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A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.

Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.

A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a term of reproach. Shak.

Of or pertaining to Catalonia. -- n.

Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.

A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.

Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.

A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphæra is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.

The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.

Catalogue.

To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue. [R.] Coles.

umeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. Card catalogue, a catalogue, as of books, having each item entered on a separate card, and the cards arranged in cases by subjects, or authors, or alphabeticall…

A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues.

A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean.

Dissolution; degeneration; decay. [R.] Sad catalysis and declension of piety. Evelyn.

Relating to, or causing, catalysis. "The catalytic power is ill understood." Ure. Catalytic force, that form of chemical energy formerly supposed to determine catalysis.

red by Sir Sidney Smith for destroying the French flotilla at Boulogne, 1804, were called catamarans. Knight.

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.

A boy kept for unnatural purposes.