<B>cadenced, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having cadence. </DL>
<A NAME="cadency">
<B>cadency, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=cadence.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>the descent of a younger branch from the main line of a family. <DD><B> 3. </B>the state of being a younger son or cadet. </DL>
<B>cadential, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with cadence. </DL>
<A NAME="cadenza">
<B>cadenza, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a flourish or showy passage, often improvised, usually near the end of a section of a piece of music, such as an aria or a movement of a concerto. It precedes the actual cadence. <BR> <I>Ex. Miss Curcio treated her cadenza in No. 5 with more freedom than is usual, thus creating the effect of a toccata-like extemporization (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cadeoil">
<B>cade oil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a thick, brown oil distilled from the wood of the cade (juniper), used in treating skin ailments. </DL>
<A NAME="cadet">
<B>cadet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a young man in training for service as an officer in the army, navy, or air force. <BR> <I>Ex. The cadets from West Point will graduate next week.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>any person receiving training; trainee. <BR> <I>Ex. a nursing cadet, a business cadet.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>a student in a high-school or grade-school military academy. <DD><B> b. </B>(British.) a student in a college of any one of the armed forces. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>Cadet,</B> a member of the Girl Guides from 16 to 21 years old who is training for leadership of the organization. <DD><B> 4. </B>(formerly) a gentleman, usually a younger son, who entered the army to prepare for a commission. <DD><B> 5a. </B>a younger son or brother. <DD><B> b. </B>the youngest son. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Slang.) <B>=pimp.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cadetcy">
<B>cadetcy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B> <B>=cadetship.</B></DL>
<A NAME="cadetship">
<B>cadetship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the rank or position of a cadet. </DL>
<A NAME="cadette">
<B>cadette, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(New Zealand.) a young woman appointed to a civil-service position after passing a competitive test. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>Cadette,</B> a member of the Girl Scouts from 12 through 14 years old, or in the seventh, eighth, or ninth grades. </DL>
<A NAME="cadetteacher">
<B>cadet teacher,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person, especially one studying to be a teacher, who takes on temporary or part-time teaching assignments either for a living or to gain experience in the field. </DL>
<A NAME="cadge">
<B>cadge, </B>verb, <B>cadged,</B> <B>cadging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> (Informal.) to get (something) by begging shamelessly. <BR> <I>Ex. For several years he wandered the streets of New York as a bum, cadging handouts from actors (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>(Informal.) to beg shamelessly. <BR> <I>Ex. I don't believe in cadging off the public (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Dialect.) to be a peddler; peddle. noun <B>cadger.</B> </DL>
<B>cadi, </B>noun, pl. <B>-dis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a minor Moslem judge, usually of a town or village. Also, <B>kadi.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cadjan">
<B>cadjan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the matted coconut-palm leaves used in southern India for thatch. <DD><B> 2. </B>a section or strip of palm leaf prepared for use as writing material. </DL>
<A NAME="cadmean">
<B>Cadmean, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with Cadmus. </DL>
<A NAME="cadmeanvictory">
<B>Cadmean victory,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a victory involving one's own ruin. </DL>
<A NAME="cadmic">
<B>cadmic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of cadmium. </DL>
<B>cadmium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a soft, bluish-white chemical element, resembling tin, used in plating, to prevent corrosion, and in making alloys. It is a ductile metal and occurs only in combination with other elements. <BR> <I>Ex. Cadmium is produced as a by-product in zinc refining (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cadmiumorange">
<B>cadmium orange,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an orange-yellow pigment. </DL>
<A NAME="cadmiumred">
<B>cadmium red,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several shades of vivid red characteristic of cadmium sulfide in combination with a selenium compound and sometimes a sulfate of barium. </DL>
<A NAME="cadmiumsulfide">
<B>cadmium sulfide,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a bright yellow or orange powder used as a pigment and, because of its sensitivity to light, in such devices as transistors and solar batteries. </DL>
<A NAME="cadmiumyellow">
<B>cadmium yellow,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a lemon-yellow pigment made from cadmium sulfide. </DL>
<A NAME="cadmus">
<B>Cadmus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) a prince who killed a dragon and sowed its teeth. From these teeth armed men sprang up who fought with each other until only five were left. Cadmus and these five men founded the Greek city of Thebes and introduced the alphabet into Greece. </DL>
<A NAME="cadre">
<B>cadre, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the staff of officers and enlisted men of a military unit necessary to establish and train a new unit. <BR> <I>Ex. Air force and naval cadres reported for duty, and 38 officers and noncoms were in the U.S. for training (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a group of trained men in any activity, especially a group that forms the core of an organization. <BR> <I>Ex. What are unions doing to develop cadres of new leadership? (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a small cell of trained and zealous revolutionaries, for example of Communists in various Asian countries. <DD><B> 4. </B>a framework or scheme. <BR> <I>Ex. The chairman of the board is the highest officer in the company's organizational cadre.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cadreman">
<B>cadreman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Military.) a person who belongs to a cadre. </DL>
<A NAME="caducary">
<B>caducary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) subject to or by way of escheat or lapse. </DL>
<A NAME="caducean">
<B>caducean, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a caduceus. </DL>
<A NAME="caduceus">
<B>caduceus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cei.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the staff of Mercury, or Hermes, with two snakes twined around it and a pair of wings on top. The caduceus is often used as an emblem of the medical profession. </DL>
<A NAME="caducity">
<B>caducity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the infirmity of old age; senility. <DD><B> 2. </B>the tendency to fall away; perishableness. </DL>
<A NAME="caducous">
<B>caducous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Botany.) a having a tendency to fall. <DD><B> a. </B>dropping off very early, as the sepals of the poppy, which fall at once on the opening of the flower; fugacious (contrasted with <I>persistent</I>). <DD><B> 2. </B>(Zoology.) having to do with organs or parts that fall off naturally when they have served their purpose. <DD><B> 3. </B>fleeting; transitory. <BR> <I>Ex. This calamity which I fancied was a part of me ... was caducous (Emerson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="caeca">
<B>caeca, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>caecum.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="caecal">
<B>caecal, </B>adjective. <B>=cecal.</B></DL>
<A NAME="caecilian">
<B>caecilian, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of an order of wormlike amphibians having elongated bodies but no legs or tails. <BR> <I>Ex. The caecilians look like footlong earthworms, but actually are relatives of the frogs (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="caecum">
<B>caecum, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ca.</B> <B>=cecum.</B></DL>
<B>Caen</B> or <B>caen stone,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a soft, cream-colored building stone that hardens with exposure, found near Caen in Normandy, France. </DL>
<A NAME="caeoma">
<B>caeoma, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of aecium of rust fungi having the spores in chains and lacking a peridium. </DL>
<A NAME="caerphillycheese">
<B>Caerphilly cheese,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a creamy, white, mild cheese, originally made in Caerphilly, a town in Wales. </DL>
<A NAME="caesalpiniaceous">
<B>caesalpiniaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to the senna subfamily of the pea family. </DL>
<A NAME="caesar">
<B>Caesar, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the title of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Hadrian, and later of the heir to the throne. <DD><B> 2. </B>an emperor. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a dictator or tyrant. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) the temporal monarch as the object of his subjects' obedience; civil power. <BR> <I>Ex. Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's (Matthew 22:21).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>appeal to Caesar,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to appeal to the highest authority. </I> <I>Ex. "Can't she come, Father?" said Percy, adroitly appealing to Caesar (T. B. Reed).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Politics.) to appeal to the nation in a general election. <BR> <I>Ex. If this policy were not accepted as the policy of the Government ... I should feel it my duty to appeal to Caesar (Westminster Gazette).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="caesardom">
<B>Caesardom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the dominion or dignity of the Caesars. <BR> <I>Ex. Charles the Frank ... transporting the name and the pomp of the Caesardom to the forests of Rhineland (A. B. Hope).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="caesarean">
<B>Caesarean</B> or <B>Caesarian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>by Caesarean section. <BR> <I>Ex. Surgical operations and Caesarian births have been televised in color for the benefit of medical students (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of the Caesars. <BR> <I>Ex. the Caesarean succession.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of Julius Caesar. <BR> <I>Ex. Caesarean Latin.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B><B>=Caesarean section.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a follower of Caesarism. Also, <B>Cesarean,</B> <B>Cesarian.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="caesareansection">
<B>Caesarean section</B> or <B>operation,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an operation by which a baby is removed from the uterus by cutting through the abdominal and uterine walls; hysterotomy. It is performed when delivery cannot take place through the birth canal. This operation is said to have taken place at the birth of Julius Caesar. </DL>
