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from military service or from an office or place of frust. They have cashiered several of their followers. Addison. He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. Macaulay.

The act of annulling. A general cassation of their constitutions. Motley. Court of cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.

A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.

To bring forth prematurely; to slink. Thy she-goats have not cast their young. Gen. xxi. 38.

ogether with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.

the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.

ally. -- Catalogue raisonné Etym: [F.], a catalogue of books, etc., classed according to their subjects. Syn. -- List; roll; index; schedule; enumeration; inventory. See List.

Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.

octrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers. The Jews, even till this day, have their catechisms. Hooker. The Larger Catechism, The Shorter Catechism. See Westminster Assembly, under Assembly.

One who caters. The little fowls in the air have God for Their provider and caterer. Shelton.

Universal or general; as, the catholic faith. Men of other countries [came] to bear their part in so great and catholic a war. Southey.

A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Indians for their pipes.

The faculty of tracing effects to their causes. G. Combe.

give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one] to take heed. You cautioned me against their charms. Swift.

A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place. Farrow.

or country, to another nation, by treaty. The people must cede to the government some of their natural rights. Jay.

lebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.

ants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ. -- Cellular theory, or Cell theory (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential element of every tissue, either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of cells h…

A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language. Warton.

is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.