2. A social entertainment, where people assemble, usually in the open air, at which a meal is prepared on a barbecue grill. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog. [ 1913 Webster ]

Send me, gods, a whole hog barbecued. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The cæcum is comparatively small in man, and ends in a slender portion, the vermiform appendix; but in herbivorous mammals it is often as large as the rest of the large intestine. In fishes there are often numerous intestinal cæca. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bunch of them were not worth a cardecu. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A succession or series of any kind. [ Obs. ] Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Month of consecution (Astron.), a month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding. [ 1913 Webster ]

The actions of a man consecutive to volition. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consecutive chords (Mus.), chords of the same kind succeeding one another without interruption. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ancient manner of decumbency. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

The decumbent portraiture of a woman. Ashmole. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astrol.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made. [ 1913 Webster ]