CPage 85
- English Word Casual Definition Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.
- English Word Casual Definition Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.
- English Word Casual Definition One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
- English Word Casualism Definition The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.
- English Word Casualist Definition One who believes in casualism.
- English Word Casually Definition Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally.
- English Word Casualness Definition The quality of being casual.
- English Word Casualties Definition of Casualty
- English Word Casualty Definition That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
- English Word Casualty Definition Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.
- English Word Casualty Definition Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
- English Word Casuarina Definition A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.
- English Word Casuist Definition One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry.
- English Word Casuist Definition To play the casuist.
- English Word Casuistic Definition Alt. of Casuistieal
- English Word Casuistieal Definition Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry.
- English Word Casuistry Definition The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or 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 the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases.
- English Word Casuistry Definition Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.
- English Word Casus Definition An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident.
- English Word Cat Definition An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.
- English Word Cat Definition A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.
- English Word Cat Definition A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.
- English Word Cat Definition A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.
- English Word Cat Definition An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.
- English Word Cat Definition A cat o' nine tails. See below.
- English Word Cat Definition To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.
- English Word Cat o' nine tails Definition See under Cat.
- English Word Cat's-eye Definition A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The name is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.
- English Word Cat's-foot Definition A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.
- English Word Cat's-paw Definition A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.