A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars.

An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.

Of a pertaining to a catastrophe.

The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.

One who holds the theory or catastrophism.

an abnormal behavioral syndrome characterized by stupor, negativism, and muscular rigidity, sometimes alternating with purposeless excitement, and seen most frequently in schizophrenia; called also catatonic schizophrenia.

a person suffering from catatonia.

A well known light red variety of American grape.

An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee.

An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat.

A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix.

a very prickly woody vine of eastern U.S. (Smilax rotundifolia) growing in tangled masses, having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries.

A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise.

Act of seizing; a grasp.

Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time.

A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer.

A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.

Capable of being caught.

A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

One who, or that which, catches.

A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.

The act of seizing or taking hold of.

A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.

Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. Some worthless catchpenny thing.

A bailiff's assistant.

A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.

See Cleavers.

Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight.

Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.

A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.

Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching; taking; as, catchy music.

Food.

Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching.

In a catechetical manner; by question and answer.

The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers.

One of the tannic acids (C15H14O6), extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, catechinic acid, cyanidol, and catechuin. It is a flavonoid found generally in higher woody plants, and is used in dyeing and tanning.

The act of catechising.

One who catechises.

A form of instruction by means of questions and answers.

Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechetical.

One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.

Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism.

See Catechise.

any of a group of chemicals having a benzene ring substituted with two hydroxyl groups in ortho position, especially ortho-dihydroxybenzene itself (C6H6O2), also called pyrocatechol, used in photography and as a reagent.

any of a group of chemicals including epinephrine and norepinephrine that are produced in the medulla of the adrenal gland. They function as nerotransmitters in the sympathetic nervous system. Also, any structurally related chemical substance, whether natural or synthetic.

A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc.

Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See catechin.

One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.

The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.

Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions.

A catechumen.

Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.

Of or pertaining to a category.

Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.

The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.

One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies.

To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

placed in a category.

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.

Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income.

Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.

The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

A chain or series of things connected with each other.

Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve.

The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.

To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain.

Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation.

Consisting of little links or chains.

To cut diagonally.

Diagonal.

A remote relation. See Quater-cousin.

A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier.

One who caters.

A woman who caters.

The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.

an endless belt looped over several wheels, used in pairs in place of wheels to propel vehicles, such as tractors or military tanks, over rough ground.

having caterpillar treads or tracks on the wheels; as, a caterpillar-tracked earthmover.

A caterwauling.

The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.

The place where provisions are deposited.

Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.

A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.

A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.

A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.

China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)

A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.

to inject with libidinal energy.

of or pertaining to cathexis; invested with mental or emotional energy.

The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority.

The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.

Cathedral.

Relating to the chair or office of a teacher.

A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.

The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine.

The operation of introducing a catheter.

To operate on with a catheter.

An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard.

One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle.

the process of investing mental, emotional, or libidinal energy or significance in an object, person, or idea.

The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode.

A picture produced by the Roentgen rays; a radiograph.

A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence.

A person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.

Catholic.

The state or quality of being catholic; universality.

To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

In a catholic manner; generally; universally.

The quality of being catholic; universality; catholicity.

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.

Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy.

a positively charged atom, radical, or molecule, which in electrolysis migrates to the cathode; a positive ion; -- opposed to anion.

of or pertaining to cations; having a net positive charge; positively ionic; -- said of ions. Contrasted with anionic.

An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.

of, pertaining to, or resembling a catkin.