eposit of despatches, &c.

CADE. A small barrel of about 500 herrings, or 1000 sprats.

CADENCE. The uniform time and space for marching, more indispensable to
large bodies of troops than to parties of small-arm men; yet an
important part even of their drill. The regularity requisite in pulling.

CADET. A volunteer, who, serving at his own charge, to learn experience,
waits for preferment; a designation, recently introduced, for young
gentlemen formerly rated volunteers of the first class. Properly, the
younger son in French.

CADGE, TO. To carry.--_Cadger_, a carrier. Kedge may be a corruption, as
being carriable.

CAESAR'S PENNY. The tip given by a recruiting sergeant.

CAFFILA. _See_ KAFILA.

CAGE. An iron cage formed of hoops on the top of a pole, and filled with
combustibles to blaze for two hours. It is lighted one hour before
high-water, and marks an intricate channel navigable for the period it
burns; much used formerly by fishermen.

CAGE-WROCK. An old term for a ship's upper works.

CAIQUE, OR KAIQUE. A small Levantine vessel. Also, a graceful skiff seen
in perfection at Constantinople, where it almost monopolizes the boat
traffic. It is fast, but crank, being so narrow that the oars or sculls
have their looms enlarged into ball-shaped masses to counter-balance
their out-board length. It has borne for ages the wave-line now brought
out in England as the highest result of marine architecture. It may have
from one to ten or twelve rowers.

CAIRBAN. A name in the Hebrides for the basking-shark.

CAIRN. Piles of stones used as marks in surveying.

CAISSON, OR CAISSOON. An adopted term for a sort of float sunk to a
required depth by letting water into it, when it is hauled under the
ship's bottom, receives her steadily, and on pumping out the water
floats her. These were long used in Holland, afterwards at Venice, and
in Russia, where they were known as _camels_ (which see). Caisson is
also a vessel fitted with valves, to act instead of gates for a dry
dock. Used also in _pontoons_ (which see).

CAKE-ICE. Ice formed in the early part of the season.

CALABASH. _Cucurbita_, a gourd abundant within the tropics, furnishing
drinking and washing utensils. At Tahiti and the Sandwich Islands they
attain a diameter of 2 feet. There is also a calabash-tree, the fruit
not exceeding the size of oranges.

CALABASS. An early kind of light musket with a wheel-lock. Bourne
mentions it in 1578.

CALALOO. A dish