CADE

a. v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. He brought his cade lamb with him. Sheldon.

2.
v.

To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame. [Obs.] Johnson.

3.
n.

A barrel or cask, as of fish. "A cade of herrings." Shak. A cade of herrings is 500, of sprats 1,000. Jacob, Law Dict.

4.
n.

A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries. Oil of cade, a thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by destructive distillation of the inner wood of the cade. It is used as a local application in skin diseases.

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