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2. Cafuarina nodi flora : inonoecouswhorls*! of the Ha- 
mens remote. A lofty tree. Native of the Eaft: Indies 
and New Caledonia. 
3. Cafuarina ftri6ta, or upright cafuarina ; dioeeous ; 
branchlets ere£t ; fcales of the ftrobiles unarmed, ftnooth- 
ifh ; male-fheaths multifid l'mooth. 4. Cafuarina toru- 
Iqfa, or cork-barked cafuarina: dfoecons ; branchlets 
flaccid; fcales of the ftrobiles villofe roughened with tu¬ 
bercles, male fheaths quadrifid. Natives of New South 
Wales. 
5. Cafuarina africana : fronds filiform, fwelling at the 
tip, and floriferous; ftrobiles roundilh axillary. This is 
a tree above the_middle (ize, with few, long, diffufed, 
branches, and Ikaf-b/u mg recliiuhg branchlets. Native 
ot the Tandy eaft coaft of Africa. The wood is very hard 
and heavy. The firft fpecies would not be very different 
from this, if the ftrobiles were alike, and the fwelling tips 
of the fronds were converted into male aments, as in this. 
CA 1 SUIST, f. [cafuifie, Fr. from eafns, Lat.} One that 
(Indies and fettles cafes of confidence.—You can fcarce fee 
a bench of porters without two or three cafuijls in it, that 
will fettle you the rights of princes. Addifon. 
Who final 1 decide when doflors difagree, 
And (bunded cafuijls doubt, like you and me ! Pope. 
Mayer has publiflied a bibliotheca of cafuifts, containing 
an account of all the writers on cafes of confidence, ranged 
under three heads, the firft comprehending the Lutlfertn, 
the fecond the Calvinift, and the third the Romifti, cafuifts. 
C ASUIS'TIC AL, adj. Relating to cafes of confcience; 
containing thedodlrine relating to cafes.—What arguments 
they have to beguile, poor, Ample, unftable, fouls with, I 
know not ; but furely the practical, cafuijlical , vital, part 
of tHeir religion favours very little of fpirituality. South. 
C A'SUISTRY, / The fcience of a cafuift-; thedoc- 
trine of cafes of confcience 
Morality, by her falfe guardians drawn. 
Chicane in furs, and cafuifiry in lawn. Pope. 
To cafuiftry belongs the decifion of all difficulties arifing 
about what a man may lawfully do or not do; what is fin¬ 
er not fin ; what things a-man is obliged to do in order to 
difcharge his duty, and what he may let alone without 
breach of it. 
k CAT (Nicholas le% a celebrated French philofopher 
and medical writer, many years profeflbr ofanatomy in the 
college of Rouen; was born in the year 1700, and died 
in 1768. 
CAT, / \hatz , Teuton, chat, Fr. ] A domeftic animal 
that catches mice, commonly reckoned by naturalifts the 
lowed order of the leonine fpecies.—A cat, as fhe beholds 
the light, draws the ball of her eye fmall and long, being 
covered over with a green (kin, and dilates it at pleafure. 
Peacham. —For the natural hiftory of the cat tribe, fee 
Felis.—C at, hieroglyphically, reprefents falfe friend- 
fhip, or a deceitful flattering friend. In heraldry, it is an 
emblem of liberty, becaufe it naturally hates to be (hut up ; 
and therefore the Burgundians, &c. bore a cat in their 
banners, to intimate that they could not endure fervitude. 
It is a bold and daring creature, cruel to its enemy, and 
never refts till it lias deftroyed it, if poftible. It is alio 
watchful, dexterous, fwift, pliable, and has fiich good 
serves, that, if it falls from a place ever fo high, it (fill 
alights on its feet ; and therefore may denote thofe who 
have fo much forefight, that whatfuever befais them they 
are (fill upon their guard. 
CAT,/. A (hip employed in the coal trade, built from 
the Norwegian model. It is diftinguiftied by a narrow (fern, 
•projecting quarters, and a deep waift. Thefe veffels are 
generally built remarkably ftrong, and carry from four to 
fix hundred tons, or, in the language of the mariners, from 
twenty to thirty keels of coals. Cat-is alfo a fort of ftrong 
tackle, or combination of pulleys, to liook and draw the 
anchor perpendicularly up to the cat-head. It is alfo the 
CAT 
name of an ufieful article of furniture, ufed to place toafic: 
upon before the fire. 
CAT-CALL,/. A difagreeable fort of pipe or fqueak. 
ing whiftle, of late years well known at the play-houfes, 
for condemning plays —A young lady at the theatre con¬ 
ceived a pafiion for a notorious rake that headed a party 
of cat-calls. Spectator. 
CAT’s-EYB, /. A fetni-opake ftone of the filiceous or¬ 
der, reckoned among the gems. It refkifts variegated' 
rays, according to the pofition of the oblerver. It is very 
hard, and is ufually cut by jewellers of the figure ot a 
plano-convex lens, and fet with the convex fide outwards. 
Profe(for Klaproth, of the Pruflian military academy at 
Berlin, in- his Chemical Mineralogy, p'nbliihed in 1795, 
fays, that of this mineral there are two varieties ; the one 
whitifb or yellow, from Ceylon; the other, reddilh, from 
the Malabar coaft. That from Ceylon had 2’66-of fpecific 
gravity, and was found to contain, of (ilex 95 per cent, of 
alumine 1J, of lime i-J, and of oxyd of iron t. The cat’s 
eye, or aftroites, from the coaft ot Malabar, was compofed 
of 94f per cent, of (ilex, i of alumine, if of lime, and a of 
oxyd of iron. Its fpecific gravity was a.:625- 
CAT-FAELS, cataracts in t he ri ver'Ut was,-itt Canada; 
thirty-feven leagues weft of Montreal. 
CAT-FISH,/ in ichthyology. See Sqjjai.ets. 
CAT-GUT, / A denomination given to fmall ftrings-- 
for violins, bafs-viols, and other muftcal inftrnments, made 
of the inteftines of (beep or lambs, dried and twilled to¬ 
gether. Thefe are fometimes coloured red, fometimes 
blue, but are commonly left brownifn, the natural colour 
of the gut. Great quantities are imported into England : 
from Italy. 
Cat in the Pan, [imagined by fome to be rightly written; 
catipan, as coining from catipani , revolted governors. An 
unknown correfpondent imagines very naturally, that it is- 
corrupted from Kate in the pan. Joknfon .] There is a cun¬ 
ning which we in England call, the turning of the cat in, 
the pan ; which is, when that which a man fays to another, 
he lays it as if another had faid it to him. Bacon. 
Cat o’ nine Tails. f. A whip with nine lalhes, ufed for- 
the puniihment of crimes. 
CAT-HARPINGS,/ Small ropes in a (hip, running 
in -little blocks from one fide of the fhrouds to the other,. 
near the deck ; they belong only to the main-(hrouds; and • 
their tile is to force the (hrouds tight, fortlie eafe and fafe»- 
ty of the mads, when the (hip rolls. 
CAT-HEADS,/. Two ftrong pieces of timber, which 
project almoft horizontally over the (flip’s bows on each : 
fide of the bowfprit ; being like two radii which extend 
from a centre taken in the direction of a bowfprit. That 
part of the cat-head which refts upon the forecaftle, is fe- - 
curely bolted to the beams : the other part projects like a < 
crane, as above defcribed,.and carries in its extremity, 
two or three fmall wheels or (liivers of brafs or ftrong: 
wood, about which a rope called the cat-fall paffes, and • 
communicates with the cat-block, which contains - 
three drivers. The machine formed by this combination 
of pullies is called the cat , which ferves to pull the anchor 
up to the cat-head, without tearing the (hip's' fides with 
its flukes. The cat-head alfo ferves to fufpend the an¬ 
chor clear of the bow, when it is neceffary to let it go ;. 
it is fupported by a fort of knee, which is generally orna¬ 
mented with fculpture. The cat-block is filled with a. 
large.and ftrong hook, which catches the ring of the an¬ 
chor when it is to be drawn up. 
CAT ISLAND, or Guanahant, one of the Bahama 
iflands. It was the firft land difcovered by Columbus, to 
which he gave the name of St. Salvador, on October 11, 
1492. It lies on a particular bank to the eaft of the Great 
Bahama Bank, from which it is parted by a narrow chan- 
led, called Exuma Sound. 
CAT-MINT,/ in botany. See Nepeta. 
CAT-SALT,/ A name given by falt-makers to a very 
beautifully granulated kind of the common fait. It is 
formed 
