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One who caters. The little fowls in the air have God for Their provider and caterer. Shelton.

A woman who caters. Milton.

commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables,…

A caterwauling.

The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats. Shak.

The place where provisions are deposited. [Obs.]

Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. Shak. Cates for which Apicius could not pay. Shurchill. Choicest cates and the fiagon's best spilth. R. Browning.

raw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

To weed out. [Obs.] Bailey.

To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [Obs.] Ash.

See Caterer. [Obs.]

See Cates. [Obs.]

To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.

One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

Office or duty of an advocate.

A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.

To distribute or assign; to allot. Burke.

The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

To amplify. [Obs.] Bailey.

To append. [Obs.]