cadent 
753 
Forth thay ( workers In the vineyard] goU 
Wrythen it worchen A don gret j>> n- . 
K< I:! ' A Til. HI |lllakl'll| Ilit do-. 
Ml iterative Poenu(ed. Morris), i. 511. 
To catlye, a term In making hone-lace. 
Thoraby, Letter to Ray (1703). 
2. To bind the edge of. 
I cadge a garment, I >et lyitei In the lynyng to kepe the 
plyghtes In order. Paltgratt. 
3. To stuff or fill : as, to cadge the belly. 
II. iiitranx. To stuff one's self at another's 
expense ; sponge or live upon another. 
cadge'-' (kaj), . ; pret. and pp. cadged, ppr. cadtj- 
iit</. [K. dial., prob. a var. of catch in the sense 
of 'take' (cf. take in the sense of 'carry'). 
l'ii/i-li hud formerly a wider range of meaning.] 
1. trans. 1. To carry, especially to carry for 
sale; hawk. 2. To obtain by begging. 
II. intrant. 1. To hawk goods, as in a cart 
or otherwise. 2. To go about begging. 
cadge 3 t (kaj), u. [Perhaps a var. of caye.] A 
round piece of wood on which hawks were car- 
ried when exposed for sale. E. PhiUiitx, 1706. 
cadger 1 (kaj'er), n. [< cadge'* + -cr 1 .] If. Origi- 
nally, a carrier; a packman. 
A cadger to a mill, a carrier, or loader. 
Kay, Collection of Eng. Words. 
A cadger is a butcher, miller, or carrier of any other 
load. Kennetl, p. 86. (llaUiiivll.) 
2. One who carries butter, eggs, poultry, etc., 
to market from the country ; an itinerant huck- 
ster or hawker. 3. A person who gets a living 
by begging: as, "the gentleman cadger," Dick- 
s. [Prov. or colloq.] 
(kaj'er), H. [< cadge** + -er l ; but cf. 
cadent (ka'dent), a. [< L. cndcn(t-)s, ppr. of cadge 1 ! (kaj), r. [< ME. cai/,/i , caijen, of ob- 
cudfre (in late popular L. cadi-re, > It. cadcre= scure origin.] I. trans. 1. To bind; tie. 
S|>. caer = Pg. cnir = Pr. cazvr = OF. chcoir, 
mod. F. choir), fall, = Skt. / ','"'' '"" Hence, 
from L. cndcrc, ult. K. cmliiici. i-lnnici. <<(/,<', 
casual, ciiilnri r, ncciilcnl. incident, Occident. <<<.. 
decay, decadence, etc.] 1. Fulling; sinkiiu;. 
[Rare.] 
With null-lit tears fret channels in her eln 
'(-., L> :u. I. 4. 
2. In asttrol., falling from an angle: applied to 
the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth nouses, 
which follow the meridian and the horizon. 
3. Specifically applied to the tenth of Professor 
H. D. Kogers's fifteen divisions of the Paleozoic 
strata of Pennsylvania, which suggest meta- 
phorically the different natural periods of the 
day. It corresponds to the Hamilton group of 
the New York survey. 
cadenza (ka-den'za), n. [It. : see cadence.} In 
music, a more or less elaborate flourish or showy 
passage introduced, often extemporaneously, 
just before the end of an extended aria or con- 
certo, or as a connective between an interme- 
diate and a final division. It is always intended t.. 
display the technical proficiency of the performer, and to 
arouse wonder and applause, and hence, except in the 
hands of a master, is often deficient in intellectual or ex- 
pressive character, as well as incongruous with the re- 
mainder of the piece. Modern composers, therefore, usu- 
ally write out cadenzas in full, instead of trusting, as was 
customary ill the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 
to the taste and readiness of singers and players. Also 
called cadence. 
cade-oil (kad'oil), . [After F. huile de cade 
(ML. oleum de cada, oil of juniper; G. kaddiy- 
67): huile, oil (see ott); de (< L. de), of; cade 
(= Pr. cade = Sp. cada = ML. cada), juniper, 
prob., like G. kaddiy, kaddik, < Bohem. hulii. 
juniper.] An oil strong with empyreumatic 
principles, extracted from juniper-wood by dis- 
tillation, and used in France and Germany, in 
veterinary practice and in human therapeutics, 
for eczema and other skin-affections. Also 
called (til of cade. 
cader (ka'der), w. [E. dial., in def. 2 also spelled 
codar.] 1. A small frame of wood on which a 
fisherman keeps his line. 2. A light frame of 
wood put over a scythe to preserve and lay 
the corn more even in the swathe. Halliircll. 
[Prov. Eng. in both senses.] 
cadesset, . An obsolete form of caddote. Mar- 
lowe. 
cadet 1 (ka-def ), ii. [In 17th century codec, later 
Sc. codec, a younger son (and in extended sense 
cadie, caddie, etc. : see caddie and cad), < F. 
cadet, a younger son, < OF. dial, capdet, < ML. 
capitellttm, a little head, dim. of L. caimt (<- 
I'll-), head. The cadet was the 'little head' of 
his own branch of the family, in distinction 
from the eldest son, the 'head' of the whole 
family. The former practice of providing for 
the younger sons of the French nobility by 
making them officers of the army gave rise to 
the military use of the word.] 1. The younger 
or youngest son. 
He [the abbate] was the cm/ft of a patrician family, . . . 
with a polite taste for idleness and intrigue, and for whom 
no secular sinecure could be found In the State. 
Iliiiivlli, Venetian Life, xxi. 
Hence 2. One of the younger members, or 
the youngest member, of any organized associa- 
tion or institution. 3. One who carried anus 
in a regiment as a private, but solely with a 
view to acquiring military skill preparatory to 
a commission. His service was voluntary, but 
he received pay. and was thus distinguished 
from a volunteer. 4. A young man in train- 
ing for the rank of an officer in the army or 
navy, or in a military school. Specifically (n) 
One who is under training lor a commission iu the army 
or navy by a course of Instruction and military discipline 
in the Vn'itcil states Military Academy at West Point, or 
the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Cadets 
are nominated for ail mission, after examination, by the 
President or n member of Congress. (6) One who is under- 
going a similar course of instruction ami discipline in tin- 
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich or the lloyal Mili- 
tary Academy at Sandhurst in Kngland. the numerous 
- "I'lci -.lioitls of (iermany. etc. Corps Of cadets. See 
fonts" 
_____ t'-' (ka-def), 11. An East Indian bird, . 
/>i/H<i miles, u species of fire honey-sucker, of 
the family Xrcfariniidii: 
Cadet's fuming liquid. See //,;>/. 
cadetship (ka-det'ship), . [< cadet 1 + -a/ii/i. \ 
The state of Wing a cadet; an appointment as 
Mdet. 
cadew, w. Same as caddis-worm. 
cade-worm (kad'werm), H. Same as caddis- 
48 
F. cagier, one who carried about falcons and 
other birds, in a cage, for sale.} The bearer 
or carrier of hawks. 
The expected pleasure of the first day's hawking was 
now bright in his imagination ; the day was named, the 
weather promised well, and the German cadgers and 
trainers who had been engaged . . . came down. 
Ming Edgeieorth, Helen, xvii. 
cadgy (kaj'i), a. [K. dial, and Sc.; Sc. also 
caidgy, caigy, cady, keady; prob. < Dan. kaad 
= Sw. k&t, wanton, = Icel. kdtr, merry, cheer- 
ful.] 1. Lively; frolicsome. 2. Wanton. 
cadi 1 , w. See kadi. 
cadi-, H. Plural of cadus. 
cadilesker, . See kadilesker. 
Cadillac (kad-i-lak' or -lyak'), n. [F., named 
from Cadillac, a town in Gironde, France.] A 
sort of pear. 
cadist, See caddis 1 . 
Cadiz lace. See lace. 
Cadmean (kad-me'an), a. [< L. Caameus, Cad- 
meiun, < Gr. KaiS/jfiof, relating to Kdrf/yof, L. Cad- 
mus."] Relating to Cadmus, a legendary hero, 
founder of Thebes iu Bceotia, who is said to 
have introduced into Greece, from Pheuicia, 
the sixteen simple letters of the Greek alpha- 
bet, a, ft y, S, e, t, K, /.. /i, v, o, ir, p. or, T, v, 
which are therefore called Cadmean letters. 
Cadmean victory, a proverbial phrase for a victory in 
which the victors suffer aa much as the vanquished : per- 
haps from the myth of the Ba-otian dragon slain by Cad- 
mus, and the threatened attack upon him by the armed 
men who sprang from its teeth, which he averted by in- 
ducing them to kill one another, excepting five who aided 
him in founding Thebes; or from the contest for the sov- 
ereignty of Thebes (the Cadmean city) between the bro- 
thers Eteocles and 1'olyniccs. who killed each other in 
hid. while the partisans of the former were victorious, 
but were driven from the city on the renewal of the war 
ten years later. 
cadmia (kad'mi-a), M. [L., < Gr. xadutia, naf/iia 
(sc. jiji, earth), calamin, fern, of Kaf/itioc. Cad- 
mean, perhaps as equiv. to "Theban": see 
Cadmean. Cf. calamin, < ML. calainina, a cor- 
ruption of L. cadmia.'] A name used by old 
writers (a) for the native silicate and carbo- 
nate of zinc, and (6) for the oxid of zinc which 
collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc 
happens to be present in an ore and is sublimed. 
cadmiferous (kad-mif 'e-rus), a. Containing 
cadmium. 
cadmium (kad'mi-um), . [NL., < L. cadmia : 
see cadmia."] Atomic weight, 112.1; chemical 
symbol, Cd. A metal discovered by Stromeyer 
in 1817, resembling tin in color and general ap- 
pearance, and, like that metal, having a "cry" 
when bent. The specific gravity of the cast metal is 
8.62 ; of the rolled, 8.t. Its hardness is between that of 
gold and tin, and It is easily rolled to sheets or even to very 
thin foil. It fuses at about the same temperature as tin, 
467' K.. and communicates to various alloys the property 
of fusing at very low temperatures. (See H'IMX/ * inftnl. 
under metal.) If 8 to 10 per cent, of cadmium be added 
to Hose's metal, its fusing-point is lowered to 167*. Cad- 
mium is a common accompaniment of zinc ores, both 
blende ami calamin ami it is in the smelting of these 
caducibranchiate 
that the commercial metal Is obtained, which It done al- 
most exclusively In Silesia and lielgluiu. Some kinds of 
blende contain as much as 3 or 4 per cent, of Rulphid of 
cadmium. Tills metal aim ocean by Itself naturally In 
combination with sulphur, forming the rare mineral called 
greenocklte (which , sulphuret Is 
of importance as furnUhinifa brilliant ami iK-rinant-nt yel- 
low color called cadmium ycll.m 1-1 . u lo i. TbUUUHd 
by artists, alto In coloring soap, and to some extent I n call 
ntlng; It U also uied for giving a yellow liuUr to 
the surface of porcelain. The total produce of cadmium 
U supposed to be about two tons u >-.n. Cadmium 
blende, tlic mineral j-riTii. 
cadmium-yellow (kad' mi -urn yc I ). . A 
pigment prepared by precipitutiii"; u solution 
of sulphate of cadmium with sulphurated hy- 
drogen, forming sulphid of cadmium, u varies 
In shade from a liuht yellow to a deep orange, and all its 
tones are very clear and hriulit. It IHMMMCI good body 
and U permanent to light and air. 
cadrans (kad'ranz), . [Prop. pi. of F. cadrati, 
a dial, lit. a quadrant: see </uadritnt.] In gem- 
cutting, a wooden instrument by which a gem 
may be adjusted to and held at any desin <l 
angle while being polished or cut. 
cadre (kad'r), n. [F., a frame, < L. quadrum, 
a square.] A skeleton or framework; specifi- 
cally, in France, the permanently organized 
skeleton or framework of a regiment or corps, 
consisting of the commissioned and non-eom- 
missioned officers, musicians, artificers, etc., 
around whom the rank and file may be assem- 
bled at short notice. 
To fill the catlm of the army a well-trained and organ- 
lied militia stands always ready. 
,'. K. Soley, Blockade and Cruisers, p. 10. 
A front line to meet immediate attack was constituted 
from the remains of the first battalions of regiments, 
while the cadre* of the second battalions were posted 
along the line of Magdeburg-Erfurt to be re-formed there. 
Kdinbunjh /(,.-., CLXIV. 213. 
caducaryt (ka-du'ka-ri), . [< L. caducaritu, 
relating to properly without a master, < ca- 
ducunt (or caduca bona), property without a 
master, neut. of caducux, falling, fallen: see 
caducous.] In old late, relating or subject to 
escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation. 
caducean (ka-du'se-an), . [< caduceug + -an.] 
Belonging to or of the nature of the caduceus 
or wand of Mercury. 
caduceus (ka-du'se-us), n. [L.; prob. (d for r) 
< Gr. M/pi'itttor, Doric napvueiov, -KIOV, a herald's 
staff, ueut. of iaipi-Keiof, of a herald, 
< x^ptf, Doric na/>v$, a herald, < 
wtpiaattv, proclaim, announce, tell.] 
In classical myth., the rod or wand 
borne by Hermes, or Mercury, as an 
ensign of authority, quality, and of- 
fice. It was originally merely the (jreek 
herald's staff, a plain rod entwined with Ill- 
lets of wool. Later the fillcte were changed 
to serpents ; and in the conventional repre- 
sentations familiar at the present day the 
caduceus is often winged. The caduceus is 
a symbol of peace and prosperity, and In 
modern times figures as a symbol of com- 
merce, Mercury Iwiiig the god of commerce. 
The rod represents power ; the serpents rep- 
resent wisdom ; and the two wings, diligence caduceut. 
and activity. In heraldry it is blazoned as a 
staff having two serpents annodated about it, mutually 
reepectant, and joined at the tails ; it U a rare bearing. 
In his hand 
He tooke Caduceug, his snakie wand, 
With which the damned ghosts he govemeth 
And furies rules, and Tartan- tempereth. 
Sffiuer, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 12D-2. 
caduciary (ka-du'shi-a-ri), a. [A var. of cadu- 
cary."\ 1. In old Roman lane, relating or pertain- 
ing to forfeiture or escheat : as, caduciary laws. 
The purpose of the eaduciary law was to discourage 
celibacy and encourage fruitful marriages. 
Kueyr. Brit., XX. 710. 
2. In .Scots late, not acquired by succession: 
applied to certain rights. 
caducibranch (ka-du'si-brangk), a. and n. [< 
L. caductts, caducous, + branchite, gills.] Same 
as cadKcibranchiate. 
Caducibranchia (ka-du-si-brang'ki-ft), n.pl. 
Same as Cadiicibranchiata. 
Caducibranchiata (ka-du'si-brang-ki-a'tft), u. 
jil. [NL., neut. pi. of caducibranchiatux~: see 
cadu<-il>miii-l<iiitf.'] A group or division of uro- 
dele amphibians whose gills are caducous (that 
is, those which lose the gills on attaining matu- 
rity), as distinguished from I'crennibranchiata. 
which permanently retain their gills. Maxilla- 
rles are developed, and both jaws are dentigerous. The 
group Is usually ranked as an order or a suborder, and con- 
tains all the salamanders. Contrasted with froltida and 
TraffitiKtotnata . 
caducibranchiate (ka-du-si-brang'ki-at), a. 
and n. [< NL. caducibranchiatus, < L. caducHs, 
caducous, + branchiae, gills.] I. a. Having 
caducous branchiae or gills ; losing the gills on 
attaining maturity : applied to amphibians such 
