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d8Cadastre \[d8]Ca*das"tre\, Cadaster \Ca*das"ter\, n. [f. cadastre.] (Law.) An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property. | |
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Cadastral \Ca*das"tral\, a. [F.] Of or pertaining to landed property. {Cadastral survey}, or {Cadastral map}, a survey, map, or plan on a large scale (Usually [frac1x2500] of the linear measure of the ground, or twenty-five inches to the mile or about an inch to the acre) so as to represent the relative positions and dimensions of objects and estates exactly; -- distinguished from a topographical map, which exaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness. --Brande & C. | |
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Cadastral \Ca*das"tral\, a. [F.] Of or pertaining to landed property. {Cadastral survey}, or {Cadastral map}, a survey, map, or plan on a large scale (Usually [frac1x2500] of the linear measure of the ground, or twenty-five inches to the mile or about an inch to the acre) so as to represent the relative positions and dimensions of objects and estates exactly; -- distinguished from a topographical map, which exaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness. --Brande & C. | |
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Cadastral \Ca*das"tral\, a. [F.] Of or pertaining to landed property. {Cadastral survey}, or {Cadastral map}, a survey, map, or plan on a large scale (Usually [frac1x2500] of the linear measure of the ground, or twenty-five inches to the mile or about an inch to the acre) so as to represent the relative positions and dimensions of objects and estates exactly; -- distinguished from a topographical map, which exaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness. --Brande & C. | |
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Cadge \Cadge\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Cadged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cadging}.] [Cf. Scot. cache, caich, cadge, to toss, drive, OE. cachen to drive, catch, caggen to bind, or perh. E. cage. Cf. {Cadger}.] 1. To carry, as a burden. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Halliwell. 2. To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. [Prov.] 3. To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. [Prov. or Slang, Eng.] --Wright. | |
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Caducity \Ca*du"ci*ty\, n. [LL. caducitas: cf. F. caducit[82]. See {Caducous}.] Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. [R.] [A] jumble of youth and caducity. --Chesterfield. | |
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Monkflower \Monk"flow`er\, n. (Bot.) A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus ({Catasetum tridentatum}, etc.). | |
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Catastaltic \Cat`a*stal"tic\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to check; kata` down, wholy + [?] to set.] (Med.) Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities. | |
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Catasterism \Ca*tas"ter*ism\, n. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to place among the stars.] A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. --Whewell. | |
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Catastrophe \Ca*tas"tro*phe\, n. [L. catastropha, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to turn up and down, to overturn; kata` down + [?] to turn.] 1. 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. The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. --Bp. Burnet. The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. --Woodward. 2. The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy. 3. (Geol.) A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. --Whewell. | |
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Catastrophic \Cat`a*stroph"ic\, a. Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. --B. Powell. | |
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Catastrophism \Ca*tas"tro*phism\, n. (Geol.) 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}. | |
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Catastrophist \Ca*tas"tro*phist\, n. (Geol.) One who holds the theory or catastrophism. | |
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Catch title \Catch title\ A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc. | |
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Catchdrain \Catch"drain`\, n. 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. | |
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Catch \Catch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caught}[or] {Catched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Catching}. Catched is rarely used.] [OE. cacchen, OF. cachier, dialectic form of chacier to hunt, F. chasser, fr. (assumend) LL. captiare, for L. capture, V. intens. of capere to take, catch. See {Capacious}, and cf. {Chase}, {Case} a box.] 1. To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball. 2. To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief. [bd]They pursued . . . and caught him.[b8] --Judg. i. 6. 3. To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish. 4. Hence: To insnare; to entangle. [bd]To catch him in his words[b8]. --Mark xii. 13. 5. To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody. [bd]Fiery thoughts . . . whereof I catch the issue.[b8] --Tennyson. 6. To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building. 7. To engage and attach; to please; to charm. The soothing arts that catch the fair. --Dryden. 8. To get possession of; to attain. Torment myself to catch the English throne. --Shak. 9. To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire. 10. To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing. 11. To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train. {To catch fire}, to become inflamed or ignited. {to catch it} to get a scolding or beating; to suffer punishment. [Colloq.] {To catch one's eye}, to interrupt captiously while speaking. [Colloq.] [bd]You catch me up so very short.[b8] --Dickens. {To catch up}, to snatch; to take up suddenly. | |
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Catchwater \Catch"wa`ter\, n. A ditch or drain for catching water. See {Catchdrain}. | |
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Catchweed \Catch"weed`\, n. (Bot.) See {Cleavers}. | |
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{Goose grass}. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus {Galium} ({G. Aparine}), a favorite food of geese; -- called also {catchweed} and {cleavers}. (b) A species of knotgrass ({Polygonum aviculare}). (c) The annual spear grass ({Poa annua}). {Goose neck}, anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook connecting a spar with a mast. {Goose quill}, a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it. {Goose skin}. See {Goose flesh}, above. {Goose tongue} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea ptarmica}), growing wild in the British islands. {Sea goose}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Phalarope}. {Solan goose}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gannet}. | |
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Cleavers \Cleav"ers\, n. [From {Cleave} to stick.] (Bot.) A species of {Galium} ({G. Aparine}), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, {goose grass}, {catchweed}, etc. | |
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Catchweed \Catch"weed`\, n. (Bot.) See {Cleavers}. | |
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{Goose grass}. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus {Galium} ({G. Aparine}), a favorite food of geese; -- called also {catchweed} and {cleavers}. (b) A species of knotgrass ({Polygonum aviculare}). (c) The annual spear grass ({Poa annua}). {Goose neck}, anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook connecting a spar with a mast. {Goose quill}, a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it. {Goose skin}. See {Goose flesh}, above. {Goose tongue} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea ptarmica}), growing wild in the British islands. {Sea goose}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Phalarope}. {Solan goose}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gannet}. | |
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Cleavers \Cleav"ers\, n. [From {Cleave} to stick.] (Bot.) A species of {Galium} ({G. Aparine}), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, {goose grass}, {catchweed}, etc. | |
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Catechetic \Cat`e*chet"ic\, Catechetical \Cat`e*chet"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?]. See {Catechise}.] Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. --Addison. | |
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Catechetic \Cat`e*chet"ic\, Catechetical \Cat`e*chet"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?]. See {Catechise}.] Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. --Addison. | |
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Catechetically \Cat`e*chet"ic*al*ly\, adv. In a catechetical manner; by question and answer. | |
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Catechetics \Cat`e*chet"ics\, n. The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers. | |
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Catgut \Cat"gut`\, n. [Cat + gut.] 1. A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc. 2. A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices. | |
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Cato-cathartic \Cat`o-ca*thar"tic\, n. [Gr. [?] down + [?] serving to purge. See {Cathartic}.] (Med.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges. | |
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Sucker \Suck"er\ (s[ucr]k"[etil]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies. 2. A suckling; a sucking animal. --Beau. & Fl. 3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. --Boyle. 4. A pipe through which anything is drawn. 5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything. 6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant. 7. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family {Catostomid[91]}; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker ({Catostomus Commersoni}), the white sucker ({C. teres}), the hog sucker ({C. nigricans}), and the chub, or sweet sucker ({Erimyzon sucetta}). Some of the large Western species are called {buffalo fish}, {red horse}, {black horse}, and {suckerel}. (b) The remora. (c) The lumpfish. (d) The hagfish, or myxine. (e) A California food fish ({Menticirrus undulatus}) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also {bagre}. 8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above. They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch. --Fuller. 9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang] 10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.] 11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.] {Carp sucker}, {Cherry sucker}, etc. See under {Carp}, {Cherry}, etc. {Sucker fish}. See {Sucking fish}, under {Sucking}. {Sucker rod}, a pump rod. See under {Pump}. {Sucker tube} (Zo[94]l.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also {sucker foot}. See {Spatangoid}. | |
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Stone \Stone\, n. [OE. ston, stan, AS. st[be]n; akin to OS. & OFries. st[c7]n, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. [?], [?], a pebble. [fb]167. Cf. {Steen}.] 1. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. [bd]Dumb as a stone.[b8] --Chaucer. They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar. --Gen. xi. 3. Note: In popular language, very large masses of stone are called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone is much and widely used in the construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like. 2. A precious stone; a gem. [bd]Many a rich stone.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels.[b8] --Shak. 3. Something made of stone. Specifically: (a) The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.] Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. --Shak. (b) A monument to the dead; a gravestone. --Gray. Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie. --Pope. 4. (Med.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus. 5. One of the testes; a testicle. --Shak. 6. (Bot.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of {Endocarp}. 7. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. [Eng.] Note: The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8 lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5 lbs. 8. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone. I have not yet forgot myself to stone. --Pope. 9. (Print.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also {imposing stone}. Note: Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone; as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still, etc. {Atlantic stone}, ivory. [Obs.] [bd]Citron tables, or Atlantic stone.[b8] --Milton. {Bowing stone}. Same as {Cromlech}. --Encyc. Brit. {Meteoric stones}, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the explosion of a meteor. {Philosopher's stone}. See under {Philosopher}. {Rocking stone}. See {Rocking-stone}. {Stone age}, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for weapons and tools; -- called also {flint age}. The {bronze age} succeeded to this. {Stone bass} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus {Serranus} and allied genera, as {Serranus Couchii}, and {Polyprion cernium} of Europe; -- called also {sea perch}. {Stone biter} (Zo[94]l.), the wolf fish. {Stone boiling}, a method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages. --Tylor. {Stone borer} (Zo[94]l.), any animal that bores stones; especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow in limestone. See {Lithodomus}, and {Saxicava}. {Stone bramble} (Bot.), a European trailing species of bramble ({Rubus saxatilis}). {Stone-break}. [Cf. G. steinbrech.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Saxifraga}; saxifrage. {Stone bruise}, a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a bruise by a stone. {Stone canal}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Sand canal}, under {Sand}. {Stone cat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small fresh-water North American catfishes of the genus {Noturus}. They have sharp pectoral spines with which they inflict painful wounds. {Stone coal}, hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal. {Stone coral} (Zo[94]l.), any hard calcareous coral. {Stone crab}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large crab ({Menippe mercenaria}) found on the southern coast of the United States and much used as food. (b) A European spider crab ({Lithodes maia}). {Stone crawfish} (Zo[94]l.), a European crawfish ({Astacus torrentium}), by many writers considered only a variety of the common species ({A. fluviatilis}). {Stone curlew}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large plover found in Europe ({Edicnemus crepitans}). It frequents stony places. Called also {thick-kneed plover} or {bustard}, and {thick-knee}. (b) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.] (c) The willet. [Local, U.S.] {Stone crush}. Same as {Stone bruise}, above. {Stone eater}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Stone borer}, above. {Stone falcon} (Zo[94]l.), the merlin. {Stone fern} (Bot.), a European fern ({Asplenium Ceterach}) which grows on rocks and walls. {Stone fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of many species of pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus {Perla} and allied genera; a perlid. They are often used by anglers for bait. The larv[91] are aquatic. {Stone fruit} (Bot.), any fruit with a stony endocarp; a drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry. {Stone grig} (Zo[94]l.), the mud lamprey, or pride. {Stone hammer}, a hammer formed with a face at one end, and a thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other, -- used for breaking stone. {Stone hawk} (Zo[94]l.), the merlin; -- so called from its habit of sitting on bare stones. {Stone jar}, a jar made of stoneware. {Stone lily} (Paleon.), a fossil crinoid. {Stone lugger}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Stone roller}, below. {Stone marten} (Zo[94]l.), a European marten ({Mustela foina}) allied to the pine marten, but having a white throat; -- called also {beech marten}. {Stone mason}, a mason who works or builds in stone. {Stone-mortar} (Mil.), a kind of large mortar formerly used in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short distances. {Stone oil}, rock oil, petroleum. {Stone parsley} (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ({Seseli Labanotis}). See under {Parsley}. {Stone pine}. (Bot.) A nut pine. See the Note under {Pine}, and {Pi[a4]on}. {Stone pit}, a quarry where stones are dug. {Stone pitch}, hard, inspissated pitch. {Stone plover}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European stone curlew. (b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the genus {Esacus}; as, the large stone plover ({E. recurvirostris}). (c) The gray or black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.] (d) The ringed plover. (e) The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] Also applied to other species of limicoline birds. {Stone roller}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) An American fresh-water fish ({Catostomus nigricans}) of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive, often with dark blotches. Called also {stone lugger}, {stone toter}, {hog sucker}, {hog mullet}. (b) A common American cyprinoid fish ({Campostoma anomalum}); -- called also {stone lugger}. {Stone's cast}, [or] {Stone's throw}, the distance to which a stone may be thrown by the hand. {Stone snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler. [Local, U.S.] {Stone toter}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) See {Stone roller} (a), above. (b) A cyprinoid fish ({Exoglossum maxillingua}) found in the rivers from Virginia to New York. It has a three-lobed lower lip; -- called also {cutlips}. {To leave no stone unturned}, to do everything that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object. | |
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Cat's-tail \Cat's"-tail\, n. See {Timothy}, {Cat-tail}, {Cirrus}. | |
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Timothy \Tim"o*thy\, n., [or] Timothy grass \Tim"o*thy grass`\ [From Timothy Hanson, who carried the seed from New England to Maryland about 1720.] (Bot.) A kind of grass ({Phleum pratense}) with long cylindrical spikes; -- called also {herd's grass}, in England, {cat's-tail grass}, and {meadow cat's-tail grass}. It is much prized for fodder. See Illustration in Appendix. | |
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Catstick \Cat"stick`\, n. A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat. --Massinger. | |
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Catstitch \Cat"stitch\, v. t. (Needlework) To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch. | |
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Chidester \Chide"ster\, n. [Chide + -ster.] A female scold. [Obs.] | |
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Chitchat \Chit"chat\, n. [From {Chat}, by way of reduplication.] Familiar or trifling talk; prattle. | |
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Coadjutant \Co*ad"ju*tant\, a. Mutually assisting or operating; helping. --J. Philips. | |
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Coadjutant \Co*ad"ju*tant\, n. An assistant. --R. North. | |
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Coadjuting \Co*ad"ju*ting\, a. Mutually assisting. [Obs.] --Drayton. | |
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Coadjutive \Co*ad"ju*tive\, a. Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant. --Feltham. | |
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Coadjutor \Co`ad*ju"tor\, n. [L. See {Co}-, and {Aid}.] 1. One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. --Sheridan. 2. (R. C. Ch.) The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice. | |
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Coadjutorship \Co`ad*ju"tor*ship\, n. The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance. --Pope. | |
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Coadjutress \Co`ad*ju"tress\, Coadjutrix \Co`ad*ju"trix\, n. A female coadjutor or assistant. --Holland. Smollett. | |
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Coadjutress \Co`ad*ju"tress\, Coadjutrix \Co`ad*ju"trix\, n. A female coadjutor or assistant. --Holland. Smollett. | |
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Codist \Co"dist\, n. A codifier; a maker of codes. [R.] | |
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Coeducation \Co*ed`u*ca"tion\ (?; 135), n. An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races. | |
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{Co*ed`u*ca"tion*al}, a. | |
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Cotised \Cot"ised\ (-?st), a. (Her.) See {Cottised}. | |
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Cottaged \Cot"taged\ (-t?jd), a. Set or covered with cottages. Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. --Collins. | |
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Cottised \Cot"tised\ (-t?st), a. (Her.) Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess. | |
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Coyote State \Coyote State\ South Dakota; -- a nickname. | |
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Cut \Cut\ (k[ucr]t), a. 1. Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument. 2. Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved. 3. Overcome by liquor; tipsy. [Slang] {Cut and dried}, prepered beforehand; not spontaneous. {Cut glass}, glass having a surface ground and polished in facets or figures. {Cut nail}, a nail cut by machinery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail. {Cut stone}, stone hewn or chiseled to shape after having been split from the quarry. | |
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Cutaway \Cut"a*way`\ (k[ucr]t"[adot]*w[amac]`), a. Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away. {Cutaway coat}, a coat whose skirts are cut away in front so as not to meet at the bottom. | |
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Cuttystool \Cut"ty*stool`\ (-st[oomac]l`), n. 1. A low stool [Scot.] 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister. | |
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Chidester, AR (city, FIPS 13750) Location: 33.69991 N, 93.01872 W Population (1990): 489 (204 housing units) Area: 10.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) |