Caustic (Colonel), a fine gentleman of the last century, very severe on the degeneracy of the present race.—­Henry Mackenzie, in The Lounger.

CA’VA, or Florida, daughter of St. Julian.  It was the violation of Cava by Roderick that brought about the war between the Goths and the Moors, in which Roderick was slain (A.D. 711).

CAVALIER (The). Eon de Beaumont, called by the French Le Chevalier d’Eon (1728-1810).  Charles Breydel, the Flemish landscape painter (1677-1744).  Francisco Cairo, the historian, called El Chavaliere del Cairo (1598-1674).  Jean le Clerc, Le Chevalier (1587-1633).  J. Bapt.  Marini, the Italian poet, called Il Cavaliere (1569-1625).  Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686-1743).

[Illustration] James Francis Edward Stuart, the

“Old Pretender,” was styled Le Chevalier de St. George (1688-1765).  Charles Edward, the “Young Pretender,” was styled The Bonnie Chevalier or The Young Cavalier (1720-1788).

CAVALL’, “king Arthur’s hound of deepest mouth.”—­Tennyson, Idylls of the King ("Enid").

CAV’ENDISH, author of Principles of Whist, and numerous guide-books on games, as Bezique, Piquet, Ecarte, Billiards, etc.  Henry Jones, editor of “Pastimes” in The Field and The Queen newspapers (1831-).

CAX’ON (Old Jacob), hairdresser of Jonathan Oldbuck ("the antiquary”) of Monkbarns.

Jenny Caxon, a milliner; daughter of Old Jacob.—­Sir W. Scott, The Antiquary (time, George III.).

CAXTON (Pisistratus), Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton, baron Lytton, author of My Novel (1853); What will He do with it? (1859); Caxtoniania (1863); The Boatman (1864).

CECIL, the hero of a novel so called by Mrs. Gore (1790-1861).

CECIL DREEME, alias Clara Denman.  The young woman assumes a man’s dress and character, and sustains it so well as to deceive those dearest to her.  She is kidnapped and in danger of death, and her rescuers discover the truth.—­Theodore Winthrop, Cecil Dreeme (1861).

CECILIA, belle of the village in which H. W. Longfellow’s Kavanagh is the clergyman.  She wins his affections easily, unconsciously becoming the rival of her dearest friend (1872).

Cecilia (St.), the patroness of musicians and “inventor of the organ.”  The legend says that an angel fell in love with Cecilia for her musical skill, and nightly brought her roses from paradise.  Her husband saw the angel visitant, who gave to both a crown of martyrdom.

  Thou seem’st to me like the angel
  That brought the immortal roses
  To St. Cecilia’s bridal chamber.

  Longfellow, The Golden Legend.

CE’DRIC, a thane of Rotherwood, and surnamed “the Saxon.”—­Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).