Part 1540

<blockquote>Arnold had sped his <b>caitiff</b> flight. <i>W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Caitiff</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Cai"tiff</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A captive; a prisoner.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Avarice doth tyrannize over her <b>caitiff</b> and slave. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A wretched or unfortunate man.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet.</def>

<note>The deep-felt conviction of men that slavery breaks down the moral character . . . speaks out with . . . distinctness in the change of meaning which <i>caitiff</i> has undergone signifying as it now does, one of a base, abject disposition, while there was a time when it had nothing of this in it.</note>

<i>Trench.</i>

<h1>Cajeput</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Caj"e*put</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Cajuput</er>.</def>

<h1>Cajole</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Ca*jole"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cajoled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Cajoling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>cajoler</ets>, orig., to chatter like a bird in a cage, to sing; hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter, from the source of OF. <ets>goale</ets>, <ets>jaiole</ets>, F. <ets>ge\'93le</ets>, dim. of <ets>cage</ets> a cage. See <er>Cage</er>, <er>Jail</er>.]</ety> <def>To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.</def>

<blockquote>I am not about to <b>cajole</b> or flatter you into a reception of my views. <i>F. W. Robertson.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap.</syn>

<h1>Cajolement</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Ca*jole"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery.</def>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<h1>Cajoler</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Ca*jol"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A flatterer; a wheedler.</def>

<h1>Cajolery</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Ca*jol"er*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Cajoleries</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.</def> "Infamous <i>cajoleries</i>."

<i>Evelyn.</i>

<h1>Cajuput</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Caj"u*put</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Of Malayan origin; <ets>k\'beyu</ets> tree + <ets>p\'d4tih</ets> white.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A highly stimulating volatile infammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (<spn>Melaleuca cajuputi</spn>, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.</def>

<h1>Cajuputene</h1> <Xpage=202>

<hw>Caj"u*put*ene`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A colorlees or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.</def>

<h1>Cake</h1> <Xpage=202>