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ies at variance; to appease. [Obs.] I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio. Shak.

ion of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]

r it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth. This is my birthday; as this very day Was Cassius born. Shak.

A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A white fricassee.

titute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead. The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold. Dryden.

inged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.

ly; to abandon; as, to bury strife. Give me a bowl of wine In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. Shak. Burying beetle (Zoöl.), the general name of many species of beetles, of the tribe Necrophaga; the sexton beetle; -- so called from their habit of burying small dead animals by digging away the earth beneath them. Th…

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Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion. A prey for carrion kites. Shak. Carrion beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle that feeds habitually on dead animals; -- also called sexton beetle and burying beetle. There are many kinds, belonging mostly to the family Silphidæ. -- Carrion buzzard (Zoöl.), a…

A game at cards. See Cassino.

A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.

the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.

Cassia. Cinnamon stone (Min.), a variety of garnet, of a cinnamon or hyacinth red color, sometimes used in jewelry. -- Oil of cinnamon, a colorless aromatic oil obtained from cinnamon and cassia, and consisting essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, C6H5.C2H2.CHO. -- Wild cinnamon. See Canella.

he large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.

was day, certain Jews made a conspiration. Udall. In our natural body every part has a nacassary sympathy with every other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration, a healthy whole. Sir W. Hamilton.

To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons. I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely. Beau. & FL. To curry favor, to seek to gain favor by flattery or attentions. See Favor, n.

An evergreen shrub or small tree (Ilex cassine) of the southern United States, bearing red drupes and having soft, white, close- grained wood; -- called also dahoon holly.

To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair. He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship. Clarendon.

thief, Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon. Young. Why this in earthing up a carcass R. Blair.