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A cottage or small house; a hut. Swift. A hunting cabin in the west. E. Everett.

A hut; a cottage; a small house. [Obs.] Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. Spenser.

ulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. [Written also Cabeiri.] Liddell & Scott.

A curvet; a leap. See Capriole. The cabrioles which his charger exhibited. Sir W. Scott.

r maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.

g men o'erwatched. Milton. The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence. Sir W. Scott.

To carry, as a burden. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. [Written also cady.] Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie. Macaulay.

To clothe with a caftan. [R.] The turbaned and caftaned damsel. Sir W. Scott.

ety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.

f 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 solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes. -- To have one's cake dough, to fail or be disappointed in…

To curl or friz, as the hair. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.] "Caldrons of boiling oil." Prescott.

The ancient Latin name of Scotland; -- still used in poetry.

Of or pertaining to Caledonia or Scotland; Scottish; Scotch. -- n.

A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland.

The caliber of empty tubes. Reid. A battery composed of three guns of small caliber. Prescott.

Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict.…

Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.