Cavalier (n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
Cavalier (a.) Gay; easy; offhand; frank.
Cavalier (a.) High-spirited.
Cavalier (a.) Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
Cavalier (a.) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.
Cavalierish (a.) Somewhat like a cavalier.
Cavalierism (n.) The practice or principles of cavaliers.
Cavalierly (adv.) In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly.
Cavalierness (n.) A disdainful manner.
Cavally (n.) A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevalle. [See Illust. under Carangoid.]
Cavalry (n.) That part of military force which serves on horseback.
Cavalryman (n.) One of a body of cavalry.
Cavatina (n.) Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.
Cave (n.) A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
Cave (n.) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
Caved (imp. & p. p.) of Cave
Caving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cave
Cave (n.) To make hollow; to scoop out.
Cave (v. i.) To dwell in a cave.
Cave (v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.
Caveat (n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.
Caveat (n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.
Caveat (n.) Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
Caveating (n.) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
Caveator (n.) One who enters a caveat.
Cavendish (n.) Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
Cavern (n.) A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.
Caverned (a.) Containing caverns.
Caverned (a.) Living in a cavern.
Cavernous (a.) Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.
Cavernous (a.) Filled with small cavities or cells.
Cavernous (a.) Having a sound caused by a cavity.
Cavernulous (a.) Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal.
Cavesson (n.) Alt. of Cavezon
Cavezon (n.) A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses.
Cavetto (n.) A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column.
Caviare (n.) Alt. of Caviar
Caviar (n.) The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.
Cavicorn (a.) Having hollow horns.
Cavicornia (n. pl.) A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.
Caviled (imp. & p. p.) of Cavil
Cavilled () of Cavil
Caviling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cavil
Cavilling () of Cavil
Cavil (v. i.) To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.
Cavil (v. t.) To cavil at.
Cavil (n.) A captious or frivolous objection.
Caviler (n.) Alt. of Caviller
Caviller (n.) One who cavils.
Caviling (a.) Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious.
Cavilingly (adv.) In a caviling manner.
Cavillation (n.) Frivolous or sophistical objection.
Cavilous (a.) Alt. of Cavillous
Cavillous (a.) Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing.
Cavin (n.) A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place.
Cavitary (a.) Containing a body cavity; as, the cavitary or nematoid worms.
Cavities (pl. ) of Cavity
Cavity (n.) Hollowness.
Cavity (n.) A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.
Cavo-relievo (n.) Cavo-rilievo.
Cavo-rilievo (n.) Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.
Cavorted (imp. & p. p.) of Cavort
Cavorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cavort
Cavort (v. i.) To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.
Cavies (pl. ) of Cavy
Cavy (n.) A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America.
Cawed (imp. & p. p.) of Caw
Cawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caw
Caw (v. i.) To cry like a crow, rook, or raven.
Caw (n.) The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.
Cawk (n.) An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.
Cawker (n.) See Calker.
Cawky (a.) Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.
Caxon (n.) A kind of wig.
Caxton (n.) Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.
Cay (n.) See Key, a ledge.
Cayenne (n.) Cayenne pepper.
Cayman (n.) The south America alligator. See Alligator.
Cayugas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.
Cayuse (n.) An Indian pony.
Cazique (n.) Alt. of Cazic
Cazic (n.) A chief or petty king among some tribes of Indians in America.
Ceased (imp. & p. p.) of Cease
Ceasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cease
Cease (v. i.) To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.
Cease (v. i.) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
Cease (v. t.) To put a stop to; to bring to an end.
Cease (n.) Extinction.
Ceaseless (a.) Without pause or end; incessant.
Ceaseless (adv.) Without intermission or end.
Cecidomyia (n.) A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.
Cecity (n.) Blindness.
Cecutiency (n.) Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness.
Cedar (n.) The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.
Cedar (a.) Of or pertaining to cedar.
Cedared (a.) Covered, or furnished with, cedars.
Cedarn (a.) Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
Ceded (imp. & p. p.) of Cede
Ceding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cede
Cede (v. t.) To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.