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Cactus \Cac"tus\, n.; pl. E. {Cactuses}, {Cacti} (-t[c6]). [L., a kind of cactus, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?][?].] (Bot.) Any plant of the order {Cactac[91]}, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See {Cereus}. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America. {Cactus wren} (Zo[94]l.), an American wren of the genus {Campylorhynchus}, of several species. | |
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Cage \Cage\ (k[amac]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caged} (k[amac]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Caging}.] To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. [bd]Caged and starved to death.[b8] --Cowper. | |
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Caged \Caged\ (k[amac]jd), a. Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison. [bd]The caged cloister.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Cake \Cake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caking}.] To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. Clotted blood that caked within. --Addison. | |
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Cascade \Cas*cade"\, n. [F. cascade, fr. It. cascata, fr. cascare to ball.] A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade. --Longjellow. Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. --Cawper. | |
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Cascade \Cas*cade"\, v. i. 1. To fall in a cascade. --Lowell. 2. To vomit. [Slang] --Smollett. | |
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Case \Case\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Casing}.] 1. To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose. The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle. --Prescott. 2. To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. [Obs.] | |
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Cash \Cash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Casing}.] To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order. | |
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Casket \Cas"ket\, n. (Naut.) A gasket. See {Gasket}. | |
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Casket \Cas"ket\, v. t. To put into, or preserve in, a casket. [Poetic] [bd]I have casketed my treasure.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Casket \Cas"ket\, n. [Cf. F. casquet, dim. of casque belmet, fr. Sp. casco.] 1. A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. The little casket bring me hither. --Shak. 2. A kind of burial case. [U. S.] 3. Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed; as: (a) The body. (--Shak.) (b) The tomb. (--Milton). (c) A book of selections. [poetic] They found him dead . . . an empty casket. --Shak. | |
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Gasket \Gas"ket\, n. [Cf. F. garcette, It. gaschetta, Sp. cajeta caburn, garceta reef point.] 1. (Naut.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. {Sea gaskets} are common lines; {harbor gaskets} are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also {casket}. 2. (Mech.) (a) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps. (b) Any ring or washer of packing. | |
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Casket \Cas"ket\, n. (Naut.) A gasket. See {Gasket}. | |
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Casket \Cas"ket\, v. t. To put into, or preserve in, a casket. [Poetic] [bd]I have casketed my treasure.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Casket \Cas"ket\, n. [Cf. F. casquet, dim. of casque belmet, fr. Sp. casco.] 1. A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. The little casket bring me hither. --Shak. 2. A kind of burial case. [U. S.] 3. Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed; as: (a) The body. (--Shak.) (b) The tomb. (--Milton). (c) A book of selections. [poetic] They found him dead . . . an empty casket. --Shak. | |
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Gasket \Gas"ket\, n. [Cf. F. garcette, It. gaschetta, Sp. cajeta caburn, garceta reef point.] 1. (Naut.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. {Sea gaskets} are common lines; {harbor gaskets} are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also {casket}. 2. (Mech.) (a) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps. (b) Any ring or washer of packing. | |
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Cassada \Cas"sa*da\, n. See {Cassava}. | |
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Cassate \Cas"sate\, v. t. [LL. cassare. See {Cass}.] To render void or useless; to vacate or annul. [Obs.] | |
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Cast \Cast\ (k[adot]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cast}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Casting}.] [Cf. Dan. kaste, Icel. & Sw. kasta; perh. akin to L. {gerere} to bear, carry. E. jest.] 1. To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel. Uzziah prepared . . . slings to cast stones. --2 Chron. xxvi. 14. Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. --Acts. xii. 8. We must be cast upon a certain island. --Acts. xxvii. 26. 2. To direct or turn, as the eyes. How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me! --Shak. 3. To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot. 4. To throw down, as in wrestling. --Shak. 5. To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee. --Luke xix. 48. 6. To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose. His filth within being cast. --Shak. Neither shall your vine cast her fruit. --Mal. iii. 11 The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the viper, etc. --Bacon. 7. To bring forth prematurely; to slink. Thy she-goats have not cast their young. --Gen. xxi. 38. 8. To throw out or emit; to exhale. [Obs.] This . . . casts a sulphureous smell. --Woodward. 9. To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject. 10. To impose; to bestow; to rest. The government I cast upon my brother. --Shak. Cast thy burden upon the Lord. --Ps. iv. 22. 11. To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. [Obs.] The state can not with safety cast him. 12. To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope. [bd]Let it be cast and paid.[b8] --Shak. You cast the event of war, my noble lord. --Shak. 13. To contrive; to plan. [Archaic] The cloister . . . had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house]. --Sir W. Temple. 14. To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages. She was cast to be hanged. --Jeffrey. Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast. --Dr. H. More. 15. To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice. How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious! --South. 16. To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets. 17. (Print.) To stereotype or electrotype. 18. To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part. Our parts in the other world will be new cast. --Addison. {To cast anchor} (Naut.) See under {Anchor}. {To cast a horoscope}, to calculate it. {To cast a} {horse, sheep}, or other animal, to throw with the feet upwards, in such a manner as to prevent its rising again. {To cast a shoe}, to throw off or lose a shoe, said of a horse or ox. {To cast aside}, to throw or push aside; to neglect; to reject as useless or inconvenient. {To cast away}. (a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. [bd]Cast away a life[b8] --Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. [bd]Cast away his people.[b8] --Rom. xi. 1. [bd]Cast one away.[b8] --Shak. (c) To wreck. [bd]Cast away and sunk.[b8] --Shak. {To cast by}, to reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away. {To cast down}, to throw down; to destroy; to deject or depress, as the mind. [bd]Why art thou cast down. O my soul?[b8] --Ps. xiii. 5. {To cast forth}, to throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit; to send out. {To cast in one's lot with}, to share the fortunes of. {To cast in one's teeth}, to upbraid or abuse one for; to twin. {To cast lots}. See under {Lot}. {To cast off}. (a) To discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to free one's self from. (b) (Hunting) To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs. --Crabb. (c) (Naut.) To untie, throw off, or let go, as a rope. {To cast off copy}, (Print.), to estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will make, or how large the page must be in order that the copy may make a given number of pages. {To cast one's self} {on [or] upon} to yield or submit one's self unreservedly to, as to the mercy of another. {To cast out}, to throw out; to eject, as from a house; to cast forth; to expel; to utter. {To cast the lead} (Naut.), to sound by dropping the lead to the bottom. {To cast the water} (Med.), to examine the urine for signs of disease. [Obs.]. {To cast up}. (a) To throw up; to raise. (b) To compute; to reckon, as the cost. (c) To vomit. (d) To twit with; to throw in one's teeth. | |
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Cast \Cast\, 3d pres. of {Cast}, for Casteth. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Cast \Cast\, n. [Cf. Icel., Dan., & Sw. kast.] 1. The act of casting or throwing; a throw. 2. The thing thrown. A cast of dreadful dust. --Dryden. 3. The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown. [bd]About a stone's cast.[b8] --Luke xxii. 41. 4. A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture. An even cast whether the army should march this way or that way. --Sowth. I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak. 5. That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm. 6. The act of casting in a mold. And why such daily cast of brazen cannon. --Shak. 7. An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern. 8. That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting. 9. Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance. [bd]A neat cast of verse.[b8] --Pope. An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure. --Prior. And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. --Shak. 10. A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade. Gray with a cast of green. --Woodward. 11. A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch] We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage. --Smollett. If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. --Sir W. Scott. 12. The assignment of parts in a play to the actors. 13. (Falconary) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand. --Grabb. As when a cast of falcons make their flight. --Spenser. 14. A stoke, touch, or trick. [Obs.] This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his information was wholly false. --Swift. 15. A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint. The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion. --Bacon. And let you see with one cast of an eye. --Addison. This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. --Hawthorne. 16. A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold. 17. Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp. 18. Contrivance; plot, design. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {A cast of the eye}, a slight squint or strabismus. {Renal cast} (Med.), microscopic bodies found in the urine of persons affected with disease of the kidneys; -- so called because they are formed of matter deposited in, and preserving the outline of, the renal tubes. {The last cast}, the last throw of the dice or last effort, on which every thing is ventured; the last chance. | |
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Cast \Cast\, v. i. 1. To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook. 2. (Naut.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh. Weigh anchor, cast to starboard. --Totten. 3. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons. She . . . cast in her mind what manner of salution this should be. --Luke. i. 29. 4. To calculate; to compute. [R.] Who would cast and balance at a desk. --Tennyson. 5. To receive form or shape in a mold. It will not run thin, so as to cast and mold. --Woodward. 6. To warp; to become twisted out of shape. Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness. --Moxon. 7. To vomit. These verses . . . make me ready to cast. --B. Jonson. | |
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Gun \Gun\, n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; cf. Ir., {Gael}.) A LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon) fr. L. canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E. mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.] 1. A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called {small arms}. Larger guns are called {cannon}, {ordnance}, {fieldpieces}, {carronades}, {howitzers}, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary. As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in the powder runne. --Chaucer. The word gun was in use in England for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out. --Selden. 2. (Mil.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon. 3. pl. (Naut.) Violent blasts of wind. Note: Guns are classified, according to their construction or manner of loading as {rifled} or {smoothbore}, {breech-loading} or {muzzle-loading}, {cast} or {built-up guns}; or according to their use, as {field}, {mountain}, {prairie}, {seacoast}, and {siege guns}. {Armstrong gun}, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong. {Great gun}, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence (Fig.), a person superior in any way. {Gun barrel}, the barrel or tube of a gun. {Gun carriage}, the carriage on which a gun is mounted or moved. {Gun cotton} (Chem.), a general name for a series of explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. Although there are formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. It burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity. Specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. See {Pyroxylin}, and cf. {Xyloidin}. The gun cottons are used for blasting and somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for making collodion. See {Celluloid}, and {Collodion}. Gun cotton is frequenty but improperly called nitrocellulose. It is not a nitro compound, but an ethereal salt of nitric acid. {Gun deck}. See under {Deck}. {Gun fire}, the time at which the morning or the evening gun is fired. {Gun metal}, a bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. The name is also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron. {Gun port} (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a cannon's muzzle is run out for firing. {Gun tackle} (Naut.), the blocks and pulleys affixed to the side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from the gun port. {Gun tackle purchase} (Naut.), a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall. --Totten. {Krupp gun}, a wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named after its German inventor, Herr Krupp. {Machine gun}, a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns, mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the gun or guns and fired in rapid succession, sometimes in volleys, by machinery operated by turning a crank. Several hundred shots can be fired in a minute with accurate aim. The {Gatling gun}, {Gardner gun}, {Hotchkiss gun}, and {Nordenfelt gun}, named for their inventors, and the French {mitrailleuse}, are machine guns. {To blow great guns} (Naut.), to blow a gale. See {Gun}, n., 3. | |
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Cast \Cast\ (k[adot]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cast}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Casting}.] [Cf. Dan. kaste, Icel. & Sw. kasta; perh. akin to L. {gerere} to bear, carry. E. jest.] 1. To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel. Uzziah prepared . . . slings to cast stones. --2 Chron. xxvi. 14. Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. --Acts. xii. 8. We must be cast upon a certain island. --Acts. xxvii. 26. 2. To direct or turn, as the eyes. How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me! --Shak. 3. To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot. 4. To throw down, as in wrestling. --Shak. 5. To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee. --Luke xix. 48. 6. To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose. His filth within being cast. --Shak. Neither shall your vine cast her fruit. --Mal. iii. 11 The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the viper, etc. --Bacon. 7. To bring forth prematurely; to slink. Thy she-goats have not cast their young. --Gen. xxi. 38. 8. To throw out or emit; to exhale. [Obs.] This . . . casts a sulphureous smell. --Woodward. 9. To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject. 10. To impose; to bestow; to rest. The government I cast upon my brother. --Shak. Cast thy burden upon the Lord. --Ps. iv. 22. 11. To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. [Obs.] The state can not with safety cast him. 12. To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope. [bd]Let it be cast and paid.[b8] --Shak. You cast the event of war, my noble lord. --Shak. 13. To contrive; to plan. [Archaic] The cloister . . . had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house]. --Sir W. Temple. 14. To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages. She was cast to be hanged. --Jeffrey. Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast. --Dr. H. More. 15. To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice. How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious! --South. 16. To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets. 17. (Print.) To stereotype or electrotype. 18. To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part. Our parts in the other world will be new cast. --Addison. {To cast anchor} (Naut.) See under {Anchor}. {To cast a horoscope}, to calculate it. {To cast a} {horse, sheep}, or other animal, to throw with the feet upwards, in such a manner as to prevent its rising again. {To cast a shoe}, to throw off or lose a shoe, said of a horse or ox. {To cast aside}, to throw or push aside; to neglect; to reject as useless or inconvenient. {To cast away}. (a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. [bd]Cast away a life[b8] --Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. [bd]Cast away his people.[b8] --Rom. xi. 1. [bd]Cast one away.[b8] --Shak. (c) To wreck. [bd]Cast away and sunk.[b8] --Shak. {To cast by}, to reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away. {To cast down}, to throw down; to destroy; to deject or depress, as the mind. [bd]Why art thou cast down. O my soul?[b8] --Ps. xiii. 5. {To cast forth}, to throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit; to send out. {To cast in one's lot with}, to share the fortunes of. {To cast in one's teeth}, to upbraid or abuse one for; to twin. {To cast lots}. See under {Lot}. {To cast off}. (a) To discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to free one's self from. (b) (Hunting) To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs. --Crabb. (c) (Naut.) To untie, throw off, or let go, as a rope. {To cast off copy}, (Print.), to estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will make, or how large the page must be in order that the copy may make a given number of pages. {To cast one's self} {on [or] upon} to yield or submit one's self unreservedly to, as to the mercy of another. {To cast out}, to throw out; to eject, as from a house; to cast forth; to expel; to utter. {To cast the lead} (Naut.), to sound by dropping the lead to the bottom. {To cast the water} (Med.), to examine the urine for signs of disease. [Obs.]. {To cast up}. (a) To throw up; to raise. (b) To compute; to reckon, as the cost. (c) To vomit. (d) To twit with; to throw in one's teeth. | |
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Cast \Cast\, 3d pres. of {Cast}, for Casteth. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Cast \Cast\, n. [Cf. Icel., Dan., & Sw. kast.] 1. The act of casting or throwing; a throw. 2. The thing thrown. A cast of dreadful dust. --Dryden. 3. The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown. [bd]About a stone's cast.[b8] --Luke xxii. 41. 4. A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture. An even cast whether the army should march this way or that way. --Sowth. I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak. 5. That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm. 6. The act of casting in a mold. And why such daily cast of brazen cannon. --Shak. 7. An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern. 8. That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting. 9. Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance. [bd]A neat cast of verse.[b8] --Pope. An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure. --Prior. And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. --Shak. 10. A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade. Gray with a cast of green. --Woodward. 11. A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch] We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage. --Smollett. If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. --Sir W. Scott. 12. The assignment of parts in a play to the actors. 13. (Falconary) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand. --Grabb. As when a cast of falcons make their flight. --Spenser. 14. A stoke, touch, or trick. [Obs.] This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his information was wholly false. --Swift. 15. A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint. The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion. --Bacon. And let you see with one cast of an eye. --Addison. This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. --Hawthorne. 16. A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold. 17. Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp. 18. Contrivance; plot, design. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {A cast of the eye}, a slight squint or strabismus. {Renal cast} (Med.), microscopic bodies found in the urine of persons affected with disease of the kidneys; -- so called because they are formed of matter deposited in, and preserving the outline of, the renal tubes. {The last cast}, the last throw of the dice or last effort, on which every thing is ventured; the last chance. | |
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Cast \Cast\, v. i. 1. To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook. 2. (Naut.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh. Weigh anchor, cast to starboard. --Totten. 3. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons. She . . . cast in her mind what manner of salution this should be. --Luke. i. 29. 4. To calculate; to compute. [R.] Who would cast and balance at a desk. --Tennyson. 5. To receive form or shape in a mold. It will not run thin, so as to cast and mold. --Woodward. 6. To warp; to become twisted out of shape. Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness. --Moxon. 7. To vomit. These verses . . . make me ready to cast. --B. Jonson. | |
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Gun \Gun\, n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; cf. Ir., {Gael}.) A LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon) fr. L. canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E. mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.] 1. A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called {small arms}. Larger guns are called {cannon}, {ordnance}, {fieldpieces}, {carronades}, {howitzers}, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary. As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in the powder runne. --Chaucer. The word gun was in use in England for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out. --Selden. 2. (Mil.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon. 3. pl. (Naut.) Violent blasts of wind. Note: Guns are classified, according to their construction or manner of loading as {rifled} or {smoothbore}, {breech-loading} or {muzzle-loading}, {cast} or {built-up guns}; or according to their use, as {field}, {mountain}, {prairie}, {seacoast}, and {siege guns}. {Armstrong gun}, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong. {Great gun}, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence (Fig.), a person superior in any way. {Gun barrel}, the barrel or tube of a gun. {Gun carriage}, the carriage on which a gun is mounted or moved. {Gun cotton} (Chem.), a general name for a series of explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. Although there are formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. It burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity. Specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. See {Pyroxylin}, and cf. {Xyloidin}. The gun cottons are used for blasting and somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for making collodion. See {Celluloid}, and {Collodion}. Gun cotton is frequenty but improperly called nitrocellulose. It is not a nitro compound, but an ethereal salt of nitric acid. {Gun deck}. See under {Deck}. {Gun fire}, the time at which the morning or the evening gun is fired. {Gun metal}, a bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. The name is also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron. {Gun port} (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a cannon's muzzle is run out for firing. {Gun tackle} (Naut.), the blocks and pulleys affixed to the side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from the gun port. {Gun tackle purchase} (Naut.), a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall. --Totten. {Krupp gun}, a wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named after its German inventor, Herr Krupp. {Machine gun}, a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns, mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the gun or guns and fired in rapid succession, sometimes in volleys, by machinery operated by turning a crank. Several hundred shots can be fired in a minute with accurate aim. The {Gatling gun}, {Gardner gun}, {Hotchkiss gun}, and {Nordenfelt gun}, named for their inventors, and the French {mitrailleuse}, are machine guns. {To blow great guns} (Naut.), to blow a gale. See {Gun}, n., 3. | |
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Castaway \Cast"a*way\, n. 1. One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked. 2. One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. Lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. --1 Cor. ix. 27. | |
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Castaway \Cast"a*way\, a. Of no value; rejected; useless. | |
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Caste \Caste\, n. [Pg. casta race, lineage, fr. L. castus pure, chaste: cf. F. caste, of same origin.] 1. One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism. Note: The members of the same caste are theoretically of equal rank, and same profession or occupation, and may not eat or intermarry with those not of their own caste. The original are four, viz., the Brahmans, or sacerdotal order; the Kshatriyas, or soldiers and rulers; the Vaisyas, or husbandmen and merchants; and the Sudras, or laborers and mechanics. Men of no caste are Pariahs, outcasts. Numerous mixed classes, or castes, have sprung up in the progress of time. 2. A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. --Macaulay. {To lose caste}, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration. | |
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Caught \Caught\ (k[add]t), imp. & p. p. of {Catch}. | |
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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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Cause \Cause\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caused}; p. pr. & v. n. {Causing}.] [F. causer, fr. cause, fr. L. causa. See {Cause}, n., and cf. {Acouse}.] To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite verb. I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days. --Gen. vii. 4. Cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans. --Col. iv. 16. Syn: To create; produce; beget; effect; occasion; originate; induce; bring about. | |
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Causewayed \Cause"wayed\, Causeyed \Cau"seyed\ a. Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved. --Sir W. Scott. C. Bront[82]. | |
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Causewayed \Cause"wayed\, Causeyed \Cau"seyed\ a. Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved. --Sir W. Scott. C. Bront[82]. | |
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Cease \Cease\ (s[emac]s), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ceased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ceasing}.] [OE. cessen, cesen, F. cesser, fr. L. cessare, v. intemsive fr. cedere to withdraw. See {Cede}, and cf. {Cessation}.] 1. To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased. [bd]To cease from strife.[b8] --Prov. xx. 3. 2. To be wanting; to fail; to pass away. The poor shall never cease out of the land. --Deut. xv. 11. Syn: To intermit; desist; stop; abstain; quit; discontinue; refrain; leave off; pause; end. | |
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Cecity \Ce"ci*ty\, n. [L. caecitas, fr. caecus blind: cf. F. c[82]cit[82].] Blindness. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Cess \Cess\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cessed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cessing}.] To rate; to tax; to assess. --Spenser. | |
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Cest \Cest\ (s[ecr]st), n. [L. cestus: cf. OF. ceste.] A woman's girdle; a cestus. [R.] --Collins. | |
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Chase \Chase\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chasing}.] [OF. chacier, F. chasser, fr. (assumed) LL. captiare, fr. L. captare to strive to seize. See {Catch}.] 1. To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. --Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. --Cowper. 2. To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away. Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place. --Knolles. 3. To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game. Chasing each other merrily. --Tennyson. | |
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Chast \Chast\ (ch[amac]st), v. t. to chasten. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Chaste \Chaste\ (ch[amac]st), a. [F. chaste, from L. castus pure, chaste; cf. Gr. kaqaro`s pure, Skr. [cced]udth to purify.] 1. Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent. [bd]As chaste as Diana.[b8] --Shak. Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced. --Milton. 2. Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes. 3. Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art. That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer. --Macaulay. 4. Unmarried. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Syn: Undefiled; pure; virtuous; continent; immaculate; spotless. {Chaste tree}. Same as {Agnus castus}. | |
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Chough \Chough\, n. [OE. choughe, kowe (and cf. OE. ca), fr. AS. ce[a2]; cf. also D. kauw, OHG. ch[be]ha; perh. akin to E. caw. [fb]22. Cf. {Caddow}.] (Zo[94]l.) A bird of the Crow family ({Fregilus graculus}) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called {chauk}, {chauk-daw}, {chocard}, {Cornish chough}, {red-legged crow}. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the {Alpine chough}. {Cornish chough} (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also {aylet} and {sea swallow}. | |
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Check \Check\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Checked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {checking}.] 1. (Chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check. 2. To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb. So many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression. --Burke. 3. To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage. 4. To chide, rebuke, or reprove. The good king, his master, will check him for it. --Shak. 5. (Naut.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended. 6. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber. Syn: To restrain; curb; bridle; repress; control; hinder; impede; obstruct; interrupt; tally; rebuke; reprove; rebuff. | |
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Cheeked \Cheeked\, a. Having a cheek; -- used in composition. [bd]Rose-cheeked Adonis.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Chest \Chest\ (ch[ecr]st), n. [OE. chest, chist, AS. cest, cist, cyst, L. cista, fr. Gr. ki`sth. Cf. {Cist}, {Cistern}.] 1. A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. --Dryden. 2. A coffin. [Obs.] He is now dead and mailed in his cheste. --Chaucer. 3. The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax. 4. (Com.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains. 5. (Mech.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ. {Bomb chest}, See under {Bomb}. {Chest of drawers}, a case or movable frame containing drawers. | |
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Chest \Chest\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chested}.] 1. To deposit in a chest; to hoard. 2. To place in a coffin. [Obs.] He dieth and is chested. --Gen. 1. 26 (heading). | |
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Chest \Chest\, n. [AS. ce[a0]st.] Strife; contention; controversy. [Obs.] --P. Plowman. | |
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Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is, iis, AS. [c6]s; aksin to D. ijs, G. eis, OHG. [c6]s, Icel. [c6]ss, Sw. is, Dan. iis, and perh. to E. iron.] 1. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4[f8] C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats. Note: Water freezes at 32[f8] F. or 0[f8] Cent., and ice melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling properties to the large amount of heat required to melt it. 2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson. 3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen. 4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice. {Anchor ice}, ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored to the ground. {Bay ice}, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea. {Ground ice}, anchor ice. {Ice age} (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under {Glacial}. {Ice anchor} (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. --Kane. {Ice blink} [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight. {Ice boat}. (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice. {Ice box} [or] {chest}, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. {Ice brook}, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] --Shak. {Ice cream} [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. {Ice field}, an extensive sheet of ice. {Ice float}, {Ice floe}, a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller. {Ice foot}, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane. {Ice house}, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice. {Ice machine} (Physics), a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid. {Ice master}. See {Ice pilot} (below). {Ice pack}, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice. {Ice paper}, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glac[82]. {Ice petrel} (Zo[94]l.), a shearwater ({Puffinus gelidus}) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice. {Ice pick}, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces. {Ice pilot}, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also {ice master}. {Ice pitcher}, a pitcher adapted for ice water. {Ice plow}, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice. | |
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Chest \Chest\ (ch[ecr]st), n. [OE. chest, chist, AS. cest, cist, cyst, L. cista, fr. Gr. ki`sth. Cf. {Cist}, {Cistern}.] 1. A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. --Dryden. 2. A coffin. [Obs.] He is now dead and mailed in his cheste. --Chaucer. 3. The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax. 4. (Com.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains. 5. (Mech.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ. {Bomb chest}, See under {Bomb}. {Chest of drawers}, a case or movable frame containing drawers. | |
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Chest \Chest\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chested}.] 1. To deposit in a chest; to hoard. 2. To place in a coffin. [Obs.] He dieth and is chested. --Gen. 1. 26 (heading). | |
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Chest \Chest\, n. [AS. ce[a0]st.] Strife; contention; controversy. [Obs.] --P. Plowman. | |
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Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is, iis, AS. [c6]s; aksin to D. ijs, G. eis, OHG. [c6]s, Icel. [c6]ss, Sw. is, Dan. iis, and perh. to E. iron.] 1. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4[f8] C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats. Note: Water freezes at 32[f8] F. or 0[f8] Cent., and ice melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling properties to the large amount of heat required to melt it. 2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson. 3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen. 4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice. {Anchor ice}, ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored to the ground. {Bay ice}, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea. {Ground ice}, anchor ice. {Ice age} (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under {Glacial}. {Ice anchor} (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. --Kane. {Ice blink} [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight. {Ice boat}. (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice. {Ice box} [or] {chest}, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. {Ice brook}, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] --Shak. {Ice cream} [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. {Ice field}, an extensive sheet of ice. {Ice float}, {Ice floe}, a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller. {Ice foot}, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane. {Ice house}, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice. {Ice machine} (Physics), a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid. {Ice master}. See {Ice pilot} (below). {Ice pack}, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice. {Ice paper}, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glac[82]. {Ice petrel} (Zo[94]l.), a shearwater ({Puffinus gelidus}) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice. {Ice pick}, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces. {Ice pilot}, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also {ice master}. {Ice pitcher}, a pitcher adapted for ice water. {Ice plow}, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice. | |
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Chickadee \Chick"a*dee`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small bird, the blackcap titmouse ({Parus atricapillus}), of North America; -- named from its note. | |
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Chickweed \Chick"weed`\ (-w[emac]d`), n. (Bot.) The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially {Stellaria media}, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds. | |
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Squeteague \Sque*teague"\ (skw[esl]*t[emac]g"), n. [from the North American Indian name.] (Zo[94]l.) An American sci[91]noid fish ({Cynoscion regalis}), abundant on the Atlantic coast of the United States, and much valued as a food fish. It is of a bright silvery color, with iridescent reflections. Called also {weakfish}, {squitee}, {chickwit}, and {sea trout}. The spotted squeteague ({C. nebulosus}) of the Southern United States is a similar fish, but the back and upper fins are spotted with black. It is called also {spotted weakfish}, and, locally, {sea trout}, and {sea salmon}. | |
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Chock \Chock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chocked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chocking}.] To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask. | |
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Choctaws \Choc"taws\, n. pl.; sing. {Choctaw}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory. | |
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Chogset \Chog"set\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cunner}. | |
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Cunner \Cun"ner\ (k?n"n?r), n. [Cf. {Conner}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast ({Ctenolabrus adspersus}); -- called also {chogset}, {burgall}, {blue perch}, and {bait stealer}. [Written also {conner}.] (b) A small shellfish; the limpet or patella. | |
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Chogset \Chog"set\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cunner}. | |
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Cunner \Cun"ner\ (k?n"n?r), n. [Cf. {Conner}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast ({Ctenolabrus adspersus}); -- called also {chogset}, {burgall}, {blue perch}, and {bait stealer}. [Written also {conner}.] (b) A small shellfish; the limpet or patella. | |
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Choke \Choke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Choked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Choking}.] [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. [be]ceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough.] 1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. --Shak. 2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. --Addison. 3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. --Dryden. 4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. [bd]I was choked at this word.[b8] --Swift. 5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. {To choke off}, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar. | |
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Chouse \Chouse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Choused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chousing}.] [From Turk. ch[be][d4]sh a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of [9c]4,000.] To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.] The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. --Landor. | |
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Chuck \Chuck\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chucked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chucking}.] [Imitative of the sound.] 1. To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck. 2. To chuckle; to laugh. [R.] --Marston. | |
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Chuck \Chuck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chucked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chucking}.] [F. choquer to strike. Cf. {Shock}, v. t.] 1. To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to. Chucked the barmaid under the chin. --W. Irving. 2. To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. [Colloq.] [bd]Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile.[b8] --Lord Palmerson. 3. (Mech.) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck. | |
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Cicada \Ci*ca"da\ (s[icr]*k[amac]"d[adot]), n.; pl. E. {Cicadas} (-d[adot]z), L. {Cicad[91]} (-d[emac]). [L.] (Zo[94]l.) Any species of the genus {Cicada}. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species ({C. septendecim}) is called the {seventeen year locust}. Another common species is the {dogday cicada}. | |
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Cicada \Ci*ca"da\ (s[icr]*k[amac]"d[adot]), n.; pl. E. {Cicadas} (-d[adot]z), L. {Cicad[91]} (-d[emac]). [L.] (Zo[94]l.) Any species of the genus {Cicada}. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species ({C. septendecim}) is called the {seventeen year locust}. Another common species is the {dogday cicada}. | |
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Cissoid \Cis"soid\, n. [Gr. [?] like ivy; [?] ivy + [?] form.] (Geom.) A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines. | |
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Cist \Cist\, n. [L. cista box, chest, Gr. [?] Cf. {Chest}.] 1. (Antiq.) A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix. 2. See {Cyst}. | |
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Coach \Coach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coached}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coaching}.] 1. To convey in a coach. --Pope. 2. To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. [Colloq.] I coached him before he got his scholarship. --G. Eliot. | |
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Coact \Co*act"\, v. t. [L. coactare, intens. fr. cogere, coactum, to force. See {Cogent}.] To force; to compel; to drive. [Obs.] The faith and service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not coacted. --Foxe. | |
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Coact \Co*act"\, v. i. [Pref. co- + act, v. i.] To act together; to work in concert; to unite. [Obs.] But if I tell you how these two did coact. --Shak. | |
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Coast \Coast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Coasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coasting}.] [OE. costien, costeien, costen, OF. costier, costoier, F. c[93]toyer, fr. Of. coste coast, F. c[93]te. See {Coast}, n.] 1. To draw or keep near; to approach. [Obs.] Anon she hears them chant it lustily, And all in haste she coasteth to the cry. --Shak. 2. To sail by or near the shore. The ancients coasted only in their navigation. --Arbuthnot. 3. To sail from port to port in the same country. 4. [Cf. OF. coste, F. c[93]te, hill, hillside.] To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice. [Local, U. S.] | |
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Coast \Coast\, n. [OF. coste, F. c[93]te, rib, hill, shore, coast, L. costa rib, side. Cf. {Accost}, v. t., {Cutlet}.] 1. The side of a thing. [Obs.] --Sir I. Newton. 2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. [Obs.] From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. --Deut. xi. 24. 3. The seashore, or land near it. He sees in English ships the Holland coast. --Dryden. We the Arabian coast do know At distance, when the species blow. --Waller. {The coast is clear}, the danger is over; no enemy in sight. --Dryden. Fig.: There are no obstacles. [bd]Seeing that the coast was clear, Zelmane dismissed Musidorus.[b8] --Sir P. Sidney. {Coast guard}. (a) A body of men originally employed along the coast to prevent smuggling; now, under the control of the admiralty, drilled as a naval reserve. [Eng.] (b) The force employed in life-saving stations along the seacoast. [U. S.] {Coast rat} (Zo[94]l.), a South African mammal ({Bathyergus suillus}), about the size of a rabbit, remarkable for its extensive burrows; -- called also {sand mole}. {Coast waiter}, a customhouse officer who superintends the landing or shipping of goods for the coast trade. [Eng.] | |
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Coast \Coast\, v. t. 1. To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of. [Obs.] --Hakluyt. 2. To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of. Nearchus, . . . not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore. --Sir T. Browne. 3. To conduct along a coast or river bank. [Obs.] The Indians . . . coasted me along the river. --Hakluyt. | |
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Coax \Coax\ (?; 110), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coaxed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coaxing}.] [Cf. OE. cokes fool, a person easily imposed upon, W. coeg empty, foolish; F. coquin knave, rogue.] To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe. Syn: To wheedle; cajole; flatter; persuade; entice. | |
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Cockade \Cock*ade"\, n. [F. cocarble, fr. coquard vain, OF. coquart, fr. coq cock, prob. of imitative origin. The ornament is so named from its resemblance to the crest of a cock. Cf. {Coquette}.] A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer. Seduced by military liveries and cockades. --Burke. | |
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Cockatoo \Cock`a*too\, n. [Malayan kakat[d4]a.] (Zo[94]l.) A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily {Cacatuin[91]}, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested ({Plictolophus, [or] Cacatua, cristatus}), the sulphur-crested ({P. galeritus}), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is {Microglossus aterrimus}. | |
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Cock \Cock\ (k[ocr]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cocked} (k[ocr]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cocking}.] [Cf. Gael. coc to cock.] 1. To set erect; to turn up. Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears. --Gay. Dick would cock his nose in scorn. --Swift. 2. To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim. 3. To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner. They cocked their hats in each other's faces. --Macaulay. 4. To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation. {Cocked hat}. (a) A hat with large, stiff flaps turned up to a peaked crown, thus making its form triangular; -- called also {three-cornered hat} | |
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Cocket \Cock"et\, a. [F. coquet coquettish. See {Coquette}, n.] Pert; saucy. [Obs.] --Halliwell. | |
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Cocket \Cock"et\, n. 1. (Eng. Law) A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty. 2. An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered. [Eng.] 3. A measure for bread. [Obs.] --Blount. | |
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Cockhead \Cock"head`\, n. (Mach.) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced. | |
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Cockshead \Cocks"head`\, n. (Bot.) A leguminous herb ({Onobrychis Caput-galli}), having small spiny-crested pods. | |
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Cockshut \Cock"shut`\, n. A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] --Nares. {Cockshut time} [or] {light}, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] --Shak. B. Jonson. | |
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Cockweed \Cock"weed\, n. (Bot.) Peppergrass. --Johnson. | |
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Cog \Cog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cogged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cogging}.] [Cf. W. coegio to make void, to beceive, from coeg empty, vain, foolish. Cf. {Coax}, v. t.] 1. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.] I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. --Shak. 2. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. [R.] Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. --J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. --Swift. | |
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Cook \Cook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cooked}; p. pr & vb. n. {Cooking}.] 1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat. 2. To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. [Colloq.] They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different. --Addison. | |
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Coquet \Co*quet"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coquetted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coquetting}.] To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint. You are coquetting a maid of honor. --Swift. | |
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Coquet \Co*quet"\, v. i. To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime. | |
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Coquette \Co*quette"\, n. [F., fr. coquet, coquette, coquettish, orig., cocklike, strutting like a cock, fr. coq a cock. Cf. {Cock}, {Cocket}, {Cocky}, {Cockade}.] 1. A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A tropical humming bird of the genus {Lophornis}, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under {Spangle}, v. t. | |
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Cosset \Cos"set\ (k?s"s?t), n. [Cf. AS. cotsetla cottager, G. kossat, kothsasse, fr. kot, koth E. (cot) hut, and cf. also E. cade, a., cot a cade lamb.] A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general. | |
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Cosset \Cos"set\, v. t. To treat as a pet; to fondle. She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. --O. W. Holmes. | |
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Cost \Cost\, n. [OF. cost, F. co[ucir]t. See {Cost}, v. t. ] 1. The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit. One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper cost. --Shak. At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion. --Prescott. 2. Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering. I know thy trains, Though dearly to my cost, thy gins and toils. --Milton. 3. pl. (Law) Expenses incurred in litigation. Note: Costs in actions or suits are either between attorney and client, being what are payable in every case to the attorney or counsel by his client whether he ultimately succeed or not, or between party and party, being those which the law gives, or the court in its discretion decrees, to the prevailing, against the losing, party. {Bill of costs}. See under {Bill}. {Cost free}, without outlay or expense. [bd]Her duties being to talk French, and her privileges to live cost free and to gather scraps of knowledge.[b8] --Thackeray. | |
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Cost \Cost\ (k?st; 115), n. [L. costa rib. See {Coast}.] 1. A rib; a side; a region or coast. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. Betwixt the costs of a ship. --B. Jonson. 2. (Her.) See {Cottise}. | |
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Cost \Cost\ (k[ocr]st; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cost}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Costing}.] [OF. coster, couster, F. co[ucir]ter, fr. L. constare to stand at, to cost; con- + stare to stand. See {Stand}, and cf. {Constant}.] 1. To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. --Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. --Shak. 2. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe. --Milton. {To cost dear}, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc. | |
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Cottise \Cot"tise\ (k[ocr]t"t[icr]s), n. [Cf. F. c[ocit]t[82] side, L. costa rib.] (Her.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a {cost}. See also {Couple-close}. | |
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Cost \Cost\, n. [OF. cost, F. co[ucir]t. See {Cost}, v. t. ] 1. The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit. One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper cost. --Shak. At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion. --Prescott. 2. Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering. I know thy trains, Though dearly to my cost, thy gins and toils. --Milton. 3. pl. (Law) Expenses incurred in litigation. Note: Costs in actions or suits are either between attorney and client, being what are payable in every case to the attorney or counsel by his client whether he ultimately succeed or not, or between party and party, being those which the law gives, or the court in its discretion decrees, to the prevailing, against the losing, party. {Bill of costs}. See under {Bill}. {Cost free}, without outlay or expense. [bd]Her duties being to talk French, and her privileges to live cost free and to gather scraps of knowledge.[b8] --Thackeray. | |
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Cost \Cost\ (k?st; 115), n. [L. costa rib. See {Coast}.] 1. A rib; a side; a region or coast. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. Betwixt the costs of a ship. --B. Jonson. 2. (Her.) See {Cottise}. | |
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Cost \Cost\ (k[ocr]st; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cost}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Costing}.] [OF. coster, couster, F. co[ucir]ter, fr. L. constare to stand at, to cost; con- + stare to stand. See {Stand}, and cf. {Constant}.] 1. To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. --Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. --Shak. 2. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe. --Milton. {To cost dear}, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc. | |
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Cottise \Cot"tise\ (k[ocr]t"t[icr]s), n. [Cf. F. c[ocit]t[82] side, L. costa rib.] (Her.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a {cost}. See also {Couple-close}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Couch \Couch\ (kouch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Couched} (koucht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Couching}.] [F. coucher to lay down, lie down, OF. colchier, fr. L. collocare to lay, put, place; col- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See {Locus}.] 1. To lay upon a bed or other resting place. Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. --Shak. 2. To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. The waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity. --T. Burnet. 3. To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed. It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls. --Bacon. 4. (Paper Making) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying. 5. To conceal; to include or involve darkly. There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory. --L'Estrange. 6. To arrange; to place; to inlay. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 7. To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under. A well-couched invective. --Milton. I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms. --Blackw. Mag. 8. (Med.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract. {To couch a} {spear [or] lance}, to lower to the position of attack; to place in rest. He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And spurred his steed to full career. --Sir W. Scott. {To couch malt}, to spread malt on a floor. --Mortimer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Couched \Couched\ (koucht), a. (Her.) Same as {Couch[?]}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cough \Cough\ (k?f), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Coughed} (k?ft); p. pr. & vb. n. {Coughing}.] [Cf. D. kuchen, MHG. k[?]chen to breathe, G. keuchen to pant, and E. chincough, the first part of which is prob. akin to cough; cf. also E. choke.] To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ringdove \Ring"dove`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A European wild pigeon ({Columba palumbus}) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also {wood pigeon}, and {cushat}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cushat \Cush"at\ (k??sh"?t), n. [AS. cusceote.] (Zo[94]l.) The ringdove or wood pigeon. Scarce with cushat's homely song can vie. --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ringdove \Ring"dove`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A European wild pigeon ({Columba palumbus}) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also {wood pigeon}, and {cushat}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cushat \Cush"at\ (k??sh"?t), n. [AS. cusceote.] (Zo[94]l.) The ringdove or wood pigeon. Scarce with cushat's homely song can vie. --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cushite \Cush"ite\ (k?sh"?t), n. A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cycad \Cy"cad\ (s[imac]"k[acr]d), n. (Bot.) Any plant of the natural order {Cycadace[91]}, as the sago palm, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cyst \Cyst\ (s[icr]st), n. [Gr. ky`stis bladder, bag, pouch, fr. ky`ein to be pregnant. Cf. {Cyme}.] 1. (Med.) (a) A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ. (b) In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder. [Written also {cystis}.] 2. (Bot.) One of the bladders or air vessels of certain alg[91], as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds ({Fuci}) of our shores. --D. C. Eaton. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc. (b) A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See {Encystment}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cascade, IA (city, FIPS 11305) Location: 42.29906 N, 91.00985 W Population (1990): 1812 (696 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52033 Cascade, ID (city, FIPS 13150) Location: 44.51302 N, 116.04066 W Population (1990): 877 (478 housing units) Area: 8.1 sq km (land), 1.2 sq km (water) Cascade, MT (town, FIPS 12775) Location: 47.27070 N, 111.70247 W Population (1990): 729 (333 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 59421 Cascade, VA Zip code(s): 24069 Cascade, WI (village, FIPS 12825) Location: 43.65942 N, 88.00851 W Population (1990): 620 (220 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53011 Cascade, WV Zip code(s): 26542 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cascadia, OR Zip code(s): 97329 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cass City, MI (village, FIPS 13880) Location: 43.60247 N, 83.17517 W Population (1990): 2276 (941 housing units) Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48726 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cassatt, SC Zip code(s): 29032 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cassoday, KS (city, FIPS 10925) Location: 38.03871 N, 96.63687 W Population (1990): 95 (53 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66842 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Checotah, OK (city, FIPS 13650) Location: 35.47788 N, 95.52170 W Population (1990): 3290 (1517 housing units) Area: 21.2 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74426 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Choctaw, AR Zip code(s): 72028 Choctaw, OK (city, FIPS 14200) Location: 35.48237 N, 97.26537 W Population (1990): 8545 (3080 housing units) Area: 70.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73020 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cochiti, NM (CDP, FIPS 16560) Location: 35.60885 N, 106.34964 W Population (1990): 434 (158 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cohasset, CA Zip code(s): 95926 Cohasset, MA Zip code(s): 02025 Cohasset, MN Zip code(s): 55721 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cokato, MN (city, FIPS 12430) Location: 45.07676 N, 94.18937 W Population (1990): 2180 (876 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55321 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Coosada, AL (town, FIPS 17176) Location: 32.49583 N, 86.33019 W Population (1990): 912 (358 housing units) Area: 15.2 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cost, TX Zip code(s): 78614 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Costa, WV Zip code(s): 25051 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Coushatta, LA (town, FIPS 18055) Location: 32.02482 N, 93.34052 W Population (1990): 1845 (768 housing units) Area: 8.7 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cozad, NE (city, FIPS 11020) Location: 40.86292 N, 99.98649 W Population (1990): 3823 (1725 housing units) Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 69130 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cusseta, AL Zip code(s): 36852 Cusseta, GA (city, FIPS 21016) Location: 32.30396 N, 84.77756 W Population (1990): 1107 (476 housing units) Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31805 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
cascade n. 1. A huge volume of spurious error-message output produced by a compiler with poor error recovery. Too frequently, one trivial syntax error (such as a missing `)' or `}') throws the parser out of synch so that much of the remaining program text is interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed. 2. A chain of Usenet followups, each adding some trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message; an {include war} in which the object is to create a sort of communal graffito. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
cache hit from the {cache} without using the {main memory}. Opposite: {cache miss}. (1997-01-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
cascade 1. by a {compiler} with poor {error recovery}. Too frequently, one trivial {syntax} error (such as a missing ")" or "}") throws the {parser} out of synch so that much of the remaining program text, whether correct or not, is interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed. 2. trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message; an {include war} in which the object is to create a sort of communal graffito. 3. devices, typically {hub}s, that allows those devices to act together as a {logical} {repeater}. [{Jargon File}] (1997-07-17) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CAST {Computer Aided Software Testing} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
cast {explicit type conversion} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CAST {Computer Aided Software Testing} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
cast {explicit type conversion} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
COAST {Cache On A STick} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Castaway Gr. adokimos, (1 Cor. 9:27), one regarded as unworthy (R.V., "rejected"); elsewhere rendered "reprobate" (2 Tim. 3:8, etc.); "rejected" (Heb. 6:8, etc.). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Chesed gain, the son of Nahor (Gen. 22:22). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Chest (Heb. _'aron_, generally rendered "ark"), the coffer into which the contributions for the repair of the temple were put (2 Kings 12:9, 10; 2 Chr. 24:8, 10, 11). In Gen. 50:26 it is rendered "coffin." In Ezek. 27:24 a different Hebrew word, _genazim_ (plur.), is used. It there means "treasure-chests." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Cushite (1.) The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom (2 Sam. 18:32). (2.) The father of Shelemiah (Jer. 36:14). (3.) Son of Gedaliah, and father of the prophet Zephaniah (1:1). (4.) Moses married a Cushite woman (Num. 12:1). From this circumstance some have supposed that Zipporah was meant, and hence that Midian was Cush. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Chesed, as a devil, or a destroyer |