Carnatic
a region on the E. or Coromandel coast of India, now included CARNATIC, a region on the E. or in the presidency of Madras, extending inland to the Eastern Ghats, and lengthwise from Cape Comorin to 16° N. It extended for about 600 miles along the E. coast, and from 50 to 100 miles inland. The name Karnataka was originally applied by its Mohammedan conquerors to Mysore and the country above inally applied by its Mohammedan conterm has come to be applied exclusively to the country below the Ghats. The division, but is memorable as the theater of the struggle between France and England for supremacy in India. CARNATION, the popular name of clove-pink. The carnations of the florists are much prized fo for the beautiful colors of their sweet-scented, double flowers. They are arranged into three ists are much prized for the beautiful colors of their sweet-scented, double flowers. They are arranged into three flakes, and picotees. classes according to color, viz., bizarres, the palm Corypha cerifera, which has its leaves coated with waxy scales, yielding by boiling a useful wax. The fruit and pith are eaten, the leaves are variously employed, and the wood in building.