The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.

A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia.

Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black.

A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius.

Clothed with a cassock.

a box, or vase, with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.

Raw sugar; sugar not refined.

A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc.

A pungent, bitter, aromatic, gingerlike root, obtained from the East Indies.

The act of casting or throwing; a throw.

Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.

Cast or laid aside; thrown away; discarded; as, cast-off clothes.

Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses.

A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin.

See Castanets.

Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.

a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs of warm regions valued for their foliage; found in southeastern U.S. and eastern Australia and northern New Zealand.

a genus consisting of one species, the Moreton Bay chestnut.

Of no value; rejected; useless.

One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindu are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.

A governor or warden of a castle.

The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.

Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated.

The act of making into a castle.

One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.

To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.

One who castigates or corrects.

An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.

An inhabitant or native of Castile, in Spain.

Of or pertaining to Castile, in Spain.

The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing.

To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.

The guard or defense of a castle.

Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes.

Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag.

The government of a castle.

A small castle.

Same as Castleguard.

A compound move of the king and castle. See Castle, v. i.

the northernmost of the two bright stars in the constellation Gemini, the other being Pollux.

A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.

a natural family comprising the beavers.

A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum.

A variety of the mineral called petalite, from Elba.

a genus of extinct beavers of the Pleistocene; of eastern and southern U.S.

The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp.

To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.

deprived of reproductive organs or sexual attributes.

The act of castrating.

A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano.

See Kestrel.

Belonging to a camp.

Castrensial.

The capital city of St. Lucia. Population (2000) = 13,600.

One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.

The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.

One who believes in casualism.

Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally.

The quality of being casual.

That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.

an order of ratite birds comprising the cassowaries and emus.

A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.

a natural family of plants having only one genus, Casuarina.

an order of chiefly Australian trees and shrubs comprising the casuarinas, having only one family, Casuarinaceae.

the type and sole genus of the Casuaridae; the cassowaries.

To play the casuist.

Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry; as, casuistic thinking.

The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases.

An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident.

Any animal belonging to the natural family Felidae, and in particular to the various species of the genera Felis, Panthera, and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus). The larger felines, such as the lion, tiger, leopard, and cougar, are often referred to as cats, and sometimes as big cats. See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.

To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.

the bushy-tailed European wildcat (Felis silvestris) resembling the domestic tabby and regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat.

Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark.

See Cat-harping.

One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.

One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.

a whip used as an instrument of punishment consisting of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle; -- formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back; -- called also the cat. It was used in the British Navy to maintain discipline on board sailing ships.

Rigged like a catboat.

A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.

Mica.

A tall erect rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing widely in fresh and salt marshes, with long, flat, sword-shaped leaves, having clusters of small brown flowers in a dense cylindrical spike at the top of the stem; -- called also bulrush and reed mace. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin.

A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The name is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.

A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.

A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air. A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.

See Timothy, Cat-tail, Cirrus.

having a slanted or oblique direction.

One who opposes baptism, especially of infants.

A vault under altar of a Greek church.

See under Force.

Of or pertaining to catabolism; as, catabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.

the breakdown of more complex substances into simpler ones with release of energy, in living organisms; destructive or downward metabolism; -- a form of metabolism, opposed to anabolism. See also Disassimilation.

a genus of moths whose larvae are cutworms: underwings.

A caustic curve formed by reflection of light.

A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, /To take arms against a sea of troubles/. Shak. /Her voice was but the shadow of a sound./ Young.

Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; constituting, characterized by or given to catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched.

A breaking asunder; disruption.

running in the direction of the dip in surrounding rock strata; -- of valleys and rivers. Opposite of anaclinal.

An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.

One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.

A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.

That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics.

Designating, pertaining to, or characterized by, that form of pulse tracing, or sphygmogram, in which the descending portion of the curve is marked by secondary elevations due to two or more expansions of the artery in the same beat.

Quality or state of being catacrotic.

Pertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light.

The science which treats of catadioptric phenomena, or of the used of catadioptric instruments.

A race course.

Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.

See Catafalque.

A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.

Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.

A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a term of reproach.

Of or pertaining to Catalonia. A native or inhabitant of Catalonia; also, the language of Catalonia.

an enzyme found in most plant and animal cells that functions as an oxidative catalyst; it decomposes hydrogen peroxide into hydrogen and water.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of catalases.

Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.

A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.

Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.

A division of Protozoa, of which Magosph/ra is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.

The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.