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Cag"mag (kăg"măg), n.
A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any
kind.
[Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.


||Ca`got" (k&adot;`g&osl;"), n.
[F.] One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees,
who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian
Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the
Visigoths.


||Ca`hier" (k&adot;`y&asl;" or
k&adot;`hēr), n. [F., fr. OF.
cayer, fr. LL. quaternum. See Quire of
paper. The sheets of manuscript were folded into parts.]
1. A number of sheets of paper put loosely
together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed
in numbers.


2. A memorial of a body; a report of
legislative proceedings, etc.


Ca*hin"cic (?), a. Pertaining
to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of a species
of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps C. racemosa; as,
cahincic acid.


Ca*hoot" (?), n. [Perhaps fr. f.
cohorte a company or band.] Partnership; as, to go in
cahoot with a person.
[Slang, southwestern U. S.]
Bartlett.


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