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A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company. I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart. Addison.

or of a general expression of surprise or approbation. "The constant buzz of a fly." Macaulay.

Aside; as, to lay by; to put by.

In certain games, a station or place of an individual player. Emerson.

four time, resembing the bolero. [Sometimes in English spelled cachuca (.] The orchestra plays the cachucha. Logfellow.

ter, or messenger. [Written also cady.] Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie. Macaulay.

lely flattered and courted by Cæsar on one side and by Louis the Great on the other. Macaulay.

One who plays upon a reed or pipe. [Obs.] Blount.

to make a speech. (c) To solicit payment, or make a demand, of a debt. (d) To invoke or play to; to worship; as, to call upon God. -- To call out To call or utter loudly; to brawl.

ng or convocation, as of Parliament. The frequent calling and meeting of Parlaiment. Macaulay.

instrument consisting of series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.

Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. "The callous diplomatist." Macaulay. It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule. T. Arnold.

boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play [1675].

, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc. The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. Macaulay.

ained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.

The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular.

To beat with a cane. Macaulay.

A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot,

l letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a dishop to traveling clergymam or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the cammunion, and to distinguish them from heretics. -- Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient cleargy who lived in community; a course of living…

o goodness; one who uses canting language. The day when he was a canter and a rebel. Macaulay.