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.
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.
Cake (v. i.) To cackle as a goose.
Caking coal () See Coal.
Cal (n.) Wolfram, an ore of tungsten.
Calabar (n.) A district on the west coast of Africa.
Calabarine (n.) 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.
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.
Calade (n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.
Caladium (n.) 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.
Calaite (n.) A mineral. See Turquoise.
Calamanco (n.) A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked.
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.
Calamar (n.) Alt. of 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.