cassock (kas ok)

[F. casaque, a ca ock (> casaquin, a small ca ock, a corset, > Dan. ka eking, a jacket, jerkin), The muster-file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen you sand poll; half of the which dare not shake the snow from off their ca ocks , lest they shake themselves to pieces. Shak., All's Well, iv. 3. This small piece of service will bring him clean out of love with the soldier for ever. He will never come within the sign of it, the sight of a ca ock , or a musket-rest again. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, ii. 3. 2. A long clerical coat, buttoned over the breast and reaching to the feet, and confined at the waist by a broad sash called a circline. In the Roman Catholic Church its color varies with the dignity of the wearer: priests wear black; bishops, purple; cardinals, scarlet; and popes, white. In the Anglican Church black is worn by all the three orders of the clergy, but bishops upon state occasions often wear purple. The custom was, both here and in the other northern parts of Christen dom, for all clergymen, whether secular or of a religious order, to have the gown we now call a ca ock , lined, like the garments of the laity, throughout with furs, in Latin, pelles: hence this vesture got its name, "pellicea" or peli e. Rock , Church of our Fathers, ii, 20. ca ocked (kas'okt), a . [ ca ock + -ed2.] Clothed with a ca ock. A ca ock'd huntsman and a fiddling priest! Cowper, Prog. of Err., 1. 111. ca olette (kas'ō-let), n. [F., cazoleta , pan of a musket-lock, a kind of perfume, lit. a little pan, dim. of cazo , a saucepan: see ca e role.] 1: A censer; a ve el with a pierced cover for burning perfumes.-2. A ve el or box for holding perfumes and provided with a perforated cover to permit the diffusion of them. ca onade (kas-o-nād'), n. [F. ca onade (> Pg. ca onada ), ca on , mod. F. cai on = Pg. caixão , a large chest (cf. OSp. caz on , brown sugar, because the sugar is imported in large chests): see cai on and case2 .] Raw sugar; sugar not refined. ca one (ka-sō'ne), n.; pl. ca oni (-ni). [It., aug. of ca a, a chest: see ca oon, cai on.] A great chest; specifically, one of the Italian bridal chests or richly decorated coffers which were made in Italy in the middle ages and later to contain the more costly part of the bridal outfit. 846 The Ca oni, or large trou eau coffers, on which the most costly and elaborate decorations were often lavished. Encyc. Brit ., XVI. 855.