Word of the Day: Cat

cat / kat noun 1. a small domesticated feline, usually kept as a pet The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. Jules Renard, 1864-1910   2. any member of the Felidae family, i.e., lion, jaguar, etc. The first humans to reach North American found a continent crawling with terrifying big cats: an American cheetah, an American lion (bigger than those in Africa today), and the saber-toothed tiger. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/panthropocene/518664   3. someone who is very fond of playing jazz music Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him. Nigel Kennedy, 1956-