carping (karping)

[ Ther carpinge comynliche of conceill arisith. Richard the Redele , i. 87. When thou sest any man drynkyng That taketh hede of thy karpyng , Soon a-non thou sece thy tale, Whethur he drynke wyne or Ále. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 14. 2. The act of caviling; a cavil; unreasonable criticism or censure. Those. carpings made as to the pa age through C. Leslie, Short Method with Deists. the Red Sea. His square-turned joints, and strength of limb, Showed him no carpet - knight so trim, But, in close fight, a champion grim, In camps a leader sage. Scott , Marmion, i. 5. captious. carpingly (kär'ping-li), adv. In a carping manner; captiously. dealer in carpets.-2. One most at home on a carpet; a lover of ease and pleasure. A whole book full of these quondam carpet-mongers, whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a blank ank verse. Shak ., Much Ado, v. 2. pintero, woodpecker, lit. 'carpenter-bird'; carpintero real, the ivory-billed woodpecker, lit. royal carpenter': see carpenter.] A name of several species of woodpeckers in the southwestern United States, from their tapping and Centurus uro A