CPage 140
- English Word Catgut Definition A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
- English Word Catharical Definition Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.
- English Word Catharical Definition Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.
- English Word Catharine wheel Definition See catherine wheel.
- English Word Catharist Definition One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.
- English Word Catharsis Definition A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.
- English Word Cathartic Definition Alt. of Catharical
- English Word Cathartic Definition A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
- English Word Cathartin Definition The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.
- English Word Cathay Definition China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)
- English Word Cathead Definition A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.
- English Word Cathedra Definition The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority.
- English Word Cathedral Definition The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.
- English Word Cathedral Definition Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service.
- English Word Cathedral Definition Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative.
- English Word Cathedral Definition Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral walks.
- English Word Cathedralic Definition Cathedral.
- English Word Cathedrated Definition Relating to the chair or office of a teacher.
- English Word Catheretic Definition A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.
- English Word Catherine wheel Definition Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.