Cafenet, Cafeneh Caf"e·net, Caf"e·neh noun [ Turk.
qahveh khāneh coffeehouse.]
A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold. [ Turkey]
Cafeteria Caf`e·te"ri·a noun [ Confer French
cafetière .]
A restaurant or café at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter, taking the food to small tables to eat. [ U. S.]
Caffeic Caf·fe"ic adjective [ See
Coffee .]
(Chemistry) Pertaining to, or obtained from, coffee. Caffeic acid ,
an acid obtained from coffee tannin, as a yellow crystalline substance, C 9 H 8 O 4 .
Caffeine Caf·fe"ine noun [ Confer French
caféine . See
Coffee .]
(Chemistry) A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana.
Caffetannic Caf`fe·tan"nic adjective [
Caffe ic +
tannic .]
(Chemistry) Pertaining to, or derived from, the tannin of coffee. Caffetannic acid ,
a variety of tannin obtained from coffee berries, regarded as a glucoside.
Caffila Caf"fi·la noun [ Arabic ]
See Cafila .
Caffre Caf"fre noun See Kaffir .
Cafila Ca"fi·la Ca"fi*leh noun [ Arabic ] A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.
Caftan Caf"tan noun [ Turk.
qaftān : confer French
cafetan .]
A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash.
Caftan Caf"tan transitive verb To clothe with a caftan. [ R.]
The turbaned and caftaned damsel.
Sir W. Scott.
Cag Cag noun See Keg . [ Obsolete]
Cage Cage noun [ French
cage , from Latin
cavea cavity, cage, from
cavus hollow. Confer
Cave ,
noun ,
Cajole ,
Gabion .]
1. A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals. In his cage , like parrot fine and gay.
Cowper.
2. A place of confinement for malefactors Shak. Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage .
Lovelace.
3. (Carp.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase. Gwilt. 4. (Machinery) (a) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve. (b) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes. 5. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft. 6. (Mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim. 7. (Baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
Cage Cage (kāj)
intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Caged (kājd);
present participle & verbal noun Caging .]
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. "
Caged and starved to death."
Cowper.
Caged Caged (kājd)
adjective Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison. "The
caged cloister."
Shak.
Cageling Cage"ling (kāj"lĭng)
noun [
Cage +
-ling ]
A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird. [ Poetic]
Tennyson.
Cagit Ca"git (kā"jĭt)
noun (Zoöl) A kind of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands.
Cagmag Cag"mag (kăg"măg)
noun A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind. [ Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Cagot Ca`got" (kȧ`go")
noun [ French]
One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.
Cahenslyism Ca·hens"ly·ism noun (R. C. Ch.) A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P. P. Cahensly, a member of the German parliament, to divide the foreign-born population of the United States, for ecclesiastical purposes, according to European nationalities, and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the members of a diocese or congregation. This plan was successfully opposed by the American party in the Church.
Cahier Ca`hier" (kȧ`ya"
or kȧ`hēr)
noun [ French, from Old French
cayer , from Late Latin
quaternum . See
Quire of paper. The sheets of manuscript were folded into parts.]
1. A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers. 2. A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc.
Cahinca root Ca·hin"ca root` [ Written also cainca root .] [ See Cahincic .] (Botany) The root of an American shrub ( Chiococca racemosa ), found as far north as Florida Keys, from which cahincic acid is obtained; also, the root of the South American Chiococca anguifuga , a celebrated antidote for snake poison.
Cahincic Ca·hin"cic adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca , the native name of a species of Brazilian Chiococca , perhaps C. racemosa ; as, cahincic acid.
Cahoot Ca·hoot" noun [ Perhaps from f.
cohorte a company or band.]
Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person. [ Slang, southwestern U. S.]
Bartlett.
Caimacam Cai`ma·cam" noun [ Turk.]
The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey.
Caiman Cai"man noun (Zoology) See Cayman .
Cainozoic Cai`no·zo"ic adjective (Geol.) See Cenozic .
Caïque Ca·ïque" noun [ French, from Turk.
qāīq boat.]
(Nautical) A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size.
Caird Caird noun [ Ir.
ceard a tinker.]
A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [ Prov. Eng.]
Cairn Cairn noun [ Gael.
carn , gen.
cairn , a heap: confer Ir. & W.
carn .]
1. A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn .
Campbell.
2. A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. C. Kingsley. Kane.
Cairngormstone Cairn·gorm"stone` [ Gael. carn a cairn + gorm azure.] (Min.) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.
Caisson Cais"son noun [ French, from
caisse , case, chest. See 1st
Case .]
1. (Mil.) (a) A chest to hold ammunition. (b) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. Farrow. (c) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach. 2. (a) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level. (b) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins. (c) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it. 3. (Architecture) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits. Pneumatic caisson (Engineering) ,
a caisson, closed at the top but open at the bottom, and resting upon the ground under water. The pressure of air forced into the caisson keeps the water out. Men and materials are admitted to the interior through an air lock. See Lock .
Caisson disease Cais"son dis·ease" (Medicine) A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure, as in caissons, diving bells, etc. It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is variously explained, most probably as due to congestion of internal organs with subsequent stasis of the blood.
Caitiff Cai"tiff adjective [ Middle English
caitif ,
cheitif , captive, miserable, Old French
caitif ,
chaitif , captive, mean, wretched, French
chétif , from Latin
captivus captive, from
capere to take, akin to English
heave . See
Heave , and confer
Captive .]
1. Captive; wretched; unfortunate. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer. 2. Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable. Arnold had sped his caitiff flight.
W. Irving.
Caitiff Cai"tiff noun A captive; a prisoner. [ Obsolete]
Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave.
Holland.
2. A wretched or unfortunate man. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer. 3. A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet. The deep-felt conviction of men that slavery breaks down the moral character . . . speaks out with . . . distinctness in the change of meaning which
caitiff has undergone signifying as it now does, one of a base, abject disposition, while there was a time when it had nothing of this in it.
Trench.
Cajeput Caj"e·put noun See Cajuput .
Cajole Ca·jole" intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Cajoled ;
present participle & verbal noun Cajoling .] [ French
cajoler , orig., to chatter like a bird in a cage, to sing; hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter, from the source of Old French
goale ,
jaiole , French
geôle , dim. of
cage a cage. See
Cage ,
Jail .]
To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views.
F. W. Robertson.
Syn. -- To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap.
Cajolement Ca·jole"ment noun The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery. Coleridge.
Cajoler Ca·jol"er noun A flatterer; a wheedler.
Cajolery Ca·jol"er·y noun ;
plural Cajoleries A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous
cajoleries ."
Evelyn.
Cajun Ca"jun noun [ A corruption of
Acadian .]
(Ethnol.) In Louisiana, a person reputed to be Acadian French descent.
Cajuput Caj"u·put noun [ Of Malayan origin;
kāyu tree +
pūtih white.]
(Medicine) A highly stimulating volatile inflammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree ( Melaleuca cajuputi , etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.
Cajuputene Caj"u·put·ene` noun (Chemistry) A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.
Cake Cake (kāk)
noun [ Middle English
cake ,
kaak ; akin to Danish
kage , Swedish & Icelandic
kaka , Dutch
koek , German
kuchen , Old High German
chuocho .]
1. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake ; johnny cake . 2. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape. 3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes . 4. A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake . Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
Dryden.
Cake urchin (Zoöl) ,
any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea . --
Oil cake the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes. --
To have one's cake dough ,
to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected. Shak.
Cake Cake intransitive verb To form into a cake, or mass.
Cake Cake intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Caked ;
present participle & verbal noun Caking .]
To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. Clotted blood that caked within.
Addison.
Cake Cake intransitive verb To cackle as a goose. [ Prov. Eng.]
Caking coal Cak"ing coal` See Coal .
Cal Cal noun (Cornish Mines) Wolfram, an ore of tungsten. Simmonds.
Calabar Cal"a·bar noun A district on the west coast of Africa. Calabar bean ,
The of a climbing legumious plant ( Physostigma venenosum ), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean , being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.
Calabarine Cal"a·bar·ine noun (Chemistry) An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean.
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