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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.

That branch of acoustics which treats of reflested sounds; catacoustics.

A horseman covered with a cataphract. Archers and slingers, cataphracts, and spears. Milton.

Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract.

artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.

A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice. Dunglison.

A morbid condition caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles. -- Cat`a*plec"tic (#), a.

Spurge. [Obs.]

An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.

A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.

Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.

congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.

Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.

One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.