Carte: alternatives and connections

A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider.

Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank…

A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill;…

A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.

Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities.

Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrik…

Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exch…

The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a l…

The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the far…

of Fare

p. p. of Fare, v. i.

Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who…

of Fare

imp. of Fare.

The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.

To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue or result; to succee…

Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping…