Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAU'TER-IZ-ING, ppr.

Burning, as with a hot iron.

CAU'TER-Y, n. [Gr. καυτεριον; L. cauterium. See Cauterize.]

A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, by a hot iron or by caustic medicines that burn, corrode or destroy any solid part of an animal body. The burning by a hot iron is called actual cautery; that by caustic medicines, potential cautery.

CAU'TION, n. [L. cautio; Fr. caution; Sp. caucion; from L. caveo, to take care. See Class Gb, No. 3, 52, 53, 83. The sense of caveo is probably to retire, or to stop, check or hold.]

1. Provident care; prudence in regard to danger; wariness, consisting in a careful attention to the probable effects of a measure, and a judicious course of conduct to avoid evils and the arts of designing men. Caution is the armor to defend us against imposition and the attacks of evil.
2. Security for, nearly the sense of the French caution, bail. The parliament would give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted. Clarendon.
3. Provision or security against; measures taken for security; as, the rules and cautions of government.
4. Precept; advice; injunction; warning; exhortation, intended as security or guard against evil.

CAU'TION, v.t.

To give notice of danger; to warn; to exhort to take heed. You cautioned me against their charms. Swift.

CAU'TION-A-RY, a.

1. Containing caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary advice.
2. Given as a pledge or in security; as, a cautionary town.

CAU'TION-ED, pp.

Warned; previously admonished.

CAU'TION-ER, n.

In Scots law, the person who is bound for another, to the performance of an obligation.

CAU'TION-ING, ppr.

Warning; giving previous notice of danger.

CAU'TION-RY, n.

In Scots law, the act of giving security for another, or the obligation by which one person becomes engaged as security for another, that he shall pay a sum of money or perform a deed. Encyc.

CAU'TIOUS, a.

Wary; watchful; careful to avoid evils; attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of measures, with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect.

CAU'TIOUS-LY, adv.

With caution; in a wary, scrupulous manner.

CAU'TIOUS-NESS, n.

The quality of being cautions; watchfulness; provident care; circumspection; prudence with regard to danger. Addison.

CAV'AL-CADE, n. [Fr. cavalcade; Sp. cabalgada; It. cavalcata. See Cavalry.]

A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen and equipage, by way of parade, or to grace a triumph, the public entry of a person of distinction, &c.

CAV-A-LIER', a.

1. Gay; sprightly; warlike; brave; generous.
2. Haughty; disdainful.

CAV-A-LIER', n. [Fr. See Cavalry.]

1. A horseman, especially an armed horseman; a knight.
2. A gay, sprightly, military man.
3. The appellation of the party of king Charles I. Swift.
4. In fortification, an elevation of earth, situated ordinarily in the gorge of a bastion, bordered with a parapet, with embrasures. Encyc.
5. In the manege, one who understands horsemanship; one skilled in the art of riding.

CAV-A-LIER'ISM, n.

The practice or principles of cavaliers. Scott.

CAV-A-LIER'LY, adv.

Haughtily; arrogantly; disdainfully. Warburton.

CAV-A-LIER'NESS, n.

Haughtiness; a disdainful manner.

CAV'AL-RY, n. [Fr. cavalerie, from cavalier, a horseman, and this from cheval, a horse, whence cavalcade; It. cavallo, a horse, cavaliere, cavalcata; Sp. caballo, caballero, cabalgada, from L. caballus, a horse; Ir. capall and peall; Russ. kobila, a mare; Gr. καβαλλης, a pack-horse.]

A body of military troops on horses; a general term, including light-horse, dragoons, and other bodies of men, serving on horseback. Encyc.

CA'VATE, v.t. [L. cavo, to make hollow.]

To dig out and make hollow; but superseded by excavate.

CA-VA'TED, pp.

Made hollow.

CAV-A-TI'NA, n. [It.]

In music, a short air, without a return or second part, which is sometimes relieved by recitative. Busby.

CA-VA'TING, ppr.

Making hollow.

CA-VA'ZION, n. [L. cavo, to hollow.]

In architecture, the underdigging or hollowing of the earth for the foundation of a building, or for cellarage, allowed to be the sixth part of the highth of the building. Johnson. Bailey.

CAVE, n. [Fr. cave; L. cavea; Sp. cueva; It. cava; Arm. caff, or cau; W. ogov; Hindoo, gopa; Ar. قَابَ kauba, to dig out or excavate, or جَافَ gaufa, to be hollow. Class Gb, No. 8, 71.]

A hollow place in the earth; a subterraneous cavern; a den. This may be natural or artificial. The primitive inhabitants of the earth, in many countries, lived in caves; and the present inhabitants of some parts of the earth, especially in the high northern latitudes, occupy caves, particularly in winter. Lot dwelt in a cave, he and his daughters. Gen. xix. Caves were also used for the burial of the dead. Abraham buried Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah. Gen. xxiii. Bacon applies the word to the ear, “the cave of the ear;” but this application is unusual.