BYRON AND THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.  It was Jeffrey and not Brougham who wrote the article which provoked the poet’s reply.

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(in Notes and Queries), the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker.

CACAFO’GO, a rich, drunken usurer, stumpy and fat, choleric, a coward, and a bully.  He fancies money will buy everything and every one.—­Beaumont and Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (1640).

CACUR’GUS, the fool or domestic jester of Misog’onus.  Cacurgus is a rustic simpleton and cunning mischief-maker.—­Thomas Rychardes, Misogonus (the third English comedy, 1560).

CA’CUS, a giant who lived in a cave on mount Av’entine (3 syl.).  When Hercules came to Italy with the oxen which he had taken from Ger’yon of Spain, Cacus stole part of the herd, but dragged the animals by their tails into his cave, that it might be supposed they had come out of it.

If he falls into slips, it is equally clear they were introduced by him on purpose to confuse like Caeus, the traces of his retreat.—­Encyc.  Brit.  Art.  “Romance.”

CAD, a low-born, vulgar fellow.  A cadie in Scotland was a carrier of a sedan-chair.

All Edinburgh men and boys know that when sedan-chairs were discontinued, the old cadies sank into ruinous poverty, and became synonymous with roughs.  The word was brought to London by James Hannay, who frequently used it.—­M.  Pringle.

[Illustration] M. Pringle assures us that the word came from Turkey.

CADE (Jack), Irish insurgent in reign of Henry VII.  Assuming the name of Mortimer, he led a company of rebels from Kent, defeated the king’s army, and entered London.  His short-lived triumph was ended by his death at Lewes.  He appears in Henry VI. by Shakespeare.

CADENUS (3 syl.) dean Swift.  The word is simply de-ca-nus ("a dean"), with the first two syllables transposed (ca-de-nus).  Vanessa is Miss Esther Vanhomrigh, a young lady who fell in love with Swift, and proposed marriage.  The dean’s reply is given in the poem entitled Cadenus and Vanessa [i.e. Van-Esther].

CADUCEUS meant generally a herald’s staff; as an emblem of a peaceful errand it was made of a branch of olive-wood with the twigs, which, later, were transformed to serpents.  In this form it is associated with Mercury, the herald and messenger of the gods—­that “beautiful golden rod with which he both puts men to sleep and wakens them from slumber.”  Homer, Odyssey, xxiv.

CADURCI, the people of Aquitania.

CADWAL.  Arviragus, son of Cymbeline, was so called while he lived in the woods with Belarius, who called himself Morgan, and whom Cadwal supposed to be his father.—­Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1605).

CADWALLADER, called by Bede (1 syl.) Elidwalda, son of Cadwalla king of Wales.  Being compelled by pestilence and famine to leave Britain, he went to Armorica.  After the plague ceased he went to Rome, where, in 689, he was baptized, and received the name of Peter, but died very soon afterwards.