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The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.

A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood. --Ca*chæ"mic, Ca*che"mic (#), a.

Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies; cachectical blood. Arbuthnot.

A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).

A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood. Dunglison.

Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood. Wiseman.

Any plant of the order Cactacæ, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America. Cactus wren (Zoöl.), an American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of several species.…

Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.

A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.

A namber of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.

ned, most probably as due to congestion of internal organs with subsequent stasis of the blood.

than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden. Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a…

ne, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.

A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

[Poetic] Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. Wordsworth.

To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work. [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men. Brougham.

quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose. The gentle calmness of the flood. Denham. Hes calmness was the repose of conscious power. E. Everett.

A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to orgiginate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase. Dunglison.

A light, loose dress or robe. [Also written camus.] [Obs.] All in a camis light of purple silk. Spenser.