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The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey.

See Cayman.

(Geol.) See Cenozic.

A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size.

A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [Prov. Eng.]

Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn. Campbell.

ow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.

ion, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. Farrow.

A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure, as in caissons, diving bells, etc. It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is variously explained, most probably as due to congestion of internal organs with subsequent stasis of the blood.…

Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable. Arnold had sped his caitiff flight. W. Irving.

A mineral. See Turquoise.

Painting in shades of one color; monochrome. Mollett.

A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece.

Of camel's hair. Camel's-hair pencil, a small brush used by painters in water colors, made of camel's hair or similar materials. -- Camel's-hair shawl. A name often given to a cashmere shawl. See Cashmere shawl under Cashmere.

An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. Grath.

One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.

The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

rn Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. [Written also capercaillie, capercaili.]

A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.

A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.