A species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.

See Catopter.

A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror.

See Catcall.

A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat.

A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat.

To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.

Same as Catchup, and Ketchup.

A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes, flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also tomato ketchup. The term is also applied to pureed sauces containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such cases mushroom ketchup, walnut ketchup, etc.

hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; it yields leaner beef than conventional breeds; it is called also beefalo.

Catlike; feline

Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.

a cargo ship for the transport of livestock.

any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a hood-shaped three-lobed lip enclosing the column; they are among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known. Called also cattleya orchid.

An East Indian Weight of 1/ pounds.

Having a slanted or oblique direction.

A narrow walkway projecting from a stage into the seating area of a theater; it is used, e. g. by models displaying clothes on it at a fashion show. Called also runway.

a large mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.

belonging to the caucasian racial group.

a large region between the Black and Caspian seas.

To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.

Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage.

See Urodela.

Having a tail; having a terminal appendage like a tail. Opposite of acaudate.

The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.

A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.

To make into caudle.

A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.

A gang of slaves. Same as Coffle.

imp. p. p. of Catch.

See Cawk, Calker.

A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net.

a very large pot.

Having a leafy stem.

A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of a seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.

In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.

An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

Having the form of a caulis.

Growing immediately on a caulis; of or pertaining to a caulis.

An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers.

See Calk.

having cracks and crevices stopped up with a filler such as caulk. Contrasted with uncaulked.

the process of sealing cracks and crevices with a filler such as caulk{2}.

Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs.

A stem structure or stem axis of a plant, viewed as a whole.

Great heat, as of the body in fever.

To sell wine or victuals.

Capable of being caused.

A causal word or form of speech.

The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.

The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing.

The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.

One who believes in the law of universal causation.

A word which expresses or suggests a cause.

In a causative manner.

One who causes.

Abbreviation of Because.

Having a cause.

The state of being causeless.

One who or that which causes.

Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.

A kind of sofa for two persons. A t/te-/-t/te.

A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground.

Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved.

Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.

Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

In a caustic manner.

The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash.

The quality of being caustic; causticity.

Caution; prudence; wariness.

Caution; prudent; wary.

A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.

A cauterizing substance.

The use or application of a caustic; cautery.

The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.

To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.

A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.

To give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one] to take heed.

Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.

One who cautions or advises.

Suretyship.

Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.

In a cautious manner.

The quality of being cautious.

A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade.

offhand; unceremonious; gay; easy; frank. Opposed to serious.

Somewhat like a cavalier.

The practice or principles of cavaliers.

In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly.

A disdainful manner.

A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine.

A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevall/. [See Illust. under Carangoid.]

That part of military force which serves on horseback.

a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back.

One of a body of cavalry.

Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.

To dwell in a cave.

Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

One who enters a caveat.

Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.

A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

Containing caverns.

Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.

Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal.

A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column.

A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses.

The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.

Having hollow horns.

A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.

A captious or frivolous objection.

Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious.

In a caviling manner.

Frivolous or sophistical objection.

One who cavils.

Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing.

A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place.

Containing a body cavity; as, the cavitary or nematoid worms.