CAU'DLE _(Mrs. Margaret_), a curtain lecturer, who between eleven o'clock at night and seven the next morning delivered for thirty years a curtain lecture to her husband Job Caudle, generally a most gentle listener; if he replied she pronounced him insufferably rude, and if he did not he was insufferably sulky.--Douglas Jerrold, _Punch_ ("The Caudle Papers"). CAU'LINE _(Sir)_, a knight who served the wine to the king of Ireland. He fell in love with Christabelle (3 _syl_.), the king's-daughter, and she became his troth-plight wife, without her father's knowledge. When the king knew of it, he banished sir Cauline (2 _syl_.). After a time the Soldain asked the lady in marriage, but sir Cauline challenged his rival and slew him. He himself, however, died of the wounds he had received, and the lady Christabelle, out of grief, "burst her gentle hearte in twayne."--Percy's _Reliques_, I. i. 4. CAU'RUS, the stormy west-north-west wind; called in Greek _Argestês_. The ground by piercing Caurus seared. Thomson, _Castle of Indolence_, ii. (1748). CAUSTIC, of the _Despatch_ newspaper, was the signature of Mr. Serle. _Christopher Caustic_, the pseudonym of Thomas Green Fessenden, author of _Terrible Tractoration_, a Hudibrastic poem (1771-1837). _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 _Bézique, Piquet, Écarté, 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).