Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Left by its mother and reared by hand: a cade calf.
- n. A bushy juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean region that is used in horticulture and whose wood yields juniper tar. Also called prickly juniper.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A domesticated animal; a pet. See cade-lamb.
- n. A sheep-tick.
- To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness.
- n. A barrel or cask.
- n. A measure containing 500 herrings or 1,000 sprats.
- n. Juniper.
- To put into a cade or keg; pack in a cade: as, to cade herring.
Wiktionary
- adj. of an animal abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
- n. a prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.
- n. archaic A cask or barrel, used in the British Book of Rates for a determinate number of some sort of fish. For example, a cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bred by hand; domesticated; petted.
- v. obsolete To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.
- n. A barrel or cask, as of fish.
- n. A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries.
Etymologies
- Middle English, pet lamb. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“I will agree, in a time of mounting deficits and a poor economy, some of the Dems ideas are to expensive to implement at this time and we can all look to Medicare/cade, Social Sec. and Veteran Affairs as examples of govt. poorly running a program with public funds (oh heck, look at our public schools).”
“The defections are adding to a problem American b-schools have faced for the better part of the past de cade: a shortage of business Ph.D. s to teach the 100,000-plus students who enroll in graduate-level business programs each year.”
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“A half de cade of prosperity and cheap credit had increased demand for stylized, more luxurious cars.”
“See you on the Barack-cade ... and in the jail cells, the computer cells, the solar cells, the human cells ....”
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reesetee An old name for a cask, sometimes used as a unit of measure for fish. A cade of herring, for example, was 720 fish. Nov 6, 2007