cataractn.

Brit.

/ˈkatərakt/, U.S.

/ˈkædəˌræk(t)/

Forms: Middle English cataracte, ( cateracte, catterak, 1500s catracte, catharact, catarrhacte, 1500s–1600s catarract(e, 1600s cattaract, chateract, 1700s catarect, 1500s– catarack), 1600s caterick, 1600s– cataract.

Etymology: < French cataracte (in senses 1 – 4, 6), < Latin cataracta waterfall, portcullis, floodgate, < Greek καταρ(ρ)άκτης down-rushing, a down rushing bird, a portcullis, waterfall, ? (in the Septuagint) floodgate; < καταράσσειν to dash down, dash headlong, rush or fall headlong, as rain or a river, < κατ' or κατά down + ἀράσσειν or ῥάσσειν to dash. (But some think it a derivative of καταρρηγνύναι to break down.) The sense-development in Greek, Latin, and French-English, is not in all respects clear.

†1.

a. plural. The ‘flood-gates’ of heaven, viewed as keeping back the rain (with reference to Genesis vii. 11, viii. 2, where Hebrew has 'rbt lattices, windows, Septuagint καταρράκται, Vulgate cataractæ, the former probably, the latter certainly, = flood-gates, sluices; hence also French cataractes du ciel). This, the earliest use in English, is now Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > place from which rain is said to fall

the windows of heavena1425

cataracts1430

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxiv It seemed in the high heauen The Cataractes hadden be vndo.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 43 Now ar the weders cest, And cateractes knyt.

a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xiii. 112 To open the Cataracts of Heauen, and powre downe water continually.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 93 That he would open the Chateracts of Heaven.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 824 All the Cataracts of Heav'n set open on the Earth shall powre Raine day and night.

1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 13 The rain descended for forty days, the cataracts or floodgates of heaven being open'd.

†b. applied to waterspouts; also transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > water-spout or sea-storm

water pipe1539

cataract1555

spout1555

hurricano1608

waterspout1625

whirlwater1626

whirl-spout1737

vortex1769

typhon1774

whirl-pillar1850

1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 357^v They say..that in certeyne places of the sea, they sawe certeyne stremes of water which they caule spoutes faulynge owt of the ayer into the sea... Sum phantasie that these shulde bee the cataractes of heauen whiche were all opened at Noes fludde.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 2 Blow wind & cracke your cheekes, rage, blow You caterickes, & Hircanios spout.

1634 Hebbert Trav. 7 A long spout of stinking raine Pyramide wise, dissolved itselfe very neere us. This hidious Cataract.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 176 What if all..this Firmament Of Hell should spout her Cataracts of Fire.

a. A waterfall.‘Properly one of considerable size, and falling headlong over a precipice; thus distinguished from a Cascade.’ ( N.E.D.)

[A rare sense in Greek, but common in Latin, where applied to the Cataracts of the Nile.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > waterfall > [noun] > cataract

cataphracta1586

catadupe1596

cataract1597

Niagara1828

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxvi. 346 Wee see what catarrhactes and downe-falles there are by the rage of the water.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 98 The lowest cataract or fal of water [of the Nile].

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion vi. 88 Where Tivy falling downe, doth make a Cataract.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 190 A terrible Noise..as of a mighty Cataract, or Water-fall.

1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) §16. 151 The great cataracts of the Oronoco.

1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 185 From the steppes of Scythia to the cataracts of the Nile.

b. transferred. A violent downpour or rush of water.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > sudden rush of water > [noun]

flush1529

shotc1540

ravine1545

cataract1634

push1782

debacle1802

startle1912

sloosh1919

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 54 A violent storme of raine..caused such a sudden Deluge and Cattaract, that a Carrauan of two thousand Camels perisht.

1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck iii. 49 From on high, huge Cataracts descend.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 92 The hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts.

1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) VI. 1 Cataracts of water flooded the houses in the city, and turned the streets into rivers.

c. transferred and figurative (cf. flood n. 5c).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > profuseness, luxuriousness, or lushness > a profusion or lavish abundance > viewed as flowing or falling

stream971

flood1340

affluencec1390

showera1425

spatec1425

delugec1430

rain1590

spring tide1592

cataract?1614

flux1678

?1614 W. Drummond Song: It Autumne was in Poems Toungs..(Could yee amidst Worlds Cataracts them heare).

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 73 Cataracts of declamation thunder here.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. v. 231 His cataract of black beard.

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. iv. 459 Never came such a cataract of evil news on an Aulic Council before.

†3. A portcullis; also the grating of a window. Obsolete. [Probably in Greek earlier than sense 1; common in medieval Latin but rare in English.]

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > gate > [noun] > portcullis

portcullisc1330

forehearse1589

rastel1598

cataract1656

herse1704

orgues1706

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > grille or grating

latticea1382

gratec1440

trellisc1500

locutorya1535

cataract1656

grille1686

reja1777

1360–1 MS. Vicars' Roll York In j cateracta facta ante hostium Will. de Preston, 6d.]

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Cataract, a Portcullis.

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. Prol. 4 Others..assured the Port-culleys, fastned the Herses, Sarasinesks and Cataracts.

1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 53/2 Cataract, a portcullis.

4. Pathology. An opacity of the crystalline lens of the eye, or of the capsule of the lens, or of both, ‘producing more or less impairment of sight, but never complete blindness’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).[Apparently a figurative use of the sense portcullis. In French, the physician A. Paré (c1550) has ‘cataracte ou coulisse’; and Cotgrave (1611) has coulisse ‘a portcullis.. also a web in the eye’, the notion being that even when the eye is open, the cataract obstructs vision, as the portcullis does a gateway. (But if originally in medieval Latin, it might arise from the sense ‘window-grating’ fenestra clathrata, Du Cange.)]

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > cataract

pearla1382

suffusion1398

cataract1547

tay1547

eye-pearl1597

eye-web1657

hypophysis1706

pearl eye1844

gutta opaca1847

nuclear cataract1876

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xxxiii A catharact the which doth let a man to see perfytly.

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 235 Ther is a Cataract which doth light vpon the eyes of a Hawke.

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 54/2 For Catarracts or Pearles of the Eyes.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Catarátta..called a Cataract or a pin and web.

1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 323 To understand, that he would couch her gratis if the cataract was ripe.

1802 W. Heberden, Jr. tr. W. Heberden Comm. Hist. & Cure Dis. lxvi. 329 A cataract is always preceded by a dimness, or blue cloudiness of objects.

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 168 Simple cataract comes on without pain.

1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 40 Cataract is especially transmissible in the female line.

figurative.1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 86 Those thicke Cataracts of earthly vanities are dispersed.a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 41 Your eyes thus dimly will Things Heav'nly see, Till they from sensual Cataracts are free.

†5. A brake for flax. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating > implement for

swinglec1325

swingle-stickc1325

swingle-stockc1340

swingle-wandc1340

brakec1450

swingle-hand1483

swindlehanda1500

swingletree?a1500

swingling-stock?a1500

swingle-foot1500

swingling-bat1552

tow-beetle1601

tewtaw1652

swingle-staff1664

swingle-head1677

cataract1693

hemp-beatera1726

hand brake1766

scutcher1766

scutchc1791

swingling-board1819

swingling-hand1825

bott-hammer1839

swingling-post1902

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. l. 401 Athwart those Cataracts they break and bruise to very Trash the woody parcels.

6. Mechanics. A form of governor for single-acting steam-engines, in which the stroke is regulated by the flow of water through an opening.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > other parts

fire door1765

hand gear1805

throat pipe1824

cataract1832

cut-off1849

coil1852

pot-lid1856

main centre1858

trunk1859

piston sleeve1872

1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. iii. 23 Another very beautiful contrivance for regulating the number of strokes made by a steam-engine..is called the cataract.

1861 W. J. M. Rankine Man. Steam Engine 58 A pump brake of a simple kind is exemplified in the apparatus called the cataract.

†7. (See quot. ?a1400) Obsolete.

ΚΠ

?a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 9 Cataracta, a catarac of the ethere, i. via subterranea.

Compounds

C1. Generalattributive.

cataract curls n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > curled or frizzed style

frizz1668

bullhead1672

bull1699

buckle1711

frizzle1850

cataract curls1864

Niagara1864

water wave1876

marcel wave1895

permanent wave1906

Greek goda1910

marcel1921

finger wave1925

permanent1926

perm1927

home perm1949

Afro1967

natural1967

Jewfro1976

Jheri curl1977

bubble perm1992

1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 21 Nov. That beaming belle..with the Cataract curls.

cataract patient n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [noun]

patientc1387

cure1580

subject1743

sufferer1809

cataract patient1834

admission1842

case1864

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 165 A cataract patient sees a lighted candle as if it were involved in a cloud.

cataract wig n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > types of

cataract wig1870

1870 Athenæum 31 Dec. 881 Boileau Despréaux himself, in his court suit and his cataract wig.

cataract-like adj.

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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > sudden rush of water > [adjective]

cataract-like1860

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 12 An avalanche pours cataract-like over a ledge.

cataract-wise adv.

ΚΠ

1879 J. Hawthorne Laughing Mill 39 The stream fell cataract-wise into a deep pool below.

C2.

cataract-bird n. an Australian bird (see quot.).

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > member of

fincha700

fairy bird1809

fairy bluebird1839

passerine1840

cataract-bird1868

1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xii. 215 The bird..is called..the Cataract Bird (Origma rubricata) because it is always found where water-courses rush through rocky ground [in Australia].

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cataract-knife n.

cataract-needle n. a knife and needle used in the extraction of cataract, or in couching.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > instruments used in eye operations

cataract-needle1688

cystitome1809

cystotome1847

suction tube1863

iris-forceps1874

iris-scissors1874

strabotome1875

vectis1882

cataract-knife-

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 399/2 A Cataract-needle..is used to draw up the Cataract off the sight of the eye while it is cuting away.

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单词	cataract
释义	cataractn. Brit. /ˈkatərakt/, U.S. /ˈkædəˌræk(t)/ Forms: Middle English cataracte, ( cateracte, catterak, 1500s catracte, catharact, catarrhacte, 1500s–1600s catarract(e, 1600s cattaract, chateract, 1700s catarect, 1500s– catarack), 1600s caterick, 1600s– cataract. Etymology: < French cataracte (in senses 1 – 4, 6), < Latin cataracta waterfall, portcullis, floodgate, < Greek καταρ(ρ)άκτης down-rushing, a down rushing bird, a portcullis, waterfall, ? (in the Septuagint) floodgate; < καταράσσειν to dash down, dash headlong, rush or fall headlong, as rain or a river, < κατ' or κατά down + ἀράσσειν or ῥάσσειν to dash. (But some think it a derivative of καταρρηγνύναι to break down.) The sense-development in Greek, Latin, and French-English, is not in all respects clear. †1. a. plural. The ‘flood-gates’ of heaven, viewed as keeping back the rain (with reference to Genesis vii. 11, viii. 2, where Hebrew has 'rbt lattices, windows, Septuagint καταρράκται, Vulgate cataractæ, the former probably, the latter certainly, = flood-gates, sluices; hence also French cataractes du ciel). This, the earliest use in English, is now Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > place from which rain is said to fall the windows of heavena1425 cataracts1430 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxiv It seemed in the high heauen The Cataractes hadden be vndo. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 43 Now ar the weders cest, And cateractes knyt. a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xiii. 112 To open the Cataracts of Heauen, and powre downe water continually. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 93 That he would open the Chateracts of Heaven. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 824 All the Cataracts of Heav'n set open on the Earth shall powre Raine day and night. View more context for this quotation 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 13 The rain descended for forty days, the cataracts or floodgates of heaven being open'd. †b. applied to waterspouts; also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > water-spout or sea-storm water pipe1539 cataract1555 spout1555 hurricano1608 waterspout1625 whirlwater1626 whirl-spout1737 vortex1769 typhon1774 whirl-pillar1850 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 357^v They say..that in certeyne places of the sea, they sawe certeyne stremes of water which they caule spoutes faulynge owt of the ayer into the sea... Sum phantasie that these shulde bee the cataractes of heauen whiche were all opened at Noes fludde. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 2 Blow wind & cracke your cheekes, rage, blow You caterickes, & Hircanios spout. View more context for this quotation 1634 Hebbert Trav. 7 A long spout of stinking raine Pyramide wise, dissolved itselfe very neere us. This hidious Cataract. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 176 What if all..this Firmament Of Hell should spout her Cataracts of Fire. View more context for this quotation 2. a. A waterfall.‘Properly one of considerable size, and falling headlong over a precipice; thus distinguished from a Cascade.’ ( N.E.D.) [A rare sense in Greek, but common in Latin, where applied to the Cataracts of the Nile.] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > waterfall > [noun] > cataract cataphracta1586 catadupe1596 cataract1597 Niagara1828 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxvi. 346 Wee see what catarrhactes and downe-falles there are by the rage of the water. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 98 The lowest cataract or fal of water [of the Nile]. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion vi. 88 Where Tivy falling downe, doth make a Cataract. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 190 A terrible Noise..as of a mighty Cataract, or Water-fall. 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) §16. 151 The great cataracts of the Oronoco. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 185 From the steppes of Scythia to the cataracts of the Nile. b. transferred. A violent downpour or rush of water. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > sudden rush of water > [noun] flush1529 shotc1540 ravine1545 cataract1634 push1782 debacle1802 startle1912 sloosh1919 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 54 A violent storme of raine..caused such a sudden Deluge and Cattaract, that a Carrauan of two thousand Camels perisht. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck iii. 49 From on high, huge Cataracts descend. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 92 The hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. 1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) VI. 1 Cataracts of water flooded the houses in the city, and turned the streets into rivers. c. transferred and figurative (cf. flood n. 5c). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > profuseness, luxuriousness, or lushness > a profusion or lavish abundance > viewed as flowing or falling stream971 flood1340 affluencec1390 showera1425 spatec1425 delugec1430 rain1590 spring tide1592 cataract?1614 flux1678 ?1614 W. Drummond Song: It Autumne was in Poems Toungs..(Could yee amidst Worlds Cataracts them heare). 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 73 Cataracts of declamation thunder here. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. v. 231 His cataract of black beard. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. iv. 459 Never came such a cataract of evil news on an Aulic Council before. †3. A portcullis; also the grating of a window. Obsolete. [Probably in Greek earlier than sense 1; common in medieval Latin but rare in English.] ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > gate > [noun] > portcullis portcullisc1330 forehearse1589 rastel1598 cataract1656 herse1704 orgues1706 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > grille or grating latticea1382 gratec1440 trellisc1500 locutorya1535 cataract1656 grille1686 reja1777 1360–1 MS. Vicars' Roll York In j cateracta facta ante hostium Will. de Preston, 6d.] 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Cataract, a Portcullis. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. Prol. 4 Others..assured the Port-culleys, fastned the Herses, Sarasinesks and Cataracts. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 53/2 Cataract, a portcullis. 4. Pathology. An opacity of the crystalline lens of the eye, or of the capsule of the lens, or of both, ‘producing more or less impairment of sight, but never complete blindness’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).[Apparently a figurative use of the sense portcullis. In French, the physician A. Paré (c1550) has ‘cataracte ou coulisse’; and Cotgrave (1611) has coulisse ‘a portcullis.. also a web in the eye’, the notion being that even when the eye is open, the cataract obstructs vision, as the portcullis does a gateway. (But if originally in medieval Latin, it might arise from the sense ‘window-grating’ fenestra clathrata, Du Cange.)] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > cataract pearla1382 suffusion1398 cataract1547 tay1547 eye-pearl1597 eye-web1657 hypophysis1706 pearl eye1844 gutta opaca1847 nuclear cataract1876 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xxxiii A catharact the which doth let a man to see perfytly. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 235 Ther is a Cataract which doth light vpon the eyes of a Hawke. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 54/2 For Catarracts or Pearles of the Eyes. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Catarátta..called a Cataract or a pin and web. 1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 323 To understand, that he would couch her gratis if the cataract was ripe. 1802 W. Heberden, Jr. tr. W. Heberden Comm. Hist. & Cure Dis. lxvi. 329 A cataract is always preceded by a dimness, or blue cloudiness of objects. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 168 Simple cataract comes on without pain. 1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 40 Cataract is especially transmissible in the female line. figurative.1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 86 Those thicke Cataracts of earthly vanities are dispersed.a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 41 Your eyes thus dimly will Things Heav'nly see, Till they from sensual Cataracts are free. †5. A brake for flax. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating > implement for swinglec1325 swingle-stickc1325 swingle-stockc1340 swingle-wandc1340 brakec1450 swingle-hand1483 swindlehanda1500 swingletree?a1500 swingling-stock?a1500 swingle-foot1500 swingling-bat1552 tow-beetle1601 tewtaw1652 swingle-staff1664 swingle-head1677 cataract1693 hemp-beatera1726 hand brake1766 scutcher1766 scutchc1791 swingling-board1819 swingling-hand1825 bott-hammer1839 swingling-post1902 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. l. 401 Athwart those Cataracts they break and bruise to very Trash the woody parcels. 6. Mechanics. A form of governor for single-acting steam-engines, in which the stroke is regulated by the flow of water through an opening. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > other parts fire door1765 hand gear1805 throat pipe1824 cataract1832 cut-off1849 coil1852 pot-lid1856 main centre1858 trunk1859 piston sleeve1872 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. iii. 23 Another very beautiful contrivance for regulating the number of strokes made by a steam-engine..is called the cataract. 1861 W. J. M. Rankine Man. Steam Engine 58 A pump brake of a simple kind is exemplified in the apparatus called the cataract. †7. (See quot. ?a1400) Obsolete. ΚΠ ?a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 9 Cataracta, a catarac of the ethere, i. via subterranea. Compounds C1. Generalattributive. a. cataract curls n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > curled or frizzed style frizz1668 bullhead1672 bull1699 buckle1711 frizzle1850 cataract curls1864 Niagara1864 water wave1876 marcel wave1895 permanent wave1906 Greek goda1910 marcel1921 finger wave1925 permanent1926 perm1927 home perm1949 Afro1967 natural1967 Jewfro1976 Jheri curl1977 bubble perm1992 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 21 Nov. That beaming belle..with the Cataract curls. cataract patient n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > patient > [noun] patientc1387 cure1580 subject1743 sufferer1809 cataract patient1834 admission1842 case1864 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 165 A cataract patient sees a lighted candle as if it were involved in a cloud. cataract wig n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > types of cataract wig1870 1870 Athenæum 31 Dec. 881 Boileau Despréaux himself, in his court suit and his cataract wig. b. cataract-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > sudden rush of water > [adjective] cataract-like1860 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 12 An avalanche pours cataract-like over a ledge. c. cataract-wise adv. ΚΠ 1879 J. Hawthorne Laughing Mill 39 The stream fell cataract-wise into a deep pool below. C2. cataract-bird n. an Australian bird (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > member of fincha700 fairy bird1809 fairy bluebird1839 passerine1840 cataract-bird1868 1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xii. 215 The bird..is called..the Cataract Bird (Origma rubricata) because it is always found where water-courses rush through rocky ground [in Australia]. Thesaurus » Categories » cataract-knife n. cataract-needle n. a knife and needle used in the extraction of cataract, or in couching. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > instruments used in eye operations cataract-needle1688 cystitome1809 cystotome1847 suction tube1863 iris-forceps1874 iris-scissors1874 strabotome1875 vectis1882 cataract-knife- 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 399/2 A Cataract-needle..is used to draw up the Cataract off the sight of the eye while it is cuting away. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). cataractv. Etymology: < cataract n. a. transitive. To pour like a cataract, to pour copiously.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. in Biogr. Lit. (1847) App. II. 370 The Monthly has cataracted panegyric on me. b. intransitive. To fall in a cataract. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > waterfall > descend as a waterfall [verb (intransitive)] > cataract niagara1800 cataract1832 1832 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 125 No river should cataract larger than the Clyde. 1844 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross (1845) I. 285 The whole body of the Nile precipitates itself..cataracting very respectably. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.?a1400v.1796
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cataractn.

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