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the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.

A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; - - so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.

, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.

e, with a sweetish aftertaste, like that of ether. There are two metameric butyric acids, called in distinction the normal- and iso-butyric acid. The normal butyric acid is the one common in rancid butter.

ained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina.

A circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when running at full speed.

A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.

line aloes, an inferior and impure kind of aloes formerly used in veterinary practice; -- called also horse aloes. -- Caballine spring, the fountain of Hippocrene, on Mount Helicon; - - fabled to have been formed by a stroke from the foot of the winged horse Pegasus.

avy blossoms. -- Cabbage tree, Cabbage palm, a name given to palms having a terminal bud called a cabbage, as the Sabal Palmetto of the United States, and the Euterpe oleracea and Oreodoxa oleracea of the West Indies. -- Cabbage worm (Zoöl.), the larva of several species of moths and butterfies, which attacks cabbage…

ites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephæstus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. [Written also Cabeiri.] Liddell & Scott.

other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding. Bower cable, the cable belonging to the bower anchor. -- Cable road, a railway on which the cars are moved by a continuously running endless rope operated by a stationary motor. -- Cable's length, the…

A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.

ing the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.

The essential principle of cacao; -- now called theobromine.

taining an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale.

reeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines. [Written also cacodyle, and kakodyl.]

he oxidation of cacodyl, and having the properties of an exceedingly stable acid; -- also called alkargen.

ieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. Caddice fly (Zoöl.), a species of trichopterous insect, whose larva is the caddice.

The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.