Word Meanings - CADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. He brought his cade lamb with him. Sheldon.

Related words: (words related to CADE)

• DOMESTICATE
  1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild
• PETTINESS
  The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.
• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• PETTISH
  Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. "A pettish kind of humor." Sterne. -- Pet"tish*ly, adv. -- Pet"tish*ness, n.
• PETTIFOGULIZE
  To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks. De Quincey.
• PETTO
  The breast. In petto, in the breast; hence, in secrecy; in reserve.
• DOMESTICATION
  The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
• PETTILY
  In a petty manner; frivolously.
• PETTITOES
  The toes or feet of a pig, -- often used as food; sometimes, in contempt, the human feet. Shak.
• DOMESTICATOR
  One who domesticates.
• PETTICHAPS
  See PETTYCHAPS
• PETTY
  Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small
• PETTIFOGGERY
  The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles. Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries. Barrow.
• PETTIFOG
  To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way. "He takes no money, but pettifogs gratis." S. Butler.
• PETTIFOGGER
  A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer. A pettifogger was lord chancellor. Macaulay.
• PETTICOAT
  A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist. Petticoat government, government by women, whether in politics or domestic affairs. -- Petticoat pipe , a short, flaring pipe surrounding the blast nozzle in the smoke
• PETTYCHAPS
  Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler .
• PETTIFOGGING
  Paltry; quibbling; mean.
• ESCOPET; ESCOPETTE
  A kind of firearm; a carbine.
• TOUPETTIT
  The crested titmouse.
• PIPETTE
  A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.
• UNDOMESTICATE
  To make wild or roving.