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A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting. This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the g…

Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak.

A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

Belonging to the most 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.

Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. Junius.

Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.

A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiïdæ; -- so called from its hornlike form.

k or crack. Bank check, a written order on a banker or broker to pay money in his keeping belonging to the signer. -- Check book, a book containing blank forms for checks upon a bank. -- Check hook, a hook on the saddle of a harness, over which a checkrein is looped. -- Check list, a list or catalogue by which thing…

Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.

Having tthe character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child. Gower.

A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.

Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.

Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne.

Belonging to, or resembling, a city. "Smoky, citied towns" [R.] Drayton.

One belonging to the same clan with another.

One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.

Belonging to the Coelentra. -- n.

Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.