Definitions for cadekeɪd
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
cadekeɪd(n.)
a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid used in treating skin diseases.
Category: Plants
Origin of cade:
1565–75
cadekeɪd(adj.)
New Eng., Brit. (of the young of animals) abandoned by the mother and raised by humans.
Category: Dialect
Origin of cade:
1425–75
-cade
a combining form with the meaning “procession, parade”:
motorcade.
Category: Affix
Origin of -cade:
extracted from cavalcade
Wiktionary
Cade(ProperNoun)
for a cooper.
Cade(ProperNoun)
transferred from the surname.
cade(Noun)
a prickly, bushy Mediterranean juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.
cade(Noun)
A cask or barrel, used in the British Book of Rates for a determinate number of some sort of fish. For example, a cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.
cade(Adjective)
abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
Webster Dictionary
Cade(adj)
bred by hand; domesticated; petted
Cade(verb)
to bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame
Cade(noun)
a barrel or cask, as of fish
Cade(noun)
a species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries
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