Part 1531

<hw>Cade</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OE. <ets>cad</ets>, <ets>kod</ets>, lamb, also <er>Cosset</er>, <er>Coddle</er>.]</ety> <def>Bred by hand; domesticated; petted.</def>

<blockquote>He brought his <b>cade</b> lamb with him. <i>Sheldon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cade</h1> <Xpage=201>

<hw>Cade</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Cade</h1> <Xpage=201>

<hw>Cade</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cadus</ets> jar, Gr. <?/.]</ety> <def>A barrel or cask, as of fish.</def> "A <i>cade</i> of herrings."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>A <b>cade</b> of herrings is 500, of sprats 1,000. <i>Jacob, Law Dict.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cade</h1> <Xpage=201>

<hw>Cade</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. & Pr.; LL. <ets>cada</ets>.]</ety> <def>A species of juniper (<spn>Juniperus Oxycedrus</spn>) of Mediterranean countries.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Oil of cade</col>, <col>a thick</col></mcol>, <cd>black, tarry liquid, obtained by destructive distillation of the inner wood of the cade. It is used as a local application in skin diseases.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cadence</h1> <Xpage=201>

<hw>Ca"dence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>cadence</ets>, <ets>cadens</ets>, LL. <ets>cadentia</ets> a falling, fr. L. <ets>cadere</ets> to fall; cf. F. <ets>cadence</ets>, It. <ets>cadenza</ets>. See <er>Chance</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or state of declining or sinking.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Now was the sun in western <b>cadence</b> low. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; <as>as, music of bells in <ex>cadence</ex> sweet</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea, now with hoarse <b>cadence</b> lull Seafaring men o'erwatched. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest <b>cadence</b>. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.</def>

<blockquote>Golden <b>cadence</b> of poesy. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>If in any composition much attention was paid to the flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the 14th and 15th centuries) to be "prosed in faire <b>cadence</b>." <i>Dr. Guest.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>See <er>Cadency</er>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Man.)</fld> <def>Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>A uniform time and place in marching.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A <i>cadenza</i>, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.</def>

<cs><col>Imperfect cadence</col>. <cd><fld>(Mus.)</fld> See under <er>Imperfect</er>.</cd></cs>