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Security; guaranty; bail. [R.] The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted. Clarendon.

Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.

ck in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.

One who cautions or advises.

Suretyship.

with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general. Cautious feeling for another's pain. Byron. Be swift to hear; but cautious of your tongue. Watts.

In a cautious manner.

The quality of being cautious.

Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A man who digs chalk.

he system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.

The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesce) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. [India] J. Mill.

A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.

use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delayed…

Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.

Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.