestrial, ambulatory, not Caracara ( Polyborus cherivay). and neck are extensively denuded; the legs and wings are ending vertically, the nostrils high up, linear, and oblique, with concealed tubercle. Though vulturine in in general as pect and economy, the caracaras approach the typical falcons in some anatomical characters, as in the peculiar structure of the shoulder-joint, the extensively o ified nasal bones with central nasal tubercle, and the anterior keel of the palate. The common caracara is much varied with white and black barring of the plumage, and is about 22 inches long. Also called carcara and car ranch a. Caraccesque, Carraccesque (kar-a-chesk'), a. In art, resembling or characteristic of the Caracci or Carracci, Italian painters of the latter part of the sixteenth and the earlier part of the seventeenth century, founders of the eclectic or Bolognese school of painting. carack, carrack (kar'ak), п. [Also written carac, carick, carrick, carrock, the East Indies. The Genuois comen in sundry wises Into this land with diuers marchandises In great Caracks, arrayed withouten lacke