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C A VIA'NO, a town ofl'aly, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and province of Lavora : feven miles north of Naples. 
CAVI.VRE, J. [the etymology uncertain, tinlefs it 
come from garum, Lat. fauce, or pickle, made of fifh fak¬ 
ed.] The eggs or fpawn of a fturgeon, being la!ted and 
made tip into a mafs, were firft brought from Condantino- 
ple by the Italians, and called caviare. Grew. 
To CA'VIL, v. n. \_caviLlcr, Fr. cavillari, Lat.] To 
raife captious and frivolous objections: 
In the way of bargain, mark ye me, 
I’ll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. Shakejpeare, 
To CA'VIL, v. a. To receive or treat with objections : 
Thou did ft accept them : wilt thou enjoy the good, 
Then cavil the conditions? Milton. 
CA'VIL, f. Falfe or frivolous objections',—Several di¬ 
vines, in otder to anfwer the cavils of thofe adverfaries to 
truth and morality, began to find out farther explana¬ 
tions. Swift. 
C AVILLAR'GUES, a town of France, in the depart, 
ment of the Card, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
triCt of Uzes-: eight miles north-eaft of Uzes. 
C AVILLA'TION, f. The dilpofition to make captious 
objection ; the practice of objecting.— I might add fo much 
concerning the large odds between the ca(e of the elded 
churches in regard of heathens, and otirs in refpeft of the 
church of Rome, that very cavillation itfelf Ihould be fatif- 
fied. Hooker. 
CA'VILLER, f. [ cavillator , Lat.] A man fond of 
making, objections; an unfair adverfary ; a captious dif- 
putant.—The candour which Horace (hews, is that which 
didinguifhes a critic from a caviller : he declares that he is 
not offended at little faults, which may be imputed to in¬ 
advertency. Addifon. 
CA'Vl LLINGLY, adv. In a cavilling manner. 
CA'VILLOUS, adj. Unfair in argument; full of ob¬ 
jections.—Thofe pcrfons are faid to be cavillous and un¬ 
faithful advocates, by whofe fraud and iniquity juftice is 
dedroyed. Aylijfc. 
CA'VIN, f. [Fr.] In the military art, a natural hol¬ 
low, fit to cover a body of troops, and confequently facili¬ 
tate their approach to a place. 
CAVI'TE, a town of the idand of Litfon, in the eadern 
Indian Sea, defended by a cadle and walls. The houfes 
are built of wood or cane; two convents only are of done: 
fituated on a tongue of land three leagues from Manilla. 
CA'VITY, f. \cavitas , Latin.] Hollownefs; hollow; 
hollow place.—The vowels are made by a fiec paffage of 
breath, vocalized through the cavity of the mouth; the 
faid cavity being differently fhaped by the podures of the 
throat, tongue, and lips. Holder. 
CAUK , _[ A coarie talky (par. Woodward. 
CAU'KY, adj. A white, opaque, cauky , fpar, (hot,or 
pointed. W.oodwa-rd. 
CAUL, /, [of uncertain etymology. ] The net in which 
women inclofe their hair; the hinder part of a woman’s cap: 
Her head with ringlets of her hair is crown'd, 
And in a golden caul the cutis are bound. Drydcn. 
Any kind of (mall net,—An Indian mantle of feathers, 
and the feathers w rought into a caul of packthread. Grtw. 
-—The omentum; the integument in which the infcdines 
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are inclofed.—-The caul ferves for warming the lower be!^ 
ly, like an apron, or piece of woollen doth. Hence a cer¬ 
tain gladiator, whofe caul Galen cut out, was fo liable to 
fufier cold, that he kept his belly condantly covered with 
Vvool. Hay. 
CAULE'DON, /. [from y.a.v'X o?, adalk.] In furgery, a 
tranfverfe fracture, w hen the bone is broken like the dump 
of a tree. 
CAULES'CENT, adj. [from caulis, a dalk.] In botany 
it means thofe plants which have a item different from 
that w hich produces the dower; oppo'ed to acaulis, or 
demlefs. Linnaeus applies this term to the root alio, as 
in cabbage, navew, and turnip. 
CAU'Ll AC (Gui de), an anatomical author of France, 
who dudied at Montpellier under Raymond. He was phy- 
fician to the popes Clement VI. and Urban V. He flou- 
rilhed in 1363, at which time he publidted a much-edeemed 
body of furgery, under the title of Chirurgias TraCtatus 
feptem cum Antidotario, printed Ve'net. 1490, and often 
fince. It is to this phyfician we owe the deicription of the 
terrible plagud, which, in 1348, dedroyed one-fourth of 
the human race. 
CAULl'FEROUS, adj. [from caulis, a dalk, and fero t 
to bear, Lat.] A term in botany for fuch plants as have a 
true dalk, winch, a great many have not. 
C AU'LIFLOWER, f. in botany. SeeBRASSiCA. 
To CAL?LK. See To Calk. 
CAULNE, a town of France, in the department of the 
North Goads, and chief place of a. canton, in the diflrift of 
Broons : three leagues and a half fouth-wed of Dinan. 
CAUMO'NT, a town of Fiance, in ihe department of 
the Cal vados, and chief place of a canton, in the didrict of 
Bayeux : four leagues fouth-fouth-wed of Bayeux. 
CAUNE (La), a town of France, and principal place 
of a didrict in the department of the Tarn: feven leagues 
ead-north-ead of Cadres. 
CAUNES (Les), a town of France, in the department 
of Aude, and chief place of a canton, in the didriCt of 
Carcaffonne; feven leagues wed-north-wed of Narbonne, 
and three and a half north-eadof Carcaffonne. 
CAUN'GLASS POINT, a capeof Ireland,on the weft 
coad,. in the county of Kerry. Lat. 51.58. N. Ion. 10. 8. 
W. Greenwich. 
CAU'N’US, a fon of Miletus and Cyane. He was paf- 
fionately fond of, or, according to others, tenderly loved 
by, his filter Byblis ; and, to avoid an inceduous com¬ 
merce, he retired to Caria,'where he built a.city called by 
his name. 
To CAU'PONATE, v. n. [ caupono , Lat.] To keep a 
viftualling-houfe; to fell wine or victuals. 
CAU'RIS,/. in natural hidory, a name given by fome 
to the genus of Ihells called, by the generality of w riters, 
porcellana, and concha venerea. It is from a falfe pronunci¬ 
ation of this word cauris that we call thefe Ihells gowries. 
See Conchology. 
GAU'RO, a town of the ifland of Corfica : nine miles 
ead-fouth-ead of AjAzo. 
C AUR'SINES,- f. Italians wlio came into England 
about the year 1235, terming themfelves the pope's mer¬ 
chants. They let up banks in England, and dealt in ufury*. 
On account of this practice, the then bidiop of London ex» 
communicated them, and Henry III. banifhed them.froja . 
this kingdenjjn 1240. 
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