Caiman

See CAYMAN. Cain, ( kain.) The first-born of the human race, and the first murderer. (See ABEL.) He became an outcast, IMG:content-0009.png:[graphic] Cain's, in Georgia , a post-vill. of Gwinnett co. Cain's, in Pennsylvania , a small post-village of Lancas- ter co. "Ah, ça ira, ça ira, ça ira: Les aristo crates a la lanterne!" It was composed in 1790 in denunciation of the French aristocracy, and for 4 years inflamed the lower cla es, and incited them to deeds of cruelty. The melody is older than the words, having been a favorite air with Queen Marie Antoinette. It is not true, as has been a erted time and again, that this has become naturalized among the French national songs. This sanguinary song, a ociated with the most terrible scenes of the Revolution, is repudiated in France, even by those who are enthusiastic doctrinaires of the first Revolution. Ça Ira, in Virginia, a post-village of Cumber land co., on Will is River, 60 m. W. of Richmond. Caird, ( kaird,) n. One who tramps the country to find work; an itinerant tinker; a vagrant. The tribes of gipsies, jockies, or cairds ." -Sir W. Scott . Cairn, ( kārn ,) n. [W.carn; Gael.carn, cairn; Ar. kern, a little hill.] A round or conical heap of stones erected as a sepulchral monument. They are found on the hills of England, Wales, and Scotland, and some have a igned to them a peculiar character, as receptacles for the bodies of criminals burnt in the wicker images of the Druids, . According to some antiquaries, cairn is distinct from carnedd , the Welsh name for heaps of stones on the tops of high mountains (Carnedd David, Carnedd Llewellyn, .), which are said to have been sacrificial. Some cairns are undoubtedly sepulchral. In common language, a cairn is distinguished from a barrow , the former being a heap of stones, the latter a mound of earth: but in all probability they had for the most part the same object, and the difference of materials was merely occasioned by local circumstances. - See BARROW. -A pile of stones erected as a landmark, as in exploring, surveying, .