CAT-BLOCK
CAT-BLOCK, noun A two or three fold block with an iron strop and large hook, used to draw up an anchor to the cat-head.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CAT-EYED
CAT-EYED, adjective Having eyes like a cat.
CAT-FISH
CAT-FISH, noun A species of the Squalus, or shark. The cat-fish of the noun American rivers is a species of Cottus, or bull-head.
CAT-GUT
CAT-GUT, noun The intestines of sheep or lambs, dried and twisted together, used as strings for violins and other instruments, and for other purposes. Great quantities are impor...
CAT-HARPINGS
CAT-HARPINGS, noun Ropes serving to brace in the shrouds of the lower masts behind their respective yards, to tighten the shrouds and give more rom to draw in the yards, when th...
CAT-HEAD
CAT-HEAD, noun A strong beam projecting horizontally horizontally over a ships bows, carrying two or three sheaves, about which a rope called the cat-fall passes, and communicat...
CAT-LIKE
CAT-LIKE. adjective Resembling a cat.
CAT-MINT
CAT-MINT, noun A plant of the genus Nepeta, so called because cats eat it.
CAT-PIPE
CAT-PIPE, noun [See Catcall.]CATSUP, noun [See Catchup, Ketchup.]
CAT-SALT
CAT-SALT, noun A sort of salt beautifully granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach-brine, used for making hard soap.
CAT-TAIL
CAT-TAIL, noun1. A species of reed, of the genus Typha, the downy substance of which is used for stuffing mattresses, etc.2. A substance growing on nut-trees, pines, etc.
CATABAPTIST
CATABAPTIST, noun One who opposes baptism.
CATACAUSTIC
CATACAUSTIC, adjectivecatacaustic curves, in geometry, are that species of caustic curves, which are formed by reflection.
CATACHRESIS
CATACHRESIS, noun An abuse of a trope or of words; a figure in rhetoric, when one word is abusively put for another, or when a word is too far wrested from its true significatio...
CATACHRESTICAL
CATACHRESTICAL, adjective Belonging to a catachresis; forced; far-fetched; wrested from its natural sense.
CATACHRESTICALLY
CATACHRESTICALLY, adverb In a forced manner.
CATACHRESTTIC
CATACHRESTTIC,CATACLYSM, noun A deluge, or overflowing of water; particularly, the flood in Noahs days.
CATACOMB
CATACOMB, noun A cave, grotto or subterraneous place for the burial of the dead. It is said to have been originally applied to the chapel of St. Sebastian in Rome, where the anc...
CATACOUSTICS
CATACOUSTICS, noun That part of acoustics or the doctrine of sounds, which treats of reflected sounds. But the distinction is deemed of little use.
CATADIOPTRIC
CATADIOPTRIC, TRICAL, adjective Reflecting light.
CATADUPE
CATADUPE, noun A cataract or waterfall.
CATAGMATIC
CATAGMATIC, adjective That has the quality of consolidating broken parts; promoting the union of fractured bones.
CATAGRAPH
CATAGRAPH, noun The first draught o a picture; also, a profile.
CATALECTIC
CATALECTIC, adjective Pertaining to metrical composition, or to measure.CATALECTIC verses, are such as want either feet or syllables.
CATALEPSIS
CATALEPSIS,CATALEPSY,. A sudden suppression of motion and sensation, a kind of apoplexy, in which the patient is speechless, senseless, and fixed in one posture, with his eyes o...
CATALEPSY
CATALEPSY,. A sudden suppression of motion and sensation, a kind of apoplexy, in which the patient is speechless, senseless, and fixed in one posture, with his eyes open, withou...
CATALEPTIC
CATALEPTIC, adjective Pertaining to catalepsy.