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||Cai`ma*cam" (?), n. [Turk.]
The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey.

Cai"man (?), n. (Zoöl.)
See Cayman.

Cai`no*zo"ic (?), a. (Geol.)
See Cenozic.

||Ca*ïque" (?), n. [F., fr.
Turk. qāīq boat.] (Naut.) A light
skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel
of larger size.

||Ça" i*ra" (?). [F. ça ira,
ça ira, les aristocrates à la lanterne, it
shall go on, it shall go on, [hang]the arictocrats to the lantern
(lamp-post).] The refrain of a famous song of the French
Revolution.

Caird (?), n. [Ir. ceard a
tinker.] A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy
beggar. [Prov. Eng.]

Cairn (?), n. [Gael. carn,
gen. cairn, a heap: cf. Ir. & W. carn.]
1. A rounded or conical heap of stones
erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as
a sepulchral monument.

Now here let us place the gray stone of her
cairn.

Campbell.


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