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- English Word Catadrome Definition A race course.
- English Word Catadrome Definition A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.
- English Word Catadromous Definition Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.
- English Word Catadromous Definition Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel.
- English Word Catafalco Definition See Catafalque.
- English Word Catafalque Definition A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.
- English Word Catagmatic Definition Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.
- English Word Cataian Definition A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a term of reproach.
- English Word Catalan Definition Of or pertaining to Catalonia.
- English Word Catalan Definition A native or inhabitant of Catalonia; also, the language of Catalonia.
- English Word Catalectic Definition Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.
- English Word Catalectic Definition Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance.
- English Word Catalepsis Definition A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.
- English Word Catalepsy Definition Alt. of Catalepsis
- English Word Cataleptic Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.
- English Word Catallacta Definition A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.
- English Word Catallactics Definition The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.
- English Word Catalog Definition Catalogue.
- English Word Catalogize Definition To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue.
- English Word Catalogue Definition A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.
- English Word Catalogue Definition To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a catalogue.
- English Word Catalogued Definition of Catalogue
- English Word Cataloguer Definition A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues.
- English Word Cataloguing Definition of Catalogue
- English Word Catalpa Definition A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean.
- English Word Catalyse Definition of Catalysis
- English Word Catalysis Definition Dissolution; degeneration; decay.
- English Word Catalysis Definition A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as diastase, or ptyalin) on starch.
- English Word Catalysis Definition The catalytic force.
- English Word Catalytic Definition Relating to, or causing, catalysis.