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To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief. "They pursued . . . and caught him." Judg. i. 6.

g or taking hold of Catching bargain (Law), a bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price. Bouvier.

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

One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

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

Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.

A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

-- Proximate cause. See under Proximate. -- To make common cause with, to join with in purposes and aims. Macaulay.

o enter our caveat against a conclusion. Jeffrey. Caveat emptor Etym: [L.] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment.

Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.

A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originaly called xyl…

starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. Starch cellulose, the delicate framework which remains when the soluble part (granulose) of s…

A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.

, or to the process of finding it. Centrobaric method (Math.), a process invented for the purpose of measuring the area or the volume generated by the rotation of a line or surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle that every figure formed by the revolution of a line or surface about such an axis has for…

A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.

A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

uce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other purposes.