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cabbala. Exotic medieval rabbinical theosophy caber. Heavy wooden heaving pole (Sc.) cabezon. Large edible NW fish cablet. cable-laid rope less than 3" across cabochon. Highly polished, uncut gem cabotage. coastal navigation (Gr.: caboter, (to coast) cabretta. Soft sheepskin cabrilla. Sea bass cabriole. Queen Anne table leg cachalot. sperm whale cachepot. ornamental flowerpot container cachou. pastille to brush teeth cachinnate. laugh cacodyl. The arsenic group cacoethes. compulsion, pernicious habit cacography. Bad handwriting (the antithesis of calligraphy) or orthography cacomistle. A small carnivorous N. A. mammal. cacuminal. Articulated with tongue turned up and back cadaverine. A deadly ptomaine caddis. Coarse woolen cloth (See "baize"). cade. Left by its mother and reared by hand./ Mediterranean medicinal shrub. cadelle. small black beetle cadge. beg Cadmus. Sowed the dragon’s teeth caducity. senility, perishable caducous. Dropping off or shedding caecilian. Tropical burrowing, worm-like amphibians caerphilly. A white Welsh cheese caftan. tunic cesura. A pause in a poem or a song cahier. Loose-leafed notebook; report cainotophobia. Fear of newness caique. long, narrow Middle-Eastern rowboat caird. Itinerant tinkerer or handyman caitiff. Despicable and cowardly Calabar bean. source of physiostigmine calabash. Vine or tree, Gourd. Dish made from gourd caladium. Like croton. calamanco. A glossy woolen fabric with a checked pattern on one side. calamander. Hard Asiatic wood. calamari. Squid calamite. Extinct ancestor of horsetails calamondin. A Phillippine orange. calamus. The sweet flag/rattan palm calando. Gradually diminishing in tempo and volume. calash. Carriage with low wheels and collapsible top. calathus. Vase-shaped ancient Gr. Basket calcanocubold .ligament Connects calcaneous and cuboid bones calcar. A bone spur calcarine sulcus. Occipital sulcus calceiform. Slipper-shaped calciferol. Vitamin D calcifuge. Doesn’t grow well in lime. calcicole. Does grow well in lime. calcspar. calcite calc tuff. spongy deposits at hot springs calends. Day of new moon and first day of month (Roman) calendula. Marigold family calenture. A mild tropical fever caliche. Sodium nitrate/Hard desert soil layer caliginous. Dark, shadowy calipash. Edible, beneath turtle’s upper shell calipee. Lower shell calisaya. Cinchona bark calix. Cup calk
Croton oil is a very old extremely powerulf laxative. There is an amusing Balzac story about the King having it added to the wine at a party, and not permitting any courtiers to leave until they were in agony, and all perched on the first stone wall they came to.
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apropos of nothing, except another C word--this is one I'd not seen before last night: cissy - Brit. variant of sissy
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calamite. Extinct ancestor of horsetails
That's a surprise. I hadn't realised horsetails were separate - thought they came with the horse.
Sorry - couldn't resist it.
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thought they came with the horse
You're right, dxb. The editors must have them confused with donkeytails.
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