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Carbineers

or CARABINEERS, formerly light horsemen, used chiefly to watch and harass the enemy, defend narrow passes, and act as skirmishers. The corresponding modern terms are hussars and lancers.

CARBOHYDRATE group of compounds, containing six car- CARBOHYDRATE, any one of a large group of compounds, containing six carhydrogen and oxygen in the proportion hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion as many hydrogen as oxygen atoms.

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