Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 4
Cage (n.) (Baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
Caged (imp. & p. p.) of Cage.
Caging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cage.
Cage (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. "Caged and starved to death." -- Cowper.
Cage (n.) An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept [syn: cage, coop].
Cage (n.) Something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement.
Cage (n.) United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992) [syn: Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.].
Cage (n.) The net that is the goal in ice hockey.
Cage (n.) A movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice [syn: batting cage, cage].
Cage (v.) Confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" [syn: cage, cage in].
CAGE, () Early system on IBM 704. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
Cage, () (Heb. kelub', Jer. 5:27, marg. "coop;" rendered "basket" in Amos 8:1), a basket of wicker-work in which birds were placed after being caught. In Rev. 18:2 it is the rendering of the Greek _phulake_, properly a prison or place of confinement.
Caged (a.) Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison. "The caged cloister." -- Shak.
Cageling (n.) A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird. [Poetic] -- Tennyson.
Cagit (n.) (Zool) A kind of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands.
Cagmag (n.) A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind.
Cagot (n.) 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.
Cahier (n.) A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.
Cahier (n.) A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc.
Cahincic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of a species of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps C. racemosa; as, cahincic acid.
Cahoot (n.) Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person.
Caimacam (n.) The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey.
Caiman (n.) See Cayman.
Cainozoic (a.) See Cenozic.
Caique (n.) 輕巧小舟，帆船 A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size.
Ca ira (n.) The refrain of a famous song of the French Revolution.
Ça Ira (n.) 一切都會好的！ "Ça ira" (French: "it'll be fine") is an emblematic song of the French Revolution, first heard in May 1790. It underwent several changes in wording, all of which used the title words as part of the refrain.
Caird (n.) A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar.
Cairn (n.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
Cairn (n.) 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.
Cairngormstone (n.) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.
Cairo (n.) 開羅（阿拉伯語：القـــاهــرة al-Qāhira；英語：Cairo）是埃及首都，古稱優努（古埃及語：ỉwnw，拉丁化：lunu，意為「通道」）或安努（Anu），聖經中稱作安（On）、赫利奧波利斯（希臘文：Ἡλιούπολις，意為「太陽神之城」）、米斯爾（阿拉伯語：مصر，另作Miṣr，意為「軍營」，後來成為整個埃及的自稱），後改稱福斯塔特（阿拉伯語：الفسطاط, ，意為「帳棚」），868年突倫王朝埃米爾艾哈邁德·伊本·突倫於福斯塔特北部另建新都稱作加塔伊（阿拉伯語：القطائـع），到969年法蒂瑪王朝哈里發穆伊茲派部將喬海爾征服阿拔斯王朝統治下的埃及，973年遷都於此，把新首都稱作開羅（al-Qāhira，意為「勝利之都」）為開羅名稱之始。 Cairo (/ˈkaɪroʊ/ KYE-roh; Arabic: القاهرة al-Qāhirah, pronunciation (help·info), Coptic: ⲕⲁϩⲓⲣⲏ Kahire) is the capital and largest city of Egypt. The city's metropolitan area is the largest in the Middle East and the Arab world, and the 15th-largest in the world, and is associated with ancient Egypt, as the famous Giza pyramid complex and the ancient city of Memphis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, [3] [4] modern Cairo was founded in 969 CE by the Fatimid dynasty, but the land composing the present-day city was the site of ancient national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo. Cairo has long been a center of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture. Cairo is considered a World City with a "Beta +" classification according to GaWC. [5]
Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab world, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, Al-Azhar University. Many international media, businesses, and organizations have regional headquarters in the city; the Arab League has had its headquarters in Cairo for most of its existence.
With a population of 6.76 million [6] spread over 453 square kilometers (175 sq mi), Cairo is by far the largest city in Egypt. An additional 9.5 million inhabitants live in close proximity to the city. Cairo, like many other mega-cities, suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic. Cairo's metro, one of two in Africa (the other is in Algiers, Algeria), ranks among the fifteen busiest in the world, [7] with over 1 billion [8] annual passenger rides. The economy of Cairo was ranked first in the Middle East [9] in 2005, and 43rd globally on Foreign Policy's 2010 Global Cities Index. [10]
Caisson (n.) (Mil.) 彈藥箱；兩輪的彈藥車；防水框；潛水箱 A chest to hold ammunition.
Caisson (n.) (Mil.) 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.
Caisson (n.) (Mil.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach.
Caisson (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level.
Caisson (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins.
Caisson (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it.
Caisson (n.) (Arch.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits.
Pneumatic caisson (Engin.), 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 (n.) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome [syn: coffer, caisson, lacuna].
Caisson (n.) A two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition.
Caisson (n.) A chest to hold ammunition [syn: caisson, ammunition chest].
Caisson (n.) Large watertight chamber used for construction under water [syn: caisson, pneumatic caisson, cofferdam].
Caisson disease (n.) 潛水夫病；減壓過急病症 Another term for decompression sickness.
Compare: Decompression sickness
Decompression sickness (n.) [Mass noun] A condition that results when too rapid decompression causes nitrogen bubbles to form in the tissues of the body. It is suffered particularly by divers (who often call it the bends), and can cause pain in the muscles and joints, cramp, numbness, nausea, and paralysis.
Caitiff (a.) Captive; wretched; unfortunate.
Caitiff (a.) Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable.
Caitiff (n.) A captive; a prisoner.
Caitiff (n.) A wretched or unfortunate man.
Caitiff (n.) A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet.
Cajeput (n.) See Cajuput.
Cajoled (imp. & p. p.) of Cajole.
Cajoling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cajole.
Cajole (v. t.) To persuade with flattery, repeated appeals, or soothing words; to coax.
Cajole (v. i.) To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. Cajole derives from Early Modern French cajoler, originally, "to chatter like a bird in a cage, to sing; hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter," from Old French gaiole, jaiole, "a cage," from Medieval Latin caveola, "a small cage," from Latin cavea, "an enclosure, a den for animals, a bird cage," from cavus, "hollow." It is related to cave, cage and jail (British gaol).
Cajolement (n.) The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery.
Cajoler (n.) A flatterer; a wheedler.
Cajoleries (n. pl. ) of Cajolery.
Cajolery (n.) A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.
Cajuput (n.) 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 (n.) A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.
Cake (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
Cake (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
Cake (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
Cake (n.) 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 (Zool), 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 (v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass.
Caked (imp. & p. p.) of Cake.
Caking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cake.
Cake (v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
Clotted blood that caked within. -- Addison.
Cake (v. i.) To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]
Cake (n.) A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" [syn: cake, bar].
Cake (n.) Small flat mass of chopped food [syn: patty, cake].
Cake (n.) Baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat.
Cake (v.) Form a coat over; "Dirt had coated her face" [syn: coat, cake].
Cake, () Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2; Lev. 2:4). In idolatrous worship thin cakes or wafers were offered "to the queen of heaven" (Jer. 7:18; 44:19).
Pancakes are described in 2 Sam. 13:8, 9. Cakes mingled with oil and baked in the oven are mentioned in Lev. 2:4, and "wafers unleavened anointed with oil," in Ex. 29:2; Lev. 8:26; 1 Chr. 23:29. "Cracknels," a kind of crisp cakes, were among the things Jeroboam directed his wife to take with her when she went to consult Ahijah the prophet at Shiloh (1 Kings 14:3). Such hard cakes were carried by the Gibeonites when they came to Joshua (9:5, 12). They described their bread as "mouldy;" but the Hebrew word _nikuddim_, here used, ought rather to be rendered "hard as biscuit." It is rendered "cracknels" in 1 Kings 14:3. The ordinary bread, when kept for a few days, became dry and excessively hard. The Gibeonites pointed to this hardness of their bread as an evidence that they had come a long journey.
We read also of honey-cakes (Ex. 16:31), "cakes of figs" (1 Sam. 25:18), "cake" as denoting a whole piece of bread (1 Kings 17:12), and "a [round] cake of barley bread" (Judg. 7:13). In Lev. 2 is a list of the different kinds of bread and cakes which were fit for offerings.
Caking coal () See Coal.
Compare: Coal
Coal (n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
Coal (n.) (Min.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
Note: This word is often used adjectively, or as the first part of self-explaining compounds; as, coal-black; coal formation; coal scuttle; coal ship. etc.
Note: In England the plural coals is used, for the broken mineral coal burned in grates, etc.; as, to put coals on the fire. In the United States the singular in a collective sense is the customary usage; as, a hod of coal.
Age of coal plants. See Age of Acrogens, under Acrogen.
Anthracite or Glance coal. See Anthracite.
Bituminous coal. See under Bituminous.
Blind coal. See under Blind.
Brown coal or Brown Lignite. See Lignite.
Caking coal, A bituminous coal, which softens and becomes pasty or semi-viscid when heated. On increasing the heat, the volatile products are driven off, and a coherent, grayish black, cellular mass of coke is left.
Cannel coal, A very compact bituminous coal, of fine texture and dull luster. See Cannel coal.
Coal bed (Geol.), A layer or stratum of mineral coal.
Coal breaker, A structure including machines and machinery adapted for crushing, cleansing, and assorting coal.
Coal field (Geol.), A region in which deposits of coal occur. Such regions have often a basinlike structure, and are hence called coal basins. See Basin.
Coal gas, A variety of carbureted hydrogen, procured from bituminous coal, used in lighting streets, houses, etc., and for cooking and heating.
Coal heaver, A man employed in carrying coal, and esp. in putting it in, and discharging it from, ships.
Coal measures. (Geol.) (a) Strata of coal with the attendant rocks.
Coal measures. (Geol.) (b) A subdivision of the carboniferous formation, between the millstone grit below and the Permian formation above, and including nearly all the workable coal beds of the world.
Coal oil, A general name for mineral oils; petroleum.
Coal plant (Geol.), One of the remains or impressions of plants found in the strata of the coal formation.
Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary.
To haul over the coals, To call to account; to scold or censure. [Colloq.]
Wood coal. See Lignite.
Cal (n.) (Cornish Mines) Wolfram, an ore of tungsten. --Simmonds.
CAL, () Client Access License (Lotus, MS)
CAL, () Computer Aided Logistics
CAL, () Conversational Algebraic Language (JOSS).
CAL, () Computer Assisted Learning.
CAL, () Computer Assisted Learning.
CAL, () Course Author Language.
Calabar (n.) 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 (n.) (Chem.) An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean.
Calabash (n.) The common gourd (plant or fruit).
Calabash (n.) The fruit of the calabash tree.
Calabash (n.) A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
Calabash tree. (Bot.), A tree of tropical America ({Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdlike fruit, containing a purgative pulp. Its hard shell, after the removal of the pulp, is used for cups, bottles, etc. The African calabash tree is the baobab.
Calabash (n.) Round gourd of the calabash tree.
Calabash (n.) Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds [syn: calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete].
Calabash (n.) Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits [syn: bottle gourd, calabash, Lagenaria siceraria].
Calabash (n.) Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd [syn: gourd, calabash].
Calabash (n.) A pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd [syn: calabash, calabash pipe].
Calabash, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 711
Housing Units (2000): 508
Land area (2000): 1.417715 sq. miles (3.671864 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.096456 sq. miles (0.249820 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.514171 sq. miles (3.921684 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09540
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 33.892619 N, 78.566547 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 28467
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Calabasas is (n.) 卡拉巴薩斯（英文：Calabasas），是美國加利福尼亞州洛杉磯縣下屬的一座城市。建市於1991年4月5日，面積 大約為12.9平方英里 (33.4平方公里)。根據2010年美國人口普查，該市有人口23,058人。[1]
Is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located in the hills west of the San Fernando Valley and in the northwest Santa Monica Mountains between Woodland Hills, Agoura Hills, West Hills, Hidden Hills, and Malibu, California. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 23,058, up from 20,033 at the 2000 census. [9] The city was formally incorporated in 1991.
The Leonis Adobe, an adobe structure in Old Town Calabasas, dates from 1844 and is one of the oldest surviving buildings in greater Los Angeles. [10]
Calaboose (n.) A prison; a jail. [Local, U. S.]
Calade (n.) [F.] A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.
Caladium (n.) [NL.] A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.
Caladium (n.) Any plant of the genus Caladium cultivated for their ornamental foliage variously patterned in white or pink or red.
Calaite (n.) A mineral. See Turquoise.
Calamanco (n.) A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked. "A gay calamanco waistcoat." -- Tatler.
Calamander wood () A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood.
Calamari (n.) (Cookery) Squid, used as a food; -- from the Italian word. See Squid.
Calamari (n.) (Italian cuisine) Squid prepared as food [syn: squid, calamari, calamary].
Calamary (n.) (Italian cuisine) Squid prepared as food [syn: squid, calamari, calamary]
Calamary (n.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid.
Calambac (n.) A fragrant wood; agalloch.
Calambour (n.) A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac; -- used by cabinetmakers.
Calamiferous (a.) Producing reeds; reedy.
Calamine (n.) A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.
Calamint (n.) A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme.
Calamist (n.) One who plays upon a reed or pipe.
Calamistrate (v. i.) To curl or friz, as the hair.
Calamistration (n.) The act or process of curling the hair.
Calamistrum (n.) A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs.
Calamite (n.) A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.
Calamitous (a.) Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable.
Calamitous (a.) Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy.
Calamities (n. pl. ) of Calamity.
Calamity (n.) Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.
Calamity (n.) A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.
Calamity (n.) [ C ] 災難，災禍 A serious accident or bad event causing damage or suffering.
// A series of calamities ruined them - floods, a failed harvest, and the death of a son.
Calami (n. pl. ) of Calamus.
Calamus (n.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.
Calamus (n.) A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.
Calamus (n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.
Calando (a.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.
Calash (n.) A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage.
Calash (n.) In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front.
Calash (n.) A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure.
Calash (n.) A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.
Calaverite (n.) A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.
Calcaneal (a.) Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries.
-neums (n. pl. ) of Calcaneum.
-nea (n. pl. ) of Calcaneum.
Calcaneum (n.) One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare.
Calcar (n.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
Calcaria (n. pl. ) of Calcar.
Calcar (n.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.