Cade

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Left by its mother and reared by hand: a cade calf.
  • n. A bushy juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean region that is used in horticulture and whose wood yields juniper tar. Also called prickly juniper.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
  • n. a prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.
  • n. A cask or barrel, used in the British Book of Rates for a determinate number of some sort of fish. For example, a cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Bred by hand; domesticated; petted.
  • v. To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.
  • n. A barrel or cask, as of fish.
  • n. A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A domesticated animal; a pet. See cade-lamb.
  • n. A sheep-tick.
  • To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness.
  • n. A barrel or cask.
  • n. A measure containing 500 herrings or 1,000 sprats.
  • n. Juniper.
  • To put into a cade or keg; pack in a cade: as, to cade herring.
  • Word Usage
    "She is so absorbed in William and his words that she has no sense of how comical these constitutionals appear to those who pass them by: William with what De Quincey described as his "cade" - like stride - "a cade being some sort of insect which advances by an oblique motion" - that would edge his companions off the road, Dorothy with what De Quincey called her"
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    domesticated    petted    coddle    tame   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blade    Crusade    Dade    Jade    Kincaid    Slade    Wade    ade    afraid    aid   
    Same Context
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