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"Section C"


Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual
cachinnation.

Sir W. Scott.


Ca*chin"na*to*ry (?), a.
Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate
laughter.


Cachinnatory buzzes of approval.

Carlyle.


||Ca*chi"ri (?), n. A
fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the
manioc, and resembling perry.
Dunglison.


Cach"o*long (?), n. [F.
cacholong, said to be from Cach, the name of a
river in Bucharia + cholon, a Calmuck word for
stone; or fr. a Calmuck word meaning "beautiful stone"]
(Min.) An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety
of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.


Ca`chou" (?), n. [F. See
Cashoo.] A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct
the odor of the breath.


||Ca*chu"cha (?), n. [Sp.] An
Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero.

[Sometimes in English spelled cachuca (&?;).]


The orchestra plays the cachucha.

Longfellow.


||Ca*chun"de (?), n.


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