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- English Word Cater Definition To cut diagonally.
- English Word Cater-cornered Definition Diagonal.
- English Word Cater-cousin Definition A remote relation. See Quater-cousin.
- English Word Cateran Definition A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier.
- English Word Catered Definition of Cater
- English Word Caterer Definition One who caters.
- English Word Cateress Definition A woman who caters.
- English Word Catering Definition of Cater
- English Word Caterpillar Definition The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.
- English Word Caterpillar Definition A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars.
- English Word Caterwaul Definition To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise.
- English Word Caterwaul Definition A caterwauling.
- English Word Caterwauled Definition of Caterwaul
- English Word Caterwauling Definition of Caterwaul
- English Word Caterwauling Definition The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.
- English Word Catery Definition The place where provisions are deposited.
- English Word Cates Definition Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.
- English Word Catfall Definition A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.
- English Word Catfish Definition A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.
- English Word Catgut Definition A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.
- English Word Catgut Definition A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
- English Word Catharical Definition Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.
- English Word Catharical Definition Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.
- English Word Catharine wheel Definition See catherine wheel.
- English Word Catharist Definition One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.
- English Word Catharsis Definition A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.
- English Word Cathartic Definition Alt. of Catharical
- English Word Cathartic Definition A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
- English Word Cathartin Definition The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.
- English Word Cathay Definition China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)