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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cade \Cade\, a. [Cf. OE cad, kod, lamb, also {Cosset}, {Coddle}.] Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. He brought his cade lamb with him --Sheldon. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cade \Cade\, v. t. To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame. [Obs.] --Johnson. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cade \Cade\, n. [L. cadus jar, Gr ?.] A barrel or cask, as of fish. ``A cade of herrings.'' --Shak. A cade of herrings is 500, of sprats 1,000. --Jacob, Law Dict. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cade \Cade\, n. [F. & Pr.; LL cada.] A species of juniper ({Juniperus Oxycedrus}) of Mediterranean countries. {Oil of cade}, a thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by destructive distillation of the inner wood of the cade. It is used as a local application in skin diseases. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cade adj : (of a young animal) abandoned by its mother and raised by hand; "a cade calf" From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: CADE Computer Aided Document Engineering Microstar
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