Caducary
(Ca*du"ca*ry) a. [See Caducous.] (Law) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.
Caducean
(Ca*du"ce*an) a. Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand.
Caduceus
(Ca*du"ce*us) n. [L. caduceum, caduceus; akin to Gr. a herald's wand, fr. herald.] (Myth.)
The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be
a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two
wings at the top.
Caducibranchiate
(Ca*du`ci*bran"chi*ate) a. [L. caducus falling (fr. cadere to fall) + E. branchiate.]
(Zoöl.) With temporary gills: — applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.
Caducity
(Ca*du"ci*ty) n. [LL. caducitas: cf. F. caducité. See Caducous.] Tendency to fall; the feebleness
of old age; senility. [R.]
[A] jumble of youth and caducity.
Chesterfield.
Caducous
(Ca*du"cous) [L. caducus falling, inclined to fall, fr. cadere to fall. See Cadence.] (Bot. &
Zoöl.) Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.
Caduke
(Ca*duke") a. [Cf. F. caduc. See Caducous.] Perishable; frail; transitory. [Obs.] Hickes.
The caduke pleasures of his world.
Bp. Fisher.
Cady
(Cad"y) n. See Cadie.
Cæca
(||Cæ"ca) n. pl. See Cæcum.
Cæcal
(Cæ"cal) a. (Anat.)
1. Of or pertaining to the cæcum, or blind gut.
2. Having the form of a cæcum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the cæcal extremity of a duct.
Cæcias
(||Cæ"ci*as) n. [L. caecias, Gr. .] A wind from the northeast. Milton.
Cæcilian
(Cæ*cil"i*an) n. [L. caecus blind. So named from the supposed blindness of the species, the
eyes being very minute.] (Zoöl.) A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Cæciliæ or Ophimorpha.
See Ophiomorpha. [Written also cœcilian.]
Cæcum
(||Cæ"cum) n.; pl. Cæcums, L. Cæca [L. caecus blind, invisible, concealed.] (Anat.) (a) A cavity
open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct. (b) The blind part of the large intestine beyond
the entrance of the small intestine; — called also the blind gut.
The cæcum is comparatively small in man, and ends in a slender portion, the vermiform appendix; but
in herbivorous mammals it is often as large as the rest of the large intestine. In fishes there are often
numerous intestinal cæca.
Cænozoic
(Cæ`no*zo"ic) a. (Geol.) See Cenozoic.
Caen stone
(Ca"en stone") A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France.
Cæsar
(Cæ"sar) n. [L.] A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Cæsar. Hence, a kaiser, or
emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar.
Malborough anticipated the day when he would be servilely flattered and courted by Cæsar on one side
and by Louis the Great on the other.
Macaulay.
