car|lin

car|lin
car|line1 or car|lin «KAHR lihn, KEHR-», noun. Scottish.
1. a woman, especially an old one (often implying contempt or disparagement).
2. a witch or one charged with being such.
╂[< Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic kerling < carl man, carl + -ing, a feminine suffix)]
car|line2 «KAHR lihn», noun.
any plant of a genus of thistlelike composites of Europe, especially one species whose involucral scales are so sensitive to moisture (hygroscopic) that they serve as a natural weatherglass.
╂[< French carline < Medieval Latin Carolina (with reference to Charlemagne, Charles the Great)]
car|line3 «KAHR lihn», noun.
= carling. (Cf. ↑carling)

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