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The quality of being cautious.

excavations are frequently formed in the lungs, which are designated cavities or vomicæ. Quain. Body cavity, the coelum. See under Body.

Having the quality of cementating or uniting firmly.

st recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also cænozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.

The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.

The property or quality of being centrifugal. R. W. Emerson.

Quality of being ceremonial.

The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious.

A certain number or quantity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames.

A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax. [Written also calcedony.]

An exception to a person as not legally qualifed to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [U. S.] Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel. -- Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to…

Of superior quality and temper; -- applied to steel. [Obs.] Milton.

A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.

The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.

The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed by nature, education, or habit; that which a person or thing really is; nature; disposition. The character or that dominion. Milton. Know well each Ancient's proper character; His fable, subject…

aining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.

Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.

To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc. Their battering cannon charged to the mouths. Shak.

The quality of being chargeable or expensive. [Obs.] Whitelocke.