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Caryatid
- noun - A sculpted female figure used like a column to support .
- a supporting column carved in the shape of a person
- Female figure used instead of a column to support an entablature.
Caryocar
- noun - type genus of the Caryocaraceae; South American trees yielding strong fine-grained wood and edible nuts
Casanova
- noun - an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798)
- any man noted for his amorous adventures
Cascabel
- noun - a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh
Cascaded
- verb - arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible
- rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
Cascades
- noun - a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range
- a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
- a succession of stages or operations or processes or units; "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"
- a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden cascade of sparks"
- arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible
- rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
Cascalho
- - A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.
Cascaras
- noun - dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative
Cascaron
- - Lit., an eggshell; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc.
Case Law
- noun - (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
- a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; "common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States"