cade
An animal brought up or nourished by hand.
Adjective
- abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
Origin
From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.
Noun Entry 2
- An animal brought up or nourished by hand.
- Then on the verdrous Bank, where Spices rose, Rowl on the balmy Grass, or smiling play With her young Cade, her caded Lamb with Smiles Answer'd her Love, and lickt her dainty hand. - 1720, John Bulkeley, The Last-Day:...
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Noun Entry 3
- Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.
Origin
Borrowed from Middle French cade, from Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.
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Derived
Noun archaic
- A cask or barrel.
- A cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.
Origin
Borrowed from Middle French cade (“barrel”), from Latin cadus (“bottle, jar”).
Forms
Verb
- To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil.
- Delicacies are thrown away upon a growing youth; they are quite out of place; his appetite does not require pampering, and cading, and coaxing; moreover, a youth who is made to think a great deal of his stomach is sure...
- Besides, the more luxury a child has, the more he will require—wants beget wants; until, at length, he will become a poor, wretched, artificial imbecile, fit only to be caded and cottoned up in warm enervating rooms;...
- "He's neither more nor less interesting than any other man, I suppose," replied Miss Podbury drily. "They're all alike, as far as I can see. I can't think what women find in them to make such a fuss about, cading them...