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lustre, a flat, concho-dnl fracture, and 

 perfect opacity. It is found in the river 

 Cach, in Hueharia, and obtains its name 

 from that river, and cholong, the Calmuc 

 word for stone. 



CACHC'NDE, a medicine highly cele- 

 brated amona; the Chinese and Indians. 

 It is made of several aromatic ingre- 

 dients, perfumes, medicinal earths, and 

 precious stones, formed into a stiff paste, 

 fashioned into various fantastic forms, 

 and dried for use It is reckoned a pro- 

 longer of life, and a provocative to 

 venery, the two great intentions of most 

 of the medicines used in the East. 



CA'CIQUE. a title borne by some of the 

 native chiefs of America at the time of 

 the Spanish conquest- This is a French 

 form of the word; it was pronounced 

 casic or kasik, and denoted the dignity of 

 a ruler. 



CACOCHOLY, in Lat. cacocholia, a vitiated 

 state of the bile; xano;, bad, and %o>.vi, 

 bile. 



CACOCHYL'Y, in Lat. cacochylia, depraved 

 chylification ; xa.xo;, bad, and %uX6;, 

 chyle. 



CACOE'THES, ifaxorfas Bad custom, 

 condition, or habit; e. g. cncoethes scri- 

 bendi. 



CACOL'OGY, in Lat. cacologia, bad choice 

 of words in writing or speaking, xstxo;, 

 bad, and Aoyoj, word. 



CACOP'ATHY, in Lat. cacopathia, ill- 

 feeling, whether physical or moral ; 

 xa.xf^. bad, and votOo;, feeling. 



CACOPH'OXY, in Lat. cacophonia, dis- 

 agreeable utterance ; naze;, bad, and 

 0wj> sound. 1. Defective articulation of 

 words. - 2. A fault of style consisting 

 in harsh and disagreeable sound pro- 

 duced by the meeting of two letters or 

 two syllables, or by the too frequent re- 

 petition of the same letters or syllables. 



CACOP'RAOY, in Lat. cacopragia. a dis- 

 ease of those viscera which minister to 

 nutrition ; zct%o;,M, and TarTa, to act. 



CA'COSPHEXY, in Lat. cacospherea, a dis- 

 ordered state of the pulse; zctxo;, bad, 

 and <r/pvts , pulse. 



CACOSYN'THETON. In rhetoric, a figure 

 cf speech improperly introduced, an ill 

 arrangement of words in a sentence : 

 vci-to;, ill, and mvQ'.TOS, composed. 



CACOTH'YMY, in Lat. cacothymia, a dis- 

 ordered state of mind: zaixt;, bad, and 



CACOT'KOPHY, in Lat. cacatrophia, con- 

 sumption from defect of nourishment : 

 r-;axos, bad, and r^ottiY,, nourishment. 



CACTA'CEJE, a natural order of exogens, 

 of M-l.ich Cactus is the type, remarkable 

 \ jt their gay and large flowers. 



CAC'TUS, a genu of succulent plants of 



about 90 species, permanent in duration, 

 generally without leaves, having the 

 stem and branches jointed, for the most 

 part armed with spines in bundles, with 

 which, in many species, bristles are in- 

 termixed. Class Icosandria; order Mo- 

 nogynia. Name rf, anciently applied 

 to the artichoke. They are natives of the 

 "West Indies and South America, and are 

 only cultivated in this country for curi- 

 osity in green-houses. Gardeners call 

 those species which are ef a roundish 

 form -melon-thistles; those which are erect 

 and support themselves are torch-thistles , 

 those which have creeping roots are ce- 

 reuses ; the compressed and proliferous 

 jointed are prickly pears or Indian Jigs. 



CADAVER'IC, appertaining to a dead 

 body; e.g. the changes induced in a 

 corpse by putrefaction, are called cada- 

 veric phenomena. 



CAD'DIS. 1. Lint for dressing a wound. 

 2. A kind of tape. 3. A water-in- 

 sect sometimes called the case-worm, and 

 often contracted catt. 



CAD'DO, the jack-daw, or corvus moa- 

 dula, Linn. 



CADE, from Lat. cadus, a cask. A caJe 

 of herrinsfs is the quantity of 500 ; of 

 sprats, 1000. 



CADE'-OIL, a medicinal oil prepared in 

 Germany and France from the fruit of 

 the oxycedrus, called in those countries 

 cada. 



CADE'-WORV. the case-worm or caddis. 



CA'DENCE, from Lat. cadciis, falling, 

 cado, to fall. In music, a pause or sus- 

 pension at the end of an air, to atford 

 the performer an opportunity of intro- 

 ducing a graceful extempore close, called 

 also reprise. The word cadence is also 

 frequently applied to the embellishment 

 itself. In reading or speaking a certain 

 tone is taken, which is the key-note on 

 which most of the words are pronounced, 

 and the fall of the voice below this is 

 called cadence. The term is also used in 

 horsemanship, to denote a just proportion 

 observed by a horse in his movements. 



CADES'ZA (Italian), the modulation of 

 the voice in singing. 



CADET' (French). 1. A younger brother. 



2. A gentleman who has served in 



the army without pay, for the purpose of 



learning the art of war. 3. The term 



cadet is now applied, in Britain and the 

 United States of America, to the pupils 

 of a military academy. 



CADEW', the case-worm or caddi?. 



CA'DI, in Arabic, a judge. Among th 

 Turks, cadi signifies an inferior judge, 

 in distinction to molla, a superior judge. 

 They belong to the higher clergy. 



CADILES'KER, the chief judge in the 

 Turkish empire. The name is compounded 

 of carfi (q. v.i, and Uskar, army, because 

 hU office originally extendtxi to the try- 



