Cachuca

[Sp.] A Spanish dance, performed to a lively air. Cachun'de, n. [Sp.] An aromatic trochu, much used in China and the East, as a stomachic stimulant. Cacique, Cazique, ( ka - zeek ' ,) n. [Sp., of Haytien derivation.] A chief or king among some South-American Indian tribes; - more particularly those of the Carib race. manner. woman. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia Cacograph'ic, a. Relating to, or characterized by, bad writing or spelling. Cacog'raphy, n. [Gr. kakos , bad, and graphō , writing.] Bad or imperfect writing or spelling. Cacology, n . [Fr. cacologie , from Gr. kakos , and logos , speech.] The practice of bad speaking, or incorrect choice of words. Cacotechny, ( ka - ko - tek'ni ,) n. [Gr. kakos , and technē , art.) A bad or corrupt state of art. Cacotrophy, n . [Gr. kakos , and trop he , food.] ( Med . ) Bad diet; bad alimentary substance. Cacox'enite, n. ( Min .) See KAKOXENITE. Cacta'ceæ, n. pl. ( Bot .) The Cactus or Indian Fig family, an order of plants, alliance Cactales . - DIAG. Se pals and petals numerous and undistinguishable; scat- tered stamens, confluent styles, horizontal ovules, and seeds without albumen. - They are succulent shrubs, very variable in form. Most of the species are leafle , having tufts of hair or spines instead of leaves. The flowers are se ile, some- times very showy; sta- mens originate in the orifice of the tube form- ed by the combination of the petals and sepals, are very numerous, and consist of delicate thread- like filaments term i- nated by small roundish anthers. The ovary, which, in consequence of its adhesion to the sepals, seems to occupy the place of the flower- stalk, consists of a single cell lined with parietal placentas, covered over with minute ovules; its style is slender, with stig- mas equal in number to the placentas. The fruit is succulent, and contains a Cad, n. [An abbreviation of CADET, q . v.] A person fill- ing the same office in an omnibus, or street-car, in Eng- land, that the conductor does in the U. States. -A call-boy, or chance me enger; a hanger-on; a loafer. Cadaretta, in Mi i ippi , a post-office of Webster county. Cadastral, a . [Fr. cadastre , from cadre, to square with. Relating, or pertaining, to landed or real estate. Cadastral Survey, n . [See CADASTRAL.] ( Trigon .) A trigonometrical term of late years adopted in Eng- land, and on the continent of Europe, to denote a survey on a large scale. A cadastral, as opposed to a topograph- ical, map may be defined to be one on which the subjects represented agree, as to their relative positions and di- mensions, with the objects on the face of the country; while a topographical map, usually drawn on a small scale, exaggerates the dimensions of houses, and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinct- ne , and is, owing to the smaller size, nece arily le correct than a cadastral plan. The scale which has been generally adopted in Europe, is 0004 or 1-2500 of the linear measure of the ground. This scale corresponds so nearly to 25 inches to 1 mile, that it is usually spoken of as the 25-inch scale. Cadastre, ( kad - as'tur ,) n. [Fr.] The official statement of the quantity and value of real property in any dis- trict, made for the purpose of justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. Cada'ver, n. [Lat.] A dead body; a corpse. Cadav'eric, a . Pertaining to a corpse; as, cadaveric rigidity. Cadav'erous, a. [Lat. cadaverosus, from cadaver , a dead body, a corpse, from cado, to fall or sink down, to die.] Resembling a dead, human body; pale; wan; ghastly; as, a cadaverous face. -Having the quality of, or pertaining to, a corpse. Cadav'erously, adv . In a cadaverous form. Cadav'erousne , n . State or quality of being ca- Cad'dah, the surname of ABDALLAH, who, with his father Maimun-Caddalı, was a zealous propagator of the Ismailic sect among the Mohammedans in the 3d century from the Hegira. He founded numerous secret societies in Syria, Persia, and N. Africa. The object of the sect, and all its confederations, was the establishment in the caliphate of one of the race of Is mail. While this was the political object of the Is mail i, they had also a set of hidden doctrines preserved by them in a work called Meizan, or the "Balance," in which indifference to all rules of morality, and disbelief in all the tenets of re- ligion, were inculcated. These doctrines bore ample fruit when the principles of the sect were openly avowed and practised by the Car math i ans, the Is mail i caliphs of Egypt, and the A a ins of Persia. bordering on Surface. Un- Caddice-Fly, n. (Zool.) See PHRYGANIDE. Cad'dis, n. A kind of worsted tape or ribbon. Cad'do, in Arkansas , a twp. of Clarke co. Cad'do, in Louisiana , a N.W. parish Texas and Arkansas; area , 1,200 sq. m. dulating, and partly occupied by Soda and Caddo lakes, the former being 18 m. long and 5 wide. These lakes, which communicate with Red River, are navigable for steamboats. Cap . Shreveport. Caddo Bayou, in Texas , rising in Henderson co., and flowing S.E. into Neches River. Caddo Creek, in Arkansas , rises near the S. border of Montgomery co., and flows into Washita River. great number of seeds, which are without albumen. -Another, of Tarrant co., flows into the W. fork of Trinity These plants are natives of the tropical regions of America. Many species yield edible fruit, useful in febrile complaints. Cattle feed on the succulent stems of some species during the dry season in certain dis- tricts of South America. One plant belonging to the order is largely cultivated in Mexico for the nourish- ment of the cochineal insect; and numerous species are grown in our conservatories on account of their splendid flowers, or their singular forms. There are 16 genera and about 800 species, the most interesting being described under the names of the genera to which they belong, namely: CEREUS, ECH I NO CACTUS, ME LOC ACT US,