One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.
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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.
a natural family of large ostrichlike birds; the cassowaries.
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.
Catalogue.
To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue.
To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a catalogue.
A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues.
a geographical and administrative region of northeastern Spain.
A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best known species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the Catalpa speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean.
a type of brightly colored carnivorous fish (Priacanthus arenatus) of the West Atlantic and West Indies waters.
same as catalyze.
a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected; as, thousands of enzymes serve in concert as calaysts to produce the sequence of reactions we call /life/; the industrial production of cheap ammonia depended on finding a good catalyst.
An agent employed in catalysis, as platinum black, aluminium chloride, etc.
to cause (a chemical reaction) to proceed more quickly by contacting the reactant(s) with another substance; as, moisture catalyzes the oxidation of iron in air.
A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.
The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.
Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.
A boy kept for unnatural purposes.
The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.
Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous.
A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc.
Of or pertaining to a catapult.
Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
Of or relating to cataphonics; catacoustic.
That branch of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds; catacoustics.
Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract.
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