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Is made of wool or silk, and sometimes 

 lined with fur. 



CAG, a small cask, differing 1 from a bar- 

 rel only in being of smaller size. The 

 word is usually written keg : the root is 

 Dan. kag. 



CAGE, from Lat. cagia. The term cage 

 is used in carpentry, to denote an outer 

 work of timber, inclosing another within 

 it. In this sense the cage of a staircase 

 is the wooden sides or walls which in- 

 close it. 



CAO'HIZ (Persian), a charter or patent, 

 granted by the Persian kings to those 

 whom they mean to honour, and by virtue 

 of which the governor of every district of 

 The kingdom, through which the Caghizar 

 travels, must supply him with every ne- 

 cessary and accommodation. 



CA'GCI, a monkey of Brazil, of two 



species, one of which is the Pongi ; the 



other is not more than six inches long. 



They are called also Jacchus and CEdipus. 



The name cagui, pronounced by the 



natives sagui, is common in Brazil to a 



great number of quadrupeds. 



CAG'MAo.a name given to old geese sent 

 to London market for sale. The same 

 name is given to the worst kind of meat. 



CA'HIZ (Spanish). An imaginary mea- 

 sure of about 12 imperial bushels : hence 

 cahazada, a tract of land on which a cahiz 

 of wheat may be sown. 



CA'IC, CA'IQCE, a skiff of a galley. It 

 Trent out of use with the galley ; but the 

 name is still applied in the Levant and 

 Black Sea to small barks; and in the 

 French navy it is used to designate any 

 small vessel. 



CAI'MACAN, lieutenant. A title of the 

 Grand Signior, the Grand Vizier, and 

 Governor of Constantinople. 



CAI'NITES, a strange sect of heretics, 

 who appeared about 159 A. D., who as- 

 seved that the power which created 

 heaven and earth was the evil principle. 



CAIRN, a name given to heaps of stones, 

 common in Great Britain, particularly in 

 Scotland and Wales ; generally of a coni- 

 cal form, and covered with a flat stone. 



CAIRNGO'RM, a species of quartz, of va- 

 riout colours and sizes, on Cairngorm, a 

 mountain of Scotland, belonging to the 

 Grampian hills. The cairngorms, called 

 also Scotch pebbles, are used for seals and 

 other trinkets. 



CAI'SSON , from Fr. caisse, a chest. 1. In 

 military affairs, a wooden chest into 

 which several bombs are put, and 

 sometimes gunpowder, and buried under 

 ground, in order to explode at a particular 

 time. The name is also applied to a 

 covered waggon for the provisions and 



ammunition of an army. 2. In archi- 



ttcture, a kind of case or flat-bottomed 

 boat, used in the construction of bridges, 

 lirge enough to contain an entire pier, 



which is built in it ; the caisson is then 

 sunk to the bed of the river, and the sides 

 removed from the bottom, which is left as 

 a foundation for the pier. Floating ves- 

 sels, under the same name, are used to 

 close the entrances of docks and basins. 



CA'JEPVT-OIL, the volatile oil obtained 

 from the leaves of the cajeput-tree, the 

 Cajeputa offcinantm (the Melaleuca levca- 

 dendron,~Lm.). The name is a corruption 

 of the native term, cayu-puti, i. e. white- 

 wood oil , because the bark of the tree has 

 a whitish appearance, like our birch. 



CA'JEP UT-TREE, the tree which affords 

 the cajeput-oil (q. v.). It is common in 

 Amboyna and other Eastern islands. 



CAL'ABA, a tropical plant ; the species of 

 Calophyllum which affords the oil called 

 Oleum Sanctee Marias. 



CAL'ABAR-SKIN, the Siberian squirrel- 

 skin, of various colours. It is used in 

 making muffs, tippets, and trimming for 

 clothes, and is called by the French pet f t- 

 gris. 



CAL'ABASH, a light vessel, formed of the 

 shell of the fruit of the calabash-tree, 

 emptied and dried. So hard and clost- 

 grained are these shells, that they retain 

 all kinds of liquids, and may be put oc 

 the fire, like kettles, without sustaining 

 any injury. The name is also used to 

 designate the calabash-tree. 



CAI/ABASH-NL-T, the fruit of the cala- 

 bash-tree. It contains a pale yello 

 juicy pulp, of an unpleasant taste, which 

 is esteemed a valuable remedy for several 

 disorders, both external and internal. 



CAL'ABASH-TREE, a name common to all 

 the species of the genus Crescentia, but 

 especially applied to the C. cujeta, a pro- 

 duction of the West Indies and the con- 

 tinent of America, about the height and 

 dimensions of an apple-tree. 



CAI/AITE, mineral turquois. 



CALAMAN'CO, a sort of woollen stuff 

 manufactured in England and the Ne- 

 therlands ; it has a fine gloss, and beinq; 

 chequered in the warp, the checks appear 

 only on the one side. 



CALAMAJ'DER-WOOD, a beautiful species 

 of hard wood, brought from Ceylon. 



CAL'AMAR (Spanish), a name given to the 

 cuttle-fish or sea-sleeve. The name means 

 an ink-horn, the fish having on the belly 

 two bladders containing a black fluid 

 which it emits when pursued. 



CAL'AMBAC (Indian), the lignum aloes, 

 xylo-aloes or aloes-wood. 



CAT.AMBO'CR, a species of aloes-wood or 

 calambac used by cabinet-makers. 



CAL'AMINE, the lapis caiaminaris, a na- 

 tive carbonate of zinc. Name, calamina, 

 from calamus, in allusion to its reed-like 

 appearance. 



CAL'AMITE. 1. From calamut, a reed : a 

 genus of fossil equisetaceae, abounding in 

 the most ancient coal formations, and 



