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An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.

and boy, porter, or messenger. [Written also cady.] Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie. Macaulay.

A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers.

A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. Johnson.

A kind of coarse serge.

Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. "Acadian farmers." Longfellow. -- n.

Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. -- Ac*ca"di*an, n., Ac"cad, n. Sayce.

Any region or scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet. Where the cow is, there is Arcadia. J. Burroughs.

Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist. [R.]

See Muscardin. Northern muscadine (Bot.), a derivative of the northern fox grape, and scarcely an improvement upon it. -- Royal muscadine (Bot.), a European grape of great value. Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color. Called also golden chasselas.

Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.

A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. Sir W. Scott.

A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.

way toward; going; -- with to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz. "The mariner bound homeward." Cowper.

See Cadie.

In Louisiana, a person reputed to be Acadian French descent.

To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear. Arcadia was the charmed circle where all his spirits forever should be enchanted. Sir P. Sidney.

o spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.

A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.