n. The common name of plants of the umbelliferous genus Daucus, the best-known species, D. Carota, yielding in cultivation the vegetable of the same name.n. The tap-root of Daucus Carota, cultivated for the table and for cattle.n. A solid round piece of rock, cut out in a hole made by a machine-drill: called in the United States, and often in England, a core.n. plural Rolls of tobacco formed by placing the moist prepared leaves together in large handfuls, and winding about them grasses or strips of dry fibrous wood, thus partially consolidating the leaves, so that they require only to be ground, or rasped and sifted, to make the finest and purest snuff, called rappee.n. plural [From the resemblance of color.] Yellowish-red hair on a human being.Among furriers, to dress, as a pelt, by rubbing a preparation into it designed to preserve it from the ravages of insects.To prepare, for felting purposes, plucked fur on skins by subjecting it to a solution of quicksilver and nitric acid or chlorid of mercury, and then drying it by exposure to the open air or by artificial heat, the former method of drying producing a whitish color (white carrot), and the latter method a yellowish color (yellow carrot).