caudated (kadated)

caudation (ka-da's hon), n. [ He really suspected premature caudation had been inflicted on him for his crimes. C. Reade, Never too Late to Mend, lxxvi. to party measures and policy. Candidates for the caudatum (ka-da'tum), n. [NL., neut. (sc. L. IMG:content-3306.png:[blocks in formation] More than fifty years ago, Mr. Samuel Adams's father, twenty others, one or two from the north end the town, where all the ship busine is carried on, used to meet, make a caucus, and lay their plan for introducing certain persons into places of trust and power. Gordon, Hist. of the Revolution (1788), I. 365. A caucus (excuse the slang of politics) was held, as I am informed, by the delegations [of three Western States] for the purpose of recommending some character to the President [for Judge of Supreme Court). John Randolph , quoted in H. Adams, p. 210. Hence-2. Any meeting of managers or of interested persons for the purpose of deciding upon a line of policy, an arrangement of busine , etc., to be brought before a larger meeting as a convention.-3. In Eng . politics , a large local committee of voters for the management of all electioneering busine of its party: called the Birmingham system , from its introduction at Birmingham about 1880. caucus (kak us), v . i.; pret. and pp. caucused or caucu ed , ppr. caucusing or caucu ing . [ cau cus, n.] To meet in caucus; come together and confer. They, too, had conferred or caucused and had decided. Philadelphia Times , No. 2894, p. 2. caud (kâd), a. A dialectal form (like cauld ) of cold. cauda (kada), n.; pl. caudæ (-dē). [L., also written coda (see coda ), a tail.] 1. In zool . and an at . , a tail or tail-like appendage.-2. In bot ., a tail-like appendage. - Cauda equina (mare's tail), the leash of nerves, chiefly lumbar or sacral and coc- cygeal, in which the spinal cord terminates, excepting, usually, the terminal filament of the cord itself: so called from the great length of these nerves, and the appearance their roots present within the spinal column.- Cauda gall i, a term applied in American geology to the lowest member of the corniferous division of the Devonian age, characterized by the cauda gall i grit of eastern New York: so called in allusion to a common fo il of this name (literally, cock's tail) having a feathery form and supposed to be a seaweed.- Cauda helicis, the inferior and posterior portion of the helix of the external ear. - Cauda navicular is, a boat-shaped tail. See boat - shaped. Cauda striati, the tail or narrow posterior part of the caudate nucleus of the brain. Also called surcingle. caudad (ka'dad), adv. [L. cauda, tail, + -ad, to: see- ad3.] Toward the tail; backward in the long axis of the body; in the opposite direction from cephalad. It is downward in man, backward in most animals, but is used without reference to the posture of the body, and said of any part of the body: thus, in man, the mouth is caudad with respect to the nostrils; the lower eyelid is caudad with respect to the upper one. caudæ, n. Plural of cauda. caudal (ka'dal), a. and n. [= F. Sp. caudal = It. codale, corpus, body) of caudatus: see caudate.] The caudate nucleus of the striatum or striate body of the brain; a part of this ganglion distinguished from the lenticulare. caudex (ka'deks), n.; pl. caudices, caudexes (-disēz, -dek-sez). [L., later codex, the stem of a tree: see codex and code.] In bot., as used by early writers, the stem of a tree; now, the trunk of a palm or a tree-fern covered with the remains of leaf-stalks or marked with their scars; also, frequently, the perennial base of a plant which sends up new herbaceous stems from year to year in place of the old. Caudex cerebri, the middle trunk-like portion of the brain, comprising the corpora striata, the thalamencephalon, the mesencephalon, the pons, and the medulla oblong at a.