a cag, cask or barrel. A cask of herrings is a vessel containing the quantity of 500 red herrings, or 1000 sprats.

CADE Lamb, a young lamb weaned, and brought up by hand, in a house; called, in the North, pet lamb.

CADE Oil, in the Materia Medica, a name given to an oil much in use in some parts of France and Germany. The physicians call it oleum cadei, or oleum de cadea. This is supposed by some to be the piftleum of the ancients, but improperly; it is made of the fruit of the oxycedrus, which is called by the people of these places cadea.

CADE Worm, in Zoology, the maggot or worm of a fly called phryganea. It is used as a bait in angling. See PHRYGANEA, ENTOMOLOGY Index.