Definition of Cascede
Cas*cade" (kăs*kād"),
n. [F. cascade, fr. It. cascata,
fr. cascare to fall.] A fall of water over a
precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a
cataract.
The silver brook . . . pours the white
cascade.
Longfellow.
Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in
cascade.
Cowper.
Cas*cade", v. i. 1.
To fall in a cascade. Lowell.
2. To vomit. [Slang]
Smollett.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.
Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade. -Cawper
- (figurative) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.
The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events — Richard M. Restak, The Secret Life of the Brain, Joseph Henry Press, 2001
- To fall in a cascade.
- (archaic) (slang) To vomit.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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