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ks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology.

upeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine. Belted cattle, Black cattle. See under Belted, Black. -- Cattle guard, a trench under a railroad track and alongside a crossing (as of a public highway). It is intended to prevent cattle from getting upon the track. -- cattle louse (Zoöl.), any species of louse…

e characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of cauda galli. See the Diagram under Geology.

terminating in leaves which seem to suport the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.

the matter. -- Material cause, that of which anything is made. -- Proximate cause. See under Proximate. -- To make common cause with, to join with in purposes and aims. Macaulay.

ting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane. -- Caustic lime. See under Lime. -- Caustic potash, Caustic soda (Chem.), the solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same. -- Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic. -- Caustic surface (Optics), a surface to whi…

A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.

e caves of Europe, believed to be a large variety of the African lion. -- Bone cave. See under Bone.

n the lungs, which are designated cavities or vomicæ. Quain. Body cavity, the coelum. See under Body.

A mark placed under the letter c [thus, ç], to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in façade.

The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.

To place or inclosed in a cell. "Celled under ground." [R.] Warner.

A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

ls communicating with each other. -- Cellular tissue. (a) (Anat.) See conjunctive tissue under Conjunctive. (b) (Bot.) Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts. cellular telephone, a portable radio- telephone transmitting and receiving the radio-telephonic signals from one of a group…

ed limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.

a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay.

See under Cartridge.

r bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control. [To] centralize the power of government. Bancroft.

ase of a planet revolving round the sun, the center of the system, See Centrifugal force, under Centrifugal. -- Centripetal impression (Physiol.), an impression (sensory) transmitted by an afferent nerve from the exterior of the body inwards, to the central organ.