Chapter Cathulla to Caxtonia of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

John Bright called the seceders of the reform party Adullamites , and said that Lowe and Horsman, like David in the cave of Adullam, gathered together all the discontented, and all that were politically distressed.

Cave of Makkedah, in which the five kings who fought against Joshua hid themselves, but were slain by Joshua.—Josh. x.

Cave of Mammon, the abode of the god of wealth. The money-god first appears as a miser, then becomes a worker of metals, and ultimately the god of all the treasures of the world. All men bow down to his daughter Ambition.—Spenser: Faërie Queene, ii. 7 (1590).

Cave of Montesinos, about sixty feet in depth, in the heart of La Mancha. So called because Montesinos retired thither when he quitted the French court on account of some insult offered to him. Cervantês visited the cave, and it is now often resorted to by shepherds as a shelter from the cold or rain.

Cavendish, author of Principles of Whist, and numerous guide-books on games, as Bézique, Picquet, Écarté, Billiards, etc. Henry Jones, editor of “Pastimes” in The Field and The Queen newspapers (1831-).

Cavendish Square (London), so called from Henrietta Cavendish, wife of Edward second earl of Oxford and Mortimer (built 1718).

Cawther (Al), the lake of paradise, the waters of which are sweet as honey, cold as snow, and clear as crystal. He who once tastes thereof shall never thirst again.—Al Korân, cviii.

The righteous, having surmounted the difficulties of life, and having passed the sharp bridge [al Sirât], will be refreshed by drinking at the pond of their prophet, the waters of which are supplied from al Cawther… This is the first taste which the blessed will have of their future but near-approaching felicity.—Sale: Al Korân (“The Preliminary Discourse,” iv.).

Caxon (Old Jacob), hairdresser of Jonathan Oldbuck (“the antiquary”) of Monkbarns.

Jenny Caxon, a milliner; daughter of Old Jacob.—Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary (time, George III.).

Caxton (Pisistrutus), the hypothetical author of My Novel (1853); The Caxtons; and the essays called Caxtonia.

Caxton Society (The), (1845–1854), for the publication of the chronicles, etc., of the Middle Ages.

Caxtonia, a series of essays supposed to be written by Pisistratus Caxton, Edward lord Lytton (1863).