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The radical (C4H7O) of butyric acid.

volatile infammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.

A colorlees or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.

CAMARA; CAMARA DOS PARES; CAMARADOS DEPUTADOS n.

Chamber; house; -- used in Ca"ma*ra dos Pa"res, and Ca"ma*ra dos De`pu*ta"dos. See Legislature.

CANDLENUT n. 2 definitions

of some of the Pacific islands. It is used by the natives as a candle. The oil from the nut ( candlenut, or kekune, oil) has many uses.

mable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc.

ous, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially wh…

CAOUTCHOUCIN n.

CAPUT n. 3 definitions

The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856. Your caputs and heads of colleges. Lamb. Caput mortuum (. Etym: [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue.

CATGUT n. 2 definitions

A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

CAUTEL n. 2 definitions

Caution; prudence; wariness. [Obs.] Fulke.

CAUTELOUS a. 2 definitions

Caution; prudent; wary. [Obs.] "Cautelous, though young." Drayton.

A hot iron for searing or cauterizing. Minsheu.

A cauterizing substance.

The use or application of a caustic; cautery. Ferrand.

CAUTERIZATION n.

The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.

CAUTERIZE v. 2 definitions

To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. Dunglison.

CAUTERY n. 2 definitions

The iron of other agent in cauterizing. Actual cautery, a substance or agent (as a hot iron) which cauterizes or sears by actual heat; or the burning so effected. -- Potential cautery, a substance which cauterizes by chemical action; as, lunar caustic; also, the cauterizing produced by such substance.…