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To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. [Prov. or Slang, Eng.] Wright.

Cautious; prudent; safe.. Ramsay.

A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder. Others devised the boat of one tree, called the canoe. Raleigh.

A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. [Written also caravanserai and caravansera.]

rough life in some fishes. -- Cardinal virtues, preëminent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. -- Cardinal winds, winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.

A rude, rustic man; a churl. The miller was a stout carl. Chaucer.

ost stick to the feet when running, as a hare. Johnson. To carry on, to behave in a wild, rude, or romping manner. [Colloq.]

be alleged as a justification of war. -- Casus fortuitus, an accident against which due prudence could not have provided. See Act of God, under Act. -- Casus omissus, a case not provided for by the statute.

One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.

A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.

Caution; prudence; wariness. [Obs.] Fulke.

Caution; prudent; wary. [Obs.] "Cautelous, though young." Drayton.

tention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.

ine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general. Cautious feeling for another's pain. Byron. Be swift to hear; but cautious of your tongue. Watts.

One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidæ), having four small or rudimentary legs.

A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.

a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.

To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. Cowley