Caurus (karus)

[L., also Corus, the northwest wind; prob. for * scaur us = Goth. skūra, a storm ( skura wind is, a storm of wind), = AS. scür, E. shower; related to L. obscurus, obscure: see shower and obscure.] The cla ical name of the northwest wind, which in Italy is a stormy one. A swifte wynde that heyhte Chorus . Chaucer, Boëthius, 1. meter 3. The ground by piercing Caurus sear'd. Thomson, Castle of Indolence, st. 76. causable (ka'za-bl), a. [ cause + -able .] Capable of being caused, produced, or effected. For that may be miraculously effected in one which is naturally causable in another. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 21.