caution (kashon)

[ IMG:content-3320.png:[blocks in formation] Entering the new chamber cautiously , The glory of great heaps of gold could see. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 327. 8. Something to excite alarm or astonishment; something extraordinary: absolutely or with some fanciful addition: as, the way they scat- tered was a caution to snakes . [Slang.]-Bond of cautiousne (kâ'shus-nes), n. The quality of be- Swift . caution. See bond1. = Syn. 1. Forethought, forecast, heed, vigilance, watchfulne , circumspection.-2. Admonition. caution (ka's hon), v. t. [ You will see that these ways are made cautionary enough. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progre , ii. Waved his unoccupied hand with a cautionary gesture to his companions. Barham, In golds by Legends, I. 148. 2. Given as a pledge or in security. Has the enemy no cautionary towns and seaports, to give us for securing trade? Swift , Conduct of the Allies. Cautionary town, a town the control and revenues of are granted by the government to a foreign power to secure the payment of a debt or the performance of an obligation; notably, certain strongholds in the Netherlands which were thus pledged to the English crown in the time Rammekens. of Elizabeth, particularly the cities of Flushing, Briel, and And it is resolved that it [a benevolence raised for the crown in Devon] shall only be employed for the payment of his debts, as namely for Ireland, the Navy, and the Cautionary Towns in the Low Countries; and so, leaving the carriage of this busine to your discretions and wisdoms, we bid you heartily farewell. Letter from the Lords in Council of James I. By the treaty of peace between James and Philip III., although the king had declared himself bound by the treaties made by Elizabeth to deliver up the cautionary towns to no one but the United States, he promised Spain to allow those States a reasonable time to make peace with the Archdukes. Motley, John of Barneveld, II. 67. II. n. Same as cautionry.