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A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.

urve is marked by secondary elevations due to two or more expansions of the artery in the same beat. -- Ca*tac"rotism (#), n.

Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

sity and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.

Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine- wheel window.

s in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the o…

Same as Catchup, and Ketchup.

A gung of slaves. Same as Coffle.

ustic soda (Chem.), the solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same. -- Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic. -- Caustic surface (Optics), a surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when form…

and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

Same as Coerulignone.

Same as Cella.

Same as Cellarer.

or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.

Same as Center, n., 6. [Written also centring.]

Same as Anthodium.

Same as Phrenitis.

Same as Cerial. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Cæsarean, Cæsarian.

Same as Cespitious. [R.] Gough.