Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAV'IN, n. [Fr. from L. cavus, hollow.]

In the military art, a hollow way or natural hollow, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place. Johnson. Bailey.

CAV'I-TY, n. [L. cavitas; Fr. cavité; from L. cavus, hollow.]

A hollow place; hollowness; an opening; as, the cavity of the mouth or throat. [This is a word of very general signification.]

CAV'O-LIN-ITE, n. [from Cavolini, a Neapolitan naturalist.]

A newly discovered Vesuvian mineral, of a hexahedral form, occurring in the interior of calcarious balls, accompanied with garnets, idocrase, mica, and granular pyroxene, lining the cavity of the geode, &c. Journal of Science.

CA'VY, n.

A genus of quadrupeds, holding a middle place between the murine and leporine tribes. Encyc.

CAW, v.i. [probably from the sound; Sax. ceo, a crow or a jay.]

To cry like a crow, rook or raven.

CAX'OU, n. [Sp. caxa, caxon.]

A chest of ores of any metal that has been burnt, ground and washed, and is ready to be refined. Chalmers.

CAY'ENNE, n.

A very pungent pepper, the produce of some species of Capsicum.

CAY'MAN, n.

An animal of the genus Lacerta, found in the West Indies, the alligator.

CA-ZIC', or CA-ZIQUE', n. [cazeek'.]

The title of a king or chief among several tribes of Indians in America.

CEASE, n.

Extinction. [Not in use.] Shak.

CEASE, v.i. [Fr. cesser; Sp. cesar; Port. cessar; It. cessare; L. cesso.]

1. To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave off; to give over; followed by from before a noun. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife. Prov. xx.
2. To fail; to be wanting. The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deut. xv.
3. To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.
4. To be forgotten. I would make the remembrance of them to cease. Deut. xxxii.
5. To abstain; as, cease from anger. Ps. xxxvii. To cease from labor, is to rest; to cease from strife, is to be quiet; but in such phrases the sense of cease is not varied.

CEASE, v.t.

To put a stop to; to put an end to. Cease this impious rage. Milton. [But in this use the phrase is generally elliptical.]

CEAS'ED, pp.

Stopped, ended.

CEASE'LESS, a.

1. Without a stop or pause; incessant; continual; without intermission. All these with ceaseless, praise his works behold. Milton.
2. Endless; enduring forever; as, the ceaseless joys of heaven.

CEASE'LESS-LY, adv.

Incessantly; perpetually. Donne.

CEAS'ING, ppr.

Stoppng; ending; desisting; failing.

CEC'CHIN, n.

A coin of Italy and Barbary. [See Zechin.]

CE'CITY, n. [L. cæcitas, from cæcus, blind.]

Blindness. Brown.

CE'DAR, n. [L. cedrus; Fr. cedre; Sp. and It. cedro; from Gr. κεδρος; Syr. ܒܕܪ; Heb. קדר kadar, to be dark.]

A tree. This name is given to different species of the juniper, and to a species of Pinus. The latter is that which is mentioned in Scripture. It is an evergreen, grows to a great size, and is remarkable for its durability.

CE'DAR-ED, a.

Covered, or furnished with cedars. Milton.

CE'DAR-LIKE, a.

Resembling a cedar. B. Jonson.

CE'DARN, a.

Pertaining to the cedar. Milton.

CEDE, v.t. [Fr. ceder; Sp. and Port. ceder; It. cedere; L. cedo; W. gadu, gadaw; Eng. to quit. See Quit and Conge. This coincides also with the Gr. χαζω, εχαδον.]

1. To yield; to surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province or country, by treaty. This word is appropriately used to denote the relinquishment of a conquered city, fortress or territory to the former sovereign or proprietor.
2. To relinquish and grant; as, to cede all claims to a disputed right or territory. The people must cede to the government some of their natural rights. Jay.

CED'ED, pp.

Yielded; surrendered; given up.

CE-DIL'LA, n.

A mark used on the French c [thus ç] to show that it is to be sounded like s.