Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 37
Certitude (n.) 確實；確信 Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty. -- J. H. Newman.
Certitude (n.) Total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant [syn: certitude, cocksureness, overconfidence].
Cerule (a.) Blue; cerulean. [Obs.] -- Dyer.
Cerulean (a.) 天藍色的 Sky-colored; blue; azure. -- Cowper.
Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall.
A flower from its cerulean wall. -- Bryant.
Cerulean (a.) Of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather" [syn: azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue].
Cerulean (n.) A light shade of blue [syn: azure, cerulean, sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue].
Ceruleous (a.) Cerulean. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Cerulific (a.) Producing a blue or sky color. [R.]
Cerumen (n.) (Physiol.) 【醫】耳垢 The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.
Cerumen (n.) A soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal [syn: cerumen, earwax].
Cerumen (n.) A waxlike substance produced inside the ear.
Cerumen (n.) The yellow waxy secretion from the glands of the external ear.
Ceruminous (a.) (Physiol.) 耳垢，耳屎，耳蠟 Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands.
Ceruminous (a.) Relating to or secreting cerumen.
Ceruse (n.) 鉛粉 White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.
Ceruse (n.) A cosmetic containing white lead.
To distinguish ceruse from natural bloom. -- Macaulay.
Ceruse (n.) (Min.) The native carbonate of lead.
Ceruse (n.) A poisonous white pigment that contains lead [syn: white lead, ceruse, lead carbonate].
Cerused (a.) Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face. -- Beau. & Fl. Cerusite
Cerusite (n.) Alt. of Cerussite.
Cerussite (n.) (Min.) 白鉛礦 Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.
Cervantite (n.) (Min.) See under Antimony.
Cervelat (n.) [F.] (Mus.) An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.
Cervical (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae.
Cervical (a.) Of or relating to the cervix of the uterus; "cervical cancer".
Cervical (a.) Relating to or associated with the neck.
Cervicide (n.) The act of killing deer; deer-slaying. [R.]
Cervine (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family Cervidae.
Cervine (a.) Relating to or resembling deer.
Cervixes (n. pl. ) of Cervix.
Cervices (n. pl. ) of Cervix.
Cervix (n.) (Anat.) The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.
Cervus
(n.)
(Zool.) A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other allied species.
Note: Formerly all species of deer were included in the
genus Cervus.
Cervus (n.) The type genus of the Cervidae [syn: Cervus, genus Cervus].
Ceryl (n.) (Chem.) A radical, C27H55 supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc. Cesarean
Cesarean (a.) Alt. of Cesarian.
Cesarian (a.) Same as Caesarean, Caesarian. cesarean
Cesarism (n.) See Caesarism.
Cespitine (n.) An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.
Cespititious (a.) Same as Cespitious. [R.] -- Gough.
Cespitose (a.) (Bot.) Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
Cespitose (a.) (Of plants) Growing in small dense clumps or tufts [syn: caespitose, cespitose, tufted].
Cespitous (a.) Pertaining to, consisting,
of resembling, turf; turfy.
A cespitous or turfy plant has many stems from the same
root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting. -- Martyn.
Cess (n.) A rate or tax. [Obs. or Prof. Eng. & Scot.] -- Spenser.
Cess (n.) Bound; measure.
[Obs.]
The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess.
-- Shak.
Cessed (imp. & p. p.) of Cess.
Cessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cess.
Cess (v. t.) To rate; to tax; to assess. -- Spenser.
Cess (v. i.) To cease; to neglect. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Cessant (a.) Inactive; dormant. [Obs.] -- W. Montagu.
Cessation (n.) A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.
The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. -- Motley.The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. -- Sir J. Hayward.
Cessation of arms (Mil.), An armistice, or truce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other purposes.
Syn: Stop; rest; stay; pause; discontinuance; intermission; interval; respite; interruption; recess; remission.
Cessation (n.) A stopping; "a cessation of the thunder" [syn: cessation, surcease].
Cessavit (n.) [O. Eng. Law] A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
Cessavit, () Eng. law. An obsolete writ, which could formerly have been sued out when the defendant had for two years ceased or neglected to perform such service or to pay such rent as he was bound to do by his tenure, and had not upon his lands sufficient goods or chattels to be distrained. F. N. B. 208.
Cesser (v. i.) (Law) A neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years.
Cessible (a.) Giving way; yielding. [Obs.] -- Ces`si*bil"i*ty, n. [Obs.] -- Sir K. Digby.
Cession (n.) A yielding to physical force. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Cession (n.) Concession; compliance. [Obs.]
Cession (n.) A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.
A cession of the island of New Orleans. -- Bancroft.
Cession (n.) (Eccl. Law) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
Cession (n.) (Civil Law) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
Cession (n.) The act of ceding [syn: cession, ceding].
Cession, () contracts. Yielding up; release.
Cession, () France ceded Louisiana to the United States, by the treaty of Paris, of April 30, 1803 Spain made a cession of East and West Florida, by the treaty of February 22, 1819. Cessions have been severally made of a part of their territory, by New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut) South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. Vide Gord. Dig. art. 2236 to 2250.
Cession, () civil law. The, act by which a party assigns or transfers property to a other; an assignment.
Cession, () eccl. law. When an ecclesiastic is created bishop, or when a parson takes another benefice, without dispensation, the first benefice becomes void by a legal cession, or surrender. Cowel, h.t.
Cessionary (a.) Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt. -- Martin.
Cessment (n.) An assessment or tax. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Cessor (n.) (Law) One who neglects, for two years, to perform the service by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. See Cessavit. -- Cowell.
Cessor (n.) An assessor. [Obs.]
Cesspipe (n.) A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool. -- Knight.
Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth. [Written also sesspool.]
Cesspool (n.) A covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it [syn: cesspool, cesspit, sink, sump].
Cest (n.) A woman's girdle; a cestus. [R.] -- Collins.
Cestode (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
Cestode (n.) One of the Cestoidea.
Cestode (n.) Ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates [syn: tapeworm, cestode].
Cestoid (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
Cestoid (n.) (Zool.) One of the Cestoidea.
Cestoidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) A class of parasitic worms of the phylum Platyhelminthes (formerly Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine.
See Tapeworm. [Written also Cestoidea.]
Syn: class Cestoidea, Cestoidea.
Cestoidean (n.) (Zool.) One of the Cestoda.
Cestraciont (n.) (Zool.) A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples.
Cestraciont (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the genus Cestracion.
Cestus (n.) (Antiq.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.
Cestus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species ({Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.
Cestus (n.) (Antiq.) A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron. Cestuy
Cestuy (pron.) Alt. of Cestui.
Cestui (pron.) (Law) He; the one.
Cestuy que trust [norm. F.], A person who has the equitable and beneficial interest in property, the legal interest in which is vested in a trustee. -- Wharton.
Cestuy que use [Norm. F.], A person for whose use land, etc., is granted to another.
Cesura (n.) See Caesura.
Cesural (a.) See Caesural.
Cetacea (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders:
Cetacea (n. pl.) (a) The Mysticete or whalebone whales, having no true teeth after birth, but with a series of plates of whalebone [see Baleen.] hanging down from the upper jaw on each side, thus making a strainer, through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed.
Cetacea (n. pl.) (b) The Denticete, including the dolphins and sperm whale, which have teeth. Another suborder ({Zeuglodontia) is extinct. The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea, but are now made a separate order.
Cetacean (n.) (Zool.) One of the Cetacea.
Cetaceous (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Cetacea.
Cete (n.) (Zool.) One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.
Cetene (n.) (Chem.) An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.
Ceterach (n.) (Bot.) A species of fern with fronds ({Asplenium Ceterach).
Cetewale (n.) Same as Zedoary. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Cetic (a.) Of or pertaining to a whale.
Cetin (n.) (Chem.) A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.
Cetological (a.) Of or pertaining to cetology.
Cetologist (a.) One versed in cetology.
Cetology (n.) The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.
Cetraric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, Iceland moss ({Cetaria Islandica).
Cetraric acid. See Cetrarin.
Cetrarin (n.) (Chem.) A white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss ({Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which is cetraric acid, a white, crystalline, bitter substance.
Cetyl (n.) (Chem.) A radical, C16H33, not yet isolated, but supposed to exist in a series of compounds homologous with the ethyl compounds, and derived from spermaceti.
Cetylic (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, spermaceti.
Cetylic alcohol (Chem.), A white, waxy, crystalline solid, obtained from spermaceti, and regarded as homologous with ordinary, or ethyl, alcohol; ethal; -- called also cetyl alcohol.
Compare: Ethal
Ethal (n.) (Chem.) A white waxy solid, C16H33.OH; -- called also cetyl alcohol and cetylic alcohol. See Cetylic alcohol, under Cetylic.
Ceylanite (n.) (Min.) A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste. [Written also ceylonite.]
Ceylonese (a.) Of or pertaining to Ceylon. -- since the change of name, replaced by Sri Lankan.
Ceylonese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Ceylon; -- since the change of name, replaced by Sri Lankan.
Ceylonese (a.) Of or relating to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) or its people or culture; "Sri Lankan beaches"; "Sri Lankan forces fighting the Sinhalese rebels" [syn: Sri Lankan, Ceylonese].
C. G. S. () An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.
Chab (n.) (Zool.) The red-bellied wood pecker ({Melanerpes Carolinus). Chabasite
Chabasite (n.) Alt. of Cabazite.
Cabazite (n.) (Min.) A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying, in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie.
Chablis (n.) [F.] A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.
Chablis (n.) A white wine resembling Chablis{1}, but made elsewhere, as in California. Chabouk
Chablis (n.) A town in north central France noted for white Burgundy wines.
Chablis (n.) Dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling it [syn: Chablis, white Burgundy].
Chabouk (n.) Alt. of Chabuk.
Chabuk (n.) A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment. -- Balfour.
Chace (n.) See 3d Chase, n., 3.
Chace (v. t.) To pursue. See Chase v. t.
Chachalaca (n.) (Zool.) The Texan guan ({Ortalis vetula). [written also chiacalaca.]
Chachalaca (n.) Slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds.
Chack (v. i.) To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.
Chacma (n.) [Native name.] A large species of African baboon ({Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon.
Note: [See Illust. of Baboon.]
Chacma (n.) Greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa [syn: chacma, chacma baboon, Papio ursinus].