| cascade | (n) a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls |
| cascade | (n) a succession of stages or operations or processes or units, Example: progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring; separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes |
| cascade | (v) rush down in big quantities, like a cascade, Syn. cascade down |
| cascade | (v) arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible |
| cascade everlasting | (n) shrub with white woolly branches and woolly leaves having fragrant flowers forming long sprays; flowers suitable for drying; sometimes placed in genus Helichrysum, Syn. Ozothamnus secundiflorus, Helichrysum secundiflorum |
| cascade liquefier | (n) an apparatus used to liquefy air or oxygen etc. |
| cascade penstemon | (n) whorls of deep blue to dark purple flowers at tips of erect leafy stems; moist places from British Columbia to Oregon, Syn. Penstemon serrulatus |
| cascades | (n) a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range, Syn. Cascade Range, Cascade Mountains |
| cascades frog | (n) mountain frog found near water; of United States Northwest to California, Syn. Rana cascadae |
| cascade transformer | (n) a number of transformers in series; provides a high-voltage source |
| Cascabel | n. [ Sp. cascabel a little bell, also (fr. the shape), a knob at the breech end of a cannon. ] The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [ See Illust. of Cannon. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Cascade | n. [ F. cascade, fr. It. cascata, fr. cascare to fall. ] A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. [ 1913 Webster ] The silver brook . . . pours the white cascade. Longjellow. [ 1913 Webster ] Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Cascade | v. i. 1. To fall in a cascade. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To vomit. [ Slang ] Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Cascade method | . (Physics) A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily liquefiable, and so on. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| Cascade system | . (Elec.) A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary circuit of one is connected to the secondary circuit of the other, the primary circuit of the latter being connected to the source of supply; also, a system of electric traction in which motors so connected are employed. The cascade system is also called
tandem system, or
concatenated system; the connection a
cascade connection,
tandem connection, or
concatenated connection, or
a concatenation; and the control of the motors so obtained a
tandem control, or
concatenation control. In the cascade system of traction the cascade connection is used for starting and for low speeds up to half speed. For full speed the short-circuited motor is cut loose from the other motor and is either left idle or (commonly) connected direct to the line. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| Cascalho | ‖n. [ Pg., a chip of stone, gravel. ] A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| cascara | n. the dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative; -- called also cascara sagrada.
Syn. -- chittam bark, chittem bark. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Cascara buckthorn | (Bot.) The buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| Cascara sagrada | ‖ [ Sp. ] Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative; -- called also cascara. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Cascarilla | n. [ Sp., small thin bark, Peruvian bark, dim. of cáscara bark. ] (Bot.) A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark. [ 1913 Webster ]
Cascarilla bark (or
Cascarilla) (Med.), the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication. [ 1913 Webster ]
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