Ca-hīer', n.
(or kā'e-yā'), n. [Fr. cahier, O. Fr. cæier, cayer, quayer, Pr. qadern, cazern, Catalan quadern, Sp. cuaderno, Pg. caderno, quaderno, It. quaderno, L. Lat. quaternus, quaternum, cæternum, quaternium, quaternis, from Lat. quaterni, four each, four together, because the sheets of manuscripts were folded into four parts.]
Sense 1. A number of sheets of paper put loosely together;—applied to the successive portions of a work when printed in parts or numbers.
Sense 2. A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, &c.