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A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat. Massinger.

which suck blood; Trichodectes scalaris eats the hair. -- Cattle plague, the rinderpest; called also Russian cattle plague. -- Cattle range, or Cattle run, an open space through which cattle may run or range. [U. S.] Bartlett. -- Cattle show, an exhibition of domestic animals with prizes for the encouragement of sto…

short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.

s reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.

A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevallé.

s or seeds of several species of the genus Capsicum, esp. C. annuum and C. Frutescens; -- Called also red pepper. It is used chiefly as a condiment.

A tribe of Indians formerly inbabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.

jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

elestial city, heaven; the heavenly Jerusalem. Bunyan. -- Celestial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appoined by heaven. S. W. Williams.

hical area. The area within which one transmitter may service such portable telephones is called its "cell.

e of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originaly called xylonite.

The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.

The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum. Hydraulic cement. See under Hydraulic.

An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game. Nares.

A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.

d the point indicating the boiling state of water divided into one hundred degrees. It is called also the Celsius thermometer, from Anders Celsius, the originator of this scale.

t of the line or surface by the length of the path of its center of gravity; -- sometimes called theorem of Pappus, also, incorrectly, Guldinus's properties. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus.

anded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century. A centurion of the hand called the Italian band. Acts x. 1.

A large division of Mollusca, including all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix.

r, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).