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The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son. The cadet of an ancient and noble family. Wood.

The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship.

A caddice. See Caddice.

A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.

One who gets his living by trickery or begging. [Prov. or Slang] "The gentleman cadger." Dickens.

Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.

A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. [Written also cady.] Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie. Macaulay.

A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers.

A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. Johnson.

A kind of coarse serge.

Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished; probably referring to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dr…

An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.

See Cadmean.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as, cadmic sulphide.

discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore. Cadmium yellow, a compound of cadmium and sulphur, of an intense yellow color, used as a pigment.

An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.

h a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. [Written also cader.]

Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.

Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand.