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Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.

term without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the pernnial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.

An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers.

Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon.

Wary; cautious. [Obs.] Bacon.

A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade. He brought back war-worn cavalcade to the city. Prescott.

A military man serving on horseback; a knight.

That part of military force which serves on horseback.

Any hollow place, or part; a cavity. [Obs.] "The cave of the ear." Bacon. Cave bear (Zoöl.), a very large fossil bear (Ursus spelæus) similar to the grizzly bear, but large; common in European caves. -- Cave dweller, a savage of prehistoric times whose dwelling place was a cave. Tylor. -- Cave hyena (Zoöl.), a fossil…

Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.

A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).…

Celebration; solemnization. [Obs.] The celebrity of the marriage. Bacon.

Celibate state; celibacy. [Obs.] He . . . preferreth holy celibate before the estate of marrige. Jer. Taylor.

A census; -- also, a public rate or tax. [Obs.] Howell. Bacon.

Censorial. [R.] Bacon.

rd, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. Dunglison.

A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.

embranes of the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.

with some gummy or glutinous matter. Linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth. Bacon.

A yielding to physical force. [Obs.] Bacon.