The deep-felt conviction of men that slavery breaks down the moral character . . . speaks out with . .
. distinctness in the change of meaning which caitiff has undergone signifying as it now does, one of a
base, abject disposition, while there was a time when it had nothing of this in it. Trench.
Cajeput
(Caj"e*put) n. See Cajuput.
Cajole
(Ca*jole") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cajoled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cajoling.] [F. cajoler, orig., to chatter
like a bird in a cage, to sing; hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter, from the source of OF. goale, jaiole,
F. geôle, dim. of cage a cage. See Cage, Jail.] To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.
I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views.
F. W. Robertson.
Syn. — To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap.
Cajolement
(Ca*jole"ment) n. The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery. Coleridge.
Cajoler
(Ca*jol"er) n. A flatterer; a wheedler.
Cajolery
(Ca*jol"er*y) n.; pl. Cajoleries A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous
cajoleries." Evelyn.
Cajuput
(Caj"u*put) n. [Of Malayan origin; kayu tree + putih white.] (Med.) A highly stimulating volatile
inflammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in
color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.
Cajuputene
(Caj"u*put*ene`) n. (Chem.) A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.
Cake
(Cake) n. [OE. cake, kaak; akin to Dan. kage, Sw. & Icel. kaka, D. koek, G. kuchen, OHG.
chuocho.]
1. A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
2. A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or
mass of any size or shape.
3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
4. A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form
rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
Dryden.
Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. — Oil cake the
refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted
into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes. — To have one's
cake dough, to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected. Shak.
Cake
(Cake), v. i. To form into a cake, or mass.
Cake
(Cake), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Caking.] To concrete or consolidate into a
hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
Clotted blood that caked within.
Addison.
Cake
(Cake), v. i. To cackle as a goose. [Prov. Eng.]
Caking coal
(Cak"ing coal`) See Coal.
