Noun

(en noun)

A strong urge to become religious.

A job or occupation.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling , if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}

Noun

(en noun)

A little cat; a kitten.

Cat nor catling . — Drummond.

catgut; a catgut string

(Shakespeare)

(surgery) A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.

* 1852 , Joseph Pancoast, A Treatise on Operative Surgery

The operator