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Causally

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

Causation

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

Causationist

One who believes in the law of universal causation.

Causative

A word which expresses or suggests a cause.

Cause

Abbreviation of Because.

Causer

One who or that which causes.

Causerie

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

Causeuse

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

Causey Causeway

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

Causidical

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

Caustic

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

Caustical Caustic

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

Causticily

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

Cautel

Caution; prudence; wariness.

Cauter

A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.

Cauterism

The use or application of a caustic; cautery.

Cauterization

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

Cauterize

To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.

Cautery

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.

Caution

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

Cautionary

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

Cautious

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.

Cavalcade

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

Cavalier

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

Cavalierly

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

Cavally

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

Cavalry

That part of military force which serves on horseback.

Cavatina

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.

Cave

To dwell in a cave.

Caveating

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

Cavendish

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

Cavern

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

Cavernous

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

Cavernulous

Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal.

Cavetto

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

Caviare Caviar

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

Cavicornia

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

Cavil

A captious or frivolous objection.

Caviling

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

Cavin

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

Cavitary

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

Cavo-rilievo

Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.

Cavort

To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.

Cavy

A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America.

Caw

The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.

Cawk

An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.

Cawky

Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.

Caxton

Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.

Cay

See Key, a ledge.

Cayman

The south America alligator. See Alligator.

Cayo

A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key.

Cayugas

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.

Cazic Cazique

A chief or petty king among some tribes of Indians in America.

CB

same as citizens' band; that portion of the radio frequency spectrum allocated by the FCC for the use of individual citizens for short-distance personal or business use, from either fixed or mobile stations. Also used attributively, as CB radio.

CBC

the complete blood count; a clinical test which counts the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in one cubic milimeter of blood.

Cd

the chemical suymbol for cadmium, a metallic element of atomic number 48.

CD

an acronym for compact disk, a disk-shaped recording of binary data that is smaller than a phonograph record, and is recorded and played back by a compact disk player, an electronic device containing a laser. The term is also used generically to refer to the medium as a data storage medium.

CD-R

a recordable compact disk; a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only.

CD-ROM

a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system); a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user.

CD-WO

A recordable compact disk; a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only.

Ce

the chemical symbol for cerium, the most abundant element of the rare-earth group.

Cebidae

A natural family including all the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins.

Cebu

one of the Visayan islands of the central Philippines, important for its fine harbor.

Cebuan

An inhabitant of the island of Cebu; a member of the Visayan (or Bisayan) people of the Philippines.

Cebuano

The language of the people of Cebu in the Philippines; its lexicon contributes to the official languag of the Philippines.

Cebus

the type genus of the Cebidae.

cecal

of, pertaining to, or like a cecum.

Cecidomyia

A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.

Cecropiaceae

A natural family of insects, in some classifications included in family Moraceae.

cecum

The caecum, the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens.

cecutiency

Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness.

cedar

The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.

Cedar

Of or pertaining to cedar.

cedar waxwing

a species of chatterer (Bombycilla cedrorum, formerly Ampelis cedrorum) widely distributed over temperate North America, so named from its frequenting cedar trees; -- called also cedar bird, cherry bird, Canada robin, and American waxwing. It is a brownish bird about 7 inches long, between the size of a robin and a sparrow, has a crest on the head, a black face mask, and a yellow-tipped tail. The name comes from the black color of the tips of the wings, like that of a black sealing wax. They sometimes are seen in flocks.

cedared

Covered, or furnished with, cedars.

cedarn

Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.

cedarwood

The durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar and cedarlike trees; especially the wood of the red cedar, often used for cedar chests.

cede

To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.

cedilla

A mark placed under the letter c [thus, /], to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in fa/ade.

Cedrat

Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.

Cedrene

A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type.

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