To use cabalistic language.
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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 tavern; a house where liquors are retailed.
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.
To ease the body by stool; to go to stool.
The mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. See Mendole.
The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
A fowl that cackles.
The broken noise of a goose or a hen.
Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood.
A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, esp. of the blood.
An evil spirit; a devil or demon.
Heretical.
Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy.
Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, cacodyl.
A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, caco/thes scribendi, /The itch for writing/.
Troubled with bad digestion.
the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.
Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.
A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.
Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words.
A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and California.
One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.
Harsh-sounding.
An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables.
Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth.
A corruption or corrupt state of art.
A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.
Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example.
Any plant of the order Cactac/, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.
Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.
To make sharp or pointed.
A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
same as cadastre.
An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property; a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land.
Of or pertaining to landed property.
A dead human body; a corpse.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
A sirupy, nontoxic ptomaine, H2N.(CH2)5.NH2 (chemically pentamethylene diamine), formed in putrefaction of flesh, etc.
Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
See Caddice.
A cadet.
A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger.
A kind of worsted lace or ribbon.
The larva of a caddice fly. These larv/ generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm.
same as caddice fly.
Like a cad; lowbred and presuming.
A jackdaw.
A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in, also called tea caddy.
A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries.
To regulate by musical measure.
Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages.
A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant.
Falling.
A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.
See Cadre.
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