Word of the Day: Catachrestical
A barrel or cask. A cade of herrings is the quantity of five hundred; of sprats, a thousand.
1. A barrel or cask, as of fish.
2. A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries.
In the materia medica, an oil used in Germany and France, made of the fruit of the oxycedrus, called in those countries, cada.
CADENCE ,
or adjective Having a particular cadence; as well cadenced music.
1. The act or state of declining or sinking.
2. A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.
3. A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet.
4. Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.
5. See Cadency.
6. Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.
7. A uniform time and place in marching.
8. The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.
9. A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
To regulate by musical measure.
1. A fall, a decline; a state of sinking.
2. A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, as at the end of a sentence; also, the falling of the voice in the general modulation of tones in reciting. In reading or speaking, a certain tone is taken, which is called the key, or key-note, on which mot of the words are pronounced, and the fall of the voice below this tone is called cadence.
3. The ordinary cadence is a fall of the last syllable of a sentence only.
4. The general tone of reading verse. The cadence of one line must be a rule to that of the next; as the sound of the former must slide gently into that which follows.
7. Also, the manner of closing a song; embellishment at the close.
8. In horsemanship, an equal measure or proportion observed by a horse in all his motions.
9. In heraldry, the distinction of families.
To regulate by musical measure.
Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages.
Falling down; sinking.
Falling.
The fall or modulation of the voice in singing.
A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.
1. The younger or youngest son.
2. A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a private mane, with a view to acquire military skill, and obtain a commission. His service is voluntary, but he receives pay, and thus is distinguished from a volunteer.
3. A young man, in a military school.
1. The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son.
2. A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission.
The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship.
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And brought them to mount Sina, and Cades-Barne, and cast forth all that dwelt in the wilderness.
Now when his own men that were fled saw this, they turned again unto him, and with him pursued them to Cades, even unto their own tents, and there they camped.