casuistry
— Noun
– English
～ argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading
casuistry
— Noun
– English
～ moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
casus belli
— Noun
– English
～ an event used to justify starting a war
cat
— Verb
– English
～ beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
cat
— Verb
– English
～ eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
cat box
— Noun
– English
～ a receptacle for cat excrement
cat
— Noun
– English
～ an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll"; "the poor sod couldn't even buy a drink"
cat
— Noun
– English
～ a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work
cat
— Noun
– English
～ any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild
cat
— Noun
– English
～ a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat"
cat
— Noun
– English
～ a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
cat
— Noun
– English
～ feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
cat burglar
— Noun
– English
～ a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house
cat bear
— Noun
– English
～ reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore; in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas
cat
— Noun
– English
～ the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"
CAT
— Noun
– English
～ a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis
calico cat
— Noun
– English
～ a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings
caffer cat
— Noun
– English
～ widely distributed wildcat of Africa and Asia Minor
catabatic
— Adjective
– English
～ of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night
catabiosis
— Noun
– English
～ normal aging of cells