a. - Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele
belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served
the club with mutton pies.
a. - Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size,
viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called
because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits
he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club.
n. - A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood,
called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat.