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The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See Goggler.

A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.

Ambuscade. [Obs.] Shak.

Posted in ambush; ambuscaded. [Obs.]

iver or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade. Longjellow. Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. Cawper.

A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily liquefiable, and so on.

ply; also, a system of electric traction in which motors so connected are employed. The cascade system is also called tandem, or concatenated, system; the connection a cascade, tandem, or concatenated, connection, or a concatenation; and the control of the motors so obtained a tandem, or concatenation, control. In the…

A cool walk; shady place. [R.] Maunder.

See Muscatel, n. Quaffed off the muscadel. Shak.

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.

A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor. Brown bastard is your only drink. Shak.

An ambuscade. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

hrough thick and thin. Dryden. On each hand the gushing waters play, And down the rough cascade all dashing fall. Thomson.

ecisive contests, foiled Hannibal, harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and ambuscades; a policy of delays and cautions.

Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.

A waterfall; a cascade. [Prov. Eng.] To see the falls for force of the river Kent. T. Gray.

European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray, scad, and doctor.

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

menophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.

The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor. [Written also muscadine.]