Cima (n.) A kind of molding. See Cyma.
Cimar (n.) See Simar.
Cimbal (n.) A kind of confectionery or cake.
Cimbia (n.) A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.
Cimbrian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cimbri.
Cimbrian (n.) One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric.
Cimbric (a.) Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting Northern Germany.
Cimbric (n.) The language of the Cimbri.
Cimeliarch (n.) A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.
Cimeter (n.) See Scimiter.
Cimices (pl. ) of Cimex
Cimex (n.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.
Cimia (n.) See Cimbia.
Cimiss (n.) The bedbug.
Cimmerian (a.) Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.
Cimmerian (a.) Without any light; intensely dark.
Cimolite (n.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.
Cinch (n.) A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
Cinch (n.) A tight grip.
Cinchona (n.) 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 (n.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.
Cinchonaceous (a.) Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.
Cinchonic (a.) Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona.
Cinchonidine (n.) 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 (n.) One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
Cinchonism (n.) A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.
Cinchonize (v. t.) 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 (n.) A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
Cincture (n.) That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.
Cincture (n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
Cinctured (n.) Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.
Cinder (n.) Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
Cinder (n.) A hot coal without flame; an ember.
Cinder (n.) A scale thrown off in forging metal.
Cinder (n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.
Cindery (a.) Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.
Cinefaction (n.) Cineration; reduction to ashes.
Cinematic (a.) Alt. of Cinematical
Cinematical (a.) See Kinematic.
Cinematics (n. sing.) See Kinematics.
Cineraceous (a.) Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous.
Cineraria (n.) A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.
Cinerary (a.) Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.
Cineration (n.) The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
Cinereous (a.) Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.
Cinerescent (a.) Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.
Cineritious (a.) Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.
Cinerulent (a.) Full of ashes.
Cingalese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants
Cingalese (n. sing. & pl.) the language of the Cingalese.
Cingalese (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cingalese.
Cingle (n.) A girth.
Cingulum (n.) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.
Cingulum (n.) The clitellus of earthworms.
Cingulum (n.) The base of the crown of a tooth.
Cinnabar (n.) Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.
Cinnabar (n.) The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion.
Cinnabarine (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.
Cinnamene (n.) Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.
Cinnamic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon.
Cinnamomic (a.) See Cinnamic.
Cinnamon (n.) The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.
Cinnamon (n.) Cassia.
Cinnamone (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.
Cinnamyl (n.) The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds.
Cinnoline (n.) A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds.
Cinque (n.) Five; the number five in dice or cards.
Cinquecento (n. & a.) The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.
Cinquefoil (n.) The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.
Cinquefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc.
Cinque-pace (n.) A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five.
Cinque Ports () Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places.
Cinque-spotted (a.) Five-spotted.
Cinter (n.) See Center.
Cinura (n. pl.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma.
Cion (n.) See Scion.
Cipher (n.) A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.
Cipher (n.) One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.
Cipher (n.) A character in general, as a figure or letter.
Cipher (n.) A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.
Cipher (n.) A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.
Cipher (a.) Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
Ciphered (imp. & p. p.) of Cipher
Ciphering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cipher
Cipher (v. i.) To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.
Cipher (v. t.) To write in occult characters.
Cipher (v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
Cipher (v. t.) To decipher.
Cipher (v. t.) To designate by characters.
Cipherer (n.) One who ciphers.
Cipherhood (n.) Nothingness.
Cipolin (n.) A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.
Cippi (pl. ) of Cippus
Cippus (n.) A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc.
Circ (n.) An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.
Circar (n.) A district, or part of a province. See Sircar.
Circassian (a.) Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia.
Circassian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Circassia.
Circean (a.) Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.