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The act of annulling. A general cassation of their constitutions. Motley. Court of cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.

A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint. The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion. Bacon. And let you see with one cast of an eye. Addison. This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye. Hawthorne.

A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.

See Timothy, Cat-tail, Cirrus.

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. Shak.

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness. Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. Johnson.

In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

nal; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward. Cessation of arms (Mil.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other pur…

An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water.

speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant; -- called also change-speed gear.

l of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.

igion, Country, genius of his Age. Pope. A man of . . . thoroughly subservient character. Motley.

rs of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; -- known to miners as mother of coal.

A special privilege, immunity, or exemption. My mother, Who has a charter to extol her blood, When she does praise me, grieves me. Shak.

A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.

One who manages the running of an automobile; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle.