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   cachectic
         adj 1: relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia

English Dictionary: coach station by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
case history
n
  1. detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
case shot
n
  1. a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm
    Synonym(s): case shot, canister, canister shot
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
case study
n
  1. a careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to its success or failure
  2. a detailed analysis of a person or group from a social or psychological or medical point of view
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Casey Stengel
n
  1. United States baseball manager (1890-1975) [syn: Stengel, Casey Stengel, Charles Dillon Stengel]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cassia acutifolia
n
  1. erect shrub having racemes of tawny yellow flowers; the dried leaves are used medicinally as a cathartic; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
    Synonym(s): Alexandria senna, Alexandrian senna, true senna, tinnevelly senna, Indian senna, Senna alexandrina, Cassia acutifolia, Cassia augustifolia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cassia occidentalis
n
  1. very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified in genus Cassia
    Synonym(s): coffee senna, mogdad coffee, styptic weed, stinking weed, Senna occidentalis, Cassia occidentalis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cassocked
adj
  1. dressed in a cassock; "cassocked monks"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
casuist
n
  1. someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious [syn: casuist, sophist]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
casuistic
adj
  1. of or relating to or practicing casuistry; "overly subtle casuistic reasoning"
    Synonym(s): casuistic, casuistical
  2. of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems
    Synonym(s): casuistic, casuistical
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
casuistical
adj
  1. of or relating to or practicing casuistry; "overly subtle casuistic reasoning"
    Synonym(s): casuistic, casuistical
  2. of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems
    Synonym(s): casuistic, casuistical
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
casuistry
n
  1. argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading
  2. moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Caucasoid
adj
  1. of or relating to Caucasian people [syn: Caucasian, Caucasoid]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Caucasoid race
n
  1. a light-skinned race [syn: White race, White people, Caucasoid race, Caucasian race]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cheese cutter
n
  1. a kitchen utensil (board or handle) with a wire for cutting cheese
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coach station
n
  1. a terminal that serves bus passengers [syn: bus terminal, bus depot, bus station, coach station]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cocoswood
n
  1. wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets
    Synonym(s): cocuswood, cocoswood, granadilla wood
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cocuswood
n
  1. wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets
    Synonym(s): cocuswood, cocoswood, granadilla wood
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coexist
v
  1. coexist peacefully, as of nations
  2. exist together
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coexistence
n
  1. existing peacefully together
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coexistent
adj
  1. existing at the same time [syn: coexistent, coexisting]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coexisting
adj
  1. existing at the same time [syn: coexistent, coexisting]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cookie cutter
n
  1. a kitchen utensil used to cut a sheet of cookie dough into desired shapes before baking
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cookie sheet
n
  1. a cooking utensil consisting of a flat rectangular metal sheet used for baking cookies or biscuits
    Synonym(s): cookie sheet, baking tray
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cookie-cutter
adj
  1. having the same appearance (as if mass-produced); "a suburb of cookie-cutter houses"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cachectic \Ca*chec"tic\, Cachectical \Ca*chec"tic*al\, a. [L.
      cachecticus, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?]: cf. F.
      cachectique.]
      Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies;
      cachectical blood. --Arbuthnot.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cachectic \Ca*chec"tic\, Cachectical \Ca*chec"tic*al\, a. [L.
      cachecticus, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?]: cf. F.
      cachectique.]
      Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies;
      cachectical blood. --Arbuthnot.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Case shot \Case" shot`\ (Mil.)
      A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or
      canister.
  
      Note: In the United States a case shot is a thin spherical or
               oblong cast-iron shell containing musket balls and a
               bursting charge, with a time fuse; -- called in Europe
               shrapnel. In Europe the term case shot is applied to
               what in the United States is called canister.
               --Wilhelm.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Degeneration \De*gen`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
      d[82]g[82]n[82]ration.]
      1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having
            become worse; decline; degradation; debasement;
            degeneracy; deterioration.
  
                     Our degeneration and apostasy.            --Bates.
  
      2. (Physiol.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which
            its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a
            substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure;
            as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
  
      3. (Biol.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of
            any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or
            organs; hereditary degradation of type.
  
      4. The thing degenerated. [R.]
  
                     Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations. --Sir
                                                                              T. Browne.
  
      {Amyloid degeneration}, {Caseous degeneration}, etc. See
            under {Amyloid}, {Caseous}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Caseous \Ca"se*ous\, a. [L. caseus. Cf. {Casein}.]
      Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the
      qualities of cheese; cheesy.
  
      {Caseous degeneration}, a morbid process, in scrofulous or
            consumptive persons, in which the products of inflammation
            are converted into a cheesy substance which is neither
            absorbed nor organized.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Styptic \Styp"tic\, a. [L. stypticus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to
      contract.]
      Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality
      of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part;
      astringent. [Written also {stiptic}.]
  
      {Styptic weed} (Bot.), an American leguminous herb ({Cassia
            occidentalis}) closely related to the wild senna.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cassocked \Cas"socked\, a.
      Clothed with a cassock.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Casuist \Cas"u*ist\, n. [L. casus fall, case; cf. F. casuiste.
      See {Casual}.]
      One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry.
  
               The judment of any casuist or learned divine concerning
               the state of a man's soul, is not sufficient to give
               him confidence.                                       --South.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Casuist \Cas"u*ist\, v. i.
      To play the casuist. --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Casuistic \Cas`u*is"tic\, Casuistieal \Cas`u*is"tie*al\, a.
      Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Casuistic \Cas`u*is"tic\, Casuistieal \Cas`u*is"tie*al\, a.
      Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Casuistry \Cas"u*ist*ry\, a.
      1. The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of
            conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in
            conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of
            what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the
            Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or
            from equity and natural reason; the application of general
            moral rules to particular cases.
  
                     The consideration of these nice and puzzling
                     question in the science of ethics has given rise, in
                     modern times, to a particular department of it,
                     distinguished by the title of casuistry. --Stewart.
  
                     Casuistry in the science of cases (i.e., oblique
                     deflections from the general rule).   --De Quincey.
  
      2. Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in
            regard to duties, obligations, and morals.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Caucus \Cau"cus\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caucused}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Caucusing}.]
      To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Choice \Choice\, a. [Compar. {Choicer}; superl. {Choicest}.]
      1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior;
            precious; valuable.
  
                     My choicest hours of life are lost.   --Swift.
  
      2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; --
            used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
  
      3. Selected with care, and due attention to preference;
            deliberately chosen.
  
                     Choice word measured phrase.               --Wordsworth.
  
      Syn: Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare;
               chary; careful/

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Choke-strap \Choke"-strap`\, n. (Saddlery)
      A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the
      collar, to keep the collar in place.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Chuck \Chuck\ (ch[ucr]k), n.
      1. A small pebble; -- called also {chuckstone} and
            {chuckiestone}. [Scot.]
  
      2. pl. A game played with chucks, in which one or more are
            tossed up and caught; jackstones. [Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mealy \Meal"y\, a. [Compar. {Mealier}; superl. {Mealiest}.]
      1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry,
            and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling
            meal; as, a mealy potato.
  
      2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the
            mealy wings of an insect. --Shak.
  
      {Mealy bug} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Coccus adonidum},
            and related species), covered with a white powderlike
            substance. It is a common pest in hothouses.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cocus wood \Co"cus wood`\
      A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical
      instruments.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coexecutor \Co`ex*ec"u*tor\, n.
      A joint executor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coexecutrix \Co`ex*ec"u*trix\, n.
      A joint executrix.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coexist \Co`ex*ist\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Coexisted}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Coexisting}.]
      To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with.
  
               Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than
               of certain simple ideas coexisting together. --Locke.
  
               So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so
               much decay and so many infirmities.         --Warburton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coexist \Co`ex*ist\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Coexisted}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Coexisting}.]
      To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with.
  
               Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than
               of certain simple ideas coexisting together. --Locke.
  
               So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so
               much decay and so many infirmities.         --Warburton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coexistence \Co`ex*ist"ence\, n.
      Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary
      existence.
  
               Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any
               condition.                                             --Jer. Taylor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coexistent \Co`ex*ist"ent\, a.
      Existing at the same time with another. -- n. That which
      coexists with another.
  
               The law of coexistent vibrations.            --Whewell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coexist \Co`ex*ist\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Coexisted}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Coexisting}.]
      To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with.
  
               Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than
               of certain simple ideas coexisting together. --Locke.
  
               So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so
               much decay and so many infirmities.         --Warburton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Coexisting \Co`ex*ist"ing\, a.
      Coexistent. --Locke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cozy \Co"zy\ (k?"z?), a. [Compar. {Cozier} (-z?-?r); superl.
      {Coziest}.] [Cf. Scot. cosie, cozie, prob. from Gael. cosach
      abounding in hollows, or cosagach full of holes or crevices,
      snug, sheltered, from cos a hollow, a crevice.]
      1. Snug; comfortable; easy; contented. [Written also {cosey}
            and {cosy}.]
  
      2. [Cf. F. causer to chat, talk.] Chatty; talkative;
            sociable; familiar. [Eng.]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Casas Adobes, AZ
      Zip code(s): 85704

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Cayuga Heights, NY (village, FIPS 13079)
      Location: 42.46907 N, 76.48685 W
      Population (1990): 3457 (1424 housing units)
      Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Chase City, VA (town, FIPS 14984)
      Location: 36.79917 N, 78.46130 W
      Population (1990): 2442 (1118 housing units)
      Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 23924

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Chichester, NY
      Zip code(s): 12416

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Cochecton Center, NY
      Zip code(s): 12727

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Cocoa West, FL (CDP, FIPS 13225)
      Location: 28.35768 N, 80.76987 W
      Population (1990): 6160 (2391 housing units)
      Area: 11.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Coshocton, OH (city, FIPS 18868)
      Location: 40.26367 N, 81.84964 W
      Population (1990): 12193 (5592 housing units)
      Area: 19.4 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 43812

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Coshocton County, OH (county, FIPS 31)
      Location: 40.30193 N, 81.91509 W
      Population (1990): 35427 (14964 housing units)
      Area: 1461.1 sq km (land), 9.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Cuyahoga Heights, OH (village, FIPS 19806)
      Location: 41.43615 N, 81.65330 W
      Population (1990): 682 (278 housing units)
      Area: 8.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   case statement
  
      {switch statement}
  
  
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