2. A man who drives a cart; a teamster.
3. (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of Phalangium; — also called harvestman. (b) A British fish; the whiff.
CARTESIAN
Car*te"sian, a. Etym: [From Renatus Cartesius, Latinized from of René
Descartes: cf. F. cartésien.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to the French philosopher René Descartes, or his philosophy. The Cartesion argument for reality of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. Cartesian coördinates (Geom), distance of a point from lines or planes; — used in a system of representing geometric quantities, invented by Descartes. — Cartesian devil, a small hollow glass figure, used in connection with a jar of water having an elastic top, to illustrate the effect of the compression or expansion of air in changing the specific gravity of bodies. — Cartesion oval (Geom.), a curve such that, for any point of the curve mr + m'r' = c, where r and r' are the distances of the point from the two foci and m, m' and c are constant; — used by Descartes.
CARTESIAN
Car*te"sian, n.
Defn: An adherent of Descartes.
CARTESIANISM
Car*te"sian*ism, n.
Defn: The philosophy of Descartes.
CARTHAGINIAN
Car`tha*gin"i*an, a.
Defn: Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of northern Africa.
— n.