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CABLE, SHEET ANCHOR, is the greatest cable belonging to a ship.

CABLE, STREAM, a hauser or rope, sometimes smaller than the bowers, and used to moor the ship in a river or haven, sheltered from the wind and sea, &c.

To serve or plait the CABLE, is to bind it about with ropes, clouts, &c. to keep it from galling in the hawse. To splice the cable, is to make two pieces fast together by working the several threads of the rope the one into the other. Pay more Cable, is to let more out of the ship. Pay cheap the Cable, is to hand it out apace. Veer more Cable, is to let more out, &c.

.. CABLED, CABLEE, in heraldry, a term applied to a cross formed of the two ends of a ship's cable; sometimes also to a cross covered over with rounds of rope; more properly called a cross corded.

CABO, or CAPO D'ISTRIA. See CAPO D'ISTRIA.

CABOCHED, in heraldry, is when the heads of beasts are borne without any part of the neck, full faced.

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CABOLETTO, in commerce, a coin of the republic of Genoa, worth about 3d. of our money. CABOT (Sebastian), the first discoverer of the continent of America, (see AMERICA, sect. 4.), was the son of John Cabot, a Venetian. He was born at Bristol in 1477; and, before he was twenty years of age, made several voyages. The first of any consequence seems to have been with his father, who had a commission from Henry -VII. for the discovery of a north-west passage to India They sailed in the spring 1497: and proceeding to the north-west, they discovered land, which for that reason they called Prima-vista, or Newfoundland. Another smaller island they called St. John, from its being discovered on the feast of St. John Baptist; after which they sailed along the coast of the American continent, as far as Cape Florida, and then returned with a good cargo, and three Indians to England. Thus the í honor of the discovery of America is due to Cabot, not to Columbus, who did not begin his voyage till a year after that of Cabot. Sebastian, in 1517, sailed for the East Indies, but, after touching on the coast of Brasil, he shaped his course to Hispaniola and Porto Rico, where he carried on some trade, and returned to England. He soon after entered into the service of Spain, where he was made pilot-major, and entrusted with reviewing all projects for discoveries, which were then very numerous. His great capacity and approved integrity induced many eminent merchants to treat with him about a voyage by the newly discovered Straits of Magellan to the Molucc.s. He therefore sailed in 1525, first to the Canaries, then to the Cape Verd islands; thence to St. Augustine and the island of Patos; when some of his people beginning to be mutinous, and refusing to pass through the Straits, he laid aside the design of sailing for the Moluccas; left some of the principal mutineers upon a desert island; and, sailing up the rivers of Plata and Paraguay, discovered, and built forts in, a large tract of fine country, that produced gold, silver, and other rich commodities. He thence despatched messengers to Spain for a supply of pro

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visions, ammunition, goods for trade, and a reernit of men; but his request not being readily complied with, after staying five years in America, he then returned home; where he met with a cold reception, the merchants being displeased at his not having pursued his voyage to the Moluccas, while his treatment of the mutineers had given umbrage at court. Hence he returned to England; and being introduced to the duke of Somerset, then Lord Protector, a new office was erected for him; he was made governor of the mystery and company of the merchant adventurers for the discovery of regions, dominions, isiands, and places unknown; a pension was granted him, by letters patent of £166. 13s. 4d. per annum; and he was consulted on all affairs relative to trade. In 1522, by his advice, the court fitted out some ships for the discovery of the northern parts of the world. This produced the first voyage the English made to Russia, and the beginning of that commerce which has ever since been carried on between the two nations. The Russia Company was now founded by a charter granted by Philip and Mary; and of this company Sebastian was appointed governor for life. He is said to be the first who took notice of the variation of the needle, and who published a map of the world. The exact time of his death is not known, but he lived to be above seventy years of age.

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CABRAL (Pedro Alvares), a Portuguese navigator, who commanded the second fleet which was sent to the Indies in 1500. He received the royal standard from the hands of the king, in the church of Belem, and the bishop of Viseu placed on his head a hat which had been blessed by the pope. In this voyage he was driven on that part of the coast of America now called Brasil, where he landed, and called the spot Santa Cruz. Thence he sailed to Sofala, on the coast of Africa, and next to Calicut, where he entered into a treaty with the zamorin; and in 1501 returned to Portugal, richly laden. He wrote an account of his voyage, which was published at Venice.

CABRILLA, in ichthyology, a species of perca, found in the Mediterranean sea, the body of which is marked with four longitudinal sanguineous bands.

CABRUSI, in the writings of the ancients, word frequently used to express Cyprian, o coming from the island of Cyprus. The ancient Greeks had almost all their vitriols and vitriolic minerals from this island; they therefore called these cabrusi, without any addition. It is probable that our word copperas, the common name of green vitriol, is derived from this word. x

CABUIA, a West Indian species of hemp, produced in Panama, from a plant resembling the chardon or iris; when ripe they lay it to steep in water, and after drying it, beat it with wooden mallets till nothing but the hemp remains, which they afterwards spin, and make thread and ropes of it; the former of which is so hard and tough, that with it they saw iron, by fitting it on a box, and laying a little sand over the metal as the work proceeds.

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CABUL, or GABOUL, a city of Asia, and capital of the province of Cabulistan. It lies on the

frontiers of Great Bukharia, on the south side of the mountains which divide the former territories of the Mogul from that part of Great Tartary. It was one of the finest places in that part of the world; large, rich, and very populous. Being considered as the key of the great Mogul's dominions on that side, great care was taken to keep its fortifications in repair, and a numerous garrison was maintained for its security. It lies on the road between Samarcand and Lahore; and is much frequented by the Tartars, Persians, and Indians. The Usbec Tartars drive there a great trade in slaves and horses, of which it is said that no fewer than 60,000 are sold annually. The Persians bring black cattle and sheep, which renders provisions very cheap. The city stands on the river Attock, which falls into the Indus, and affords a speedy passage for all the rich commodities in the country behind it: which, when brought to Cabul, are exchanged for slaves and horses, and conveyed by merchants of different countries to all parts of the world. There has been a small Armenian colony here since the time of Nadir Shah, and among the most industrious of its inhabitants are the Hindoos. Cabul has several fine palaces and spacious caravanseras; and lies 680 miles north-west of Delhi. Long. 68° 58′ E., lat. 34° 36' N.

CABUL, or CAUBUL. See CAUBUL. CABURE, in ornithology, a small Brasilian bird of the owl kind; very beautiful, and easily tamed. It is brown, variegated with white, and is feathered down to the toes. The Brasilians keep it tame for its diverting tricks; it will play with people like a monkey, and is perfectly harmless. CA'BURNS, n. s. Small ropes used in ships. CACAGOGA, in ancient medicinal writers, a word used for certain ointments intended for rubbing on the fundament to procure stools. The most common of these was made of alum mixed with honey, and boiled till the whole was of a tawney color.

a thick fleshy stem, divided at certain distances into so many joints. Each of these divisions swell much larger in the middle than at each end; and the stalks divide into many irregular branches of the same form, which, toward their extremities, are garnished with long, narrow, spear-shaped leaves of a glaucous color, standing all round the stalks without order. As they fall off, they leave a scar at the place, which always remains on the branches. The flowers are produced in large clusters at the extremity of the branches, which are tubulous, and of a faint carnation color. They appear in August and September, but continue great part of October, and are not succeeded by seeds in this country. This plant has been called the cabbage tree, from the resem blance which the stalk of it has to the cabbage: others have entitled it the carnation tree, from the shape of the leaves and the color of the flowers. C. suaveolens, with a herbaceous stalk, a native of North America. It has a perennial creeping root, which sends out many stalks, garnished with triangular spear-shaped leaves, sawed on their edges, of a pale green on their under side, but a deep shining green above, placed alternately. The stalks rise to seven or eight feet, and are terminated by umbels of white flowers, which are succeeded by oblong seeds covered with down. It flowers in August, and the seeds ripen in October. The stalks decay in autumn, and new ones rise in spring, This plant multiplies greatly by its spreading roots, as well as by the seeds, which are spread to a great distance by the wind, their down greatly assisting their conveyance. The roots cast out of Chelsea garden, being carried by the tide to a great distance, have fixed themselves to the banks of the river, and increased so much, that in a few years this species may probably appear as a native of England.

CACALIA, in botany, alpine colt's foot; a genus of the order polygamia æqualis, and class syngenesia. The receptacle is naked; the pappus hairy; the calyx cylindrical, oblong and calyculated, or having a small calyx of very short scales only at the base. There are forty species. The principal are C. ficoides, a native of the Cape of Good Hope. It rises with strong round stalks to the height of seven or eight feet, woody at bottom, but soft and succulent upwards, sending out many irregular branches, garnished more than half their length with thick, taper, succulent leaves, a little compressed on two sides, ending in points, covered with a whitish glaucous farina, which comes off when handled. These, when broken, emit a strong odor of turpentine, and are full of a viscous juice; at the extremity of the branches, the flowers are produced in small umbels; they are white, tubulous, and cut into five parts at the top. The leaves are pickled by the French, who esteem them much. They have a method of preserving the white farina upon them, which adds greatly to the beauty of the pickle when brought to table. C. kleinia, with a compound shrubby stalk. It grows naturally in the Canary Islands, but has long been cultivated in the English gardens. It rises with

CACALIÆ, in entomology, a species of chrysomela; of a greenish color, with a longitudinal blue streak on the wing-cases and blue suture; wings red. Inhabiting Austria.

CACAO, in botany. See THEOBROMA.

CACERES, an ancient town of Spain, in Estremadura, noted for the exceeding fine wool of the neighbourhood. It has four churches and seven religious houses, with a population of about 7000. It is thirty miles south-east of Alacantara, and thirty-five south-west of Placentia. Between this town and Broças, there is a wood, where the allies defeated the rear-guard of the duke of Berwick, April 7th, 1706.

CACHAO, KACHO, KECHO, or BACKRINK, a city of Tonquin, the capital of that kingdom, and formerly the residence of the sovereigns of that country. It is situated on the west side of the Songkoi, about eighty miles from the sea. The principal streets are wide, and paved with bricks and small stones; but intermediate spaces are left unpaved for the passage of elephants and other beasts of burden. The whole town, which is large and straggling, is surrounded by a bamboo hedge. The houses are a few of them constructed of brick, but the larger proportion of mud and timber, thatched with straw, leaves, or reeds. The royal palace is several miles in circuit, and surrounded by high walls. It contains

many extensive public and other buildings of handsome appearance, and the place is celebrated for its excellent police. Cachao is a place of great resort. The river is generally covered with the vessels of neighbouring nations, equaling in numbers, it is said, many of the most frequented European ports. It exports gold, beautiful silks of its own manufacture, and the finest lackered ware of the east. The imports are arms, chintz, long cloths, pepper, &c. Both the English and Dutch formerly had commercial establishments here, which have been withdrawn. On the opposite side of the river is Campez, a town of the Chinese. Cachao was set on fire by some incen diaries discharging arrows on the roofs in the middle of the eighteenth century, and immense damage ensued. Fires are now prohibited during the night, and permitted only during some hours of the day, under severe fines. It is supposed to contain 40,000 souls.

CACHAR, a province of the Burmhan empire, lying in 25° of N. lat., between Bengal and Ava. A communication exists by water to the centre of the province. Through Assam, and by land, the British intercourse with it is principally carried on from Silhet. The inhabiants are Hindoos, generally, of the Katri caste. The country is fertile, but overgrown in parts with jungle, and thinly peopled. In 1774 Oundaboo, the general of the Burmese, marched against the rajah of Cachar; who possessed the sovereignty of a productive though mountainous country, north-west of Munipoor, and advanced within three days march of Cospoor. Here he was opposed by Chawal, the rajah, leagued with the Gossain rajah; and his troops being attacked by the hill fever were all dispersed or cut off. A second expedition of the Burmese was more successful; and compelled the rajah to consent to pay, besides a sum of money, a maiden of the royal blood to the king of Ava, and a tree with the roots bound in the native clay, as an unequivocal token of homage.

spirited treatise, in four volumes, 8vo. on Lettres de Cachet.

CAC'HEXY, n. s. Kayıžia; a general word to express a great variety of symptoms: most commonly it denotes such a distemperature of the humors, as hinders nutrition, and weakens the vital and animal functions; proceeding from weakness of the fibres, and an abuse of the nonnaturals, and often from severe and acute distempers. In Cullen's Nosology, cachexia forms a class of diseases, which includes three orders, namely, marcores, intumescentiæ, and impetegines.

CACHINNA'TION, n. s. Lat. cachinnatio; a loud laughter.

CACHINNATIO, in medicine, an hysterical or maniacal tendency to immoderate laughter.

CACHLEX, in natural history, a name used by some authors for the small pebbles found on the sea and river shores, which being heated red hot, and quenched in whey, are said to have an astringent virtue.

CACHOLONG; a variety of quartz. It is opaque, dull on the surface, internally, of a pearly lustre, brittle, with a flat conchoidal fracture, and harder than opal. Its color is milkwhite, greyish, white, or yellowish. It is not fusible before the blow-pipe. Specific gravity 2.2. It is found in detached masses on the river Cach in Bukharia, in the trap rocks of Iceland, in Greenland, and the Feroe islands. Brogniart states that this mineral is also found in the vicinity of Paris, in the cavities of a calcareous breccia, sometimes hard, with a shining fracture, at other times resembling chalk.

CACHRYS, in botany, a genus of the dyginia order, and pentandria class of plants; natural order forty-fifth, umbellate. The fruit is subovate, angled, and cork or spongy ringed. Species seven; chiefly natives of Sicily, and the Barbary coast. The principal species are, 1. C. Hungaria, with a plain fungous channelled seed; 2. C. libanotis, with smooth furrowed seeds; 3. C. linearis, with plain channelled fruit: 4. C. Cretica, with double winged leaves; 5. C. odontalgica; with leaves doubly pinnate, and lancelinear, pubescent leaflets; seeds quite smooth. Young and florid blood, rather than vapid and The root is aromatic, and employed for the toothache, instead of that of the pyretherum, whence its specific name. The last two are natives of Siberia.

CACHECTICAL, adj. Į From cachery; CACHEC'TICK. having an ill habit of body; showing an ill habit.

cachectical.

Arbuthnot on Air. The crude chyle swims in the blood, and appears as milk in the blood, of some persons who are cachectic. Floyer.

CACHEF, or CACHEEF, in the Turkish affairs, the governor of a city, town, or province of Egypt. The title is also given to the commanders of little flying armies, intended to keep the Arabs in obedience.

CACHEFTECK, the government of a cachef. Egypt is divided by the Turks into thirty-nine of these governments.

CACHET, LETTRES DE, private letters or mandates, issued by the French monarchs under the royal signet, before the revolution, for the apprehension of individuals, who were obnoxious to the court, and who, in such cases, were generally lodged in the bastile without trial, and very often never more heard of. The late celebrated Mirabeau, who was himself many years a sufferer under this tyranny, wrote a learned and

CACHRYS, OF CANCHRYS, in ancient botany, denoted a scaly tuft, growing like a katkin on the oak, beech, pine, &c. or, according to others, an unseasonable kind of bud, appearing either in spring, or autumn, and which, after the winter is over, spreads or shoots into branches. The word is sometimes also used for the seed of rose mary, or even the plant itself; sometimes for barley roasted in a furnace, to render it more easy to grind.

CACHRYS, in entomology, a species of papilio hesperia, with entire wings of a yellowish color, with a brown border spotted with white. Found at Cayenne.

CACHUNDE, a medicine, highly celebrated among the Chinese and Indians, made of several aromatic ingredients, perfumes, medicinal earth, and precious stones. They make the whole into

a stiff paste, and form out of it several figures, according to their fancy, which are dried for use; these are principally used in the East Indies, but are sometimes brought over to Portugal. In China the principal persons usually carry a small piece in their mouths, which is a continued cordial, and gives their breath a very sweet smell. It is a highly valuable medicine, also, in all ner vous complaints; and is esteemed a prolonger of life, and a provocative to venery, the two great intentions of most of the medicines in use in the East.

CACHYMIA, in metallurgy, a term used by Paracelsus for an imperfect metalline ore.

CACIQUES, a denomination anciently given by the original Americans to governors of provinces and generals of armies. It was also applied to the sovereigns of the five great native kingdoms of the island of Hispaniola, and also to the sovereigns in the other islands. Their power over the subject, which was hereditary, was absolute, and they were regarded with almost idolatrous veneration; there were also subordinate chieftains, or princes, who were tributaries to the sovereign of each district. CACK'EREL, n. s. those who eat it laxative. CACK’LE, v. & n. CACKLER, CACK'LING, n. laying her egg; to cry like a cock or hen, or a goose; a cackler is one who noisily tells his own and others affairs; a tell-tale; a tatler.

A fish, said to make

Swed. kackla; Teut. kicheln; Bel. kaeckelen.

The noise of a hen after

And for these water-foulis tho began
The gose to speke; and in her cakelynge,
She said: Pece now, take kepe every man,
And herken whiche reson I shal forth bring;
My witte is sharpe, I love no tarying;

I I rede him, though he were my brother,
say,
But she wil love him, let him love another.
Chaucer's Assemble of Foules,

The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren. Shakspeare.
The silver goose before the shining gate
There flew, and by her cackle saved the state.

Dryden.

The trembling widow, and her daughters twain, This woeful cackling cry with horrour heard Of those distracted damsels in the yard.

Id.

Nic grinned, cackled, and laughed, till he was like to kill himself, and fell a frisking and dancing about

the room.

Arbuthnot.

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CACOCHYMY, n. 5. Karoxypia; a depravation of the humors from a sound state, to what the physicians call by a general name of a cacochymy. Spots and discolorations of the skin, are signs of weak fibres; for the lateral vessels, which lie out of the road of circulation, let gross humors pass, which could not, if the vessels had their due degree of stricture.

Strong beer, a liquor that attributes the half of its ill qualities to the hops, consisting of an acrimonious fiery nature, sets the blood, upon the least cacochymy, into an orgasmus. Harvey CACODE'MON,{ Gr. κακός, evil; and CACODEMONIAL, daiμwv, a demon. An evil mischievous demon or spirit.

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Nor was the dog a cacodæmon,

But a true dog, that would show tricks
For the emperor, and leap o'er sticks.

Butler's Hudibras, part ii canto 3. CACODES, in ancient medical writers, a name given to matter discharged from the human body, with an ill smell.

bounded on the south by the Zaire, which sepaCACONGO, a small state of western Africa, rates it from Congo, and on the north by Loangn. The country is mountainous, but fertile, and the climate less humid and hurtful to Europeans than that of Loango. The government is a limited monarchy; and on the death of the sovethe throne. Justice is administered by him in reign, the most powerful or popular chief ascends person, beginning usually at six in the morning, and continuing till eleven in the forenoon. He is said to solace himself at every judgment be delivers, with a draught of palm wine, without which the sentence would not be legal. All the principal inhabitants show a fondness for European goods and customs, and many of them have their apartments furnished in the European style, with beds, chairs, plate, &c. The mamboue of Malemba, when visited by Degrandpré, had a cook whom he had sent to be trained in France. The chief port is Malemba, which is situate fifty miles south of Loango.

CACOORS, in botany, a species of mimosa. Its seeds have been thrown by the sea on the Hebrides and Orkneys..

CACOPHONIA; from xaxoç, evil, and øwrn, voice, a bad sound of words; in grammar and rhetoric, the meeting of two letters, or syllables, which yield an uncouth and disagreeable sound. These things shall lie by, till you come to carp at them, and alter rhimes, grammar, triplets, and oncephonies of all kinds. Pope to Swift.

CACTI, in entomology, a species of coccinella with black wing-sheaths, and two red spots. Found on the cactus grandiflora of America. Also the name of a species of coccus.

CACTUS, in botany, a genus of the monogó gynia order, and icosandria class of plants; natural order thirteenth, succulenta: CAL is monophyllous, superior, imbricated; con. polypetalous; the fruit an uninocular, polyspermons berry. This genus has been well subdivided into 1. those of a roundish form, generally called melon-thistles; 2. creeping with lateral roots, commonly named cereuses; 3. erect, supporting themselves, and called torch-thistles;

4.. compressed, with proliferous joints. Prickly pears, or Indian figs. The melon-thistles are plants of a singular structure, but especially the larger kinds of them; which appear like a large, fleshy, green melon, with deep ribs, set all over with strong sharp thorns; and, when the plants are cut through the middle, their inside is a soft pale-green fleshy substance, very full of moisture; the taste of which is agreeably acid. There are twenty-eight species, all natives of the West Indies. The three following are the most remarkable: viz. 1. C. tuna, proliferous jointed; the joints ovate-oblong; spines subulate, in clusters flower large and yellow: a prickly pear; 2. C. grandiflora, one of the creeping cereuses. The flower of this species, though very shortlived, is said to be as grand and beautiful as any in the vegetable system: it begins to open in the evening about seven o'clock, and fades about four in the morning; so that the same flower only continues in perfection about six hours. The calyx when expanded is about a foot in diameter, of a splendid yellow within, and a dark brown without; the petals are many, and of a pure white; and the great number of recurved stamina, surrounding the style in the centre of the flower, make a grand appearance, to which may be added the beautiful scent which perfumes the air to a considerable distance. It flowers in July. 3. C. opuntia; the prickly leaves of this plant abound with a mucilaginous matter, which is esteemed in its native countries an emollient, in the form of poultice.

CACULE, in the materia medica, a name given by Avicenna, Serapion, and all the other Arabian writers, to the cardamom seeds. They distinguish two kinds of this fruit, a larger, and a smaller. The larger is the grain of paradise, and the smaller the common cardamom.

CACU'MINATE, v. a. Lat. cacumino; to make sharp or pyramidal.

› CACUS, in fabulous history, the son of Vulcan, an Italian shepherd upon mount Aventine. As Hercules was driving home the herd of king Geryon, whom he had slain, Cacus robbed him of some of his oxen, which he drew backward into his den lest they should be discovered, by their traces. Hercules at last finding them out by their lowing, killed Cacus with his club. The death of this monster is the subject of a fine episode in Virgil's Æneid. He was said to have been of prodigious bulk, half man, half satyr, and to have had three heads.

CACUS, in entomology, an Indian species of sphinx, having indented black wings, marked with three light streaks; posterior pair striated. CAD'

A water insect, called the case

worm.

CAD'DIS, CA'DEW. He loves the mayfly, which is bred of the codworm, or caudis, and these make the trout bold and lusty. Walton's Angler, CADARI, or KADARI, from 7p, cadara, Arab. power; a sect of Mahommedans, who assert free-will, and deny all absolute predestination. The author of this sect was Mabed ben Kaled Al Gihoni, who suffered martyrdom for it... CADAVER, Lat. cadaver, from cado; CADAY'EROUS, adj. S to fall, or fallen; a dead

body; having the qualities and appearance of a corpse.

In vain do they scruple to approach the dead, who livingly are cadaverous, for fear of any outward pollu tion, whose temper pollutes themselves. Browne's Vulgar Errours,

The urine, long detained in the bladder, as well as

glass, will grow red, foetid, cadaverous, and alkaline, The case is the same with the stagnant waters of hydropical persons. Arbuthnot on Aliments.

Since, whilst a man is truly and properly said to live, many affections belong to his corporeal part, or are performed in it, or by it, that make this automa ton called his body, much, and very advantageously differing from a mere cadaver.

Boyle's Christian Virtuoso, vol. vi. p. 748. But scare away the vultures for an hour; The scent cadaverous (for, oh! how rank The stench of profligates!) soon lures them back.

Young. On Public Affairs.

CAD'DIS, n. This word is used in Erse for the variegated cloths of the Highlanders. It is also a kind of ferret or worsted lace of which garters were formerly made, Caddis garter is one of the epithets bestowed by prince Henry on the landlord.-1 Henry IV. ii, 4.

He hath ribbons of all the colours of the rainbow; inkles, caddises, cambricks, lawns; why he sings them over as if they were gods and goddesses. Shakspeare. CADE' v. & n. I Old. Fr. cader, cadeler; CADE', adj. Ital. caudeare, codeure, from Lat. cauda, to go after; and like Lat. sequor, to cherish; Fr. cadeler, to make ornamental tails to capital letters, signified afterwards to ornament; and thus cadeau was a tail, a flourish, a treat, and a suite. Cade, the substantive, kados; Lat. cadus; Ital. cado, a small cask or barrel; the adjective is from Fr. cadeler, which signifies tame, soft, delicate, as a cade lamb, a lamb bred at home. Thus the verb and adjective agree; for to cade is to follow, attend, cherish; to breed up tenderly.

We, John Cade, so termed of our supposed father. Or rather of stealing a cade of herrings. Shakspeare, Soon as thy liquor from the narrow cells Of close pressed husks is freed, thou must refrain Thy thirsty soul; let none persuade to broach Thy thick, unwholesome, undigested cades.

Philips.

CADE (Jack), a native of Ireland (from which place he had been obliged to fly for his crimes), who, heading the Kentish men, who were then in commotion, drove the court from London, and took possession of the capital. Having seized and beheaded Lord Say and Sele, late high treasurer of England, and his son-in-law Sir James Cromer, sheriff of Kent, they proceeded to pillage the city; but they were soon driven out of it, and, failing in their attempts to repossess it, they agreed to a short truce. An amnesty being proclaimed to all who should return home, his followers fell off in great numbers. Cade first fled to Queenborough, but being refused admittance put on a disguise, and left his followers. A proclamation was immediately published, offering a reward of 1000 marks to any who brought him in, dead or alive. He was discovered lurking in a garden at Hothfield, in Sussex, by Alexander Eden, a gentleman of Kent, and, making some resistance, was killed, and his body was brought to London.43 e rua

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