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cade 1

 (kād)
adj.
Left by its mother and reared by hand: a cade calf.

[Middle English, pet, pet lamb, of unknown origin.]

cade 2

 (kād)
n.
A bushy juniper (Juniperus oxycedrus) chiefly of the Mediterranean region that is used in horticulture and whose wood yields juniper tar. Also called prickly juniper.

[French, from Provençal, from Old Provençal, from Late Latin catanus, perhaps from a non-Celtic language of pre-Roman Gaul.]
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cade

(keɪd)
n
(Plants) a juniper tree, Juniperus oxycedrus of the Mediterranean region, the wood of which yields an oily brown liquid (oil of cade) used to treat skin ailments
[C16: via Old French from Old Provençal, from Medieval Latin catanus]

cade

(keɪd)
adj
(of a young animal) left by its mother and reared by humans, usually as a pet
[C15: of unknown origin]

Cade

(keɪd)
n
(Biography) Jack. died 1450, English leader of the Kentish rebellion against the misgovernment of Henry VI (1450)
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cade1

(keɪd)

n.
a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid used in treating skin diseases.
[1565–75]

cade2

(keɪd)

adj.
New Eng., Brit. (of the young of animals) abandoned by the mother and raised by humans.
[1425–75]

-cade

a combining form with the meaning “procession, parade”: motorcade.
[extracted from cavalcade]
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Cade

 a cask or barrel containing a quantity of 720 herrings, later 500 herrings; a quantity of 1000 sprats.
Examples: cade of herrings, 1440; of sprats, 1704.
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The thing that would have best suited the circus side of my nature would have been to resign the Boss-ship and get up an insurrection and turn it into a revolution; but I knew that the Jack Cade or the Wat Tyler who tries such a thing without first educating his materials up to revolution grade is almost absolutely certain to get left.
"Eh, she'd fine work wi' ye, I'll warrant, bringin' ye up from a babby, an' her a lone woman--it's ill bringin' up a cade lamb.
Caption: CADES COVE METHODIST CHURCH, constructed in 1902 (opposite, top).
The ratings reflect the very strong link with the French state, especially the status of CADES as a public agency ("etablissement public national a caractere administratif"; EPA), which gives the French state ultimate responsibility for CADES's solvency and liquidity, and the very strong incentive from the French state to support CADES in a timely manner.
Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (CADES), France's social security debt management agency, is planning to launch a benchmark-size, dollar-denominated, five-year bond.
Gustafson of the department of dermatology at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., and her associates queried the NAMCS and the NHAMC for data regarding CADEs (cutaneous adverse drug events) reported between 1995 and 2005.
18 January 2012 - Barclays (LON:BARC), BNP Paribas (EPA:BNP), Credit Agricole (EPA:ACA) and Credit Suisse have led France's Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale's (CADES) issue of a EUR4bn (USD5.1bn) bond, which was priced on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
French debt agency CADES, or La Caisse d'Amortissement de la Dette Sociale (CADES), is planning to launch a EUR1bn seven-year bond, Dow Jones has reported, citing one of the banks managing the sale.
Every year, the French parliament passes the Social Security financing bill setting an objective for CADES's annual debt amortisation.
10 November 2011 - Credit Agricole (EPA:ACA), Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Societe Generale (EPA:GLE) have led France's Caisse D'amortissement De La Dette Sociale's (CADES) issue of a EUR2bn (USD2.72bn) bond, which was priced on Wednesday, Reuters reported.