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   cackler
         n 1: a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk
         2: any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud
            incessant song; in some classifications considered members of
            the family Muscicapidae [syn: {babbler}, {cackler}]

English Dictionary: chiseler by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cajolery
n
  1. flattery intended to persuade [syn: blandishment, cajolery, palaver]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cecil Rhodes
n
  1. British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa; made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe; he endowed annual fellowships for British Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902)
    Synonym(s): Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Cecil J. Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chiseler
n
  1. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
    Synonym(s): swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chiseller
n
  1. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
    Synonym(s): swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cochlear
adj
  1. of or relating to the cochlea of the ear; "cochlear implant"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cochlearia
n
  1. a genus of the family Cruciferae [syn: Cochlearia, {genus Cochlearia}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cochlearia officinalis
n
  1. a widely distributed Arctic cress reputed to have value in treatment or prevention of scurvy; a concentrated source of vitamin C
    Synonym(s): scurvy grass, common scurvy grass, Cochlearia officinalis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cochlearius
n
  1. boatbills
    Synonym(s): Cochlearius, genus Cochlearius
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cochlearius cochlearius
n
  1. tropical American heron related to night herons [syn: boatbill, boat-billed heron, broadbill, Cochlearius cochlearius]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cycle rickshaw
n
  1. a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling); used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire; "boys who once pulled rickshaws now pedal pedicabs"
    Synonym(s): pedicab, cycle rickshaw
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cyclorama
n
  1. a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
    Synonym(s): panorama, cyclorama, diorama
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cackler \Cac"kler\, n.
      1. A fowl that cackles.
  
      2. One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cajoler \Ca*jol"er\, n.
      A flatterer; a wheedler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cajolery \Ca*jol"er*y\, n.; pl. {Cajoleries}.
      A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.
      [bd]Infamous cajoleries.[b8] --Evelyn.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cajolery \Ca*jol"er*y\, n.; pl. {Cajoleries}.
      A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.
      [bd]Infamous cajoleries.[b8] --Evelyn.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Case \Case\, n. [F. cas, fr. L. casus, fr. cadere to fall, to
      happen. Cf. {Chance}.]
      1. Chance; accident; hap; opportunity. [Obs.]
  
                     By aventure, or sort, or cas.            --Chaucer.
  
      2. That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an
            instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances;
            condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a
            case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.
  
                     In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge.
                                                                              --Deut. xxiv.
                                                                              13.
  
                     If the case of the man be so with his wife. --Matt.
                                                                              xix. 10.
  
                     And when a lady's in the case You know all other
                     things give place.                              --Gay.
  
                     You think this madness but a common case. --Pope.
  
                     I am in case to justle a constable,   --Shak.
  
      3. (Med. & Surg.) A patient under treatment; an instance of
            sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the
            history of a disease or injury.
  
                     A proper remedy in hypochondriacal cases.
                                                                              --Arbuthnot.
  
      4. (Law) The matters of fact or conditions involved in a
            suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit
            or action at law; a cause.
  
                     Let us consider the reason of the case, for nothing
                     is law that is not reason.                  --Sir John
                                                                              Powell.
  
                     Not one case in the reports of our courts. --Steele.
  
      5. (Gram.) One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of
            form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its
            relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute
            its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun
            sustains to some other word.
  
                     Case is properly a falling off from the nominative
                     or first state of word; the name for which, however,
                     is now, by extension of its signification, applied
                     also to the nominative.                     --J. W. Gibbs.
  
      Note: Cases other than the nominative are oblique cases. Case
               endings are terminations by which certain cases are
               distinguished. In old English, as in Latin, nouns had
               several cases distinguished by case endings, but in
               modern English only that of the possessive case is
               retained.
  
      {Action on the case} (Law), according to the old
            classification (now obsolete), was an action for redress
            of wrongs or injuries to person or property not specially
            provided against by law, in which the whole cause of
            complaint was set out in the writ; -- called also
            {trespass on the case}, or simply {case}.
  
      {All a case}, a matter of indifference. [Obs.] [bd]It is all
            a case to me.[b8] --L'Estrange.
  
      {Case at bar}. See under {Bar}, n.
  
      {Case divinity}, casuistry.
  
      {Case lawyer}, one versed in the reports of cases rather than
            in the science of the law.
  
      {Case} {stated [or] agreed on} (Law), a statement in writing
            of facts agreed on and submitted to the court for a
            decision of the legal points arising on them.
  
      {A hard case}, an abandoned or incorrigible person. [Colloq.]
           
  
      {In any case}, whatever may be the state of affairs; anyhow.
           
  
      {In case}, or {In case that}, if; supposing that; in the
            event or contingency; if it should happen that. [bd]In
            case we are surprised, keep by me.[b8] --W. Irving.
  
      {In good case}, in good condition, health, or state of body.
           
  
      {To put a case}, to suppose a hypothetical or illustrative
            case.
  
      Syn: Situation, condition, state; circumstances; plight;
               predicament; occurrence; contingency; accident; event;
               conjuncture; cause; action; suit.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cassel brown \Cas"sel brown\, Cassel earth \Cas"sel earth\ .
      A brown pigment of varying permanence, consisting of impure
      lignite. It was found originally near Cassel (now Kassel),
      Germany.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cochlear \Coch"le*ar\, a. (Anat.)
      Of or pertaining to the cochlea.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Scurvy grass} [Scurvy + grass; or cf. Icel. skarfak[be]l
            scurvy grass.] (Bot.) A kind of cress ({Cochlearia
            officinalis}) growing along the seacoast of Northern
            Europe and in arctic regions. It is a remedy for the
            scurvy, and has proved a valuable food to arctic
            explorers. The name is given also to other allied species
            of plants.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cochleary \Coch"le*a*ry\, a. [L. cochlearum penfor snails
      (meaning formerly given, snail shell). See {Cjchlea}.]
      Same as {Cochleate}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cockler \Coc"kler\, n.
      One who takes and sells cockles.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cocleariform \Coc`le*ar"i*form\, a. [Cochleare + -form.]
      Spoon-shaped.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Metonic \Me*ton"ic\, a. [Cf. F. m[82]tonique.]
      Pertaining to, or discovered by, Meton, the Athenian.
  
      {Metonic} {cycle [or] year}. (Astron.) See under {Cycle}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cyclorama \Cy`clo*ra"ma\ (s?`kl?-r?"m? [or] -r?"m?), n. [Cyclo-
      + Gr. "o`rama sight, spectacle.]
      A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the
      spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by
      things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by
      putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture,
      things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places
      only parts of these objects, the completion of them being
      carried out pictorially.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Paroquet \Par"o*quet`\, n. [F. perroquet, or Sp. periquito; both
      prob. orig. meaning, little Peter. See {Parrot}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Same as {Parrakeet}. [Written also {paroket}, {parroquet},
      and {perroquet}.]
  
      {Paroquet auk} [or] {auklet} (Zo[94]l.), a small auk
            ({Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus}) inhabiting the coast and
            islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under
            parts white, bill orange red. Called also {perroquet auk}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Chesilhurst, NJ (borough, FIPS 12550)
      Location: 39.73221 N, 74.87973 W
      Population (1990): 1526 (501 housing units)
      Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Cocol/R
  
      (Coco Language) A language for writing
      left-attributed {LL1 grammars}, used as the input language for
      the {Coco/R} LL1 {parser generators}, which produce {C++},
      {Pascal}, {Modula-2}, {Java} or {Oberon} {recursive-descent
      parsers} and associated {scanners} as output.
  
      Cocol/R is an improvement over the original {Cocol} and
      Cocol-2.
  
      [Moessenboeck, H., "A Generator for Fast Compiler Front-Ends",
      Report 127, Dept. Informatik, ETH Zurich, 1990].
  
      (1997-12-09)
  
  
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