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CASTOR n. 6 definitions

A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.

The quality of being casual.

atives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.

CAT n. 7 definitions

A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.

CATADICROTISM n.

Quality or state of being catacrotic. -- Cat`a*di*crot"ic (#), a.

Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.

CATAMARAN n. 4 definitions

A quarrelsome woman; a scold. [Colloq.]

of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.

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.

Checking evacutions through astringent or styptic qualities.

CATCH n. 23 definitions

That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish. Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains. Shak.

CATEGORICALNESS n.

The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. A. Marvell.

CATER-COUSIN n.

A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. Shak.

CATHOLICISM n. 4 definitions

The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity. Jer. Taylor.

CATHOLICITY n. 4 definitions

The state or quality of being catholic; universality.

CATHOLICNESS n.

The quality of being catholic; universality; catholicity.

A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The mane is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.

Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, 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 catt…

CAUSTICILY n. 2 definitions

The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash.

The quality of being caustic; causticity.