CASTLE-GUARD
CASTLE-GUARD, noun A feudal tenure, or knight service, which obliged the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CASTLE-WARD
CASTLE-WARD, noun An imposition laid upon subjects dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in the castle.
CASTLED
CASTLED, adjective Furnished with castles; as a castled elephant.
CASTLERY
CASTLERY, noun The government of a castle.
CASTLET
CASTLET, noun A small castle.
CASTLING
CASTLING, noun An abortion or abortive.
CASTOR
CASTOR, noun1. A beaver, an amphibious quadruped, with a flat ovate tail, short ears, a blunt nose, small fore feet, and large hind feet.2. A reddish brown substance of a strong...
CASTOR-OIL
CASTOR-OIL, noun The oil of the Ricinus, or Palma Christi, a plant of the West Indies, which grows to the highth of twenty feet, in one season. The oil is obtained from the nuts...
CASTORIN
CASTORIN,CASTORINE, noun An animal principle discovered in castor, and prepared by boiling castor in six times its weight of alcohol, and filtering the liquor. From this is depo...
CASTORINE
CASTORINE, n. An animal principle discovered in castor, and prepared by boiling castor in six times its weight of alcohol, and filtering the liquor. From this is deposited the C...
CASTRAMETATION
CASTRAMETATION, noun The art or act of encamping; the marking or laying out of a camp.
CASTRATE
CASTRATE, verb transitive1. To geld; to deprive of the testicles; to emasculate.2. To take away or retrench, as the obscene parts of a writing.3. To take out a leaf or sheet fro...
CASTRATED
CASTRATED, participle passive Gelded; emasculated; purified from obscene expressions.
CASTRATING
CASTRATING, participle present tense Gelding; taking away the obscene parts of a writing.
CASTRATION
CASTRATION, noun The act of gelding; the act or practice of making eunuchs; the act of taking away the obscene parts of a writing; the act of taking out a leaf or sheet of a boo...
CASTRATO
CASTRATO, noun A male person emasculated for the purpose of improving his voice for a singer.
CASTREL
CASTREL or KESTREL, noun A kind of hawk, resembling the lanner in shape and the hobby in size.
CASTRENSIAN
CASTRENSIAN, adjective Belonging to a camp.
CASUAL
CASUAL, adjective1. Falling; happening or coming to pass without design in the person or persons affected, and without being foreseen, or expected; accidental; fortuitous; comin...
CASUALLY
CASUALLY, adverb Accidentally; fortuitously; without design; by chance.
CASUALNESS
CASUALNESS, noun Accidentalness; the quality of being casual.
CASUALTY
CASUALTY, noun1. Accident; that which comes by chance or without design, or without being foreseen; contingency.2. An accident that produces unnatural death; and by a metonymy, ...
CASUIST
CASUIST, noun One who studies and resolves cases of conscience.The judgment of any casuist or leaned divine is not sufficient to give him confidence.CASUIST, verb intransitive T...
CASUISTIC
CASUISTIC,CASUISTICAL, adjective Relating to cases of conscience, or to cases of doubtful propriety.
CASUISTICAL
CASUISTICAL, a. Relating to cases of conscience, or to cases of doubtful propriety.
CASUISTRY
CASUISTRY, noun The science or doctrine of cases of conscience; the science of resolving cases of doubtful propriety, or of determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a ...
CAT
CAT, noun1. A name applied to certain species of carnivorous quadrupeds, of the genus Felis. The domestic cat needs no description. It is a deceitful animal, and when enraged, e...