capucinière, n.f., (b.s.) capuchin friary.

capulet, n.m., hood, cap.

caput-mortuum, n.m., (chem.) caput-mortuum; worthless remains.

caquage, n.m., dressing and curing of herrings; barreling (of powder).

caque, n.f., keg, barrel. La — sent toujours le hareng; what is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.

caquer, v.a., to cure; to barrel.

caquet, n.m., cackle (of geese, &c.); tittle-tattle, idle talk, gossip, scandal. Avoir bien du —; to be a chatter-box. Rabattre, rabaisser, le — a quelqu’un; to take anyone down a peg or two. — bon bec; dame prattler.

caquetage (kak-taj), n.m., tattling, cackling.

caquète, n.f., carp-tub.

caqueter (kak-té), v.n., to cackle, to chatter, to gossip, to babble.