cade

1. not comparableabandoned by its mother and reared by hand

plural cades

1. An animal brought up or nourished by hand.

   Then on the verdrous Bank, where Spices rose, Rowl on the balmy Grass, or smiling play With her young Cade, her caded Lamb with Smiles Answer'd her Love, and lickt her dainty hand.

   1720, John Bulkeley, The Last-Day: Poem in XII Books, page 54

present singular third person cades · participle present cading · participle past caded · past caded

1. To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil.

   He's a spoiled boy – I believe he keeps a little bit ill so that we can cade him.

   [1911, David Herbert Lawrence, The White Peacock, Heinemann, page 142

   4 more examples

   Delicacies are thrown away upon a growing youth; they are quite out of place; his appetite does not require pampering, and cading, and coaxing; moreover, a youth who is made to think a great deal of his stomach is sure to grow up an epicure!

   1874, Pye Henry Chavasse, Counsel to a Mother on the Care and Rearing of her Children, 3rd edition, J.&A. Churchill, →OCLC, page 197

   Besides, the more luxury a child has, the more he will require—wants beget wants; until, at length, he will become a poor, wretched, artificial imbecile, fit only to be caded and cottoned up in warm enervating rooms; but totally unfit to be buffeted about—as is good for him—in this rough world of ours.

   [1881, Pye Henry Chavasse, The Mental Culture and Training of Children, Lindsay & Blakiston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 118

   "He's neither more nor less interesting than any other man, I suppose," replied Miss Podbury drily. "They're all alike, as far as I can see. I can't think what women find in them to make such a fuss about, cading them up and spoiling them in the way they do!"

   1926, Dorothy Rogers, “Miss Podbury's Adventure”, in The Windsor Magazine, volume 63, →OCLC, page 222

   mr hemstock: Tha'rt cading him a bit, Nurse. nurse: It is what will do him good—to be spoiled a while.

   1965 [1941 winter], David Herbert Lawrence, “The Merry-Go-Round”, in Complete plays (Works), W. Heinemann, →OCLC, page 427, originally in Virginia Quarterly Review

plural cades

1. Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.

plural cades

1. archaicA cask or barrel.

   A cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.

plural Cades · alternative Caid · alternative Caide · alternative Cayde · alternative Kade · alternative Kaid · alternative Kaide · alternative Kayde

1. A surname

   Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge; / The citizens fly and forsake their houses; / The rascal people, thirsting after prey, / Join with the traitor;

   ,Scene IV

   1. An English metonymic surname originating as an occupation for a cooper.
   2. A surname transferred from the given name
   3. A surname from French
2. A male given name

   They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me.

   1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC

   1. A male given name transferred from the surname.