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A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.

A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture. An even cast whether the army should march this way or that way. Sowth. I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak.

The four of cards or dice.

pon the earth forty days. Gen. vii. 4. Cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans. Col. iv. 16.

A captious or frivolous objection. All the cavils of prejudice and unbelief. Shak.

elidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in 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).

Five; the number five in dice or cards.

To cover round, as woth a garment; to invest. [Obs.] Circumvested with much prejudice. Sir H. Wotton.

n; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan. -- Clan"nish*ly, adv. -- Clan"nish*ness, n.

A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.

cloud those looks. Milton. Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty like prejudice. M. Arnold.

A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice [Obs.]

sterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

ractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices. He colors the falsehood of Æneas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. Dryden.

station of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.

The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as. a low corsage.

Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.

tion or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.

A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.

Cowardice. [Obs.]