CADENCE. The uniform time and space for marching, more indispensable to large bodies of troops than to parties of small-arm men; yet an important part even of their drill. The regularity requisite in pulling. CADET. A volunteer, who, serving at his own charge, to learn experience, waits for preferment; a designation, recently introduced, for young gentlemen formerly rated volunteers of the first class. Properly, the younger son in French. CADGE, TO. To carry.--_Cadger_, a carrier. Kedge may be a corruption, as being carriable. CÆSAR'S PENNY. The tip given by a recruiting sergeant. CAFFILA. _See_ KAFILA. CAGE. An iron cage formed of hoops on the top of a pole, and filled with combustibles to blaze for two hours. It is lighted one hour before high-water, and marks an intricate channel navigable for the period it burns; much used formerly by fishermen. CAGE-WROCK. An old term for a ship's upper works. CAIQUE, OR KAIQUE. A small Levantine vessel. Also, a graceful skiff seen in perfection at Constantinople, where it almost monopolizes the boat traffic. It is fast, but crank, being so narrow that the oars or sculls have their looms enlarged into ball-shaped masses to counter-balance their out-board length. It has borne for ages the wave-line now brought out in England as the highest result of marine architecture. It may have from one to ten or twelve rowers. CAIRBAN. A name in the Hebrides for the basking-shark. CAIRN. Piles of stones used as marks in surveying. CAISSON, OR CAISSOON. An adopted term for a sort of float sunk to a required depth by letting water into it, when it is hauled under the ship's bottom, receives her steadily, and on pumping out the water floats her. These were long used in Holland, afterwards at Venice, and in Russia, where they were known as _camels_ (which see). Caisson is also a vessel fitted with valves, to act instead of gates for a dry dock. Used also in _pontoons_ (which see). CAKE-ICE. Ice formed in the early part of the season. CALABASH. _Cucurbita_, a gourd abundant within the tropics, furnishing drinking and washing utensils. At Tahiti and the Sandwich Islands they attain a diameter of 2 feet. There is also a calabash-tree, the fruit not exceeding the size of oranges. CALABASS. An early kind of light musket with a wheel-lock. Bourne mentions it in 1578. CALALOO. A dish of fish and vegetables. CALAMUS. _See_ RATTAN. CALANCA. A creek or cove on Italian and Spanish coasts. CALAVANCES [_Phaseolus vulgaris._ _Haricot_, Fr.] Small beans sometimes used for soup, instead of pease. CALCULATE, TO. This word, though disrated from respectability by American misuse, signified to foretell or prophesy; it is thus used by Shakspeare in the first act of "Julius Cæsar." To calculate the ship's position, either from astronomical observations or rate of the log. CALENDAR. A distribution of time. (_See_ ALMANAC.) CALENDAR-TIME. On which officers' bills are drawn.