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A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word. Case is properly a falling off from the nominative or first state of word; the name for which, however, is now, by extension of its…

nus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.

ove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator.

Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.

That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.

meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.

To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a person answers which condemn his own conduct. Swift.

The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. Faraday.

The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.

passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode. Faraday. Cathode ray (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode in a vacuum tube, by the electrical discharge.

persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting. This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston…

d causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

The south America alligator. See Alligator. [Sometimes written caiman.]

The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century. "Every centenary of years." Hakewill.

A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.