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A rich stuff for shawls, acaris, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.

A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere.

A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. [Written also kerseymere.]

Diagonal. [Colloq.]

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

A woman who caters. Milton.

A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences. Dunglison.

The hundredth part of a stere, equal to .353 cubic feet.

nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc.

One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods. Packard.

Of or pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus. [Written also Cerberian.] With wide Cerberean mouth. Milton.

The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.

Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.

Public festivals in honor of Ceres.

A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid. Watts.

The cerebellum. Derham.

Pertaining to the cerebellum.

The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.

Of or pertaining to the cerebrum. Cerebral apoplexy. See under Apoplexy.

The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.