a cag, cask, or barrel. A cade 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 cadea, or oleum de cadea. This is supposed by some to be the pisseleum 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 phryganeca. It is used as a bait in angling. See Phryganeca, Entomology Index.