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A sirupy, nontoxic ptomaine, C5H14N2 (chemically pentamethylene diamine), formed in putrefaction of flesh, etc.

Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.

human skull reported, by Prof. J. D. Whitney, as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiq…

ze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.

A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos. [Written also Calcavellos or Carcavelhos.]

The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.

A sweet wine. See Calcavella.

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

ty to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc. Bouvier.

Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

One who enters a caveat.

Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.

A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

Containing caverns. The wolves yelled on the caverned hill. Byron.

Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.

Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal. Black.

A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. [Written also caveson, causson.] White.

A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Calumn.

The chub. Walton.

imp. of Cleave. [Obs.]