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Cable (kāb'l), v. t. 1. To fasten with a cable.
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2. (Arch.) To ornament with cabling. See .
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Cable, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Cabled (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cabling (-blŏng).] To telegraph by a submarine cable [Recent]
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Cabled (-b'ld), a. 1. Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. “The cabled stone.” Dyer.
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2. (Arch.) Adorned with cabling.
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Cablegram (kāb'lgrăm), n. [Cable, n. + Gr. gramma a writing, a letter.] A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. [A recent hybrid, sometimes found in the newspapers.]
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Cablelaid (-lād), a. 1. (Naut.) Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
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2. Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain. Simmonds.
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Cablet (?), n. [Dim. of cable; cf. F. câblot.] A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
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Cabling (?), n. (Arch.) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.
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Cabman (?), n.; pl. Cabmen (�). The driver of a cab.
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Cabob (?), n. [Hindi kabāb] [Now more commonly spelled kabob.] 1. A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia. [Also spelled kebab, kebob, or kabab.]
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2. A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs. Wright.
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Coloq. shish cabob See .
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Cabob, v. t. [Now more commonly spelled kabob.] To roast, as a cabob. Sir. T. Herbert.
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Caboched (?), a. [F. caboche head. Cf. 1st .] (Her.) Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing. [Written also caboshed.]
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cabochon (kăbŭshän; Fr. kȧb�shôN), n. [F.] (Jewelry) A stone of convex form, highly polished, but not faceted; also, the style of cutting itself. Such stones are said to be cut en cabochon.
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cabochon (kăbŭshän; Fr. kȧb�shôN), a. [see , n..] (Jewelry) Of, pertaining to, containing, or in the style of, a .
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Cabombaceae prop. n. A subfamily of plants, in some classifications considered as an independent family of water lilies; it comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia.
Syn. -- subfamily Cabombaceae, water-shield family.
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caboodle (kȧb�d'l), n. The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase Coloq. the whole caboodle or Coloq. the whole kit and caboodle . [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.
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Caboose (kȧb�s), n. [Cf. D. kabuis, kombuis, Dan. kabys, Sw. kabysa, G. kabuse a little room or hut. The First part of the word seems to be allied to W. cab cabin, booth. Cf. .] [Written also camboose.] 1. (Naut.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.
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2. (Railroad) A car used on freight or construction trains as travelling quarters for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car. It usually is the last car of the train. [U. S.]
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Cabotage (?), n. [F. cabotage, fr. caboter to sail along the coast; cf. Sp. cabo cape.] (Naut.) Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.
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Cabrée (kȧbr�), n. [French Canadian.] (Zoöl.) The pronghorn antelope. [Also written cabrit, cabret.]
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Cabrerite (?), n. (Min.) An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain.
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Cabrilla (?), n. [Sp., prawn.] (Zoöl) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.
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Cabriole (?), n. [F. See , and cf. .] (Man.) A curvet; a leap. See .
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The cabrioles which his charger exhibited. Sir W. Scott.
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Cabriolet (?), n. [F., dim. of cabriole a leap, caper, from It. capriola, fr. dim. of L. caper he-goat, capra she-goat. This carriage is so called from its skipping lightness. Cf. , a leap.] A one-horse carriage with two seats and a calash top.
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Cabrit (?), n. Same as .
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Caburn (?), n. [Cf. , n.] (Naut.) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.

ca-ca n. n. [see .] Feces; excrement; -- used in talking with very young children. [baby talk]
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ca-ca v. [see .] to have a bowel movement. [baby talk]
Syn. -- defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, crap, make.
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{Cacæmia (kȧsēmĭȧ), Cachæmia (kȧk�mĭȧ),} n. [NL., fr. Gr. kakos bad+ ai^ma blood.] (Med.) A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.
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cacaine (?), n. (Chem.) The essential principle of cacao; -- now called theobromine.
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Cacajão (?), n. [Pg.] (Zoöl) A South American short-tailed monkey (Pithecia melanocephala syn. Brachyurus melanocephala). [Written also cacajo.]
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cacao (?), n. [Sp., fr. Mex. kakahuatl. Cf. , ] (Bot.) A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.
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Cachæmia, Cachemia (�), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � bad + � blood.] (Med.) A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood. -- Cachæmic, Cachemic (#), a.
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cachalot (?), n. [F. cachalot.] (Zoöl.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See .
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cache (kăsh), n. [F., a hiding place, fr. cacher to conceal, to hide.] 1. A hole in the ground, or other hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry. Kane.
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2. That which is hidden in a cache{2}; a hoard; a stockpile.
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3. (Computers) A form of memory in a computer which has a faster access time than most of main memory, and is usually used to store the most frequently accessed data in main memory during execution of a program.
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cache (kăsh), v. t. To store in a cache{1}.
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{ Cachectic (?), Cachectical (?), } a. [L. cachecticus, Gr. ��: cf. F. cachectique.] Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies; cachectical blood. Arbuthnot.
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Cachepot (kȧshp�), n. [F., fr. cacher to hide + pot a pot.] An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.
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Cachet (?), n. [F. fr. cacher to hide.] A seal, as of a letter.
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Coloq. Lettre de cachet [F.], a sealed letter, especially a letter or missive emanating from the sovereign; -- much used in France before the Revolution as an arbitrary order of imprisonment.
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{ Cachexia (?), Cachexy (?) }, n. [L. cachexia, Gr. kachexia; kakos bad + exis condition.] A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).
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Cachinnation (kăkĭnnāshŭn), n. [L. cachinnatio, fr. cachinnare to laugh aloud, cf. Gr. kachazein.] Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections.
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Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.
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Cachinnatory (?), a. Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter.
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Cachinnatory buzzes of approval. Carlyle.
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Cachiri (?), n. A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry. Dunglison.
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Cacholong (?), n. [F. cacholong, said to be from Cach, the name of a river in Bucharia + cholon, a Calmuck word for stone; or fr. a Calmuck word meaning “beautiful stone”] (Min.) An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.
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Cachou (?), n. [F. See Cashoo.] A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.
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Cachucha (?), n. [Sp.] An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero. [Sometimes in English spelled cachuca (�).]
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The orchestra plays the cachucha. Longfellow.
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Cachunde (?), n. [Sp.] (Med.) A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.
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Cacique (?), n. [Sp.] See Cazique.
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Cack (kăk), v. i. [OE. cakken, fr. L. cacare; akin to Gr. kakka^n, and to OIr. cacc dung; cf. AS. cac.] To ease the body by stool; to go to stool. Pope.
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Cackerel (?), n. [OF. caquerel cagarel (Cotgr.), from the root of E. cack.] (Zoöl.) The mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. See .
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Cackle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cackled (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cackling (?).] [OE. cakelen; cf. LG. kakeln, D. kakelen, G. gackeln, gackern; all of imitative origin. Cf. , to cackle.] 1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
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When every goose is cackling. Shak.
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2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle. Arbuthnot.
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3. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle. Johnson.
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Cackle (?), n. 1. The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
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By her cackle saved the state. Dryden.
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2. Idle talk; silly prattle.
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There is a buzz and cackle all around regarding the sermon. Thackeray.
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Cackler (?), n. 1. A fowl that cackles.
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2. One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
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Cackling, n. The broken noise of a goose or a hen.
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{ Cacochymia (?), Cacochymy (?), } n. [NL. cacochymia, fr. Gr. ��; kakos bad + �� juice: cf. F. cacochymie.] (Med.) A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, esp. of the blood. -- Cacochymic (#), Cacochymical (#), a.
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{ Cacochymic (?), Cacochymical (?), } a. Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood. Wiseman.
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Cacodemon (?), n. [Gr. ��; kakos bad + �� demon: cf. F. cacodémon.] 1. An evil spirit; a devil or demon. Shak.
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2. (Med.) The nightmare. Dunaglison.
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Cacodoxical (?), a. Heretical.
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Cacodoxy (?), n. [Gr. �� perverted opinion; kakos bad + �� opinion.] Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy. [R.]
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Heterodoxy, or what Luther calls cacodoxy. R. Turnbull.
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Cacodyl (?), n. [Gr. �� ill-smelling (kakos bad + �� to smell) + -yl.] (Chem.) Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines. [Written also cacodyle, and kakodyl.]
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Cacodylic (?), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, cacodyl.
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Coloq. Cacodylic acid , a white, crystalline, deliquescent substance, (CH3)2AsO.OH, obtained by the oxidation of cacodyl, and having the properties of an exceedingly stable acid; -- also called alkargen.
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Cacoëthes (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. �� of ill habits, �� an ill habit; kakos bad + � habit] 1. A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoëthes scribendi, “The itch for writing”. Addison.
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2. (Med.) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.
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Cacogastric (?), a. [Gr. kakos bad + �� stomach.] Troubled with bad digestion. [R.] Carlyle.
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cacogenics n. the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced.
Syn. -- dysgenics.
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Cacographic (?), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.
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Cacography (?), n. [Gr. kakos bad + -graphy; cf. F. cacographie.] Incorrect or bad writing or spelling. Walpole.
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Cacolet (?), n. [F.] A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.
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Cacology (?), n. [Gr. kakos bad + -logy: cf. F. cacologie.] Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words. Buchanan.
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{ Cacomixle (?), Cacomixtle (?), Cacomixl (?) }, n. [Mexican name.] A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and California.
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Cacoon (?), n. One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.
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{ Cacophonic (?), Cacophonical (?), Cacophonous (?), Cacophonious (?) }, a. Harsh-sounding.
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Cacophony (?), n.; pl. Cacophonies (#). [Gr. ��; kakos bad + �� sound: cf. F. Cacophonie.] 1. (Rhet.) An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables. “Cacophonies of all kinds.” Pope.
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2. (Mus.) A combination of discordant sounds.
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3. (Med.) An unhealthy state of the voice.
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Cacostomia (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kakos bad + � mouth.] (Med.) Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth.
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Cacotechny (?), n. [Gr. �; kakos bad + � art.] A corruption or corrupt state of art. [R.]
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{ Cacoxene (?), Cacoxenite (?) }, n. [Gr. kakos bad + �� guest.] (Min.) A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.
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Cactaceous (?), a. (Bot.) Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example.
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Cactus (?), n. ; pl. E. Cactuses (#), Cacti (-tī). [L., a kind of cactus, Gr. ��.] (Bot.) Any plant of the order Cactacæ, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See . They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.
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Coloq. Cactus wren (Zoöl.), an American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of several species.
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Cacuminal (?), a. [L. cacumen, cacuminis, the top, point.] (Philol.) Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.
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Cacuminate (?), v. i. [L. cacuminatus, p. p. of cacuminare to point, fr. cacumen point.] To make sharp or pointed. [Obs.]
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Cad (?), n. [Abbrev. fr. cadet.] 1. A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards. [Eng.] Dickens.
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2. A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow. [Cant] Thackeray.
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cadaster n. same as .
Syn. -- cadastre.
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Cadastral (?), a. [F.] Of or pertaining to landed property.
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Coloq. Cadastral survey , or Coloq. Cadastral map , a survey, map, or plan on a large scale (Usually 1/2500 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.
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{ Cadastre, Cadaster } (?), 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; a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land.
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