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To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain. E. Darwin.

nnection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. Sir T. Browne.

Consisting of little links or chains.

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Diagonal. [Colloq.]

A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. Shak.

A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

One who caters. The little fowls in the air have God for Their provider and caterer. Shelton.

A woman who caters. Milton.

commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables,…

To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise. Coleridge.

The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats. Shak.

The place where provisions are deposited. [Obs.]

Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. Shak. Cates for which Apicius could not pay. Shurchill. Choicest cates and the fiagon's best spilth. R. Browning.

A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead. Totten.

A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.…

A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

See catherine wheel.

One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.