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Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.

A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphæra is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.

The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.

Catalogue.

To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue. [R.] Coles.

umeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. Card catalogue, a catalogue, as of books, having each item entered on a separate card, and the cards arranged in cases by subjects, or authors, or alphabeticall…

A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues.

A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean.

Dissolution; degeneration; decay. [R.] Sad catalysis and declension of piety. Evelyn.

Relating to, or causing, catalysis. "The catalytic power is ill understood." Ure. Catalytic force, that form of chemical energy formerly supposed to determine catalysis.

red by Sir Sidney Smith for destroying the French flotilla at Boulogne, 1804, were called catamarans. Knight.

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.

A boy kept for unnatural purposes.

The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.

Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous. [R.]

A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to a catapult.

Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.

Of or relating to cataphonics; catacoustic.