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One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.

Catlike; feline Drummond.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage. The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes. Darwin. Caudal fin (Zoöl.), the terminal fin (or "tail") of a fish.

Having a taill; having a termination like a tail.

more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.

Somewhat like a cavalier.

A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed in the lungs, which are designated cavities or vomicæ. Quain. Body cavity, the coelum. See under Body.

To cry like a crow, rook, or raven. Rising and cawing at the gun's report. Shak.

Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.

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

To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.

To make like heaven. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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

Shaped like the head. Craing.

Having the texture and color of new wax; like wax; waxy.

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

orm of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.

Of, like, or pertaining to, the Cercariæ. -- n.

Like the brain in form or substance.