1. A provider. [ See Caterer .]
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3. By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.
4. The four of cards or dice.
To cut diagonally.
A quaere-cousin, a remote relation.
A remote relation. See Quater-cousin.
One who caters.
A woman who caters; a female provider of food.
A woman who caters.
The colored and often hairy larva of the lepidopterous insects. This term is also applied to the larvas of other insects, such as the Tenthredo, or saw-fly; but is more generally confined to the lepidopters. Caterpillars are produced immediately from the egg; they are furnished with several pairs of feet, and have the shape and appearance of a worm. They contain the embryo of the perfect insect, inclosed within a muscular envelop, which is thrown off, when the insect enters the nymph or chrysalis state, in which it remains for sometime as if inanimate. It then throws off its last envelop, and emerges a perfect insect. Caterpillars generally feed on leaves or succulent vegetables, and are sometimes very destructive.
1. The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.
2. A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars.
Caterpillar
Encyclopedia Britannica
CATERPILLAR. See Butterflies, vol. iv. p. 593.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 5, p. 226
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Caterpillar
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
חסיל. The word occurs Deut. xxviii, 38; Psa. lxviii, 46; Isa. xxxiii, 4; 1 Kings viii, 37; 2 Chron. vi, 28; Joel i, 4; ii, 25. In the four last cited texts, it is distinguished from the locust, properly so called; and in Joel i, 4, is mentioned as “eating up” what the other species had left, and therefore might be called _the consumer_, by way of eminence. But the ancient interpreters are far from being agreed what particular species it signifies. The Septuagint in Chronicles, and Aquila in Psalms, render it βροῦχος: so the Vulgate in Chronicles and Isaiah, and Jerom in Psalms, _bruchus_, the chafer, which is a great devourer of leaves. From the Syriac version, however, Michaëlis is disposed to understand it the _taupe grillon_, “mole cricket,” which, in its grub state, is very destructive to corn and other vegetables, by feeding on their roots. See LOCUST.
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
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A worm bred in the body of a caterpillar, which eats it.
To cry or wall, as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh offensive noise.
A caterwauling.
To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise.
of Caterwaul
The cry of cats; a harsh disagreeable noise or cry.
The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.
of Caterwaul
The place where provisions are deposited.
Provision Roget’s Thesaurus §637
N. provision, supply, grist, grist for the mill, # subvention, resources, groceries, grocery, providing, purveyance, reinforcement, reenforcement, commissariat, provender, ensilage, viaticum, caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple, feeder, batman, victualer, grocer, comprador, restaurateur, jackal, pelican, sutler, grocery shop, grocery store
V. provide, make provision, make due provision for, lay in, lay in a stock, lay in a store, supply, suppeditate|, furnish, find, find one in, arm, cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage, beat up for, stock, stock with, make good, replenish, fill, fill up, recruit, feed, have in store, have in reserve, keep, keep by one, keep on foot, keep on hand, have to fall back upon, store, provide against a rainy day
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9 KJV and 0 BSB verses contain “Cater”
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.