This is a strong and efficacious caustic; a certain remedy for the foot-rot in sheep, and effectual in canker of the horse’s foot, provided these complaints are properly managed in other respects. It is formed with melted hog’s lard into a strong _detergent_ ointment, or diluted with water. No. 3. Nitrous acid 1 oz. Verdigris ½ oz.—Mix. This caustic is similar to the former, and applicable to the same purposes. No. 4. Muriate of antimony, or butter of antimony. 5. Muriate of quicksilver, or sublimate 1 dr. Muriatic acid 2 dr. This is a very powerful caustic, and always requires dilution. Yellow arsenic mixed with lime and grease, or hog’s lard, is sometimes used as a caustic to destroy warts, or cure fistula or poll-evil. MILD CAUSTICS, LIQUID. No. 1. Solution of blue vitriol. 2. Any of the stronger caustics, except butter of antimony, diluted with an equal quantity, or more, of water. 3. Muriatic acid. 4. Muriate of iron.—_White._ CAUTERIZE, _v._ To burn with the cautery. CAUTERY, _s._ Cautery is either actual or potential; the first is burning by a hot iron, and the latter with caustic medicines. CAW, _v._ To cry as the rook or crow. CELLULAR, _a._ Consisting of little cells or cavities. CEMENT, _s._ The matter with which two bodies are made to cohere. CERATE, _s._ A plaster made of wax. CERE, _s._ (_Cera_, LINN.) A term in ornithology for the naked skin which covers the base of the bill, as in the hawk kind. CERECLOTH, _s._ Cloth smeared over with glutinous matter. CERTIFICATE FOR KILLING GAME, _s._ The legal authority prescribed by act of parliament. Penalty for shooting without, 20_l._ To be taken out annually, in the parish or place where your assessed taxes are paid—costs, 3_l._ 13_s._ 6_d._, and one shilling fee to the collector. Does not authorise unqualified persons to kill game, but exempts them from the penalty of 20_l._, and leaves them subject to that of 5_l._ for non-qualification, and also to that of 5_l._ a piece for every head of game found in their possession. For menial servants, hired as gamekeepers, costs, 1_l._ 5_s._, and a shilling fee to the collector. Persons, not menial servants, must have a three and a half guinea certificate, and should have, also, the common gamekeeper’s certificate, to hold a deputation. When demanded by any assessor, collector, land owner, commissioner, inspector, surveyor, occupier of land, also gamekeeper, or other person, provided the two latter produce their certificates, previously to requiring yours, penalty for refusing, 20_l._ If you have not your certificate to produce, your name, and place of abode, may be asked. All certificates expire on the 5th of April in each year.