cadre, n.m., frame (for a picture); (nav. milit.); list of officers; framework; skeleton; limits. Être sur les —; (nav.) to be on the sick list.
cadrer, v.n., to agree, to square with, to tally; to suit, to fit in with.
cadrille, n.f., check, square.
cadriller, v.a., to rule (in squares), to checker.
cadu-c, -que, adj., decrepit; broken-down; decayed, crazy; lapsed, null, void (of legacies); (bot.) deciduous. Age —; decrepit old age. Devenir —; to decay. Legs —; lapsed legacy (barred by limitation). Le mal —; the falling sickness, epilepsy.
caducée, n.m., caduceus, Mercury’s wand; tipstaff.
caducité, n.f., caducity; decay, decline.
cæcum (sékom), n.m., (anat.) cæcum.
cafard, -e, adj., hypocritical, sanctimonious.
cafard, n.m., -e, n.f., canter, hypocrite; tell-tale; humbug, sneak.