cachinnation 
cachinnation (kak-i-na'shon), n. [< L. cacliin- 
ntitio(ti-), < I'ltclniinarc, pp. cachinnatus, laugh 
loudly or immoderately ; imitative, like Gr. *- 
%a&iv, Kay^d^Fiv, and Kaj^a/'im', and AS. eeahhe- 
tan, of same sense. Cf. E. cackle, gaggle, gig- 
gle, chuckle, and coug)i.~\ Loud or immoderate 
laughter. 
Hideous grimaces . . . attended this nniuiual cochin- 
nation. Scott, Guy Maimerlng. 
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cacoon 
laying an egg or by a goose when excited or cacoepy (kak'6-ep-i), . [< Gr. naKocireia, faulty 
alarmed. 
Those Spanish Creoles, however they may afterwards 
cackle, like to lay their plans noiselessly, like a hen in a 
barn. G. W. Cable, Old Creole Days, p. 94. 
When every goose is cackling. Shak., M. of V., v. i. 
2. To laugh with a broken noise like the cack- 
ling of a goose ; giggle. 
language, < /ca/cdf, bad, + eiroc., word.] Incor- 
rect pronunciation ; mispronunciation : opposed 
to orthoepy. 
Orthoepy is entirely independent of phonology, and 
phonology finds in orthoepy only the materials upon which 
it works, which indeed it finds no less in caeofini. 
Ji. G. White, Every-day English, p. 40. 
Nic grinned, cackled, and laughed till he was like to kill cacoe'thes (kak-o-e'thez), n. [L., < Gr. i 
A sharp, dry ctn-fiinnalwn appealed to his memory. 
Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales. 
cachinnatory (ka-kiu'a-to-ri), a. 
mire: see cachinnation.] ' Of or pertaining to 
cachinnation ; relating to or consisting in loud 
laughter. 
To which, of course, I replied to the best of my cachin- 
iiatiiry powers. Kuhixr, Pelham, xxxvi. 
cacholong(kash'o-long), [Saidtobe< Co* 
me a '' 
himself. Arlnd/inot, John Bull. 
3. To prate; prattle; tattle; talk in a silly 
manner. Johnson. 
L. cachiii- cadrte (kak'l), n. [< cackle, ?.] 1. The shrill 
bntm-nfr rrt /7 L _ ' J 
repeated cry of a goose or hen. 
The silver goose before the shining gate 
There flew, and by her cackle sav'd the state. 
Dryden, ^Eneid, viii. 872. 
2. Idle talk; silly prattle. cacogalactia (kak"o-ga-lak'ti-a 
There is a buzz and cackle all round regarding the ser- fca _ K "r, bad,^+ }-a/<a (ya/laKr-), mi 
Thackeray, Ne 
an ill habit, neut. of Ka/o?/<%, ill-disposed, ma- 
lignant, < KaKof, bad, ill, + i/Oof, habit, custom : 
see ethics.'] A bad custom or habit ; a bad dis- 
position Cacoe'thes loquendl, a mania for talking ; 
morbid desire for gossip or speechmaking. Cacoe'thes 
scribendi, a morbid propensity for writing ; an itch for 
authorship. The phrase is taken from Juvenal (Satires, 
vii. 52). 
[NL.,<Gr. 
milk.] Inpathol., 
a bad condition of the milk. 
cholong, i _ 
pearl-opal, usually milk-white, sometimes gray- 
', often caned cackler (kak'ler), . 1. A fowl that cackles, cacogalia (kak-o-ga'li-a), n. 
1C I 1 IHCS J^J'Jt ^ ~ 4 i . ,. // /i ,, .,L ij pa (*f\Sff\ atl*!/* f Irnlr f\ era 't Tit ^ 
lltrl . t/0/tHoOH. ^ctl/UgctSlilltf ^iiajA-O-gdrs LI IK J 
[NL.] Same as 
_ . [Old slang.] 
conimori chalcedony, the two minerals being united by in- cacKV 1 (kak i), V. andw. Same as COCK 1 . 
sensible shades. caco (ka-ko ), n. A Brazilian mining term for 
cacholot, n. See cachalot. the sugary quartz found in some gold-veins. 
eachou(ka-shp'), . [F. : see cashew.] A sweet- caco-. [L. etc. caco-, < Gr. /ca/cof, bad.] An 
Pertaining to a disordered stomach; charac- 
terized by dyspepsia ; dyspeptic. 
The woes that chequer this imperfect cacogastric state 
of existence. Carlyle, Misc., III. 221. 
the breath. 
cachucha (ka-cho'cha), 11. [Sp 
clid), a dance, also a kind of cap, 
ica) a small boat.] 1. A Spanish 
lar to the bolero. 2. A musical piece in triple 
rhythm, like the bolero. 
bad, _+ XA>I! bile.] A morbid state of the bile. Hal, as a monstrosity, or of later development, 
Same as cacocholia. as a tumor. 
, < Gr. Kan6(, cacographic (kak-o-graf'ik), a. [< cacography 
.. ... . . Indigestion or + -e.] 1. Of or pertaining to cacography or 
deprave_d chylification. bad writing; ill-written. 2. Pertaining to or 
p. (> Pg. caehu- cacocholyt (ka-kok'o-li), . Same as ct 
i, also (in Amer- cacochyha (kak-o-kil'i-a), . [NL., < 
iish dance simi- bad, + ^u/ldf, juice: see chyle.'] Indig 
rhythm, like the bolero. cacochylyt (ka-kok'i-li), n . Same as cacochylia. characterized by bad spelling ; wrongly spelled, 
cacnunde (ka-chon'de), M. [Sp., =Pg. cachon- cacochymia (kak-o-kim'i-a), n. [NL., also in cacographical (kak-o-graf'i-kal), a. Same as 
rie.~\ A medicine composed of many aromatic 
ingredients (musk, amber, cutch, mastic, aloes, 
rhubarb, etc.), highly celebrated in India and 
E. form caopehyniy, < Gr. KctKo^vuta, < /ca/cdf, bad, cacographic. 
+ xvpof, juice : see chyme.] A morbid state of cacography (ka-kog'ra-fi). n. [= F. cacogra- 
the fluids of _the body; "abundance of corrupt phie, bad spelling, a "collection of ill-spelled 
body vitiated, especially the blood. 
genus of American oscine passerine birds, 
the caciques, of the family Ictfridie, compre- 
hending numerous species of Mexico and Cen- chymia. 
tral and South America, typical forms of which cacodemon, cacodaemon (kak-o-de'mpn), 
have a large bill, very stout at the base, rising [ML. cacodtemon, an evil spirit, < Gr. 
upon the forehead somewhat like 
Such are C. persicus (Linnseus) and 
rhous (Liiinseus). Now usually spe 
cus. 2. A genus of Coleoptera, of the family 
Melasomidce. 
cacique (ka-sek'), n. [= F. cacique, < Sp. Pg. 
cacique, of Haytiau origin.] 1. The title of 
native princes or head chiefs of Hayti, Cuba, 
1 > .* . . ~\/T i J _ J.1 . it 
Pyrenees, and perhaps of Basque ongin.] A 
II. H. A dyspeptic ; one suffering from eaco- kind of pannier in the form of a seat, fixed on 
the back of a mule or horse, for carrying travel- 
ers in mountainous districts, or sick or wounded 
persons. It is composed of strong iron rods with joints, 
Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave this world, 
Thou cacodcemon! Shak., Rich. III., i. 3. 
2. In med., the nightmare. 3. In astrol., the 
twelfth house of a scheme or figure of the 
heavens: so called from its signifying dread- 
f --------- .,.-, -, - 
Peru, Mexico, and other regions of America, ful things, such as secret enemies, great losses, 
who were found reigning there when these imprisonment, etc. E. Phillipa, 1706. 
countries were discovered by the Spaniards, cacodemonial (kak // o-de-m6'ni-al), a. [< caco- 
Also applied to the chiefs of independent tribes demon + -i-al.] Pertaining to or characteristic 
of Indians in modem times. 2. In the Funda- of a cacodemon or evil spirit. 
mental Constitutions of Carolina, 1669, a digui- cacodemonize (kak-o-de'mon-iz), r. t. ; pret. 
tary of the next rank to the landgraves. There and pp. eaeodemonized, pp'r. cttfodemonizing. 
were to be two in each county. 3. A bird of [< cacodemon + -ize.~\ To turn into a cacode- 
the genus Cacicus (which see). mon. Southeu. 
Also written cassiqne, cazique, cazic. cacodoxical (kak-o-dok'si-kal), a. [< cacodoxy 
cack 1 (kak), v. i. [Also cacky, cackie; < ME. + -too?.] Erroneous; heretical. 
Cacolet, or Mule-chair. 
united by bands of strong cloth, the arrangement of the 
bauds affording sufficient elasticity to permit the occu- 
Cf. OF. coca, excrement.] Human 'excrement: cacodyl, cacodyle (kak'6-dil, -dil), . [< Gr. 
nl] l\7 in tho i\l 111.0 1 rQnrt*-l 1 /.s 1 ! ^-T-_j*.ti/.* ' * ^*-^ 
usually in the plural. [Scotch.] 
cack 2 (kak), n. [Origin obscure.] A shoe- 
makers' name for an infant's shoe. 
cackerelt (kak'er-el), 11. [< OF. caquerel, ca- 
garel, said to be from same root as cacti (OF. 
caca, n.).] A fish which was said to void ex- 
crements when pursued ; according to some, a 
fish which when eaten produces laxness of the 
bowels. Skinner; Johnson. 
cackie (kak'i), v. and . Same as 
t. and pp. cackled, ppr 
having a bad sinell (< Kaxof, bad, + 
oCew, smell), + v^ti, matter.] Dimethyl ar- 
sine, As(CH 3 ) 2 , a metalloid radical, a com- 
pound of arsenic, hydrogen, and carbon, it 
was first obtained in a separate state as dicacodyl Aso 
(CH 3 ) 4 , by Bunsen In 1837, and formed the second in- 
stance of the isolation of a compound radical, that of cy- 
- by (fay- Uissac being the first. It is a clear liquid 
< 
evil-speaking, abuse, vitupera- 
. Of, speaking evil, slanderous, < 
Ktucof, bad, + ?iycn>, speak. The rhetorical 
sense is modern.] If. An evil speaking. Bai- 
ley, 1727. 2. A bad choice of words in writing 
or speaking; also, vicious pronunciation. 
Debated with his customers, and pretended to correct 
their cacolotiy, provincialisms, and other defects. 
Faute, In Jon Bee's Samuel Foote. 
[Mex.] See Bas- 
ackle (kak'll r i nrot nnrl nr> f,,^l-l a ,i maoie in air. AlKarsin is the protoxid of cacoi 
7^-/f, r/'in? ' Pi i , PP- Cl "^ le ^' PP r - written kal m l,,l, tnlmlvle. See alkartin. 
Ml C ' J / T c fc ^ I ", caWe = , D ; ka tele>< cacodylic (kak-6-dil'ik), a. [< cacod,,l 
= MLG. kakelen LG. kakeln = G. kakeln = Sw. Containina- the basic radical rGmoJvlJ 
___ ...... ___ ____ _ 
heavier than "water and refracting light strongly. ""its cacomixl (kak'6-mik-sl), w. 
srnell is msnpportably offensive (whence its name), and its ,,.,, i 
vapor is highly poisonous. It is spontaneously innam- ' ' ,, , ,- . , _ . _ 
Caconym (kak p-nim), w. [< Gr. MZAuf, bad, + 
omfia, omfia, a name.] A bad name for any- 
. - 
mable In air. Alkarsin is the protoxid of cacodyl. Also 
thing ; a name which is in any way undesirable 
or objectionable. Coues. 
to 
. . 
a noisy succession of thin, shrill, broken notes 
specifically used of the cry made by a hen after 
[Bare.] 
Mjiru-llous cacffcononiff of their government. 
Sydllrf/ .Sun 
beans of the Kiitada xcanaeug, natural order 
Leguminosw, used for making scent-bottles, 
