CATERPILLAR-EATER — CAVERN NWAD CATERPILLAR-EATER.1
CATERPILLAR-EATER, n. A worm bred in the body of a caterpillar, which eats it. NWAD CATERPILLAR-EATER.1
CATERWAUL, v.i. To cry or wall, as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh offensive noise. NWAD CATERWAUL.1
CATERWAULING, n. The cry of cats; a harsh disagreeable noise or cry. NWAD CATERWAULING.1
CATTERY, n. The place where provisions are deposited. NWAD CATTERY.1
CATES, n. Delicious food or viands; dainties. NWAD CATES.1
CATH-ARIST, n. One who pretends to more purity than others possess. NWAD CATH-ARIST.1
CATHARTIC, CATHARTICAL, a. Purging; cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative. NWAD CATHARTIC.1
CATHARTIC, n. A medicine that promotes alvine discharges, and thus cleanses the stomach and bowels; a purge; a purgative. NWAD CATHARTIC.2
CATHARTICALNESS, n. The quality of promoting discharges from the bowels. NWAD CATHARTICALNESS.1
CATHEDRAL, n. The see or seat of a bishop; the principal church in a diocese. NWAD CATHEDRAL.1
CATHEDRAL, a. NWAD CATHEDRAL.2
1. Pertaining to the church which is the bishops seat, or head church of a diocese; containing the see of a bishop; as a cathedral church; cathedral service. NWAD CATHEDRAL.3
2. Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral walks. NWAD CATHEDRAL.4
CATHEDRATED, a. Relating to the authority of the chair or office of a teacher. NWAD CATHEDRATED.1
CATHETER, n. In surgery, a tubular instrument, usually made of silver, to be introduced into the bladder, to draw off the urine when the natural discharge is suppressed; also, a sound to search for the stone, or a bougie made of silver or elastic gum. NWAD CATHETER.1
CATHETUS, n. In geometry, a line or radius, falling perpendicularly on another line or surface; as the two sides of a right-angled triangle. NWAD CATHETUS.1
Cathetus of incidence, in catoptries, is a right line drawn from a point of the object, perpendicular to the reflecting line. NWAD CATHETUS.2
Cathetus of reflection, or of the eye, a right line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the reflecting plane. NWAD CATHETUS.3
Cathetus of obliquation, a right line drawn perpendicular to the speculum, in the point of incidence or reflection. NWAD CATHETUS.4
In architecture, a cathetus is a perpendicular line, supposed to pass through the middle of a cylindrical body. NWAD CATHETUS.5
CATHOLIC, a. NWAD CATHOLIC.1
1. Universal or general; as the Catholic church. Originally this epithet was given to the Christian church in general, but is now appropriated to the Romish church, and in strictness there is no Catholic church, or universal Christian communion. The epithet is sometimes set in opposition to heretic, sectary or schismatic. NWAD CATHOLIC.2
2. Liberal; not narrow minded, partial or bigoted; as a catholic man. NWAD CATHOLIC.3
3. Liberal; as catholic principles. NWAD CATHOLIC.4
Catholic epistles, the epistles of the apostles which are addressed to all the faithful, and not to a particular church. NWAD CATHOLIC.5
CATHOLIC, n. A papist. NWAD CATHOLIC.6
1. Adherence to the Catholic church. NWAD CCATHOLICISM.2
2. Universality, or the orthodox faith of the whole church. NWAD CCATHOLICISM.3
3. More generally, liberality of sentiments. NWAD CCATHOLICISM.4
This is the renowned seat of Catholicism. NWAD CCATHOLICISM.5
CATHOLICIZE, v.i. To become a catholic. NWAD CATHOLICIZE.1
CATHOLICLY, adv. Generally; in a catholic manner. NWAD CATHOLICLY.1
CATHOLICNESS, n. Universality. NWAD CATHOLICNESS.1
CATHOLICON, n. A remedy for all diseases; a universal remedy; a remedy supposed to be efficacious in purging away all humors; a panacea; a kind of soft purgative electuary so called. NWAD CATHOLICON.1
CATILINISM, n. The practices of Catiline, the Roman conspirator; conspiracy. NWAD CATILINISM.1
CATKIN, n. In botany, a species of calyx or rather of inflorescence, from a common chaffy gemmaceous receptacle, or consisting of many chaffy scales ranged along a stalk, slender as a thread, which is the common receptacle, as in hazle, birch, oak, willow, poplar, etc.; so called from its resemblance to a cats tail. NWAD CATKIN.1
CAT-LIKE. a. Resembling a cat. NWAD CAT-LIKE.1
CATLING, n. NWAD CATLING.1
1. A dismembering knife, used by surgeons. NWAD CATLING.2
2. The down or moss growing about walnut trees, resembling the hair of a cat. NWAD CATLING.3
3. Catgut. NWAD CATLING.4
CATONIAN, a. Pertaining to or resembling Cato, the Roman, who was remarkable for his severity of manners; grave; severe; inflexible. NWAD CATONIAN.1
CATOPTER, CATOPTRON, n. An optical glass or instrument. NWAD CATOPTER.1
CATOPTRIC, CATOPTRICAL, a. [See Catoptrics.] Relating to catoptries, or vision by reflection. NWAD CATOPTRIC.1
CATOPTRICS, n. That part of optics which explains the properties of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors or polished bodies. NWAD CATOPTRICS.1
CATOPTROMANCY, n. A species of divination among the ancients, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable. NWAD CATOPTROMANCY.1
CAT-PIPE, n. [See Catcall.] NWAD CAT-PIPE.1
CATSUP, n. [See Catchup, Ketchup.] NWAD CATSUP.1
CATTLE, n. NWAD CATTLE.1
1. Beasts or quadrupeds in general, serving for tillage, or other labor, and for food to man. In its primary sense, the word includes camels, horses, asses, all the varieties of domesticated horned beasts or the bovine genus, sheep of all kinds and goats, and perhaps swine. In this general sense, it is constantly used in the scriptures. See Job 1:3. Hence it would appear that the word properly signifies possessions, goods. But whether from a word originally signifying a beast, for in early ages beasts constituted the chief part of a man’s property, or from a root signifying to get or possess. This word is restricted to domestic beasts; but in England it includes horses, which it ordinarily does not, in the United States, at least not in New-England. NWAD CATTLE.2
2. In the United States, cattle, in common usage, signifies only beasts of the bovine genus, oxen, bulls, cows and their young. In the laws respecting domestic beasts, horses, sheep, asses, mules and swine are distinguished from cattle, or neat cattle. Thus the law in Connecticut, requiring that all the owners of any cattle, sheep or swine, shall ear-mark or brand all their cattle, sheep and swine, does not extend to horses. Yet it is probable that a law, giving damages for a trespass committed by cattle breaking into an inclosure, would be adjudged to include horses. NWAD CATTLE.3
In Great Britain, beasts are distinguished into black cattle, including bulls, oxen, cows and their young; and small cattle, including sheep of all kinds and goats. NWAD CATTLE.4
3. In reproach, human beings are called cattle. NWAD CATTLE.5
CAUCASIAN, CAUCASEAN, a. Pertaining to Mount Caucasus in Asia. NWAD CAUCASIAN.1
CAUCUS, n. A word used in America to denote a meeting of citizens to agree upon candidates to be proposed for election to offices, or to concert measures for supporting a party. The origin of the word is not ascertained. NWAD CAUCUS.1
CAUDAL, a. Pertaining to a tail; or to the thread which terminates the seed of a plant. NWAD CAUDAL.1
CAUDEX, n. In botany, the stem of a tree. Linne uses the word for the stock which proceeds from a seed, one part ascending and forming the body above ground, the other descending and putting forth roots. NWAD CAUDEX.1
CAUDLE, n. A kind of warm broth, a mixture of wine and other ingredients prepared for the sick. NWAD CAUDLE.1
CAUDLE, v.t. To make or prepare caudle, or to dress with caudle. NWAD CAUDLE.2
CAUF, n. A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water. NWAD CAUF.1
CAUGHT, pret. and pp. of catch, pronounced caut. NWAD CAUGHT.1
CAUK, CAWK, n. A name given by miners to certain specimens of the compact sulphate of baryte. These are of a white, gray or fawn color, often irregular in figure, but sometimes resembling a number of small convex lenses set in a ground. NWAD CAUK.1
This name is sometimes given to masses composed of concentric lamellar concretions. NWAD CAUK.2
CAUKY, a. Pertaining to cauk; like cauk. NWAD CAUKY.1
CAUL, n. NWAD CAUL.1
1. In anatomy, a membrane in the abdomen, covering the greatest part of the lower intestines, called from its structure, reticuluim, a net, but more generally, the omentum; also, a little membrane sometimes encompassing the head of a child when born. NWAD CAUL.2
2. A kind of net in which females inclose their hair; the hinder part of a cap. NWAD CAUL.3
3. Any kind of net. NWAD CAUL.4
CAULESCENT, a. In botany, having a stem different from that which produces the flower; as a caulescent plant. Linne applies this term to the root also, as in cabbage and turnep. NWAD CAULESCENT.1
CAULIFEROUS, a. In botany, having a stem or stalk. NWAD CAULIFEROUS.1
CAULIFLOWER, n. A variety of Brassica or cabbage, well known and much esteemed. NWAD CAULIFLOWER.1
CAULIFORM, a. Having the form of a stalk or of stems. NWAD CAULIFORM.1
CAULINE, a. In botany, growing immediately on the stem, without the intervention of branches; as a cauline leaf, bulb, peduncle or scape. NWAD CAULINE.1
CAULK, [See Calk.] NWAD CAULK.1
CAUPONATE, v.i. To keep a victualling house. NWAD CAUPONATE.1
CAUPONISE, v.t. To sell wine or victuals. NWAD CAUPONISE.1
CAUSABLE, a. [See Cause.] That may be caused, produced or effected. NWAD CAUSABLE.1
CAUSAL, a. [See Cause.] Relating to a cause or causes; implying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause. NWAD CAUSAL.1
Causal propositions are where two propositions are joined by causal words, as that or because. NWAD CAUSAL.2
CAUSAL, n. In grammar, a word that expresses a cause, or introduces the reason. NWAD CAUSAL.3
CAUSALITY, n. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. NWAD CAUSALITY.1
CAUSALLY, adv. According to the order or series of causes. NWAD CAUSALLY.1
CAUSALTY, n. Among miners, the lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off by washing. NWAD CAUSALTY.1
CAUSATION, n. The act of causing or producing; the act or agency by which an effect is produced. NWAD CAUSATION.1
CAUSATIVE, a. That expresses a cause or reason; also, that effects as a cause. NWAD CAUSATIVE.1
CAUSATIVELY, adv. In a causative manner. NWAD CAUSATIVELY.1
CAUSATOR, n. One who causes or produces an effect. NWAD CAUSATOR.1
CAUSE, n. s as z. NWAD CAUSE.1
1. A suit or action in court; any legal process which a party institutes to obtain his demand, or by which he seeks his right or his supposed right. This is a legal, scriptural and popular use of the word, coinciding nearly with case from cado, and action from ago, to urge or drive. NWAD CAUSE.2
The cause of both parties shall come before the judges. Exodus 22:9. NWAD CAUSE.3
2. That which produces an effect; that which impels into existence, or by its agency or operation produces what did not before exist; that by virtue of which any thing is done; that from which any thing proceeds, and without which it would not exist. NWAD CAUSE.4
Cause is a substance exerting its power into act, to make a thing begin to be. NWAD CAUSE.5
3. The reason or motive that urges, moves, or impels the mind to act or decide. NWAD CAUSE.6
For this cause have I raised up Pharaoh. Exodus 9:16. NWAD CAUSE.7
And David said, is there not a cause? 1 Samuel 17:29. NWAD CAUSE.8
4. Sake; account. NWAD CAUSE.9
I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong. 2 Corinthians 7:12. [See Sake.] NWAD CAUSE.10
5. That which a party or nation pursues; or rather pursuit, prosecution of an object. We say, Bible Societies are engaged in a noble cause. [See the first definition.] Hence the word cause is used to denote that which a person or thing favors; that to which the efforts of an intelligent being are directed; as, to promote religion is to advance the cause of God. So we say, the cause of truth or of justice. In all its applications, cause retains something of its original meaning, struggle, impelling force, contest, effort to obtain or to effect something. NWAD CAUSE.11
6. Without cause, without good reason; without a reason or motive to justify the act. NWAD CAUSE.12
They hate me without cause. Psalms 35:19; Psalms 69:4. NWAD CAUSE.13
CAUSE, v.t. NWAD CAUSE.14
1. To produce; to bring into existence. NWAD CAUSE.15
They caused great joy to all the brethren. Acts 15:3. NWAD CAUSE.16
2. To effect by agency, power or influence. NWAD CAUSE.17
I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days. Genesis 7:4. NWAD CAUSE.18
I will cause him to fall by the sword. 2 Kings 19:7. NWAD CAUSE.19
CAUSE, v.i. To assign insufficient cause. NWAD CAUSE.20
CAUSED, pp. Produced; effected; brought about. NWAD CAUSED.1
CAUSELESS, a. NWAD CAUSELESS.1
1. Having no cause, or producing agent. NWAD CAUSELESS.2
2. Without just ground, reason or motive; as causeless hatred; causeless fear. Proverbs 26:2. NWAD CAUSELESS.3
CAUSELESSLY, adv. Without cause or reason. NWAD CAUSELESSLY.1
CAUSELESSNESS, n. The state of being causeless. NWAD CAUSELESSNESS.1
CAUSER, n. He that causes; the agent by which an effect is produced. NWAD CAUSER.1
CAUSEY, n. A way raised above the natural level of the ground, by stones, earth, timber, fascines, etc., serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground, or as a mole to confine water to a pond or restrain it from overflowing lower ground. Most generally it is a way raised in a common road. NWAD CAUSEY.1
CAUSIDICAL, a. Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits. NWAD CAUSIDICAL.1
CAUSING, ppr. Producing; effecting; bringing into being. NWAD CAUSING.1
CAUSTIC, CAUSTICAL, a. Burning; corroding; destroying the texture of animal flesh. NWAD CAUSTIC.1
CAUSTIC, n. In medicine, any substance which applied to living animals, acts like fire, in corroding the part and dissolving its texture; an escharotic. [See Causticity.] NWAD CAUSTIC.2
Lunar caustic, a preparation of crystals of silver, obtained by solution in nitric acid, and afterwards fused in a crucible. It is a nitrate of silver. NWAD CAUSTIC.3
Caustic curve, in geometry, a curve formed by a coincidence of rays of light reflected from another curve. NWAD CAUSTIC.4
CAUSTICITY, n. The quality of acting like fire on animal matter, or the quality of combining with the principles of organized substances, and destroying their texture. This quality belongs to concentrated acids, pure alkalis, and some metallic salts. NWAD CAUSTICITY.1
CAUTEL, n. Caution. NWAD CAUTEL.1
CAUTELOUS, a. NWAD CAUTELOUS.1
1. Cautions; wary; provident. NWAD CAUTELOUS.2
2. Cunning; treacherous; wily. NWAD CAUTELOUS.3
CAUTELOUSLY, adv. NWAD CAUTELOUSLY.1
1. Cunningly; slily; treacherously. NWAD CAUTELOUSLY.2
2. Cautiously; warily. NWAD CAUTELOUSLY.3
CAUTELOUSNESS, n. Cautiousness. NWAD CAUTELOUSNESS.1
CAUTERISM, n. The application of cautery. NWAD CAUTERISM.1
CAUTERIZATION, n. [See Cauterize.] In surgery, the act of burning or searing some morbid part, by the application of fire. This is done by burning tow, cotton, moxa, Spanish wax, pyramidical pieces of linen, etc., or more generally by a hot iron. NWAD CAUTERIZATION.1
CAUTERIZE, v.t. To burn or sear with fire or a hot iron, as morbid flesh. NWAD CAUTERIZE.1
CAUTERIZED, pp. Burnt or seared with a hot iron. NWAD CAUTERIZED.1
CAUTERIZING, ppr. Burning, as with a hot iron. NWAD CAUTERIZING.1
CAUTERIZING, n. The act of burning, as with a hot iron. NWAD CAUTERIZING.2
CAUTERY, n. A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, by a hot iron or by caustic medicines that burn, corrode or destroy any solid part of an animal body. The burning by a hot iron is called actual cautery; that by caustic medicines, potential cautery. NWAD CAUTERY.1
CAUTION, n. NWAD CAUTION.1
1. Provident care; prudence in regard to danger; wariness, consisting in a careful attention to the probable effects of a measure, and a judicious course of conduct to avoid evils and the arts of designing men. NWAD CAUTION.2
Caution is the armor to defend us against imposition and the attacks of evil. NWAD CAUTION.3
2. Security for, nearly the sense of the French caution, bail. NWAD CAUTION.4
The parliament would give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted. NWAD CAUTION.5
3. Provision or security against; measures taken for security; as the rules and cautions of government. NWAD CAUTION.6
4. Precept; advice; injunction; warning; exhortation, intended as security or guard against evil. NWAD CAUTION.7
CAUTION, v.t. To give notice of danger; to warn; to exhort to take heed. NWAD CAUTION.8
You cautioned me against their charms. NWAD CAUTION.9
CAUTIONARY, a. NWAD CAUTIONARY.1
1. Containing caution, or warning to avoid danger; as cautionary advice. NWAD CAUTIONARY.2
2. Given as a pledge or in security; as a cautionary town. NWAD CAUTIONARY.3
CAUTIONED, pp. Warned; previously admonished. NWAD CAUTIONED.1
CAUTIONER, n. In Scots law, the person who is bound for another, to the performance of an obligation. NWAD CAUTIONER.1
CAUTIONING, ppr. Warning; giving previous notice of danger. NWAD CAUTIONING.1
CAUTIONRY, n. In Scots law, the act of giving security for another, or the obligation by which one person becomes engaged as security for another, that he shall pay a sum of money or perform a deed. NWAD CAUTIONRY.1
CAUTIOUS, a. Wary; watchful; careful to avoid evils; attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of measures, with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect. NWAD CAUTIOUS.1
CAUTIOUSLY, adv. With caution; in a wary, scrupulous manner. NWAD CAUTIOUSLY.1
CAUTIOUSNESS, n. The quality of being cautious; watchfulness; provident care; circumspection; prudence with regard to danger. NWAD CAUTIOUSNESS.1
CAVALCADE, n. A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen and equipage, by way of parade, or to grace a triumph, the public entry of a person of distiction, etc. NWAD CAVALCADE.1
CAVALIER, n. NWAD CAVALIER.1
1. A horseman, especially an armed horseman; a knight. NWAD CAVALIER.2
2. A gay, sprightly, military man. NWAD CAVALIER.3
3. The appellation of the party of king Charles I. NWAD CAVALIER.4
4. In fortification, an elevation of earth, situated ordinarily in the gorge of a bastion, bordered with a parapet, with embrasures. NWAD CAVALIER.5
5. In the manege, one who understands horsemanship; one skilled in the art of riding. NWAD CAVALIER.6
CAVALIER, a. NWAD CAVALIER.7
1. Gay; sprightly; warlike; brave; generous. NWAD CAVALIER.8
2. Haughty; disdainful. NWAD CAVALIER.9
CAVALIERLY, adv. Haughtily; arrogantly; disdainfully. NWAD CAVALIERLY.1
CAVALIERNESS, n. Haughtiness; a disdainful manner. NWAD CAVALIERNESS.1
CAVALRY, n. A body of military troops on horses; a general term, including light-horse, dragoons, and other bodies of men, serving on horseback. NWAD CAVALRY.1
CAVATE, v.t. To dig out and make hollow; but superseded by excavate. NWAD CAVATE.1
CAVATINA, n. In music, a short air, without a return or second part, which is sometimes relieved by recitative. NWAD CAVATINA.1
CAVAZION, n. In architecture, the underdigging or hollowing of the earth for the foundation of a building, or for cellarage; allowed to be the sixth part of the highth of the building. NWAD CAVAZION.1
CAVE, n. A hollow place in the earth; a subterraneous cavern; a den. This may be natural or artificial. The primitive inhabitants of the earth, in many countries, lived in caves; and the present inhabitants of some parts of the earth, especially in the high northern latitudes, occupy caves, particularly in winter. NWAD CAVE.1
Lot dwelt in a cave, he and his daughters. Genesis 19:30. NWAD CAVE.2
Caves were also used for the burial of the dead. NWAD CAVE.3
Abraham buried Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelab. Genesis 23:19. NWAD CAVE.4
Bacon applies the word to the ear, the cave of the ear; but this application is unusual. NWAD CAVE.5
CAVE, v.t. To make hollow. NWAD CAVE.6
CAVE, v.i. To dwell in a cave. NWAD CAVE.7
To cave in, to fall in and leave a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit. When in digging into the earth, the side is excavated by a falling of a quantity of earth, it is said to cave in. NWAD CAVE.8
CAVEAT, n. NWAD CAVEAT.1
1. In law, a process in a court, especially in a spiritual court, to stop proceedings, as to stop the proving of a will; also to prevent the institution of a clerk to a benefice. NWAD CAVEAT.2
In America, it is used in courts of common law. NWAD CAVEAT.3
2. Intimation of caution; hint; warning; admonition. NWAD CAVEAT.4
CAVEAT, v.t. To enter a caveat. NWAD CAVEAT.5
CAVEATING, n. In fencing, is the shifting the sword from one side of that of your adversary to the other. NWAD CAVEATING.1
CAVEATOR, n. One who enters a caveat. NWAD CAVEATOR.1
CAVERN, n. A deep hollow place in the earth. In general, it differs from cave in greater depth, and in being applied most usually to natural hollows, or chasms. NWAD CAVERN.1
Earth with its caverns dark and deep. NWAD CAVERN.2