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auses; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative. Causal propositions are where two propositions are joined by causal words. Watts.

ness; advice; injunction. In way of caution I must tell you. Shak. Caution money, money deposited by way of security or guaranty, as by a student at an English university.

To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter. To cave in. Etym: [Flem. inkalven.] (a) To fall in and leave a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit. (b) To submit; to yield. [Slang] H. Kingsley.

an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc. Bouvier.

inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.

One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude. Gibbon.

A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).

who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.

A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.

The composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos.

ving. A point near Alcyone in the Pleiades was supposed to possess characteristics of the position of such a body.

l. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance.

A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.

The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestles were anointed among the ancient Romans.

The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower. Gray. Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle.

or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.

h fastens it to the vessel's side. (b) A bolt with a chain attached for drawing it out of position. -- Chain bond. See Chain timber. -- Chain bridge, a bridge supported by chain cables; a suspension bridge. -- Chain cable, a cable made of iron links. -- Chain coral (Zoöl.), a fossil coral of the genus Halysites, co…

as president, or as chairman of a meeting. Macaulay. -- To take the chair, to assume the position of president, or of chairman of a meeting.

tance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle.

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