Cade

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  • noun. A bushy juniper (Juniperus oxycedrus) chiefly of the Mediterranean region that is used in horticulture and whose wood yields juniper tar.
  • adjective. Left by its mother and reared by hand.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A domesticated animal; a pet. See cade-lamb.
  • noun. A sheep-tick.
  • To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness.
  • noun. Juniper.
  • To put into a cade or keg; pack in a cade: as, to cade herring.
  • noun. A barrel or cask.
  • noun. A measure containing 500 herrings or 1,000 sprats.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A barrel or cask, as of fish.
  • noun. A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries.
  • noun. 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.
  • adjective. Bred by hand; domesticated; petted.
  • transitive verb. To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
  • noun. a prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.
  • noun. 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.
  • 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"
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    Blade  Crusade  Dade  Jade  Kincaid  
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