1. A packman or itinerant huckster.
2. One who gets his living by trickery or begging. [Prov. or Slang] "The gentleman cadger." Dickens.
Cadger
(Cadg"er), n. [OF. cagier one who catches hawks. Cf. Cage.] (Hawking) One who carries
hawks on a cadge.
Cadgy
(Cadg"y) a. Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton. [Scot. & Prov.
Eng.]
Cadi
(Ca"di) n. [Turk. See Alcalde.] An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually
the judge of a town or village.
Cadie
(Cad"ie, Cad"die) n. A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. [Written also cady.]
Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie.
Macaulay.
Cadilesker
(Ca`di*les"ker) n. [Ar. qad.i judge + al'sker the army, Per. leshker.] A chief judge in the
Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are
now tried only by their own officers.
Cadillac
(Ca*dil"lac) n. [Prob. from Cadillac, a French town.] A large pear, shaped like a flattened
top, used chiefly for cooking. Johnson.
Cadis
(Cad"is) n. [F.] A kind of coarse serge.
Cadmean
(Cad*me"an) a. [L. Cadmeus, Gr. Kadmei^os, from Ka`dmos which name perhaps means
lit. a man from the East; cf. Heb. qedem east.] Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes,
who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet — &alpha, &beta,
c, &delta, &epsilon, &iota, &kappa, &lambda, &mu, &nu, &omicron, &pi, &rho, &sigma, &tau, &upsilon.
These are called Cadmean letters.
Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished; probably referring to
the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus slew each other.
Cadmia
(Cad"mi*a) n. [L. cadmia calamine, Gr. . Cf. Calamine.] (Min.) An oxide of zinc which collects
on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.
Cadmian
(Cad"mi*an) a. [R.] See Cadmean.
Cadmic
(Cad"mic) a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as, cadmic sulphide.
Cadmium
(Cad"mi*um) n. [NL. See Cadmia.] (Chem.) A comparatively rare element related to zinc,
and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic
weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or
zinc ore.
Cadmium yellow, a compound of cadmium and sulphur, of an intense yellow color, used as a pigment.
Cadrans
(Cad"rans) n. [Cf. F. cadran. Cf. Quadrant.] An instrument with a graduated disk by means
of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.
Cadre
(||Ca"dre) n. [F. cadre, It. quadro square, from L. quadrum, fr. quatuor four.] (Mil.) The
framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the
staff. [Written also cader.]
