To roast, as a cabob.
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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.
The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship.
A caddice. See Caddice.
A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
One who carries hawks on a cadge.
Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton.
An inferior magistrate or judge among the Muslims, usually the judge of a town or village.
A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers.
A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking.
A kind of coarse serge.
Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /. These are called Cadmean letters.
An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.
See Cadmean.
Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as, cadmic sulphide.
A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore.
An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.
The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.
Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand.
The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.
With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.
Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility.
Perishable; frail; transitory.
See Cadie.
See C/cum.
A wind from the northeast.
A limbless amphibian belonging to the order C/cili/ or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha.
A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct. The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.
Art of producing metal decorative work other than statuary, as reliefs, intaglios, engraving, chasing, etc.
See Cenozoic.
A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus C/sar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar, Tsar.
same as caesarean section.
the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius C/sar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation; -- called also caesarean.
A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as C/sar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government.
The doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters.
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