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artifan, that the inward walls might bear Come good fliare 
in the burden. IVotton. —Wily; cunning; treacherous.— 
They are (o caulelous and wily, efpecially being men of 
f'mall experience, that you would wonder whence they 
borrow fuch fubtilties and 11 y fliifts. Spenfer. 
CAU'TELOUSLY, adv. Cunningly; flyly; treache- 
roudy; cautioufly; warily: notinuj'e. —The Jews, not re- 
lolved of the fciatica (ide of Jacob, do cauteloujly, in their 
diet, abftain from both. Brown. 
C AUTERIZA'TION, J. The ad of burning flefh with 
liot irons or can flic medicaments. They require, after 
cauterization, no fuch bandage, as that thereby you need 
to fear interception of the fpirits. IVifeman. 
To CAU'TERIZE, v. a. [caulerifer, Fr. ] To burn 
w ith the cautery.—Thedelignof the cautery is to prevent 
thecanal from doling; but the operators cotifefs, that, in 
perfons cauterized, the tears trickle dsvvn ever after. Sharp. 
CAU'TERY, f. [from r.aia, uro, to burn.] A fub- 
ftance which lias power to burn tlie flefh.—A cautery is ei¬ 
ther ablual or potential ; the fir It is burning by a hot iron, 
and the latter with caultic medicines. The adual cautery 
is generally ufed to flop mortification, by burning the dead 
parts to the quick; or to flop the eft’ufionof blood by fear¬ 
ing up the velfels. Quincy. —In heat of fight it will be ne- 
ceflary to have your adlual cautery always ready; for that 
will (ecure the bleeding arteries in a moment. Wijanan. 
CAUTGUN'GE, a town of Hindoofian, in the country 
of Bahar, on the north fide of the Ganges, oppolite Bar. 
CAU'TION, A- \_caution, Fr. cautio, I,at.] Prudence, 
as it refpeds danger; forefight; provident care; wari- 
nefs againl! evil ; lecurity for—Such conditions, and cau¬ 
tions of the condition, as might allure with as much aflu- 
rance as wot Idly matters bear. Sidney .—Provifion orfecu- 
rity again!!.—In defpite of all the rules and cautions of go¬ 
vernment, the raoft dangerous and mortal of vices will 
come of!'. L’EJtrange. —Provifionary precept.— Attention 
to the forenientioned fymptoms affords the beft cautions 
and rules of diet, by way of prevention. Arbuthnot. — 
Warning. 
To CAU'TION, v. a. To warn; to give notice of a 
danger: 
How fliall our thought avoid the various fnare? 
Or wifdom to our caution'd foul declare 
'Flie different fliapes thou pleafeft to employ, 
When bent to hurt, and certain to deftroy > Prior. 
CAU'TION - MONEY, f. in the univerfities, a fum paid 
to the tutor of the college, on the admillion of a fiudent, as 
a kind of pledge or lecurity. 
CAUTIONARY, adj. Given as a pledge, or in fecu- 
ritv. Thus, in 1585, Flufliing and the Brille, with the 
caftle of Rammekms, were conligned by the United Pro¬ 
vinces to Elizabeth as cautionary towns, for a fecurity that 
her expeuces in aftifting them Ihould be tefunded at the 
conclufion of the war. 
I am made the cautionary pledge, 
The gage and hofla'ge of your keeping it. Southern. 
CAU'TIOUS, adj. [from cautus, Lat.] Wary; watch¬ 
ful.—Be cautious of him; for he is fometimes an inconflant 
lover, becaufe he hath a great advantage. Swift. 
CAUTIOUSLY, adv. In an attentive wary manner; 
warily: 
They know how fickle common lovers are: 
Their oaths and vows are cautmfy believ’d ; 
For few there are but have been once deceiv’d. Dryden. 
CAUTIOUSNESS, f. Watchfulnefs; vigilance; cir- 
cumfpedtion; provident care; prudence with ref pec! to 
danger.—I could not but approve their generous conftancy 
and Qautioufnefs. King Charles. —We flionld always adl with 
great cautioujnefs and circumfpedion, in points wheie it is 
not impofiibie that we may be deceived. Addifon. 
CAU'I ING-IRON, f. A farrier’s iron to cauterize or 
fear the parts of a horfe which require burning. 
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CAU'TO, a town of the ifland of Cuba: twenty-five 
miles north-eaft of Bayamo. 
CAU' I O, a river of the ifland of Cuba, which runs 
into the fea, twenty miles north-weft of Bayamo. 
CAU'VERY, a principal river of Kindooftan, which 
rifes in the. Bednore country, pafles by Seringapatam, Al- 
lumbaddy, Trichinopoly, &c. and empties irlelf by two 
branches into the Bay of Bengal, one near Devicotta, and 
the other near Negapatam. 
CAUX, before the revolution, a country of France, in 
Normandy, about fifty leagues in circumference, lving be¬ 
tween theoceanand the Seine,Vexin, Normandy, Picardy, 
and the country of Bray. The land is fertile in grain, 
hemp, fruits, &c. The coafts abound with fifh, and the 
forefts with game. Caudebec is the capital. 
CA'VY,/. in zoology. See Cavia. 
To CAW, v. n. [taken from the found.] To cry as the 
rook, raven, or crow : 
The rook, who high amid the boughs, 
In early fpring, his airy city builds. 
And cealelefs caws. Thomfon. 
CAWK,/. A term by which miners diftinguifh the 
opake fpecimensof vitriolated ponderous earth, or mar- 
mor metallicum. 
CAWNPOUR', a town of Hindooftan, in the Subah of 
Oude: thirty-feven miles Ibuth-weft of Lucknow, and 
ninety-eight north weft of Allahabad. 
CA'WOOD, a final 1 town in the weft riding of York- 
fliire, 190 miles from London, ten from York, and five 
from Selby ; fituate upon the banks of the navigable river 
Oufe, over which there is a ferry from the town into the eaft 
riding. The town is in general well-built, and has a mar¬ 
ket on Wednefdays, and two annual fairs, viz. on old May- 
day, and the 33d of September. Here are the remains of 
a caftle of great antiquity, and winch was the laft refidence 
of cardinal Wolfey, being the place he retired to when 
difgraced at court. 
CAW'STON, a fmall town in the county of Norfolk, 
eleven miles from Norwich. It has a market on Wednef¬ 
days ; fairs, Feb. 1, the laft Wednefday in April, and 
the laft Wednefday in Auguft, which is a large fair for 
flieep. Two miles from the town is Bickling, the fuperb 
feat of the earl of Buckinghamfhire. 
CAX'A, f. A coin made of lead mixed with fcoria of 
copper, ftruck in China, but current chiefly at Bantam, 
in the ifland of Java, and foirte of the neighbouring iflands. 
CAX'A TAM'BO, a jurifdidion of South America,in 
the country of Peru, and archbifhopric'of Lima. 
CAXAMAR'QUA, a jurifdidion of Peru, in South 
America, under the bifliop of 1 ruxillo, lying between the 
two Cordilleras of the Andes: it produces plenty of all 
kinds of grain, fruits,and vegetables; alio cattle, elpeci- 
ally hogs. They have here a confiderable trade with 
Chincay, Lima, Truxillo, &c. Here the Indians weave 
cotton for fhips’ fails, bed-curtains, quilts, hammocks, See. 
There are fonie filver mines, but of little confequence. 
The town, which gives name to the diftrid, was at one 
time a royal city, where the emperor Atahualapa was put 
to death, after having been defeated and imprifoned by 
Pizarro: about feventy miles from the Pacific Ocean. 
Lat. 8. S. Ion. 55. 20. W. Greenwich. 
CAX'TON (William), a mercer of London, eminent 
by the works he publifhed, and for being reputed the fit ft 
who introduced and pradifed the art of printing in Eng¬ 
land; for the particulars of which works, and alio the 01 i- 
gin of this invaluable art, fee the article Printing. 
CAX'TON, a final! town in Cambridgefliire, diftant 
fifty miles from London, on tlie old north road to York, 
and is one of the oktfeft poll-towns in the kingdom. A 
Roman way paftes front Holm to Papworth tiirough this 
town. Caxton, reputed the firft printer in England, was 
a nauve of this town ; as was alio Matthew Paris, the his¬ 
torian. Here are two annual fairs, one on St. Thomas-a- 
JBecket, the other three days after Michaelmas, for gloves, 
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