Cachiri
(||Ca*chi"ri) n. A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and
resembling perry. Dunglison.
Cacholong
(Cach"o*long) n. [F. cacholong, said to be from Cach, the name of a river in Bucharia +
cholon, a Calmuck word for stone; or fr. a Calmuck word meaning "beautiful stone"] (Min.) An opaque
or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.
Cachou
(Ca`chou") n. [F. See Cashoo.] A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.
Cachucha
(||Ca*chu"cha) n. [Sp.] An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero. [Sometimes
in English spelled cachuca ]
The orchestra plays the cachucha.
Longfellow.
Cachunde
(||Ca*chun"de) n. [Sp.] (Med.) A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other
ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.
Cacique
(||Ca*cique") n. [Sp.] See Cazique.
Cack
(Cack) v. i. [OE. cakken, fr. L. cacare; akin to Gr. kakka^n, and to OIr. cacc dung; cf. AS. cac.]
To ease the body by stool; to go to stool. Pope.
Cackerel
(Cack"er*el) n. [OF. caquerel cagarel from the root of E. cack.] (Zoöl.) The mendole; a small
worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. See Mendole.
Cackle
(Cac"kle) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cackled (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Cackling ] [OE. cakelen; cf. LG.
kakeln, D. kakelen, G. gackeln, gackern; all of imitative origin. Cf. Gagle, Cake to cackle.]
1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
When every goose is cackling.
Shak.
2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle. Arbuthnot.
3. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle. Johnson.
Cackle
(Cac"kle) n.
1. The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
By her cackle saved the state.
Dryden.
2. Idle talk; silly prattle.
There is a buzz and cackle all around regarding the sermon.
Thackeray.
Cackler
(Cac"kler) n.
1. A fowl that cackles.
2. One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
Cackling
(Cac"kling), n. The broken noise of a goose or a hen.
Cacochymia
(||Cac`o*chym"i*a Cac"o*chym`y) n. [NL. cacochymia, fr. Gr. kako`s bad + juice: cf. F.
cacochymie.] (Med.) A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood. Dunglison.
