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on. He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. Macaulay.

e from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.

A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points. Great cassino, the ten of diamonds. -- Little cassino, the two of spades.

To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part. Our parts in the other world will be new cast. Addison. To cast anchor (Naut.) Se under Anchor. -- To cast a horoscope, to calculate it. -- To cast a horse, sheep, or other animal, to throw with the feet upwards,…

efly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. Macaulay. To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.

The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp.

To play the casuist. Milton.

An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.

A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise. Upon the rising of the curtain. I was very much surprised with the great consort of catcalls which was exhibited. Addison.

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.

The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.

A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Indians for their pipes.

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

To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room. The greater house he ceiled with fir tree. 2 Chron. iii. 5

ng celebrity; distinguished; renowned. Celebrated for the politeness of his manners. Macaulay.

or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. The heroic confessor in his cell. Macaulay.

A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.

honor of a person who is buried elsewhere. Dryden. A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. Macaulay.

A cenotaph. [R.] Lord Cobham honored him with a cenotaphy. Macaulay.

orship. Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay.