caterwawedt

[ME. (appar. a pp., but really a verbal noun), But forth she [the cat] wol, er any day be dawed, To she we hir skyn and gon a caterwawed . Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 354. [By apheresis from aca for keeping provisions. Having eyes like a cat; by mod. Guernsey dial. catte - pelacure , a woodcat-eyed (kat'id), a . louse, a weevil, otherwise by the a ibilated hence, seeing well in the dark. forms OF. chatepelose, chatepelouse, chattepe-cat-fall (kat fål), n. Naut ., the rope which, louse, chatepeleuse , chattepelleuse , also chateplue , being rove in the cat-block and cat-head, forms a caterpillar, also a weevil, a mite, mod. dial, (Picard) caple use, capeluche, caplure, carplure, (Norm.) carplouse, (Bret.) charpelouse; appar. (by popular etymology) 'hairy cat' (OF. * pelos, pelous, fem. pelouse, also E. pilll: 'cat' being a fanciful name applied to the caterpillar (ef. It. dial. gatta, gattola, a caterpillar, They that be the children of this world, as extortioners, caterpillars , usurers, think you they come to God's storehouse? IMG:content-3282.png:[blocks in formation] the tackle for heaving up the anchor from the water's edge to the cat-head. Also called cat tackle fall. See cut under cat - head. catfish (kat'fish), n. [ North American species are robust fusiform fishes with 8 barbels, a short dorsal with a strong pointed spine in front, a posterior adipose fin, and a moderate anal. They have been referred to five genera, A miurus, Gronias, Ictalurus, Leptops, and Noturus. The species of the first considerably to the food of the poorer cla es at least. two are of some economical importance, and contribute The most common in the eastern streams are the A. nebu los us and A. albidus, and in the west the A. melas. The Catfish (A miurus melas). largest are the A. nigricans of the great lakes and the A. pond eros us of the Mi i ippi, the latter sometimes attain ing a weight of 100 pounds. The most esteemed is the I. recognizable by its slender head and forked tail. The punctatus of the great lakes and the Mi i ippi valley, name has been also extended to similar fishes in various parts of the world, and even to species of different but related families. 3. A name given in some parts of England to the weever, Trachinus draco.-4. A local English name of the scyllioid shark, Scyllium catu lus.-5. A local English name of the torsk, Brosmius bros me.-6. A name in New Zealand for fishes of the family Uranoscopida, especially the Ichthys cop us monopterygius. yellowish color. The name is sometimes apcatgut (kat'gut), n. [Appar. ever to have been prepared from cats' intestines, the word is supposed to stand for * kitgut (cf. equiv. kit string ), by confusion of kitl, a little cat, with kit2, a fiddle.] 1. The intestines of sheep (sometimes of the horse, the a , or the mule), dried and twisted, used for strings of musical instruments and for other purposes; a string of this kind.-2. A sort of linen or canvas with wide interstices.-3. (a) A name for one of the olive seaweeds, Chorda filum, which is allied to Laminaria. (b) The plant Te A der i phrosia Virgin i an a: so called on account of its long, slender, and very tough roots. catgut-scraper (kat'gut-skrā'pėr), n. sive name for a violinist; a fiddler. Cath. An abbreviation of Catholic. cath-. A form of cat- for cat a- before the aspirate, occurring in words of Greek origin. Catha (kath'ä), n. [NL.,