n. [ L. academia. See Academy. ] An academy. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Academic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of an academy, university, or college. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. academicus: cf. F. académigue. See Academy. ] 1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. “Academic courses.” Warburton. “Academical study.” Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an academical manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. académicien. See Academy. ] 1. A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collegian. [ R. ] Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the position or state of being a member of an honorary academy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A tenet of the Academic philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [ Obs. ] Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. academiste. ] 1. An Academic philosopher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An academician. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Academies [ F. académie, L. academia. Cf. Academe. ] 1. A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A place of training; a school. “Academies of fanaticism.” Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music. [ 1913 Webster ]

Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Alcaid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. embuscade, fr. It. imboscata, or Sp. emboscada, fr. emboscar to ambush, fr. LL. imboscare. See Ambush, v. t. ] 1. A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly. [ R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) The body of troops lying in ambush. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ambuscaded p. pr. & vb. n. Ambuscading ] 1. To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lie in ambush. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. arcade, Sp. arcada, LL. arcata, fr. L. arcus bow, arch. ] 1. (Arch.) (a) A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature. (b) A long, arched building or gallery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An arched or covered passageway or avenue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with an arcade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. barricade, fr. Sp. barricada, orig. a barring up with casks; fr. barrica cask, perh. fr. LL. barra bar. See Bar, n., and cf. Barrel, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Mil.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Barricaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Barricading. ] [ Cf. F. barricader. See Barricade, n. ] To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris. [ 1913 Webster ]

The further end whereof [ a bridge ] was barricaded with barrels. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who constructs barricades. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. brocado (cf. It. broccato, F. brocart), fr. LL. brocare *prick, to figure (textile fabrics), to emboss (linen), to stitch. See Broach. ] Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gala suit of faded brocade. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brocaded flowers o'er the gay mantua shine. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Dressed in brocade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cadus jar, Gr. &unr_;. ] A barrel or cask, as of fish. “A cade of herrings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A cade of herrings is 500, of sprats 1, 000. Jacob, Law Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OE. cad, kod, lamb, also Cosset, Coddle. ] Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. [ 1913 Webster ]

He brought his cade lamb with him. Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. & Pr.; LL. cada. ] A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oil of cade, a thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by destructive distillation of the inner wood of the cade. It is used as a local application in skin diseases. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. cadence, cadens, LL. cadentia a falling, fr. L. cadere to fall; cf. F. cadence, It. cadenza. See Chance. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or state of declining or sinking. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blustering winds, which all night long
Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull
Seafaring men o'erwatched. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Golden cadence of poesy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

If in any composition much attention was paid to the flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the 14th and 15th centuries) to be “prosed in faire cadence.” Dr. Guest. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Her.) See Cadency. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Man.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mil.) A uniform time and place in marching. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mus.) (a) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord. (b) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Imperfect cadence. (Mus.) See under Imperfect. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To regulate by musical measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

These parting numbers, cadenced by my grief. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marks of cadency (Her.), bearings indicating the position of the bearer as older or younger son, or as a descendant of an older or younger son. See Difference (Her.). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cadène. ] A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant. McElrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cadens, -entis, p. pr. of cadere to fall. ] Falling. [ R. ] “Cadent tears.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. ] (Mus.) A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cadre. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cadet a younger or the youngest son or brother, dim. fr. L. caput head; i. e., a smaller head of the family, after the first or eldest. See Chief, and cf. Cad. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cadet of an ancient and noble family. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) (a) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission. (b) A young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or Woolwich. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ All the undergraduates at Annapolis are Naval cadets. The distinction between Cadet midshipmen and Cadet engineers was abolished by Act of Congress in 1882. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In New Zealand, a young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship.

{ } n. A caddice. See Caddice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cascade, fr. It. cascata, fr. cascare to fall. ] A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. [ 1913 Webster ]

The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade. Longjellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To fall in a cascade. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To vomit. [ Slang ] Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Physics) A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily liquefiable, and so on. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Elec.) A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary circuit of one is connected to the secondary circuit of the other, the primary circuit of the latter being connected to the source of supply; also, a system of electric traction in which motors so connected are employed. The cascade system is also called
tandem system, or
concatenated system; the connection a
cascade connection,
tandem connection, or
concatenated connection, or
a concatenation; and the control of the motors so obtained a
tandem control, or
concatenation control. In the cascade system of traction the cascade connection is used for starting and for low speeds up to half speed. For full speed the short-circuited motor is cut loose from the other motor and is either left idle or (commonly) connected direct to the line. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. cavalcade, fr. It. cavalcata, fr. cavalcare to go on horseback, fr. LL. caballicare, fr. L. caballus an inferior horse, Gr. &unr_;. Cf. Cavalier, Cavalry. ] A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade. [ 1913 Webster ]

He brought back war-worn cavalcade to the city. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family comprising the leafhoppers.
Syn. -- family Cicadellidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. décade, L. decas, -adis, fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. de`ka ten. See Ten. ] A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. [ Written also decad. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

During this notable decade of years. Gladstone.

{ } n. [ LL. decadentia; L. de- + cadere to fall: cf. F. décadence. See Decay. ] A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. “The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Decaying; deteriorating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that is decadent, or deteriorating; esp., one characterized by, or exhibiting, the qualities of those who are degenerating to a lower type; -- specif. applied to a certain school of modern French writers.

The decadents and æsthetes, and certain types of realists. C. L. Dana.

The business men of a great State allow their State to be represented in Congress by “decadents”. The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

pos>n. (Mus.) An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F.; cf. It. steccata, Sp. estacada. Cf. Stake. ] (Mil.) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.