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<p><b>2.</b> <def>A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>One of the court party in the time of king Charles L. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.</def>

<i>Clarendon.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Fort.)</fld> <def>A work of more that ordinary heigh, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.</def>

<h1>Cavalier</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cav`a*lier"</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Gay; easy; offhand; frank.</def>

<blockquote>The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, <b>cavalier</b>, verbal fluency of the other, from a complete contrast.

<i>Hazlitt.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>High-spirited.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "The people are naturally not valiant, and not much <i>cavalier</i>."

<i>Suckling.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.</def> "An old <i>Cavalier</i> family."

<i>Beaconsfleld.</i>

<h1>Cavalierish</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cav`a*lier"ish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Somewhat like a cavalier.</def>

<h1>Cavalierism</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cav`a*lier"ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The practice or principles of cavaliers.</def>

<i>Sir. W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Cavalierly</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cav`a*lier"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arroganty.</def>

<i>Junius.</i>

<h1>Cavalierness</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cav`a*lier"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A disdanful manner.</def>

<h1>Cavally</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Ca*val"ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Pg. <ets>cavalla</ets> a kind of fish; Sp. <ets>caballa</ets>; prob. fr. Pg. <ets>cavallo</ets> horse, Sp. <ets>caballa</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (<spn>Caranx hippos</spn>): -- called also <altname>horse crevall\'82</altname>. <note>[See <i>Illust</i>. under <er>Carangoid</er>.]</note></def>

<h1>Cavalry</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cav"al*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>cavalerie</ets>, fr. It. <ets>cavalleria</ets>. See <er>Cavalier</er>, and cf. <er>chivalry</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>That part of military force which serves on horseback.</def>

<note>&hand; <stype>Heavy cavalry</stype> and <stype>light cavalry</stype> are so distinguished by the character of their armament, and by the size of the men and horses.</note>