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ustic soda (Chem.), the solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same. -- Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic. -- Caustic surface (Optics), a surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when form…

and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

Same as Coerulignone.

Same as Cella.

Same as Cellarer.

or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.

Same as Center, n., 6. [Written also centring.]

Same as Anthodium.

Same as Phrenitis.

Same as Cerial. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Cæsarean, Cæsarian.

Same as Cespitious. [R.] Gough.

onsisting, of resembling, turf; turfy. A cespitous or turfy plant has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting. Martyn.

Same as Zedoary. [Obs.] Chaucer.

on, by which, when several ratios of equality are given, the consequent of each being the same as the antecedent of the next, the relation between the first antecedent and the last consequent is discovered. -- Chain shot (Mil.), two cannon balls united by a shot chain, formerly used in naval warfare on account of thei…

Same as Chalaza.

white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

Same as Gambrel.

se of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. Samuel Clark. Any society into which chance might throw him. Macaulay. That power Which erring men call Chance. Milton.

y in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc. -- To ring the changes on, to present the same facts or arguments in variety of ways.