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A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another. Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains. Milton.

The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal. Even with regard to captures made at sea. Bluckstone.

boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage. Etym: [U.S.]

act or business of transporting from one place to another. Carrying place, a carry; a portage. -- Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade. Jay.

A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch] We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage. Smollett. If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. Sir W. Scott.

To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.

Infections; contagious.

Sake; interest; advantage. [Obs.] I did it not for his cause. 2 Cor. vii. 12.

pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus). -- n.

times marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.

Inactive; dormant [Obs.] W. Montagu.

A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.

Given to light, familiar talk; talkative. Lady M. W. Montagu.

amed from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.

To make as pliable as kid leather. [Obs.] Br. Montagu.

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam.

child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

ough or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. Milton.

ne in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.