caters (katerz)

pl. [Also written quaters, name of the changes which can be rung upon nine bells: so called because four pairs of bells change places in the order of sounding every time a change is rung. caterwaul (kat'er-wal), v. i. [A var. of earlier caterwaw, after waul: see caterwaw and waul.] To cry as cats under the influence of the sexual instinct; make a disagreeable howling or Shak ., M. of V., ii. 2. cater-cousinship (kā'tér-kuz"n-ship), n . cater-cousin + -ship .] The state of being cater-cousins, or of being distantly related. Thank Heaven he [the second-rate English man] is not IMG:content-3280.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-3281.png:[blocks in formation]