cay (ka)

[ Its harbour is formed by a long cay, called Hog Island, which stretches for three miles from east to west, about half a mile from the shore. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., [XXXIX. 176. C IMG:content-3330.png:[blocks in formation] Flowers Still blooming ceasele ly. Drummond , The Fairest Fair. A Device of William Caxton. W. C. represent the initials of his name. The rude form of the figures 74, in the center, is supposed to mean the year 1474, when he began as a print er. The small letters, s, c, are interpreted by some as Sanc ta Coloni a (Cologne, the city alleged as the one in which he was taught printing); by others as sigillum Caxtonti, the seal of Caxton. (From Hansard's "Typographia.") IMG:content-3331.png:[blocks in formation] F. caïman ; from the native Guiana rica, name.] A name applied popularly to the alligators of the West Indies and South America, but properly only to Crocodilus or Caiman pal pebrosus and C. trigon at us (Cuvier). See all i gator.