Cat
An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.
A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.
A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.
A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.
An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.
A cat o' nine tails. See below.
To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.
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Cat Quotations
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
Mark Twain
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich Nietzsche
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Edgar Allan Poe
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Groucho Marx
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven Wright
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields
When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
Rodney Dangerfield
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
Will Rogers
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
Lewis Carroll
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Ogden Nash
A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
William S. Burroughs
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
William S. Burroughs
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
Virginia Woolf
In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
Michel de Montaigne
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Michel de Montaigne
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P. J. O'Rourke
It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping
I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.
Christopher Walken
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
E. B. White
A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
Helen Rowland
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Charles Baudelaire
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Cat Translations
cat in Danish is kat
cat in Dutch is kattekop
cat in Finnish is kissa
cat in German is Katze
cat in Italian is gatto, gatta
cat in Latin is cattus
cat in Norwegian is katt
cat in Portuguese is gato
cat in Spanish is gato
cat in Swedish is katt
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