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cadence 57 cahicr
cadence, perdre la du pas, (mil.) to lose step;
tenir la du pas, (mil.) to keep step.
cadencer, v. a., (mil.) to cadence;
une allure, (man.) to regularize, to steady,
a gait;
le pas, (mil.) to keep step in marching, to
take up a cadenced step
cadet, m., (mil.) cadet.
cadet te, f., flat paving stone, suitable for a sidewalk.
cadmium, m., cadmium.
cadole,f., latch;
. d ressort, spring latch.
cadran, m., face, dial, plate; dividing-plate;
shake (in wood); (Fr. s. c. art., F. m. art.)
breech-plate;
fermeture to,
, (F. m. art.) breech-closure in
which the console runs in the grooves of a
dial (cadran) (antiquated);
indicateur de pointage, (art.) elevation indicator
or dial;
solaire, sun-dial.
cadranures, f. pi., shakes (in wood).
cadre, m frame, outline, skeleton; border (of
a man); (art.) bracket-block; (artif.) quickmatch
rest; (mil.) fundamentally, officers
(commissioned and noncommissioned) who
frame in (encadrcr) the men; (by extension)
all the officers, n. c. o.'s, and corporals of a
battery, troop, or company; all the officers
of a regiment; (~>y a further extension) the
officers of the staff, of the intendance, santi
etc., of the various departments (contrdle,
archives, etc.) connected with the military
service; the staff of a military school; the
oOcers on recruiting, remount, etc., service;
(hi a limited sense, esp. in pi.) the
n. c. o.'s of a company; (as applied to units)
the elements necessary to the continuous
organic existence of the unit, irrespective
of the men to put it on an effective basis; a
Class of officers (e. g., de reserve, infra.)
I. Frame (material); II. Military or-
ganization.
I. Frame:
affut, (min.) stand or frame of a drill;
avec * arc-boutes, (pont.) single-locked;
cible, (ball.) velocity-frame, frame and
wires for determination of muzzle veloci-
ties;
coffrant, (mil. min.) casing (of a shaft),
sort of box frame;
devidoir, reel;
extenseur, (phot.) stretching-frame;
faux , (mil. win.) temporary frame, somewhat
larger than permanent, used in sinking
ing shafts in difficult (crumbling) soil;
de aalerie, (Fr. art.) arrangement or frame
on caisson chest, to carry the sacs of the men
(caisson, model 1888) ;
& glissieres, (mach.) slide-frame;
- -interrupteur , (ball.) v. cible,'
de manoeuvre, (pont.) frame used in construction
of trestle and of pile bridges (for
swinging trestle into position and for pilesetting);
methode des s, (pont.) method of construction
of trestle bridges in which s de manoeuvre
are used;
de miners), (mil. min.) shaft-frame;
multipltcateur, t (elec.) galvanometer coil;
& oreilles, (mil. min.) top frame of a
shaft, the ends or horns (oreilles) of which
stick out beyond the square;
porte-lunette, (mach.) poppet-head;
a secher, (artif., powd.) drying-frame,
tray board;
support, any supporting frame;
des tamis, (powd.) shaking-frame, shaker;
uni, (mil. min.) shaft-frame (i. e., has no
projecting horns, (oreilles);
& vis, screw-frame.
II. Military organization:
actif, active army (as opposed to reserve),
troops of the active army (used in a very general
way);
cadre, alimenter le , les s, to strengthen
the cadres, add to them;
arme the armed or
{ arm-bearing portion
of a unit (as opposed to the unarmed or noncombatant);
complcmentaire, supernumerary officers ( Fr.
a., of infantry);
de conduite, detachment for conducting
recruits to the regiments to which they are
assigned (generally, Fr. a., of n. c. o.'s, but
sometimes commanded by a lieutenant);
exerdces des s, drill and instruction of
officers and n. c. o. (generally of tne
-
latter);
fixe, permanent staff (as of a school);
hors , seconded (n. e., U. S. A.); status of
an officer of the active list, on the staff, at
a military school, either as instructor or student,
etc., and so not counted as belonging to a
statutory organization;
instructeur, staff or detail for instruction
(drill);
loi des s, law organizing the army;
manoeuvres avec s, v. exerdces des s:
mobile, the attached, transient, or detailed
staff (as of a school);
offic ier , the officers ofa unit;
des officiers de reserve, officers of the reserve;
~d' organisation, the elements of the organic
existence of a unit;
de reserve, ( Fr. a.) the second section of the
etat- major general de I'armee (i. e., body of
sral officers), composed of generals and
of functionaries of assimilated" rank that
have reached retiring age or are retired through
disability; (in a general sense) officers,
etc., of the reserve, as contradistinguished
from those o f the active army :
troupe , skeleton organization.
caducee, m., caducous, (-Fr. o.) emblem of the
personnel milUaire of the n?edical department,
cats, m., coffee;
torrefie, roasted coffee;
vert , raw, unroasted coffee.
caffft t, m., old iron, scrap iron; (art.) fragments
of projectiles, old guns, etc.
caffuter, v. a., (art.) to break up guns, projectiles,
etc.; to condemn.
cage, f., cage, casing, housing; well (of a staircase,
the case proper); casing of a stairway;
(sm. a.) cylinder recess of a revolver;
(fort.) well for the counterpoise of a drawbridge;
du barillet, (sm. a.) recess of a revolver
frame, space in which the cylinder revolves;
. de culasse, (art.) breech-casing of the canon &
balles:
guide, (sm. a.) lock-case (Borchardt pistol);
de monte-chargcs,