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A caddice. See Caddice.

One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation. A bookworm, a candlewaster. B. Jonson.

Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.

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

, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long. Casbew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible after the caustic oil has been expelled from the shell by roasting the nut.

Same as Castleguard.

vel of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.

Same as Zedoary. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.

To ruminate mentally; to meditate on. He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. Prior. To chew the cud, to chew the food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deut. xxiv. 6.…

One who chews.

A kind of meat pie. [Obs.]

An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and weastern shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.

To direct; to guide, as by a thread. [Obs.] Direct and clew me out the way to happiness. Beau. && Fl.

A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself. Untwisting his deceitful clew. Spenser.

Cuckold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head.