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CATENA'T 10 N,y. [from catena, I.at.] Link; regu¬ 
lar connection.—This catenation, or conferving union, 
xyhenever his pleafure fliall divide, let go, or feparate, 
they (hall fall from their exigence. Brown. 
CATE'PHES,/. [from nalw, downwards, and <paoc, the 
fplendor of the countenance; *ziro 1 & tula la. <pun 
tram calling the eyes downwards.] That fad, Ibrrowful, 
or downcaft, look, ufual in the countenance of a fickperfon. 
To CA'TFR, v.n. [from cates.] To provide food; to 
buy in victuals: 
He that doth the ravens feed, 
Yea providentially caters for the fparrow, 
Be comfort to my age. Sliakefpeare. 
CA'TER,y Provider; collector of provifiotis, or vic¬ 
tuals : mifpririted perhaps for caterer .—Theoyfters dredged 
in this Lyner, find a welcome acceptance, where the tafle 
is cater for the Itomach, titan thofe of the Tamar. Carew. 
CA'TER, f [i juatre, Fr.] The four of cards and dice. 
CA'TER-COUSIN, f. A corruption of quatre-cavfin , 
from the ridiculoufnefs of calling coulin or relation to fo 
remote a degree.—Poetry and reafon, how came thefe to 
be cater-coufins? Rymer. 
CA'TERER,y. One employed to feleCt and buy in pro- 
vilions for the family ; the provider or purveyor.—Seldom 
fliall one fee in cities or courts that athletic vigour, which 
is feen in poor houfes, where nature is their cook, and ne- 
cellity their caterer. South. 
CA'TERESS,/! A woman employed to cater, or pro¬ 
vide vi&uals : 
Intpoftor! do not charge innocent nature, 
As if (he w ould her children fhould be riotous 
With her abundance : (lie, good caterefs, 
Means her provilion only to be good. Milton. 
C A'TERPILLAR, f. [this word, Skinner and Minfhew 
are inclined to derive from chalte petufe, a weafel. It feems 
ealily deducible from cates, food, and piller, Fr. to rob; 
the animal eating up the fruits of the earth.] In entomo¬ 
logy, the name of all winged infeCts when in their wonri- 
flate. See Eroca, and Entomology. 
Method of Drjlroying Caterpillars on Trees. Take a 
chafing-diih with lighted, charcoal, and, placing it under 
the branches that are loaded with caterpillars, throw !ome 
powdered brimflone upon the coals. The vapour of the 
fulphur, which is mortal to thefe infeCts, will not only 
deftroy all that are on the tree, but prevent it from being 
infefted with them afterwards. A pound of fulphur will 
cleap as many trees as grow on feveral acres. The follow¬ 
ing is faid to be infallible again ft the caterpillars feeding 
on cabbage, and perhaps may be equally iefviceable againft 
thofe that infeft other vegetables. Sow with hemp the 
borders of the ground where you mean to plant your cab¬ 
bage; and, although the neighbourhood ie infefted with 
caterpillars, the fpace inclofed by the hemp will be per¬ 
fectly free, not one of the vermin will approach it. The 
following recipe of Mr.Tat’n, isalfo faid to be infallible: 
Take of black foap, of the beft quality, one pound and 
three-quarters ; Bowers of fulphur, one pound and three- 
quarters ; muftirooms, of any kind, two pounds ; river or 
rain water, fifteen .gallons. Divide the water into two 
equal parts ; pour one part, that is to fay, feven gallons 
and a half, into a barrel, of any convenient Qze, which 
fhould be tiled only for this purpofe; let the black foap be 
ftirred in it till it it diftolved, and then add to it the mufti- 
rooms, alter they have been (lightly brtiifed. Let the re¬ 
maining halt of the water be made to boil in a kettle; 
put the whole quantity of fulphur into a coarfe open cloth, 
tie it up with a packthread in form of a parcel, and fatten 
to it a (tone, or other weight, of Come pounds, in order to 
make it (ink to the bottom. If the kettle is too fmall for 
the feven gallons and a half of.water to be boiled in it at 
once, the fulphur mu ft alfo be divided. During twenty 
minutes (being the time the boiling fhould continue) (fir 
it well, with a (tick, and let the packet-of fulphur be 
a. 
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fqueezed, fo as to make it yield to the water all its power 
and colour. The effeCt of the water is not rendered more 
powerful by increafing the quantity of ingredients. The 
water, when taken off the fire, is to be poured into the 
barrel, where it is to be ftirred for a (liort time with a (lick ; 
this ftirring 11111ft be repeated every day until the mixture 
becomes fetid in the higheft degree. Experience (hew-s 
that the older, and the more fetid, the compolition is, the 
more quick is its aClion. It is neceftary to take care to 
flop the barrel well every time the mixture is ftirred. 
When we wifli to make life of this water, we need only 
fprinkle it, or pour it, upon the plants infefted with the 
caterpillar, or plunge their branches into it; but the beft 
manner ot tiling it is to inject it upon them with a com¬ 
mon (yringe, to which is adapted a pipe of the ufual con- 
ftruCtion, except that its extremity fliould terminate in a 
head of an inch and a half in diameter, pierced in the flat 
part with fmall holes, like pin-holes, for tender plants; 
blit, for trees, a head pierced with larger holes may be 
made life of. Not only caterpillars, but beetles, bed-bugs, 
aphides, and many other infefts, are killed by a fingle in¬ 
jection of this water. InfeCts, which live under ground, 
thofe which have a hard /hell, hornets, wafps, ants, &c. 
require to be continually injeCted, till the water has pene¬ 
trated to the bottom of their abode. Ant-hills, particu¬ 
larly, require two, four, fix, or eight, quarts of water, 
according to the fize and extent of the ant-hill, which 
fhould not be difturbed till twenty-four hours after the 
operation. If the ants which happen to be ablent fhould 
aftemble and form another hill, it nmft be treated in the 
fame manner. We may advantageouily add to the mix¬ 
ture two ounces of nux vomica, which fhould be boiled 
with the fulphur; the w'ater, by this means, will acquire 
more power, particularly if ufed fordeftroying ants.. When 
all the water has been made ufe of, the fediment fhould be 
thrown into a hole dug in the ground, left the poultry, or 
other domeftic animals, fhould eat it. 
G A'TERPILLARS,yi in botany. See Scorpiurus, 
CATER'VA,/ A term ufed by ancient military wri¬ 
ters, in fpeuking of the Gaulilh or Celtiberian armies, de¬ 
noting a body of 6000 armed men. The word ealerva or 
catervarius, is alfo ufed to denote a partyof foldiers in dif- 
order ; by which it (lands diftinguifhed from cohort or 
turma, which were in good order. 
To CA'TERWAUL, v.n. To make a noife like cats ; 
to make any olFenfive or odious noife. 
CATES, f. [of uncertain etymology : Skinner imagines 
it may be corrupted from delicate ; which is not likely, be- 
caufe Junius oblerves, that the Dutch have hater in the 
lame fenfe with our eater. It has no lingular.]; Viands ; 
food; did) of meat: generally employed to fignify nice 
and luxurious food : 
The fair acceptance, fir, creates 
The entertainment perfect, not the cates* Benjcnjon. 
CATESRVE'A,/l [named by Gronovius in honour of 
M,f . Mark Catejby, author of the Natural Miftory of Caro¬ 
lina.] The Lii.y-thorn; in botany, a genus of the clafs 
tetrandria, order monogynia, natural order lurida?. The 
generic characters are-— Calyx : perianthium four-toothed, 
luperior, very (mall, acute, permanent. Corolla : mono- 
petalous, funnel-form ; tube extremely long, ftraight, gra¬ 
dually widening upwards; border femi-quadrifid, broad, 
ereCt-flat. Stamina: filaments four, growing, within the 
neck of the tube ; anthene oblong, ereCt, almoft longer 
than the corolla. Piftillum: germ rotindilh, inferior; 
ftyle filiform, length of the corolla ; ftignia limple. Pe- 
ricarpiu-m : berry oval, crowned, unilocular. Seeds many,, 
angulute,— EJfcntial CharaEler . Corolla monopetalous, fun¬ 
nel-form, extremely long, fuperior; ftamens within the 
mouth ; berry polyfpermous. 
Species. 1. Cutelbaea fpinofa, or lily-thorn : tube of the 
corolla very long; berries oval. This (lirub was difeo- 
vered by Mr. Catefby, near Nalfau town, in Providence,, 
one of the Bahama iflands, where he law two of therm 
growing,, 
