English English Dictionary

An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.

See Cadmean.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as, cadmic sulphide.

A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore.

An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.

The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.

Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.

Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand.

The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.

With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.

Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility.

Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.

Perishable; frail; transitory.

See Cadie.

See Caecum.

of Caecum

Having the form of a caecum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the caecal extremity of a duct.

Of or pertaining to the caecum, or blind gut.

A wind from the northeast.

A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha.