Carver

One who carves or cuts wood, stone, ., in a decorative manner; a sculptor. "The master painters and the carvers came." - Dryden. goods truck, bordered with a flange. Ca'ry, Lort, a negro clergyman and mi ionary, and one of the founders of the civilized African colony of Liberia, From plants of the first of these genera are derived all the beautiful cultivated varieties of the sweet-william, pink, and carnation. Caryatides, CAR YATES, ( ka - ri - at'i -dez,) n. pl. (Arch.) A term used to signify the figures which are sometimes introduced to support a cornice instead of columns. According to the myth- ical account given by Vitru- vius, they were so called to com- memo rate the disgrace of the people of Carya, a city in Arca- dia, which was attacked and taken by the confederate Greeks for joining the Persians, the men being killed and the women led into captivity. When the figures introduced to support a cornice are male, they are said to be Persians ; this is purely a modern name founded upon the tale related to Vitruvius, and adopted by the architects of the Renai ance period. Caryo'car, n. [From Gr. karuon , nut.] ( Bot .) A genus of plants, order Rhizobolacea . The species are large trees, natives of the hottest parts of South America. C. butyrosum is much esteemed for its timber, which is used in shipbuilding and for other pur- poses. The separated portions Fig . 528.- CARYATID. of the fruit constitute the Souari or Suwarrow nuts of commerce, the kernels of which are delicious.