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11,617 words match “AY”

A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. Ray.

A way or road for carts.

CASE-BAY n. 2 definitions

The space between two principals or girders.

CASH RAILWAY n.

A form of cash carrier in which a small carrier or car travels upon a kind of track.

CASTAWAY n. 3 definitions

One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.

na (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.) Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Tennyson.

CAUSEWAY; CAUSEY n.

A way or road rasid above the natural level 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.

CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED a.

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

See Key, a ledge.

Cayenne pepper. Cayenne pepper. (a) (Bot.) A species of capsicum (C. frutescens) with small and intensely pungent fruit. (b) A very pungent spice made by drying and grinding the fruits or seeds of several species of the genus Capsicum, esp. C. annuum and C. Frutescens; -- Called also red pepper. It is used chiefly as a…

The south America alligator. See Alligator. [Sometimes written caiman.]

A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key. [Sp. Am.]

; sing Cayuga. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians formerly inbabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.

An Indian pony. [Northw. U. S.]

A gingham woven in plain colors with linen finish.

The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. [Written also choy root.]

CHILDERMAS DAY n.

A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day.

rmerly inhabiting the northern and weastern shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.

In American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.…