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Cimeliarch
() A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.
Cimeter
() See Scimiter.
Cimices
() of Cimex
Cimex
() A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.
Cimia
() See Cimbia.
Cimiss
() The bedbug.
Cimmerian
() Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.
Cimmerian
() Without any light; intensely dark.
Cimolite
() A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.
Cinch
() A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
Cinch
() A tight grip.
Cinchona
() A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.
Cinchona
() The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.
Cinchonaceous
() Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.
Cinchonic
() Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona.
Cinchonidine
() One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.
Cinchonine
() One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
Cinchonism
() A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.
Cinchonize
() To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.
Cincinnati epoch
() An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New York.
Cincture
() A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
Cincture
() That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.
Cincture
() The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
Cinctured
() Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.
Cinder
() Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
Cinder
() A hot coal without flame; an ember.
Cinder
() A scale thrown off in forging metal.
Cinder
() The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.
Cindery
() Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.
Cinefaction
() Cineration; reduction to ashes.
Cinematic
() Alt. of Cinematical
Cinematical
() See Kinematic.
Cinematics
() See Kinematics.
Cineraceous
() Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous.
Cineraria
() A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.
Cinerary
() Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.
Cineration
() The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
Cinereous
() Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.
Cinerescent
() Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.
Cineritious
() Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.
Cinerulent
() Full of ashes.
Cingalese
() A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants
Cingalese
() the language of the Cingalese.
Cingalese
() Of or pertaining to the Cingalese.
Cingle
() A girth.
Cingulum
() A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.
Cingulum
() The clitellus of earthworms.
Cingulum
() The base of the crown of a tooth.
Cinnabar
() Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.
Cinnabar
() The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion.