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<B>caustic soda,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a brittle, solid, white substance used in medicine, manufacturing, and for cleaning out drains; sodium hydroxide. <BR> <I>Ex. Caustic soda is an important raw material in the refinement of bauxite, the ore from which aluminum is extracted (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<B>cautelous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD><B> 1. </B>cautious or wary. <BR> <I>Ex. I have been cautelous in quoting mine authorities (Scott).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>crafty. </DL>
<A NAME="cauter">
<B>cauter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a surgical instrument for burning or cauterizing. </DL>
<A NAME="cauterant">
<B>cauterant, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a caustic or cauterizing substance. <DD><I>adj. </I> having to do with cautery; that cauterizes; caustic. </DL>
<A NAME="cauterize">
<B>cauterize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to burn with a hot iron or a caustic substance. Doctors sometimes cauterize wounds to prevent bleeding or infection. (SYN) sear. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to render insensible; deaden the feelings of. <BR> <I>Ex. Custom soon cauterizes human sympathy (Robert Southey).</I> noun <B>cauterization.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cautery">
<B>cautery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-teries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an instrument or substance used in cauterizing. <DD><B> 2. </B>a cauterizing. </DL>
<A NAME="caution">
<B>caution, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>great care; regard for safety; unwillingness to take chances. <BR> <I>Ex. Use caution in crossing streets.</I> (SYN) prudence, wariness. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a warning. <BR> <I>Ex. A sign with "Danger" on it is a caution.</I> (SYN) admonition, advice, counsel. <DD><B> b. </B>(Military.) one or more explanatory words spoken before the word of command in giving an order. <BR> <I>Ex. In the order "shoulder arms," "shoulder" is the caution and "arms" the word for command.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) a very unusual person or thing. <BR> <I>Ex. The way she vamps him is a caution (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) a precaution. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to urge to be careful; warn. <BR> <I>Ex. The policeman cautioned us against playing in that busy street.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cautionary">
<B>cautionary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> urging to be careful; warning. <BR> <I>Ex. This experience had a cautionary effect.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cautionarytown">
<B>cautionary town,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a town whose control and revenues are granted by a government to a foreign power as security for the payment of a debt or the performance of an obligation. Certain strongholds in the Netherlands, especially the cities of Flushing, Briel, and Rammekens, were thus pledged to the English crown in the time of Elizabeth I. </DL>
<A NAME="cautioner">
<B>cautioner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who cautions or advises. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who gives security for another; surety. </DL>
<A NAME="cautionmoney">
<B>caution money,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> money deposited by students against misconduct, breakage of laboratory equipment, or other property. </DL>
<A NAME="cautionry">
<B>cautionry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in Scottish law) the act of giving security for another; suretyship. </DL>
<A NAME="cautious">
<B>cautious, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> very careful; taking care to be safe; not taking chances. <BR> <I>Ex. A cautious driver never drives his car too fast.</I> adv. <B>cautiously.</B> noun <B>cautiousness.</B> </DL>
<B>Cav.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Cavalry. <BR> <I>Ex. the 1st U.S. Cav.</I> </DL>
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<B>cavalcade, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a procession of persons riding on horses, in carriages, or in automobiles. <BR> <I>Ex. The parade began with a cavalcade of city officials riding in big open cars.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a series of scenes or events. <BR> <I>Ex. a cavalcade of sports.</I> </DL>
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<B>cavalier, </B>noun, adjective, verb,<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a horseman, mounted soldier, or knight. <BR> <I>Ex. The cavaliers with sabers drawn charged their horses into the attacking army.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>a courteous gentleman; gallant. <BR> <I>Ex. I saw the bud-crowned Spring go forth ... to greet staid ancient cavaliers (Emerson).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a courteous escort for a lady. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>careless in manner; free and easy; offhand. <BR> <I>Ex. He did not take me seriously and gave a gay, cavalier reply. Very cavalier, indeed, to go out to walk, without waiting to see us (Maria Edgeworth).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>proud and scornful; haughty; arrogant. <BR> <I>Ex. People were often irritated by his cavalier attitude toward them. This cavalier tone from an unknown person ... did not please me (Thomas Carlyle).</I> (SYN) supercilious, disdainful. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to play the cavalier. <BR> <I>Ex. I must fly from the University forsooth to run a cavaliering (Thomas Shadwell).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to be haughty or domineering. <BR> <I>Ex. cavaliering it here over half a dozen persons of distinction (Samuel Richardson).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to act as escort or cavalier to (a lady). <BR> <I>Ex. from his cavaliering the ladies Percy and Mortimer (C. Cowden Clarke).</I> noun <B>cavalierness.</B> </DL>
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<B>Cavalier, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> in English history: <DD><I>noun </I> a person who supported Charles I in his struggle with Parliament from 1640 to 1649; Royalist. <DD><I>adj. </I> of the Cavaliers; Royalist. </DL>
<A NAME="cavalierism">
<B>cavalierism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the practices or principles of cavaliers, especially of the adherents of Charles I of England. <DD><B> 2. </B>an expression characteristic of the Cavalier party. </DL>
<A NAME="cavalierly">
<B>cavalierly, </B>adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adv. </I> in a cavalier manner; disdainfully. <BR> <I>Ex. In some Hollywood quarters the report from Britain was dismissed cavalierly (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> characteristic of a cavalier; knightly; haughty. </DL>
<A NAME="cavalierpoets">
<B>Cavalier poets,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of English poets writing during the reign of Charles I, including Herrick, Lovelace, Suckling, and Carew, famous especially for their lyric poetry. </DL>
<A NAME="cavalla">
<B>cavalla, </B>noun, pl. <B>-la</B> or <B>-las.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of certain carangoid fishes, especially a large mackerellike food fish found off tropical America and north to Cape Cod; crevalle. <DD><B> 2. </B>a variety of Spanish mackerel. </DL>
<A NAME="cavally">
<B>cavally, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lies.</B> <B>=cavalla.</B></DL>
<A NAME="cavalry">
<B>cavalry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Military.) <DD><B> a. </B>soldiers who fight on horseback; a branch of an army consisting of such troops (now mostly obsolete). <BR> <I>Ex. At 19, he went to Mexico where he joined the Mexican Army cavalry for two years to perfect his horsemanship (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>soldiers who fight from armored vehicles; a branch of an army in which supplies and soldiers are conveyed by motor vehicles. Animals are employed only occasionally. (Abbr:) Cav. <DD><B> 2. </B>horsemen; horses. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) horsemanship </DL>
<A NAME="cavalryman">
<B>cavalryman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a soldier in the cavalry. </DL>
<A NAME="cavate">
<B>cavate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> hollowed out, as a class of prehistoric dwellings. </DL>
<A NAME="cavatina">
<B>cavatina, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ne.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a short, simple song; melody; air. <BR> <I>Ex. A simple melody in an opera is a cavatina.</I> </DL>
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<B>cave</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>caved,</B> <B>caving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a hollow space underground, especially one with an opening in the side of a hill or mountain; cavern or den. <BR> <I>Ex. He found four caves in the side of Lime Hill. A cave has three zones: the open area just inside the entrance, a twilight region and the perpetually dark interior (Scientific American).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a hollow place of any kind; cavity. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=cave-in.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. During the earthquake a "cave" had taken place in the drift (Bret Harte).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(in English politics) a cave of Adullam. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to hollow out; make into a cave. <BR> <I>Ex. as if the ground were caved full of hollow galleries (Holme Lee).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to cave in. <BR> <I>Ex. He dug his cellar for the new part too near the house ... and it has caved and let one end of the house down (Thoreau).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>cave in,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to fall in; sink. </I> <I>Ex. The weight of the snow caused the roof of the cabin to cave in. Two brothers ... were at work ... dismantling an old pit shaft, when a portion of the sides caved in (Manchester Guardian).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to cause to fall in; smash. <BR> <I>Ex. had not the river floods caved in the bank (Fortescue Cuming).</I> <DD><B> c. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) to give in; yield; submit. <BR> <I>Ex. The Portuguese government finally became weak-kneed and ordered De Carvalho to cave in to the Communist demands (Atlantic).</I> adj. <B>cavelike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cave">
<B>cave</B> (2), interjection, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) <DD><I>interj. </I> beware! look out! <DD><I>v.t. </I> to be on guard against; beware. <BR> <I>Ex. Cave the dog!</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cave">
<B>cave</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a wine cellar. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small, intimate cabaret in such a cellar. </DL>
<A NAME="cavea">
<B>cavea, </B>noun, pl. <B>-veae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(in ancient Rome) a cage or den for wild beasts. <DD><B> 2. </B>the auditorium of a Roman theater or amphitheater. </DL>
<A NAME="caveat">
<B>caveat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a legal notice given to a law officer or some legal authority not to do something until the person giving notice can be heard. <BR> <I>Ex. He entered a caveat against issuing a patent.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a warning; admonition; caution. <BR> <I>Ex. Although [she] cites these opinions with apparent agreement, this reviewer wants to enter a caveat (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
