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That branch of acoustics which treats of reflested sounds; catacoustics.

A horseman covered with a cataphract. Archers and slingers, cataphracts, and spears. Milton.

Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract.

artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.

A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice. Dunglison.

caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles. -- Cat`a*plec"tic (#), a.

Spurge. [Obs.]

An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.

A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.

Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.

congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.

Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.

One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.

Catarrhal. [R.]

Checking evacutions through astringent or styptic qualities.

That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed.

A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell.

a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune. The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. Bp. Buret. The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. Woodward.

Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. B. Powell.