A proverb.

A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street.

An accidental or a slyly given stroke.

An obscure road; a way turning from the main road.

A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose.

A secluded or private walk.

The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.

A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm.

A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

A dwelling.

a European country east of Poland, formerly a part of the Soviet Union. After the breakup of the Soviet Union the name was changed to Belarus.

a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia.

Something gone by or past; a past event.

A peninsula.

See Bilander.

To give a nickname to.

A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.

Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.

A cow house.

A private or obscure road.

Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.

Bespotted with mud or dirt.

See Byssus, n., 1.

Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous alg/.

Bearing a byssus or tuft.

See Byssus, n., 1.

Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance.

Byssaceous.

An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.

One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.

A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one.

A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.

Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.

See Byzantine.

Of or pertaining to Byzantium. A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople.

A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.

The doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters.

An ancient city on the Bosphorus founded by the Greeks. It was later renamed Constaninople in honor of the emperor Constantine, and renamed Istanbul by the Turks, which name it still retains.

contraction of caesarean section.

an abbreviation of collect on delivery; a method of payment by which goods are paid for when they are delivered to the customer's home or place of business. Contrasted to payment in advance or terms or credit.

The central processing unit, that part of the electronic circuitry of a computer in which the arithmetic and logical operations are performed on input data, which are thereby converted to output data; it is usually located on the mainboard, or motherboard, of a computer. The CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached. Most personal computers as of 1998 had only one CPU, but some computers may have more than one CPU.

Same as curriculum vitae; -- a commonly used initialism.

Of or pertaining to C/sar or the C/sars; imperial.

the chemical symbol for calcium, the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust, having an atomic number of 20.

to have a bowel movement.

The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Muslims must pray.

Case.

A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes, found in areas of small rainfall in Brazil.

A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.

To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.

A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain medi/val Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.

One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions.

Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic.

In a cabalistic manner.

To use cabalistic language.

One who cabals.

An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knight's fee; hence, in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Puerto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres.

A knight or cavalier; hence, a gentleman.

Of or pertaining to a horse. Caballine aloes.

A horse.

A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba.

A species of armadillo of the genus Xenurus (Xenurus unicinctus and Xenurus hispidus); the tatouay.

A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie.

Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.

the larva of several species of moths and butterflies, which attacks cabbages. The most common is the toxic green larva of a white butterfly, the cabbage butterfly, (Pieris rap/). The cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks of young plants during the night, are the larv/ of several species of moths, of the genus Agrotis. See Cutworm. larva of a cabbage butterfly.

One who works at cabbling.

The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.

A pole or beam, esp. one used in Gaelic games for tossing as a trial of strength.

The finest kind of silk received from India.

A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin.

The capybara. See Capybara.

To confine in, or as in, a cabin.

To inclose

One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.

The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.

The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.

One of the Cabiri.

Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Heph/stus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals.

Same as Cabiric.

Of or pertaining to the Cabiri, or to their mystical worship.

To telegraph by a submarine cable

Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.

A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.

Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.

A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.

The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

The driver of a cab.

To roast, as a cabob.

Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.

Of, pertaining to, containing, or in the style of, a cabochon.

A subfamily of plants, in some classifications considered as an independent family of water lilies; it comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia.

The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle or the whole kit and caboodle.

A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.

Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.

The pronghorn antelope.

An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain.

A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.

A curvet; a leap. See Capriole.

A one-horse carriage with two seats and a calash top.

Same as Cabr/e.

A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.

The essential principle of cacao; -- now called theobromine.

A South American short-tailed monkey (Pithecia melanocephala syn. Brachyurus melanocephala).

A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.

A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.

The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale.

To store in a cache{1}.

Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies; cachectical blood.

A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.

An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.

A seal, as of a letter.

A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).

Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections.

Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter.

A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry.

An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.

A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.

An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero.

A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.

See Cazique.