176 CONCERNING CATS. 



Bad Shah Bahadoor Shah, the last King of Delhi, was 

 captured and exiled to the Andaman Isles, his Queen secreted 

 this gem, and it was never seen again until, being distressed 

 during the Mutiny, she sold it to the present owner. The 

 gem was finally knocked down at ;£"2,45o to Mr. S. J. 

 Phillips, jeweller, New Bond Street. 



Cafs-foot. — To live under the cat's foot, to be under the 

 dominion of a wife, henpecked. 



Cafs-foot. — A plant of the genus Glechoma pes feHnus, 

 ground ivy or gill. 



Cat" s-head apple. — A large culinary apple, considered by 

 some in form to bear a resemblance to a cat's head. Philips 

 in his poem " Cyder " thus describes it : 



"... The cat's head's weighty orb, 

 Enormous in growth, for various use." 



Cat-silver. — An old popular name for mica or talc. 



Cat-sleep. — A light doze, a watchful sleep, like that of a 

 hare or of a cat who sits in front of a mouse-hole, a dozy 

 or a sleeping wakefulness. 



Cafs-paiu. — Any one used by another for getting them 

 out of a difficulty, and for no other reason, is made a cat's- 

 paw of. The simile is from the fable of the monkey using 

 the cat's paw to take his chestnuts out of the fire. A light 

 breeze just ruffling the water in a calm is called a cat's-paw. 

 Also a particular kind of turn in the bight of a rope made 

 to hook tackle on. 



Cafs-iail {Typha latifolia). — A kind of reed which bears 

 a spike like the tail of a cat, which some call reed mace ; its 

 long, flat leaves are much used for the bottoms of chairs. 



Cais'-tails. — Mares' tails {equisetuvi). 



Cat-stane. — " Battle- stone. A monolith in Scotland 

 (sometimes falsely called a Druidical stone). The Norwegian 

 term, hanta stein, means the same thing. Celtic — catJi 

 (battle)." — Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 



