_Candles' ends_, _buts_ of candles. It was rather a disgusting feat of gallants to swallow them for flap-dragons in honour of their mistresses. 2 Hen. IV. ii. 4. _Canvas_ (2 H. IV. ii. 4, 1 H. VI. i. 3), to shake and toss in a sieve, of which the bottom was then as now made of canvas. The use of it in those places is figurative. _Card_ (1 H. IV. iii. 2), to debase by mixture, as when fine and coarse wool were _carded_ together, and so mingled in the cloth thence woven. "You _card_ your beer--if you see your guests begin to get drunk--half small, half strong," etc. (Green's Quip, etc.). _Card of ten_, the ten of the suits in a pack of cards. To "face with a card of ten" (T. Sh. ii. 1) seems to mean simply to turn up, play, a ten, the highest except the coat-cards and aces. _Careires._ "Pass the careires" (M. W. i. 1), a term of the _manége_, signifying to go at full speed. _Carouse_, a drinking-bout, a large draught. It is usually derived from Germ. _gar aus_, 'all out,' which seems to be confirmed by "boire _caraus_ et _alluz_" (Rabelais, iii. Prol.). In German _Rausch_ is intoxication; and this _may_ be the origin of _carouse_. _Carpet-knight_ (Tw. N. iii. 4), civilian knight, as opposed to the military knight; so named probably from the _carpet_ which covered the table--not the floor--in the room in which the ceremony of conferring knighthood took place. _Carraways_ (2 Hen. IV. v. 3) in the form of comfits, with apples, were used at the dessert. _Carry coals_, a term of reproach, because fetching charcoal, firewood, etc., was the office of the lowest servants in a household. _Carve._ This verb, beside its ordinary sense, seems to have that of talking agreeably, jesting, etc. (L. L. L. v. 2, Mer. W. i. 3). In Herbert's Prophecy of Cadwallader, 1604, we have "There might you Caius Marius _carving_ find, And martial Sylla courting Venus kind." It may be only a form of the old _carpe_:-- "In fellowship well could she laugh and _carpe_." Cant. Tales, Prol. "So gone they forth _carpende_ fast On this and that." Gower, Conf. Am. vii. It is of constant occurrence in Piers Ploughman. _Castle_ (Tr. and Cr. v. 2), a kind of strong helmet, "and break the strongest _castle_ that thou hast upon thy head" (Hist. of Prince Arthur, ch. clviii.). _Cataian_ (M. W. ii. 1), a Chinese. It seems, however, to be used here without any particular meaning. _Ceremony._ Besides its ordinary sense of state, pomp, parade, this word is used for a sacred pledge (Mer. of Ven. v. 1), ornament of state (Jul. Cæs. i. 1), prodigy (ib. ii. 2). _Chamber_ (2 H. IV. ii. 4), a kind of cannon. It was properly a small mortar, hence its name; for it stood almost erect. _Charact_ (M. for M. v. 1), an abbreviation of _character_. We meet it in Piers Ploughman, _v. 7600 et alibi_. _Chase._ See _Tennis_.