Cat’s-foot: Definition and part of speech

Cat’s-foot

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology.

n. An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard.

n. One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle.

n. The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; — opposed to anode.

a. A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence.

n. One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.

n. An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.
a. Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.
a. Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.
a. Of or pertaining to, or affecting the Roman Catholics; as, the Catholic emancipation act.
n. A person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.