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To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

owledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration…

Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income. "For loss of catel may recovered be, But loss of tyme shendeth us," quod he. Chaucer.

The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. Faraday.

Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.

The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

s of things connected with each other. I have . . . in no case sought to construct those catenæ of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. C. J. Ellicott.

The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.

Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve.

To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain. E. Darwin.

nection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. Sir T. Browne.

Consisting of little links or chains.

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Diagonal. [Colloq.]

A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. Shak.

A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

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

A woman who caters. Milton.

The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are ha…

A caterwauling.