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cajote 
tr,c,rt ,, TV dial Of mow/ 1 A crabbed oially, one of a class of large heaps of stones caitiff (ka'tif), a. and n. [< ME. coiW/, cattf, a 
caingel, . [E. dial . H W .J A y, particularly in Scot- captive, a miserable wretch, < OF. emttf, also 
fellow.' [North. Eng.] 
ca'ing-whale, . See caoing-ichaU. 
caingy, [E. dial.; also cangy.] Crabbed; 
peevish. [North. Eng.] 
Cainite (kan'it), n. and a. [< Cat + -ite*.] 
I. .. 1. One of the descendants of Cain, the 
first-born of Adam, according to the account 
in Genesis. 2. A member of a Gnostic sect 
of the second century, who regarded the God 
of the Jews, the Demiurge of the Gnostic sys- 
tern, as an evil being, and venerated all who 
in the Old Testament record opposed him, as 
Cain, Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and the inhabi- 
tants of Sodom. They also honored Judas Iscariot, 
as the instrument of bringing about the crucifixion and 
so destroying the power of the Demiurge. 
II. a. Of the race of Cain. 
The principal seat of the Cainite, or more debased yet 
energetic branch of the human family, was to the east- 
ward of the site of Eden. Dawson, Orig. of World, p. 255. 
cainitO (kl-ne'to), n. The fruit of the Chryso- 
common in Great Britain, particularly 
land and Wales, and generally of a conical form . 
They are of various sizes. Some are evidently sepulchral, 
containing urns, stone chests, bones, etc. Some were 
erected to commemorate a great event, others appear to 
have had a religious significance, while the modern cairn 
is generally set up as a landmark, or to arrest the atten- 
tion, as in surveying, or in leaving a record of an explor- 
ing party or the like. See barrowi. 
Cairns for the safe deposit of meat stood in long lines, 
six or eight in a group. Kane, Sec. Grinn. Exp. , II. 277. 
[< cairn + -ea! 2 .] Having 
by a cairn or cairns. 
In the noon of mist and driving rain, 
When the lake whiten'd and the pine wood roar'd, 
And the cairn'd mountain was a shadow. 
Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 
cairngorm (karn'g&rm), n. [So called from 
the Cairngorm mountain in Scotland ; < Gael. 
earn (see cairn), a heap, a rock, + gorm, blue, 
also green. ] A smoky -yellow or smoky-brown 
variety of rock-crystal or quartz, found in 
captive> 
ckaitif, a captive, a wretched man, F. cnettf, 
Cainito o'f the West Indies and South great perfection on the Cairngorm mountain 
America, resembling an apple in shape, and 
considered a delicacy. Also called star-apple. 
CainOZOk (ki-no-zo'ik), a. See Ccenozoic. 
in Scotland and in many other localities. It 
is much used for brooches, seals, and other ornaments. 
The color is probably due to some hydrocarbon compound. 
Also called cairngorm-stone and smoky quartz. 
caique 1 (ka-ek')',. [=Sp. caique = Pg.caMqiie ca i rn .tangle, carn-tangle (karn'-, karn'tang''- 
= It. caicco, < F. caique, < Turk. qayik.\ 1. A g\) f n. A name for the seaweed Laminaria di- 
gitata. See Laminaria. [Scotch.] 
cairny (kar'ni), a. [< cairn + -i/l.] Abounding 
with cairns. 
caisson (ka'son), H. [F., aug. of caisse, a chest, 
a case: see "case 2 ."] 1. Milit. : (a) A wooden 
chest into which several bombs are put, and 
captive : see captive.'] I. a. 1-f. Captive. 
Myn name is looth, a caitife kynge of Orcanye, and of 
leonoys to whom nothinge doth falle but myschef ne not 
hath don longe tyme. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 477. 
St. Wretched; miserable. 
I am so caytyf and so thral. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 694. 
3. Servile; base; ignoble; cowardly. 
He keuered hyni with his counsayl of caytyf wyrdes. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1605. 
With that he crauld out of his nest, 
Forth creeping on his ctiitice hands and thies. 
Speruer, F. Q., II. iii. 36. 
A territory 
Wherein were bandit earls and caitiff knights. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
II. n. If. A captive; a prisoner; a slave. 
Stokked in prisoun, . . . 
Cavtif to cruel kynge Agamemnoun. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 382. 
Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave. 
Holland. 
2. A mean villain; a despicable knave; one 
who is both wicked and mean. 
Like caiti/ vile that for misdeed 
Bides with 1 
Caique. 
long narrow boat used on the Bosporus. It is 
pointed at each end, and is usually propelled 
by oars, from 2 to 16 in number. 
The prow of the caique is turned across the stream, the 
sail is set, and we glide rapidly and noiselessly over the 
Bosphorus and into the Golden Horn. 
B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 322. 
2. A Levantine vessel of larger size. 
Also spelled caic. 
caique 2 (ki'ka), . [S. Amer.] A South Ameri- 
can parrot of the genus Caiea or Deroptym 
(which see). P. L. Sclater. 
cairt, v. [ME. cairen, cayren, kairen, kayren, 
go, appar. < Icel. keyra (= Sw. kora = Dan. 
Tcjore), drive, urge. A diff. word from the 
equiv. cftar 1 , go.] I. intrans. To go. 
I am come hither a venterous Knight, 
And kayred thorrow countrye farr. 
Percy Folio MS., Piers Plowman, Notes, p. 5. 
Calcas ! Calcas ! cair yow not home, 
Ne turne neuer to Troy, for tene that may falle. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4501. 
We may kayre til hys courte, the kyngdome of hevyne, 
Whene oure saules schalle parte and sundyre ffra the body. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6. 
Better wol he spryng and higher caire 
Wei rare yf he be plannted forto growe. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 143. 
II. trans. To carry. 
The candelstik bi a cost wats cayred thider sone. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1478. 
Ca ira (sa e-ra'). [P., 'it [the Revolution] 
will go on': ca, contr. of cela, that (< ce, this, 
+ Id,, there); ira, 3d pers. sing. rat. (asso- 
ciated with aller, go: see alley 1 ), < L. ire, go.] 
The earliest of the popular songs of the French 
Revolution of 1789. Its refrain (whence the name), 
"Ah ! ca ira, ca ira, ca ira," is said to have been suggest- 
ed by the frequent use of this phrase by Franklin in Paris 
with reference to the American Revolution. The original 
words (afterward much changed) were by Ladr^, a street- 
singer ; and the music was a popular dance-tune of the 
time composed by B^court, a drummer of the Grand Opera. 
caird (kard), n. [< Gael. Ir. ceard, a tinker, 
smith, brazier.] A traveling tinker; a tramp; 
a vagrant; a gipsy. [Scotch.] 
Cairene (kj-ren'), a. and n. [< Cairo, < Ar. El- 
Kahira, the Victorious, + -eiw.~] I. a. Of or 
pertaining to Cairo, the capital of Egypt. 
II. n. A native or an inhabitant of Cairo. 
The people of Suez are a finer and a fairer race than the 
Cairenes. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 118. 
Cairina (ka-ri'na), n. [NL. (Fleming, 1822); 
supposed to be from Cairo in Egypt, though 
(like turkey, similarly misnamed) the bird is a 
his face to rump of steed. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 349. 
Striking great blows 
At caiti/s and at wrongers of the world. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
sometimes gunpowder, to be exploded in the caitifflyt, adv. Knavishly; servilely; basely, 
way of an enemy or under some work of which ca itifteet, n. [ME., also caitifte, caitivte, < OF. 
he has gained possession. (6) An ammunition- ca itivetet, < L. captivita(t-)s, captivity : see cap- 
wagon; also, an ammunition-chest. - 2. In tivity.~] The state of being a captive ; captivity. 
arch., a sunken panel in a coffered ceiling or He that leadeth into MWe, schall go into caitiftee. 
in the soffit of Roman or Renaissance architec- Wydif, Rev. xiii. 10. 
ture, etc. ; a coffer; a lacunar. See cut under C aitivet, a. and n. An obsolete form of caitiff, 
coffer. 3. In civil engin. : (a) A vessel in the caitivenesst, n. [ME., also caitifnes, < caitif, 
form of a boat, used as a flood-gate in docks. 
(6) An apparatus on which vessels may be 
raised and floated ; especially, a kind of float- 
ing dock, which may be sunk and floated un- 
der a vessel's keel, used for docking vessels 
caitive, + -ness.] 1. Captivity; slavery; misery. 
2. Despicable, mean, and wicked conduct. 
It is a strange caitiveness and baseness of disposition of 
men, so furiously and unsatiably to run after perishing and 
uncertain interests. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 77. 
at their moorings, without removing stores or Cajanus (ka-ja'nus), n. [NL., < catjang, name 
masts. (See floating dock, under doclc.) (c) A 
water-tight box or casing used in founding and 
building structures in water too deep for a 
coffer-dam, such as piers of bridges, quays, etc. 
The caisson is built upon land, and then chained and an- 
chored directly over the bed, which has been leveled or 
piled to receive it. The masonry is built upon the bot- 
tom of the caisson, which is of heavy timber. As the cais- 
son sinks with the weight, its sides are built up, so that 
the upper edge is always above water. In some cases 
the masonry is at first built hollow, and is not filled in 
until after it has reached its bed, and its sides have been 
carried higher than the surface of the water. Some- 
times the sides of the masonry itself form the sides of 
the caisson. In another form the caisson, made of 
heavy timbers, is shaped like an inverted shallow box, 
having sharp, iron-bound edges. The weight of the ma- 
sonry forces the caisson into the sand and mud on the bot- 
tom. Air under pressure is then forced into the caisson, 
of the plant in Malabar.] A genus of plants, 
natural order Leguminosce, one species of which, 
C. Indicus, furnishes a sort of pulse used in 
tropical countries. It is a shrub from 3 to 10 feet 
high, and a native of the East Indies, but now extensively 
cultivated throughout the tropics, in numerous varieties. 
The plant is called cajan, pigeon pea, Angola pea, Congo 
pea, etc. 
cajeput (kaj'e-piit), n. [< Malay kdyO, tree, + 
putih, white.'] A small myrtaceous tree or 
shrub of the Moluccas and neighboring islands, 
Melaleuca Cajuputi or minor, a variety of M. Leu- 
cadendron or a distinct species, with lanceolate 
aromatic leaves and odorless flowers in spikes. 
Also written caiitnut oil of cajeput, or cajeput- 
Oil. an oil distilled from the leaves of the cajeput, of a 
green color and a penetrating odor, used as a stimulant, 
antispasmodic, and diaphoretic. 
cajole (ka-j6T), v. t.; pret. and pp. cajoled, 
ppr. cajoling. [< F. cajoler, coax, wheedle, < 
OF. cageoler, chatter like a bird in a cage, 
babble or prate, < cage, a cage: sescage.~] To 
deceive or delude by flattery, specious promises, 
simulated compliance with another's wishes, 
and the like ; wheedle ; coax. 
But while the war went on the emperor did cajole the 
king with the highest compliments. 
Bp. Burnet, Hist. Ref., an. 1522. 
Charles found it necessary to postpone to a more con- 
venient season all thought of executing the treaty of 
Dover, and to cajole the nation by pretending to return to 
the policy of the Triple Alliance. Itacaulay. 
Christian children are torn from their parents and ca- 
joled out of their faith. Ticknor, Span. Lit., II. 238. 
gradually sinks under the weight of the superstructure cajolement (ka-jol'ment), n. [< cajole + 
and the removal of the loose soil below until a firm , ment ~\ Caiolery. Coleridge. [Ear 
foundation is reached, when the whole interior of it is ""' " 'J .~ .,, .-\ 
filled with concrete. The caissons beneath the towers of CajOier (.Ka-jo ler;, . 
the East River suspension-bridge, connecting New York wheedler. 
and Brooklyn, are of this description. The pneumatic cajolery (ka-jo'ler-i), n. ; pi. cajoleries (-iz). 
caisson is an inverted au--tight box, into which air is forced ^ F cajolerie, < cajoler, cajole.] The act of 
il the water, thus leav- ;-.,;. ;,, i ,,, n< ,<rA r,r finnlra- dp 
Caisson of the East River Suspension-bridge, New York. 
driving out the water and permitting the workmen to 
enter through suitable air-locks. A sealed well or a pipe 
and sand-pump are provided, through which the material 
excavated under the caisson may be removed. The latter 
u ire.] 
who cajoles ; 
the caisson descends. The principle of the pneumatic 
caisson is applied to the sinking of large iron cylinders to 
delusive 
v ,_, , - D C3 O - ' 
wheedling. 
Even if the Lord Mayor and Speaker mean to insinuate 
that this influence is to be obtained and held by flatter- 
--.. , , -.-.- ., ing their people, ... such cajoleries would perhaps lie 
ing the muscovy or musk-duck, Cairina mos- developed in coming from an atmosphere of more prudently practised than professed. ^ ^^ 
chata, a native of Central and South America, high tension, as in caissons, to air of ordinary 
now found everywhere in domestication. tension. It is marked by paralysis and other cajon (Sp. pron. kil-hon ), n. [>p., prop, a 
nervous symptoms. chest, aug. of caja, chest. Of. caisson, cassoon.} 
Same as caisson, more 
native of America. It is also called, by another serve as pie'i-s or land-shafts. Sometimes written caissoon. 
error, muscovy.] A genus of ducks, contain- caisson-disease (ka'son-di-zez"), n. A disease 
the 
cairn (karn), n. [Esp. Sc., < Gael, earn (gen. 
cairn) = Ir. W. Manx Corn. Bret, earn, a pile, caissoon (ka-son'), . 
esp. of stones. Cf. Gael, earn, Ir. earnaim, W. especially in sense 3. 
cnrnu, pile up, heap.] A heap of stones ; espe- Caithness flags. See/<7* 
A Chilian weight, equal to 6,500 pounds avoir- 
dupois, 
cajote (ka-ho'ta), . Same as coyote. 
