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Cat
Cat. (1) A cat is not the subject of larceny at Common Law: for the punishment for stealing a cat, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861, s. 21; for maliciously killing or wounding, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 41; and for painful experiment on, see (English) Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876 s. 5. See further as to cruelty, ANIMALS.(2) The instrument (cat o' nine tails) with which criminals are flogged in England. [See Whipping.] It consists of nine lashes of whipcord tied on to a wooden handle....
Cat o nine tails
a whip used as an instrument of punishment consisting of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back called also the cat It was used in the British Navy to maintain discipline on board sailing ships...
Kilkenny cats
Two cats fabled in an Irish story to have fought till nothing was left but their tails It is probably a parable of a local contest between Kilkenny and Irishtown which impoverished both towns...
Manx cat
A breed of domestic cats having a rudimentary tail containing only about three vertebrae It is believed to have originated on the Isle of Man...
cat
Any animal belonging to the natural family Felidae and in particular to the various species of the genera Felis Panthera and Lynx The domestic cat is Felis domestica The European wild cat Felis catus is much larger than the domestic cat In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx Lynx rufus The larger felines such as the lion tiger leopard and cougar are often referred to as cats and sometimes as big cats See Wild cat and Tiger cat...
Catkin
An ament a species of inflorescence consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides as in the willow and poplar and as to the staminate flowers in the chestnut oak hickory etc so called from its resemblance to a cats tail See Illust of Ament...
Club rush
A rushlike plant the reed mace or cat tail or some species of the genus Scirpus See Bulrush...
Grass tree
An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoeliga having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous grasslike leaves from the center of which arises a long stem bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat tail These plants are often called ldquoblackboysrdquo from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire They yield two kinds of fragrant resin called Botany bay gum and Gum Acaroides...
madagascar cat
A small lemur having its tail barred with black...
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