Carvel – Catechetically

Carvel

CARVEL, noun

1. A small vessel on the coast of France, used in the herring fishery. These vessels are usually from 25 to 30 tons burden.

2. A light, round, old-fashioned ship.

Carver

CARVER, noun

1. One who cuts meat at tale; a sculptor; one who apportions or distributes at will, or one who takes or gives at pleasure.

2. A large table knife for carving.

Carving

CARVING, participle present tense Cutting, dividing, as meat; cutting in stone, wood or metal; apportioning; distributing.

CARVING, noun The act of cutting, as meat; the act or art of cutting figures in wood or stone; sculpture; figures carved.

Caryates

CARYATES,

CARYATIC, adjective Pertaining to the Caryans or Caryatides.

Caryatic

CARYATIC, a. Pertaining to the Caryans or Caryatides.

Caryatides

CARYATIDES, noun In architecture, figures of women dressed in long robes, after the Asiatic manner, serving to support entablatures. The Athenians had been long at war with the Caryans; the latter being at length vanquished and their wives led captive, the Greeks, to perpetuate this event, erected trophies, in which figures of women, dressed in the Caryatic manner, were used to support entablatures. Other female figures were afterwards used in the same manner, but they were called by the same name.

They were called caryatides from Carya, a city in the Peloponnesus, which sided with the Persians, and on that account was sacked by the other Greeks, its males butchered, and its females reduced to slavery.

Caryon

CARYON, verb intransitive

1. To sketch with a crayon. Hence,

2. To sketch; to plan; to commit to paper ones first thoughts.

Caryophylleous

CARYOPHYLLEOUS, noun Having five petals with long claws, in a tubular calyx; applied to flowers.

Caryophylloid

CARYOPHYLLOID, noun A species of mica, the scales of which are concentric and perpendicular.

Casarca

CASARCA, noun A fowl of the genus Anas, called also ruddy-goose, larger than a mallard, found in Russia and Siberia.

Cascabel

CASCABEL, noun The knob or pummelion of a cannon.

Cascade

CASCADE, noun A waterfall; a steep fall or flowing of water over a precipice, in a river or natural stream; or an artificial fall in a garden. The word is applied to falls that are less than a cataract.

Cascalho

CASCALHO, noun In Brazil, a deposit of pebbles, gravel and sand in which the diamond is usually found.

Case

CASE, noun

1. A covering, box or sheath; that which incloses or contains; as a case for knives; a case for books; a watch case; a printers case; a pillow case

2. The outer part of a building.

3. A certain quantity; as a case of crown glass.

4. A building unfurnished.

CASE, verb transitive

1. To cover with a case; to surround with any material that shall inclose or defend.

2. To put in a case or box.

3. To strip off a case covering, or the skin.

CASE, noun Literally, that which falls, comes, or happens; an event. Hence, the particular state, condition, or circumstances that befall a person, or in which he is placed; as, make the case your own; this is the case with my friend; this is his present case

2. The state of the body, with respect to health or disease; as a case of fever; he is in a consumptive case; his case is desperate.

To be in good case is to be fat, and this phrase is customarily abridged, to be in case; applied to beasts, but not to men, except in a sense rather ludicrous.

3. A question; a state of facts involving a question for discussion or decision; as, the lawyer stated the case

4. A cause or suit in court; as, the case was tried at the last term. In this sense, case is nearly synonymous with cause, whose primary sense is nearly the same.

5. In grammar, the inflection of nouns, or a change of termination, to express a difference of relation in the word to others, or to the thing represented. The variation of nouns and adjectives is called declension; both case and declension signifying, falling or leaning from the first state of the word. Thus, liber is a book; libri, of a book; libro, to a book. In other words, case denotes a variation in the termination of a noun, to show how the noun acts upon the verb with which it is connected, or is acted upon by it, or by an agent. The cases, except the nominative, are called oblique cases.

In case is a phrase denoting condition or supposition; literally, in the event or contingency; if it should so fall out or happen.

Put the case suppose the event, or a certain state of things.

Action on the case in law, is an action in which the whole cause of complaint is set out in the writ.

CASE, verb intransitive To put cases.

Case-Harden

CASE-HARDEN, verb transitive To harden the outer part or superficies, as of iron, by converting it into steel. This may be done by putting the iron into an iron box, with a cement, and exposing it, for some hours, to a red heat.

Case-Knife

CASE-KNIFE, noun A large table knife, often kept in a case.

Case-Worm

CASE-WORM, noun A worm that makes itself a case.

Cased

CASED, participle passive Covered with a case.

Caseic

CASEIC, adjective The caseic acid is the acid of cheese, or a substance so called, extracted from cheese.

Casemate

CASEMATE, noun

1. In fortification, a vault of masons work in the flank of a bastion, next to the curtain, somewhat inclined toward the capital of the bastion, serving as a battery to defend the face of the opposite bastion, and the moat or ditch.

2. A well, with its subterraneous branches, dug in the passage of the bastion, till the miner is heard at work, and air given to the mine.

Casement

CASEMENT, noun

1. A hollow molding, usually one sixth or one fourth of a circle.

2. A little movable window, usually within a large, made to turn and open on hinges.

Caseous

CASEOUS, adjective Like cheese; having the qualities of cheese.

Casern

CASERN, noun A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart, containing each two beds.

Caseshot

CASESHOT, noun Musket balls, stones, old iron, etc., put in cases, to be discharged from cannon.

Cash

CASH, noun Money; primarily, ready money, money in chest or on hand, in bank or at command. It is properly silver and gold; but since the institution of banks, it denotes also bank notes equivalent to money. To pay in cash is opposed to payment in goods, commodities, or labor, as in barter.

CASH, verb transitive

1. To turn into money, or to exchange for money; as, to cash a note or an order.

2. To pay money for; as, the clerks of a bank cash notes when presented.

CASH, verb transitive To discard.

Cash-Account

CASH-ACCOUNT, noun An account of money received, paid, or on hand.

Cash-Book

CASH-BOOK, noun A book in which is kept a register or account of money.

Cash-Keeper

CASH-KEEPER, noun One entrusted with the keeping of money.

Cashew-Nut

CASHEW-NUT, noun A tree of the West-Indies, Anacardium, bearing a kidney-shaped nut. The fruit is as large as an orange, and full of an acid juice, which is often used to make punch. To the apex of this fruit grows a nut, of the size of a hares kidney, the shell of which is hard, and the kernel, which is sweet, is covered with a thin film.

Cashier

CASHIER, noun One who has charge of money; as cash-keeper. In a banking institution, the cashier is the officer who superintends the books, payments and receipts of the bank. He also signs or countersigns the notes, and superintends all the transactions, under the order of the directors.

CASHIER, verb transitive

1. To dismiss from an office or place of trust, by annulling the commission; to break, as for mal-conduct, and therefore with reproach; as, to cashier an officer of the army.

2. To dismiss or discard from service or from society.

3. To reject; to annul or vacate.

Cashiered

CASHIERED, participle passive Dismissed; discarded; annulled.

Cashierer

CASHIERER, noun One who rejects discards or breaks; as a cashierer of monarchs.

Cashiering

CASHIERING, participle present tense Discarding; dismissing from service.

Cashoo

CASHOO, noun The juice or gum of a tree in the East Indies.

Casing

CASING, participle present tense Covering with a case.

CASING, noun

1. The act or operation of plastering a house with mortar on the outside, and striking it while wet, by a ruler, with the corner of a trowel, to make it resemble the joints of free-stone.

2. A covering; a case.

Cask

CASK, noun A head-piece; a helmet; a piece of defensive armor, to cover and protect the head and neck, in battle.

CASK, noun A close vessel for containing liquors, formed by staves, heading and hoops. This is a general term comprehending the pipe, hogshead, butt, barrel, etc.

Casket

CASKET, noun

1. A small chest or box, for jewels or other small articles.

2. In seamens language, a small rope, fastened to gromets or little rings upon the yards, used to fasten the sail to the yard in furling.

This is usually written gasket.

Caspian

CASPIAN, adjective An epithet given to a large lake between Persia and Astracan, called the caspian Sea.

Cass

CASS, verb transitive To quash; to defeat; to annul.

Cassada

CASSADA,

CASSAMUNAIR, noun An aromatic vegetable brought from the east.

Cassate

CASSATE, verb transitive To vacate, annul, or make void.

Cassation

CASSATION, noun The act of annulling. In France there is a court of cassation

Cassavi

CASSAVI, noun A plant, of the genus Jatropha, of different species. The roots of the manihot or bitter cassada, and of the janipha, are made into a kind of bread which serves for food to the natives of Africa and the West Indies, and they are also roasted and eaten like potatoes. They yield also a great quantity of starch, which the Brasilians export in small lumps under the name of tapioca.

Cassia

CASSIA, noun A genus of plants of many species, among which are the fistula, or purging cassia and the senna. The former is a native of Egypt and both Indies; the latter is a native of Persia, Syria and Arabia. The latter is a shrubby plant, the leaves of which are much used in medicine. The purging cassia is the pulp of the pods, and is a gentle laxative.

CASSIA is also the name of a species of Laurus, the bark of which usually passes under the name of cinnamon, differing from real cinnamon chiefly in the strength of its qualities. From a plant of this kind was extracted an aromatic oil, used as a perfume by the Jews.

Cassidony

CASSIDONY, noun A species of plant, Gnaphalium, cotton-weed, cudweed or goldylocks; also, Lavandula stoechas or French lavender.

Cassimer

CASSIMER, noun A thin twilled woolen cloth.

Cassino

CASSINO, noun A game at cards.

Cassiobury

CASSIOBURY, noun A species of plant, of the genus Cassine, of which the most remarkable species is the Yapon of the Southern States of America. The berries are of a beautiful red color.

The Yapon is now arranged in the genus Ilex.

Cassiopeia

CASSIOPEIA, noun A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, situated near to Cepheus, as the fabulous cassiopeia was wife to Cepheus, king of Ethiopia. It contains fifty five stars.

Cassiteria

CASSITERIA, noun A kind of crystals which appear to have an admixture of tin. The color is brown or whitish.

Cassock

CASSOCK, noun A robe or gown worn over the other garments, particularly by the clergy. A close garment, now generally that which clergymen wear under their gowns.

Cassocked

CASSOCKED, adjective Clothed with a cassock. The cassockd huntsman.

Cassonade

CASSONADE, noun Cask-sugar; sugar not refined.

Cassowary

CASSOWARY, noun A large fowl of the genus Struthio, nearly as large as the ostrich, but its legs are thicker and stronger in proportion. The wings are so small as not to appear, being hid under the feathers. The head is armed with a helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates one over another. It runs with great rapidity, outstripping the swiftest racer. It is now arranged in a separate genus, Casuarius.

Cast

CAST, verb transitive preterit tense And participle passive cast

1. To throw, fling or send; that is, to drive from, by force, as from the hand, or from an engine.

Hagar cast the child under a shrub. Genesis 21:10.

Uzziah prepared slings to cast stones. 2 Chronicles 26:14.

2. To sow; to scatter seed.

If a man should cast seen into the ground. Mark 4:26.

3. To drive or impel by violence.

A mighty west wind cast the locusts into the sea. Exodus 10:19.

4. To shed or throw off; as, trees cast their fruit; a serpent casts his skin.

5. To throw or let fall; as, to cast anchor. Hence, to east anchor is to moor, as a ship, the effect of casting the anchor.

6. To throw, as dice or lots; as, to cast lots.

7. To throw on the ground, as in wrestling.

8. To throw away, as worthless.

His carcase was cast in the way. 1 Kings 13:24.

9. To emit or throw out.

This casts a sulphurous smell.

10. To throw, to extend, as a trench or rampart, including the sense of digging, raising, or forming.

Thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee. Luke 19:35.

11. To thrust; as, to cast into prison.

12. To put, or set, in a particular state.

Both chariot and horse were cast into a dead sleep. Psalms 76:6.

13. To condemn; to convict; as a criminal.

Both tried and both were cast

14. To overcome in a civil suit, or in any contest of strength or skill; as, to cast the defendant or an antagonist.

15. To cashier or discard.

16. To lay aside, as unfit for use; to reject; as a garment.

17. To make to preponderate; to throw into one scale, for the purpose of giving it superior weight; to decide by a vote that gives a superiority in numbers; as, to cast the balance in ones favor; a casting vote or voice.

18. To throw together several particulars, to find the sum; as, to cast accounts. Hence, to throw together circumstances and facts, to find the result; to compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast the event of war.

To cast and see how many things there are which a man cannot do himself.

19. To contrive; to plan.

20. To judge, or to consider, in order to judge.

21. To fix, or distribute the parts of a play among the actors.

22. To throw, as the sight; to direct, or turn, as the eye; to glance; as, to cast a look, or glance, or the eye.

23. To found; to form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal into a mold; to run; as, to cast cannon.

Thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it. Exodus 25:12.

24. Figuratively, to shape; to form by a model.

25. To communicate; to spread over; as, to cast a luster upon posterity; to cast splendor upon actions, or light upon a subject.

To cast aside, to dismiss or reject as useless or inconvenient.

To cast away, to reject. Leviticus 26:30. Isaiah 5:24. Romans 11:1. Also, to throw away; to lavish or waste by profusion; to turn to no use; as, to cast away life.

Also, to wreck, as a ship.

To cast by, to reject; to dismiss or discard with neglect or hate, or as useless.

To cast down, to throw down; to deject or depress the mind.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul. Psalms 42:5.

To cast forth, to throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit, or send abroad; to exhale.

To cast off, to discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to put away; to disburden. Among huntsmen, to leave behind, as dogs; to set loose, or free. Among seamen, to loose, or untie.

To cast out, to send forth; to reject or turn out; to throw out, as words; to speak or give vent to.

To cast up, to compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast up accounts, or the cost. Also, to eject; to vomit.

To cast on, to refer or resign to.

To cast ones self on, to resign or yield ones self to the disposal of, without reserve.

To cast young, to miscarry; to suffer abortion. Genesis 31:38.

To cast in the teeth, to upbraid; to charge; to twit. So in Danish, kaster in I noesen, to cast in the nose.

CAST, verb intransitive

1. To throw forward, as the thoughts, with a view to some determination; or to turn or revolve in the mind; to contrive; sometimes followed by about.

I cast in careful mind to seek her out. Spenser.

To cast about how to perform or obtain. Bacon.

2. To receive form or shape.

Metal will cast and mold.

3. To warp; to twist from regular shape.

Stuff is said to cast or warp, when it alters its flatness or straightness.

Note. cast like throw and warp, implies a winding motion.

4. In seamens language, to fall off, or incline, so as to bring the side of a ship to the wind; applied particularly to a ship riding with her head to the wind, when her anchor is first loosened.

CAST, noun

1. The act of casting; a throw; the thing thrown; the form or state of throwing; kind or manner of throwing.

2. The distance passed by a thing thrown; or the space through which a thing thrown may ordinarily pass; as, about a stones cast Luke 22:41.

3. A stroke; a touch.

This was a cast of Woods politics.

4. Motion or turn of the eye; direction, look or glance; a squinting.

Thy let you see by one cast of the eye.

5. A throw of dice; hence, a state of chance or hazard.

It is an even cast whether the army should march this way or that way.

Hence the phrase, the last cast is used to denote that all is ventured on one throw, or one effort.

6. Form; shape.

A heroic poem in another cast

7. A tinge; a slight coloring, or slight degree of a color; as a cast of green. Hence, a slight alteration in external appearance.

The native hue of resolution is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought. Shak.

8. Manner; air; mien; as, a peculiar cast of countenance. This sense implies, the turn or manner of throwing; as, the neat cast f verse.

9. A flight; a number of hawks let go at once.

10. A small statue of bronze.

11. Among founders, a tube of wax, fitted into a mold, to give shape to metal.

12. A cylindrical piece of brass or copper, slit in two lengthwise, to form a canal or conduit, in a mold, for conveying metal.

13. Among plumbers, a little brazen funnel, at one end of a mold, for casting pipes without sodering, by means of which the melted metal is poured into the mold.

14. A breed, race, lineage, kind, sort.

15. In Hindoostan, a tribe or class of the same rank or profession; as the cast of Bramins, or priests; of rajahs, or princes; of choutres, or artificers; and of parias, or poor people. Or according to some writers, of Bramins; of cuttery, or soldiers; of shuddery, or merchants; and of wyse, or mechanics.

The four casts of the Hindoos are the Brahmins or sacred order; the Chechteres or soldiers and rulers; the Bice, Vaissya, or husbandmen and merchants; and the Sooders, Sudras, or laborers and mechanics.

16. A trick.

Castalian

CASTALIAN, adjective Pertaining to Castalia, a cool spring on Parnassus, sacred to the muses; as castalian fount.

Castanet

CASTANET, noun An instrument of music formed of small concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, placed together, fastened to the thumb and beat with the middle finger. This instrument is used by the Spaniards, Moors and Bohemians, as an accompaniment to their dances, sarabands and guitars.

Castaway

CASTAWAY, noun That which is thrown away. A person abandoned by God, as unworthy of his favor; a reprobate. 1 Corinthians 9:27.

CASTAWAY, adjective Rejected; useless; of no value.

Casted

CASTED, participle passive For cast, is not in use.

Castellan

CASTELLAN, noun A governor or constable of a castle. In Poland, the name of a dignity or charge; a kind of lieutenant of a province, commanding part of a palatinate under a palatine. The castellans are senators, of the lower class, sitting, in the diets, on low seats behind the palatines.

Castellany

CASTELLANY, noun [See Castle.] The lordship belonging to a castle; or the extent, of its land and jurisdiction.

Castellated

CASTELLATED, adjective

1. Inclosed in a building, as a fountain or cistern.

2. Adorned with turrets, and battlements, like a castle.

Castellation

CASTELLATION, noun The act of fortifying a house and rendering it a castle.

Caster

CASTER, noun

1. One who throws or casts; one who computes; a calculator; one who calculates fortunes.

2. A small phial or vessel for the table; as a set of casters.

3. A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is cast, or rolled, on the floor.

Castigate

CASTIGATE, verb transitive To chastise; to punish by stripes; to correct; to chasten; to check.

Castigated

CASTIGATED, participle passive Punished; corrected.

Castigating

CASTIGATING, participle present tense Punishing; correcting; chastising.

Castigation

CASTIGATION, noun

1. Punishment; correction; penance; discipline; emendation; restraint.

2. Among the Romans, a military punishment inflicted on offenders, by beating with a wand or switch.

Castigator

CASTIGATOR, noun One who corrects.

Castigatory

CASTIGATORY, adjective Tending to correction; corrective; punitive.

CASTIGATORY, noun An engine formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds, called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.

Castile-Soap

CASTILE-SOAP, noun A kind of pure, refined soap.

Castilian

CASTILIAN, adjective Pertaining to Castile in Spain.

CASTILIAN, noun An inhabitant or native of Castile in Spain.

Casting

CASTING, participle present tense Throwing; sending; computing; calculating; turning; giving a preponderancy; deciding; running, or throwing into a mold to give shape. [See Cast.]

CASTING, noun

1. The act of casting or founding.

2. That which is cast in a mold; any vessel formed by casting melted metal into a mold, or in sand.

3. The taking of casts and impressions of figures, busts, medals, etc.

Casting-Net

CASTING-NET, noun A net which is cast and drawn, in distinction from a net that is set and left.

Casting-Voice

CASTING-VOICE, noun The vote of a presiding officer, in an assembly or council, which decides a question, when the votes of the assembly or house are equally divided between the affirmative and negative.

When there was an equal vote, the Governor had the casting voice.

Casting-Vote

CASTING-VOTE,

CASTLE, noun

1. A house fortified for defense against an enemy; a fortress. The term seems to include the house and the walls or other works around it. In old writers, the word is used for a town or village fortified.

2. The house or mansion of a nobleman or prince.

3. In a ship, there are two parts called by this name; the forecastle, a short deck in the fore part of the ship, above the upper deck; and the hindcastle, at the stern.

Castle in the air, a visionary project; a scheme that has no solid foundation.

CASTLE, verb transitive In the game of chess, to cover the king with a castle, by a certain move.

Castle

CASTLE, n. 1. A house fortified for defense against an enemy; a fortress. The term seems to include the house and the walls or other works around it. In old writers, the word is used for a town or village fortified.2. The house or mansion of a nobleman or prince.3. In a ship, there are two parts called by this name; the forecastle, a short deck in the fore part of the ship, above the upper deck; and the hindcastle, at the stern.Castle in the air, a visionary project; a scheme that has no solid foundation. CASTLE, v.t. In the game of chess, to cover the king with a castle, by a certain move.

Castle-Builder

CASTLE-BUILDER, noun One who forms visionary schemes.

CASTLE-BUILDER, noun The act of building castles in the air.

Castle-Crowned

CASTLE-CROWNED, adjective Crowned with a castle.

Castle-Guard

CASTLE-GUARD, noun A feudal tenure, or knight service, which obliged the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.

Castle-Ward

CASTLE-WARD, noun An imposition laid upon subjects dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in the castle.

Castled

CASTLED, adjective Furnished with castles; as a castled elephant.

Castlery

CASTLERY, noun The government of a castle.

Castlet

CASTLET, noun A small castle.

Castling

CASTLING, noun An abortion or abortive.

Castor

CASTOR, noun

1. A beaver, an amphibious quadruped, with a flat ovate tail, short ears, a blunt nose, small fore feet, and large hind feet.

2. A reddish brown substance of a strong penetrating smell, taken from bags or cods in the groin of the beaver; a powerful antispasmodic.

3. In astronomy, a moiety of the constellation Gemini, called also Apollo.

CASTOR and Pollux, in meterology, a fiery meteor, which, at sea, appears sometimes adhering to a part of a ship, in the form of one, two and even three or four balls. When one is seen alone, it is called Helena, which portends that the severest part of the storm is yet to come. Two appearing at once are denominated castor and Pollux, or Tyndaridoe, and portend a cessation of the storm.

Castor-Oil

CASTOR-OIL, noun The oil of the Ricinus, or Palma Christi, a plant of the West Indies, which grows to the highth of twenty feet, in one season. The oil is obtained from the nuts or seeds by expression or decoction. That obtained by decoction is preferred, as less liable to become rancid, being free from the mucilage and acrid matter, which is mixed with the oil when expressed. It is a mild cathartic.

Castorin

CASTORIN,

CASTORINE, noun An animal principle discovered in castor, and prepared by boiling castor in six times its weight of alcohol, and filtering the liquor. From this is deposited the castorin

Castorine

CASTORINE, n. An animal principle discovered in castor, and prepared by boiling castor in six times its weight of alcohol, and filtering the liquor. From this is deposited the Castorin.

Castrametation

CASTRAMETATION, noun The art or act of encamping; the marking or laying out of a camp.

Castrate

CASTRATE, verb transitive

1. To geld; to deprive of the testicles; to emasculate.

2. To take away or retrench, as the obscene parts of a writing.

3. To take out a leaf or sheet from a book, and render it imperfect.

Castrated

CASTRATED, participle passive Gelded; emasculated; purified from obscene expressions.

Castrating

CASTRATING, participle present tense Gelding; taking away the obscene parts of a writing.

Castration

CASTRATION, noun The act of gelding; the act or practice of making eunuchs; the act of taking away the obscene parts of a writing; the act of taking out a leaf or sheet of a book. In botany, the cutting off of the anthers, or tops of the stamens of flowers, before the ripening of the pollen.

Castrato

CASTRATO, noun A male person emasculated for the purpose of improving his voice for a singer.

Castrel

CASTREL or KESTREL, noun A kind of hawk, resembling the lanner in shape and the hobby in size.

Castrensian

CASTRENSIAN, adjective Belonging to a camp.

Casual

CASUAL, adjective

1. Falling; happening or coming to pass without design in the person or persons affected, and without being foreseen, or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance; as, the parties had a casual rencounter.

2. Occasional; coming at certain times, without regularity, in distinction from stated, or regular; as casual expenses.

3. Taking place, or beginning to exist without an efficient intelligent cause, and without design.

Atheists assert that the existence of things is casual

Casually

CASUALLY, adverb Accidentally; fortuitously; without design; by chance.

Casualness

CASUALNESS, noun Accidentalness; the quality of being casual.

Casualty

CASUALTY, noun

1. Accident; that which comes by chance or without design, or without being foreseen; contingency.

2. An accident that produces unnatural death; and by a metonymy, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident.

3. In Scots law, an emolument due from a vassal to his superior, beyond the stated yearly duties, upon certain casual events.

Casuist

CASUIST, noun One who studies and resolves cases of conscience.

The judgment of any casuist or leaned divine is not sufficient to give him confidence.

CASUIST, verb intransitive To play the part of a casuist

Casuistic

CASUISTIC,

CASUISTICAL, adjective Relating to cases of conscience, or to cases of doubtful propriety.

Casuistical

CASUISTICAL, a. Relating to cases of conscience, or to cases of doubtful propriety.

Casuistry

CASUISTRY, noun The science or doctrine of cases of conscience; the science of resolving cases of doubtful propriety, or of 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 from equity and natural reason.

Casus foederia. The case stipulated by treaty; that which comes within the terms of compact.

Cat

CAT, noun

1. A name applied to certain species of carnivorous quadrupeds, of the genus Felis. The domestic cat needs no description. It is a deceitful animal, and when enraged, extremely spiteful. It is kept in houses, chiefly for the purpose of catching rats and mice. The wild cat is much larger than the domestic cat It is a strong, ferocious animal, living in the forest, and very destructive to poultry and lambs.

The wild cat of Europe is of the same species with the domestic cat; the catamount, of noun America, is much larger and a distinct species.

2. A ship formed on the Norwegian model, having a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and a deep waist. It is strong built, from four to six hundred tons burthen, and employed in the coal trade.

3. A strong tackle or combination of pulleys, to hook and draw an anchor perpendicularly up to the cat-head of a ship.

4. A double tripod having six feet.

CAT of nine tails, an instrument of punishment, consisting of nine pieces of line or cord fastened to a piece of thick rope, and having three knots at intervals, used to flog offenders on board of ships.

Cat-Block

CAT-BLOCK, noun A two or three fold block with an iron strop and large hook, used to draw up an anchor to the cat-head.

Cat-Eyed

CAT-EYED, adjective Having eyes like a cat.

Cat-Fish

CAT-FISH, noun A species of the Squalus, or shark. The cat-fish of the noun American rivers is a species of Cottus, or bull-head.

Cat-Gut

CAT-GUT, noun The intestines of sheep or lambs, dried and twisted together, used as strings for violins and other instruments, and for other purposes. Great quantities are imported from Lyons and Italy.

Cat-Harpings

CAT-HARPINGS, noun Ropes serving to brace in the shrouds of the lower masts behind their respective yards, to tighten the shrouds and give more rom to draw in the yards, when the whip is close hauled.

Cat-Head

CAT-HEAD, noun A strong beam projecting horizontally horizontally over a ships bows, carrying two or three sheaves, about which a rope called the cat-fall passes, and communicates with the cat-block.

Cat-Like

CAT-LIKE. adjective Resembling a cat.

Cat-Mint

CAT-MINT, noun A plant of the genus Nepeta, so called because cats eat it.

Cat-Pipe

CAT-PIPE, noun [See Catcall.]

CATSUP, noun [See Catchup, Ketchup.]

Cat-Salt

CAT-SALT, noun A sort of salt beautifully granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach-brine, used for making hard soap.

Cat-Tail

CAT-TAIL, noun

1. A species of reed, of the genus Typha, the downy substance of which is used for stuffing mattresses, etc.

2. A substance growing on nut-trees, pines, etc.

Catabaptist

CATABAPTIST, noun One who opposes baptism.

Catacaustic

CATACAUSTIC, adjective catacaustic curves, in geometry, are that species of caustic curves, which are formed by reflection.

Catachresis

CATACHRESIS, noun An abuse of a trope or of words; a figure in rhetoric, when one word is abusively put for another, or when a word is too far wrested from its true signification; as, a voice beautiful to the ear.

A catachresis is a trope which borrows the name of one thing to express another, or a harsh trope; as when Milton, speaking of Raphaels descent from heaven, says, he sails between worlds and worlds. Here the novelty of the word sails enlivens the image. So in scripture we read of the blood of the grape. Deuteronomy 32:1.

Catachrestical

CATACHRESTICAL, adjective Belonging to a catachresis; forced; far-fetched; wrested from its natural sense.

Catachrestically

CATACHRESTICALLY, adverb In a forced manner.

Catachresttic

CATACHRESTTIC,

CATACLYSM, noun A deluge, or overflowing of water; particularly, the flood in Noahs days.

Catacomb

CATACOMB, noun A cave, grotto or subterraneous place for the burial of the dead. It is said to have been originally applied to the chapel of St. Sebastian in Rome, where the ancient Roman Calendars say, the body of St. Peter was deposited. It is now applied to a vast number of subterraneous sepulchers, about three miles from Rome, in the Appian way; supposed to be the cells and caves in which the primitive Christians concealed themselves, and in which were deposited the bodies of the primitive martyrs. These are visited by devout people, and relics are taken from them, baptized by the Pope and dispersed through Catholic countries. Each catacomb is three feet broad and eight or ten high; along the side walls are sepulchral niches, closed with thick tiles or pieces of marble. Catacombs are found also at Naples and in other places.

Catacoustics

CATACOUSTICS, noun That part of acoustics or the doctrine of sounds, which treats of reflected sounds. But the distinction is deemed of little use.

Catadioptric

CATADIOPTRIC, TRICAL, adjective Reflecting light.

Catadupe

CATADUPE, noun A cataract or waterfall.

Catagmatic

CATAGMATIC, adjective That has the quality of consolidating broken parts; promoting the union of fractured bones.

Catagraph

CATAGRAPH, noun The first draught o a picture; also, a profile.

Catalectic

CATALECTIC, adjective Pertaining to metrical composition, or to measure.

CATALECTIC verses, are such as want either feet or syllables.

Catalepsis

CATALEPSIS,

CATALEPSY, . A sudden suppression of motion and sensation, a kind of apoplexy, in which the patient is speechless, senseless, and fixed in one posture, with his eyes open, without seeing or understanding. The word is applied also to a retention of the breath or of the humors, and to the interception of the blood by bandages.

Catalepsy

CATALEPSY, . A sudden suppression of motion and sensation, a kind of apoplexy, in which the patient is speechless, senseless, and fixed in one posture, with his eyes open, without seeing or understanding. The word is applied also to a retention of the breath or of the humors, and to the interception of the blood by bandages.

Cataleptic

CATALEPTIC, adjective Pertaining to catalepsy.

Catalogize

CATALOGIZE, verb transitive To insert in a catalogue.

Catalogue

CATALOGUE, noun A list or enumeration of the names of men or things disposed in a certain order, often in alphabetical order; as a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.

CATALOGUE, verb transitive To make a list of.

Catalpa

CATALPA, noun A large tree of Carolina and the South, which in blossom has a beautiful appearance. It belongs to the genus Bignonia, or trumpet flower.

Catalysis

CATALYSIS, noun Dissolution.

Catamenial

CATAMENIAL, adjective Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.

Catamite

CATAMITE, noun A boy kept for unnatural purposes.

Catamount

CATAMOUNT, noun Cat of the mountain, the wild cat.

Catapasm

CATAPASM, noun A dry powder for sprinkling the body.

Catapelt

CATAPELT, or CATAPULT, noun A military engine used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, darts and arrows upon an enemy. Some of these would throw a stone of a hundred pounds weight.

Catapeltic

CATAPELTIC, adjective Pertaining to the catapelt. As a noun, the catapelt.

Cataphonics

CATAPHONICS, noun The doctrine of reflected sounds, a branch of acoustics.

Cataphract

CATAPHRACT, noun

1. In the ancient military art, a piece of heavy defensive armor, formed of cloth or leather, strengthened with scales or links, used to defend the breast, or whole body, or even the horse as well as the rider.

2. A horseman in complete armor.

Cataplasm

CATAPLASM, noun A poultice; a soft and moist substance to be applied to some part of the body, to excite or repel heat, or to relax the skin, etc. When mustard is an ingredient, it is called a sinapism.

Catapuce

CATAPUCE, noun The herb spurge.

Catapult

CATAPELT, or CATAPULT noun A military engine used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, darts and arrows upon an enemy. Some of these would throw a stone of a hundred pounds weight.

Cataract

CATARACT, noun

1. A great fall of water over a precipice; as that of Niagara, of the Rhine, Danube and Nile. It is a cascade upon a great scale.

The tremendous cataracts of America thundering in their solitudes.

2. In medicine and surgery, an opacity of the cystaline lens, or its capsule; a disorder in the eye, by which the pupil, which is usually black and transparent, becomes opake, blue, gray, brown, etc., by which vision is impaired or destroyed.

Catarrh

CATARRH, noun catar. A defluxion, or increased secretion of mucus from the membranes of the nose, fauces and bronchiae, with fever, sneezing cough, thirst, lassitude and loss of appetite, and sometimes an entire loss of taste; called also a cold, coryza. An epidemic catarrh is called Influenza.

Catarrhal

CATARRHAL,

CATARRHOUS, adjective Pertaining to catarrh, produced by it or attending it; as a catarrhal fever.

Catarrhous

CATARRHOUS, a. Pertaining to catarrh, produced by it or attending it; as a catarrhal fever.

Catasterism

CATASTERISM, noun A constellation, or a placing among the stars.

Catastrophe

CATASTROPHE,

CATASTROPHY, noun

1. The change or revolution which produces the final event of a dramatic piece; or the unfolding and winding up of the plot, clearing up difficulties, and closing the play. The ancients divided a play into the protasis, epitasis, catastasis, and catastrophy; the introduction, continuance, heightening, and development or conclusion.

2. A final event; conclusion; generally, an unfortunate conclusion, calamity, or disaster.

Catastrophy

CATASTROPHY, n. 1. The change or revolution which produces the final event of a dramatic piece; or the unfolding and winding up of the plot, clearing up difficulties, and closing the play. The ancients divided a play into the protasis, epitasis, catastasis, and catastrophy; the introduction, continuance, heightening, and development or conclusion.2. A final event; conclusion; generally, an unfortunate conclusion, calamity, or disaster.

Catcall

CATCALL, noun A squeaking instrument, used in play-houses to condemn plays.

Catch

CATCH, verb transitive

1. To seize or lay hold on with the hand; carrying the sense of pursuit, thrusting forward the hand, or rushing on.

And they came upon him and caught him. Acts 6:1.

2. To seize, in a general sense; as, to catch a ball; to catch hold of a bough.

3. To seize, as in a snare or trap; to ensnare; to entangle.

They sent certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words. Mark 12:13.

4. To seize in pursuit; hence simply to overtake; a popular use of the word.

He ran, but could not catch him companion.

5. To take hold; to communicate to.

The fire caught the adjoining building.

6. To seize the affections; to engage and attach to; as, to catch the fair.

7. To take or receive by contagion or infection; as, to catch the measles or small pox.

8. To snatch; to take suddenly; as, to catch a book out of the hand.

9. To receive something passing.

The swelling sails no more catch the soft airs and wanton in the sky. Trumbull.

To catch at, to endeavor to seize suddenly.

To catch at all opportunities of subverting the state.

To catch up, to snatch; to take up suddenly.

CATCH, verb intransitive

1. To communicate; to spread by infecting; as, a disease will catch from man to man.

2. Any thing that seizes or takes hold, as a hook.

3. The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to catch or of watching an opportunity to seize; as, to lie upon the catch

4. A sudden advantage taken.

5. The thing caught, considered as an object of desire; profit; advantage.

Hector shall have a great catch Shak.

6. A snatch; a short interval of action.

It has been writ by catches.

7. A little portion.

We retain a catch of a pretty story.

8. In music, a fugue in the unison, wherein to humor some conceit in the words, the melody is broken, and the sense is interrupted in one part, and caught and supported by another, or a different sense is given to the words; or a piece for three or more voices, one of which leads and the others follow in the same notes.

Catch-Fly

CATCH-FLY, noun A plant of the genus Lychnis; campion.

Catch-Poll

CATCH-POLL, noun A bailiffs assistant, so called by way of reproach.

Catch-Word

CATCH-WORD, noun Among printers, the word placed at the bottom of each page, under the last line, which is to be inserted as the first word on the following page.

Catchable

CATCHABLE, adjective That may be caught.

Catcher

CATCHER, noun One who catches; that which catches, or in which any thing is caught.

Catching

CATCHING, participle present tense Seizing; taking hold; ensnaring; entangling.

CATCHING, adjective Communicating, or that may be communicated, by contagion; infectious; as, a disease is catching

Catchpenny

CATCHPENNY, noun Something worthless, particularly a book or pamphlet, adapted to the popular taste, and intended to gain money in market.

Catchup

CATCHUP,

CATE, noun [See Cates.]

Cate

CATE, n. [See Cates.]

Catechetical

CATECHETICAL, adjective [See Catechise.]

1. Relating to oral instruction, and particularly in the first principles of the Christian religion.

2. Relating to or consisting in asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching pupils.

Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing.

Catechetically

CATECHETICALLY, adverb By question and answer; in the way of oral instruction.