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.

Hollowness.

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.

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

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

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

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

See Calker.

Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.

A kind of wig.

See Key, a ledge.

Cayenne pepper.

The south America alligator. See Alligator.

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

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

An Indian pony.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Extinction.

Without intermission or end.

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

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

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

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

A genus of pygmy marmosets.

the type genus of the Cebidae.

of, pertaining to, or like a cecum.

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

A natural family comprising the gall midges.

Blindness.

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

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

Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness.

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

Of or pertaining to cedar.

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.

Same as cedar waxwing.

Covered, or furnished with, cedars.

Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.

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

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

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

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

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.

Of or pertaining to cedar or the cedar tree.

Same as C/rulignone.

Of the nature of cedar.

A scroll; a writing; a schedule.

Fit to be felled.

a genus of tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-like flowers.

a small South American spiny tree (Erythrina crista-galli) with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.

To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.

The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor. The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.

A girdle.

A cincture, girdle, or belt; -- chiefly used in English as a dressmaking term.

A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.

A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort.

the type genus of the Celastraceae, comprising the plants called climbing bittersweet; bittersweet and shrubby bittersweet; they are woody vines and shrubs native chiefly to Asia and Australia, bearing yellow to orange capsules which open to expose red-coated seeds. See also bittersweet{3b}.

The act or art of engraving or embossing.

One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.

To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.

Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned.

The act, process, or time of celebrating.