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r note, the ear seeming naturally to ex- 

 pect it ; and is much the same in a song, 

 as the period that closes the sense in a 

 paragraph of a discourse. See Music. 



CADEXCE, in rhetoric and poetry, the 

 running of verse or prose, otherwise 

 called the numbers, and by the ancients 



CADENCE, in dancing, is when the se- 

 veral steps and motions follow, or corre- 

 spond, to the notes and measures of the 

 music. 



CADENCE is used as a military term, and 

 implies a very regular and uniform me- 

 thod of marching, by the drum and mu- 

 sic ; it may not, says a good writer on 

 this subject, be improperly called ma- 

 thematical marching ; for after the length 

 of the step is determined, the time and 

 distance may be found. 



CADET is a military term, denoting a 

 young gentleman who chooses to carry 

 arms in a marching regiment as a private 

 man. His views are, to acquire some 

 knowledge of the art of war, and to ob- 

 tain a commission in the army. Cadet 

 differs from volunteer, as the former 

 takes pay, whereas the latter serves with- 

 out any pay. There is a company of gen- 

 tlemen cadets maintained at Woolwich, 

 at the King's expense, where they are 

 taught all the sciences necessary to form 

 a complete officer. 



CADI, or CADHI, a judge of the civil af- 

 fairs in the Turkish empire. It is gene- 

 rally taken for the judge of a town ; 

 judges of provinces being distinguished 

 by the appellation of mollas. 



CADIA, in botany, a genus of the De- 

 candria Monogynia class and order. Es- 

 sential character : calyx five-cleft ; petals 

 five, equal, obcordate, legume, many- 

 seeded. There is but one species ; viz. 

 C. purpurea, purple flowered cadia, is a 

 shrub rising to the height of three feet. 

 The leaves are pinnate, coming out al- 

 ternately ; leaflets from 15 to 30 pairs, 

 linear, retuse, the nerve ending in a little 

 point. The corolla is rose coloured, or 

 rather the colour of a peach blossom ; 

 legume somewhat less than a span in 

 length, containing eight or ten seeds. It 

 is a native of Arabia. 



CADUCI, in botany, the name of a class 

 of plants in Linnxus's Methodus Calycina, 

 consisting of plants of which the calyx is 

 a simple perianthium, supporting a sin- 

 gle flower, or fructification, and falling 

 off either before or with the petals. It 

 stands opposed to the Persistentes, in the 

 same method, and is exemplified in mus- 

 tard, sinapi, and ranunculus. The term 



caducous is expressive of the shortest 

 period of duration, and has different ac- 

 ceptations, according to the different 

 parts of plants to which it is applied. A 

 calyx is said to be caducous, which drops 

 at the first opening of the petals, or 

 even before, as in the poppy. Petals are 

 caducous, which are scarcely unfolded 

 before they fall off, as in the meadow 

 rue ; and such leaves have obtained this 

 denomination as fall before the end of 

 the summer. 



CADUS, in antiquity, a wine vessel of 

 a certain capacity, containing a 80 am- 

 phorae, or firkins, each of which, accord- 

 ing to the best accounts, held nine gal- 

 lons. 



C.32CUM, or COCCUM, in anatomy, the 

 blind gut, or first of the large intestines. 

 See AXATOMY, 



CJENOPTERFS, in botany, a genus of 

 the Cryptogamia Filices. Generic cha- 

 racter: fructifications in sub marginal la- 

 teral lines, covered with a membrane 

 gaping on the outside. There is but one 

 species ; viz. C. rhizophylla, common 

 peduncle or rachis, round, brown, and 

 smooth, elongated at the tip, leafless; 

 bulbiferous rooting; partial peduncles 

 green, flatted, sometimes winged. Fruc- 

 tifications in short, solitary, \ateral lines, 

 beginning at the nerve towards the base 

 of the pinnules, and covered with an en- 

 tire scariose brown membrane. Native of 

 the island of Dominica. 



CJESALPINA, in botany, a genus of 

 the Decandria Monogynia class and or- 

 der. Natural order of Lomentacese. Le- 

 guminosae, Jussieu. Essential character: 

 calyx five parted, the lowest segment 

 longer, and slightly arched ; stamen wool- 

 ly at the base ; petals five ; legume com- 

 pressed. There are eight species, of 

 which C. elata is a tree with bipinnate 

 leaves of seven pairs ; the leaflets fifteen 

 pairs, quite entire, minute ; flowers large, 

 and of a yellow colour; filaments very 

 dark purple, villose at the base. It is a 

 native of India. C. pulcherrima, the Bar- 

 badoes flower fence, rises with a straight 

 stalk ten or twelve feet high : it is cover- 

 ed with a smooth grey bark : it divides 

 into several spreading branches at the top, 

 arched at eacli joint with two short, 

 strong, crooked spines. The branches 

 are terminated by loose spikes of flowers, 

 which are sometimes formed into a kind 

 of pyramid, and at others they are dispos- 

 ed more in form of an umbel. The pe- 

 duncle of each flower is nearly three in- 

 ches long. The petals are roundish at 

 the top : they spread open, and are beau- 



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