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   cadaster
         n 1: a public register showing the details of ownership and
               value of land; made for the purpose of taxation [syn:
               {cadaster}, {cadastre}]

English Dictionary: Coyote State by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cadastral
adj
  1. of or relating to the records of a cadastre
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cadastre
n
  1. a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation
    Synonym(s): cadaster, cadastre
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cat suit
n
  1. a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance
    Synonym(s): leotard, unitard, body suit, cat suit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cat's-tail
n
  1. tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa
    Synonym(s): cat's-tail, bullrush, bulrush, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Catasetum
n
  1. genus of tropical American orchids having showy male and female flowers usually on separate inflorescences
    Synonym(s): Catasetum, genus Catasetum
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Catasetum macrocarpum
n
  1. orchid having both male and female flowers in the same raceme; when a sensitive projection at the base of the column of the male flower is touched the pollen is suddenly ejected
    Synonym(s): jumping orchid, Catasetum macrocarpum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
catastrophe
n
  1. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
    Synonym(s): calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
  2. a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster"
    Synonym(s): catastrophe, disaster
  3. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
    Synonym(s): catastrophe, cataclysm
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
catastrophic
adj
  1. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"
    Synonym(s): catastrophic, ruinous
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catastrophic illness
n
  1. severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines
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catastrophically
adv
  1. with unfortunate consequences; "catastrophically complex"
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catch it
v
  1. receive punishment; be scolded or reprimanded; "I really caught it the other day!"
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catch out
v
  1. trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act; "He was caught out"; "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks"
    Synonym(s): find out, catch out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
catchweed
n
  1. annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
    Synonym(s): cleavers, clivers, goose grass, catchweed, spring cleavers, Galium aparine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
catechetic
adj
  1. of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism; "the catechistic method"
    Synonym(s): catechistic, catechetic
  2. of or relating to or involving catechesis
    Synonym(s): catechetical, catechetic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
catechetical
adj
  1. of or relating to or involving catechesis [syn: catechetical, catechetic]
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catechetical instruction
n
  1. teaching religious principles by questions and answers
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catgut
n
  1. perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone
    Synonym(s): catgut, goat's rue, wild sweet pea, Tephrosia virginiana
  2. a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery
    Synonym(s): catgut, gut
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cathect
v
  1. inject with libidinal energy
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cathectic
adj
  1. of or relating to cathexis
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catostomid
n
  1. a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Catostomidae
n
  1. suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae [syn: Catostomidae, family Catostomidae]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Catostomus
n
  1. type genus of the family Catostomidae [syn: Catostomus, genus Catostomus]
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cautious statement
n
  1. a statement made with careful qualifications
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chaotic attractor
n
  1. an attractor for which the approach to its final point in phase space is chaotic
    Synonym(s): strange attractor, chaotic attractor
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chit chat
n
  1. light informal conversation for social occasions [syn: chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin- wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chit-chat
n
  1. light informal conversation for social occasions [syn: chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin- wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie]
v
  1. talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
    Synonym(s): chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chitchat
n
  1. light informal conversation for social occasions [syn: chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin- wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie]
v
  1. talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
    Synonym(s): chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
city state
n
  1. a state consisting of a sovereign city [syn: city state, city-state]
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city-state
n
  1. a state consisting of a sovereign city [syn: city state, city-state]
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co-educate
v
  1. educate persons of both sexes together [syn: co-educate, coeducate]
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coadjutor
n
  1. an assistant to a bishop
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coat stand
n
  1. an upright pole with pegs or hooks on which to hang clothing
    Synonym(s): clothes tree, coat tree, coat stand
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coeducate
v
  1. educate persons of both sexes together [syn: co-educate, coeducate]
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coeducation
n
  1. education of men and women in the same institutions
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coeducational
adj
  1. attended by members of both sexes [syn: co-ed, coeducational]
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Cotes de Provence
n
  1. a wine from southeastern France on the Mediterranean coast
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cottage dweller
n
  1. someone who lives in a cottage [syn: cottager, {cottage dweller}]
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cottage tent
n
  1. a tent providing shelter for a family
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cottage tulip
n
  1. any of several long-stemmed tulips that flower in May; have egg-shaped variously colored flowers
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Coyote State
n
  1. a state in north central United States [syn: {South Dakota}, Coyote State, Mount Rushmore State, SD]
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cutty stool
n
  1. a low stool; formerly in Scotland, a seat in a church where an offender was publicly rebuked
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cytostome
n
  1. mouth of a protozoan
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Catastaltic \Cat`a*stal"tic\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to check;
      kata` down, wholy + [?] to set.] (Med.)
      Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Catastrophic \Cat`a*stroph"ic\, a.
      Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. --B. Powell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Catastrophist \Ca*tas"tro*phist\, n. (Geol.)
      One who holds the theory or catastrophism.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Catch title \Catch title\
      A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists,
      etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Catchwater \Catch"wa`ter\, n.
      A ditch or drain for catching water. See {Catchdrain}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Catchweed \Catch"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
      See {Cleavers}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Catchweed \Catch"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
      See {Cleavers}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Catechetically \Cat`e*chet"ic*al*ly\, adv.
      In a catechetical manner; by question and answer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Catechetics \Cat`e*chet"ics\, n.
      The science or practice of instructing by questions and
      answers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cato-cathartic \Cat`o-ca*thar"tic\, n. [Gr. [?] down + [?]
      serving to purge. See {Cathartic}.] (Med.)
      A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cat's-tail \Cat's"-tail\, n.
      See {Timothy}, {Cat-tail}, {Cirrus}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Catstick \Cat"stick`\, n.
      A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or
      tipcat. --Massinger.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Catstitch \Cat"stitch\, v. t. (Needlework)
      To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Chidester \Chide"ster\, n. [Chide + -ster.]
      A female scold. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Chitchat \Chit"chat\, n. [From {Chat}, by way of reduplication.]
      Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coadjutant \Co*ad"ju*tant\, a.
      Mutually assisting or operating; helping. --J. Philips.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coadjutant \Co*ad"ju*tant\, n.
      An assistant. --R. North.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coadjuting \Co*ad"ju*ting\, a.
      Mutually assisting. [Obs.] --Drayton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coadjutive \Co*ad"ju*tive\, a.
      Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant. --Feltham.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coadjutorship \Co`ad*ju"tor*ship\, n.
      The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance. --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coadjutress \Co`ad*ju"tress\, Coadjutrix \Co`ad*ju"trix\, n.
      A female coadjutor or assistant. --Holland. Smollett.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coadjutress \Co`ad*ju"tress\, Coadjutrix \Co`ad*ju"trix\, n.
      A female coadjutor or assistant. --Holland. Smollett.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Codist \Co"dist\, n.
      A codifier; a maker of codes. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coeducation \Co*ed`u*ca"tion\ (?; 135), n.
      An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or
      races.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   {Co*ed`u*ca"tion*al}, a.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cotised \Cot"ised\ (-?st), a. (Her.)
      See {Cottised}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cottaged \Cot"taged\ (-t?jd), a.
      Set or covered with cottages.
  
               Even humble Harting's cottaged vale.      --Collins.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coyote State \Coyote State\
      South Dakota; -- a nickname.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   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)
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