Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 60
Cima (n.) (Arch.) A kind of molding. See Cyma.
Compare: Simar
Simar (n.) A woman's long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf. [Written also cimar, cymar, samare, simare.]
Cimar (n.) See Simar.
Cimbal (n.) A kind of confectionery or cake. [Obs.] -- Nares.
Cimbia (n.) (Arch.) A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it. [Written also cimia.]
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. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Compare: Scimiter
Scimiter (n.) A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians. [Written also cimeter, and scymetar.].
Scimiter (n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.
Scimiter pods (Bot.), The immense curved woody pods of a leguminous woody climbing plant ({Entada scandens) growing in tropical India and America. They contain hard round flattish seeds two inches in diameter, which are made into boxes.
Cimeter (n.) See Scimiter.
Cimices (n. pl. ) of Cimex.
Cimex (n.) (Zool.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.
Cimex (n.) Type genus of the Cimicidae: bedbugs [syn: Cimex, genus Cimex].
Compare: Cimbia
Cimbia (n.) (Arch.) A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it. [Written also cimia.].
Cimia (n.) See Cimbia.
Cimiss (n.) (Zool.) The bedbug. [Obs.] -- Wright.
Cimmerian (a.) [Written also Kimmerian.] 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.
In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. -- Milton.
Cimmerian (a.) Intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness; "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt" -- Norman Douglas.
Cimmerian (a.) Very dark; gloomy.
// Deep, Cimmerian caverns.
Cimmerian (a.) Classical Mythology. of, relating to, or suggestive of a western people believed to dwell in perpetual darkness.
Cimmerian (n.) Greek Mythology One of a mythical people described by Homer as inhabiting a land of perpetual darkness.
Cimmerian (n.) A member of an ancient nomadic people who overran Asia Minor in the 7th century BC.
Cimmerian (n.) (Greek Mythology) A member of a mythical people living in perpetual mist and darkness near the land of the dead.
Cimmerian (a.) Relating to the ancient Cimmerians.
‘The tombs of the Cimmerian kings.’
Cimmerian (a.) Relating to or characteristic of the mythical Cimmerians or the perpetual mist and darkness in which they lived.
‘A dense fog shrouded the lonely mountain in Cimmerian darkness.’
Cimmerianism (n.) (Uncountable) (Figuratively) Mental darkness; ignorance.
Compare: Tobacco
Tobacco (n.) (Bot.) An American plant ({Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco ({Nicotiana rustica, and also Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco ({Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco ({Nicotiana Persica).
Tobacco (n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
Tobacco box (Zool.), The common American skate.
Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine.
Tobacco man, A tobacconist. [R.]
Tobacco pipe. A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or other material.
Tobacco pipe. (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian.
Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.), A species of clay used in making tobacco pipes; -- called also cimolite.
Tobacco-pipe fish. (Zool.) See Pipemouth.
Tobacco stopper, A small plug for pressing down the tobacco in a pipe as it is smoked.
Tobacco worm (Zool.), The larva of a large hawk moth ({Sphinx Carolina syn. Phlegethontius Carolina). It is dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of Hawk moth.
Cimolite (n.) (Min.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.
Cinch (v. t.) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
Cinch (n.) A strong saddle girth, as of canvas. [West. U. S.]
Cinch (n.) A tight grip. [Colloq.]
Cinch (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Cinched; p. pr. & vb. n. Cinch"ing.] 使（釘子等）釘牢而敲彎（或敲平）釘尖；用敲彎（或敲平）釘尖的辦法把……釘牢；使得到最後解決；在……中得勝；最終贏得 To put a cinch upon; to girth tightly. [Western U. S.]
Cinch (v. t.) To get a sure hold upon; to get into a tight place, as for forcing submission. [Slang, U. S.]
Cinch (v. i.) （拳擊等）用臂鉗住對手（使其不能有效出擊）；【美】【俚】擁抱，緊抱 To perform the action of cinching; to tighten the cinch; -- often with up. [Western U. S.]
Cinch (n.) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called right pedro) and the five of the same color (called left pedro, and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) each count five on the score. Fifty-one points make a game. Called also double pedro and high five.
Cinch (n.) Any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" [syn: cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake].
Cinch (n.) Stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place [syn: cinch, girth].
Cinch (n.) A form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps.
Cinch (v.) Tie a cinch around; "cinch horses" [syn: cinch, girth].
Cinch (v.) Make sure of.
Cinch (v.) Get a grip on; get mastery of.
Compare: Peruvian
Peruvian (a.) Of or pertaining to Peru, in South America. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Peru.
Peruvian balsam. See Balsam of Peru, under Balsam.
Peruvian bark, The bitter bark of trees of various species of Cinchona. It acts as a powerful tonic, and is a remedy for malarial diseases. This property is due to several alkaloids, as quinine, cinchonine, etc., and their compounds; -- called also Jesuit's bark, and cinchona. See Cinchona.
Cinchona (n.) (Bot.) 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.) (Med.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.
Cinchona (n.) Medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine [syn: cinchona, cinchona bark, Peruvian bark, Jesuit's bark].
Cinchona (n.) Any of several trees of the genus Cinchona [syn: cinchona, chinchona].
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.
Cinematograph (n.) An older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.
The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass. -- Encyc. Brit.
Cinematograph (n.) A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above.
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.) (Zool.) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.
Cingulum (n.) (Zool.) The clitellus of earthworms.
Cingulum (n.) (Zool.) The base of the crown of a tooth.
Cingulum (n.) (Anatomy) An encircling structure (as the ridge around the base of a tooth).
Cinnabar (n.) (Min.) 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.
Cinnabar Gr[ae]corum. [L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the Greeks.] (Med.) Same as Dragon's blood.
Green cinnabar, A green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire.
Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), An impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster.
Cinnabar (a.) Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color [syn: vermilion, vermillion, cinnabar, Chinese-red].
Cinnabar (n.) A heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury.
Cinnabar (n.) Large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort [syn: cinnabar, cinnabar moth, Callimorpha jacobeae].
Cinnabarine (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.
Compare: Styrolene
Styrolene (n.) (Chem.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C8H8, obtained by the distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.
Cinnamene (n.) (Chem.) Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.
Cinnamene (n.) A colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene [syn: styrene, cinnamene, phenylethylene, vinylbenzene].
Cinnamic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon.
Cinnamomic (a.) See Cinnamic.
Cinnamon (n.) 【植】樟屬的樹；肉桂，桂 [C]；肉桂皮；桂皮香料（調味用）[U] 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.
Cinnamon stone (Min.), A variety of garnet, of a cinnamon or hyacinth red color, sometimes used in jewelry.
Oil of cinnamon, A colorless aromatic oil obtained from cinnamon and cassia, and consisting essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, C6H5.C2H2.CHO.
Wild cinnamon. See Canella.
Cinnamon (n.) Aromatic bark used as a spice [syn: cinnamon, cinnamon bark].
Cinnamon (n.) Tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon [syn: cinnamon, Ceylon. cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum].
Cinnamon (n.) Spice from the dried aromatic bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree; used as rolled strips or ground.
Cinnamon () Heb. kinamon, the Cinnamomum zeylanicum of botanists, a tree of the Laurel family, which grows only in India on the Malabar coast, in Ceylon, and China. There is no trace of it in Egypt, and it was unknown in Syria. The inner rind when dried and rolled into cylinders forms the cinnamon of commerce. The fruit and coarser pieces of bark when boiled yield a fragrant oil. It was one of the principal ingredients in the holy anointing oil (Ex. 30:23). It is mentioned elsewhere only in Prov. 7:17; Cant. 4:14; Rev. 18:13. The mention of it indicates a very early and extensive commerce carried on between Palestine and the East.
Cinnamon (n.) The aromatic inner bark of any of several East Indian trees belonging to the genus Cinnamonum, of the laurel family, especially the bark of C. zeylanicum (Ceylon cinnamon), used as a spice, or that of C. loureirii (Saigon cinnamon), used in medicine as a cordial and carminative.
Cinnamon (n.) A tree yielding such bark.
Cinnamon (n.) Any allied or similar tree.
Cinnamon (n.) A common culinary spice of dried rolled strips of this bark, often made into a powder.
Cinnamon (a.) (Of food) 用桂皮調味的 Containing or flavored with cinnamon.
Cinnamon (a.) 肉桂色的；淺紅褐色的；淺黃褐色的 Reddish-brown or yellowish-brown.
Cinnamone (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.
Compare: Styryl
Styryl (n.) (Chem.) A hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also cinnyl, or cinnamyl.
Cinnamyl (n.) (Chem.) The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds. [Formerly written also cinnamule.]
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.) (pl. -s) (Bot.) 委陵菜屬植物 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.) (Arch.) 【建】五葉形裝飾；梅型花裝飾 An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc. -- Gwilt.
Marsh cinquefoil, The Potentilla palustris, a plant with purple flowers which grows in fresh-water marshes.
Cinquefoil (n.) Any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties [syn: cinquefoil, five-finger].
Cinquefoil (n.) An ornamental carving consisting of five arcs arranged in a circle.
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.) (Arith.) 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.
Here he was a mere cipher. -- W. Irving.
Cipher (n.) A character in general, as a figure or letter. [Obs.]
This wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
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.
His father . . . engaged him when he was very young to write all his letters to England in cipher. --Bp. Burnet.
Cipher key, A key to assist in reading writings in cipher.
Cipher (a.) Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence. "Twelve cipher bishops." -- Milton.
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.
'T was certain he could write and cipher too. -- Goldsmith.
Cipher (v. t.) To write in occult characters.
His notes he ciphered with Greek characters. -- Hayward.
Cipher (v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
Cipher (v. t.) To decipher. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Cipher (v. t.) To designate by characters. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Cipher (n.) A message written in a secret code [syn: cipher, cypher].
Cipher (n.) A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number [syn: zero, 0, nought, cipher, cypher].
Cipher (n.) A quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo].
Cipher (n.) A person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity].
Cipher (n.) A secret method of writing [syn: cipher, cypher, cryptograph, secret code].
Cipher (v.) Convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons" [syn: code, encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code].
Cipher (v.) Make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure].
Cipher. () An arithmetical character, used for numerical notation. Vide Figures, and 13 Vin. Ab. 210; 18 Eng. C. L. R. 95; 1 Ch. Cr. Law, 176.
CIPHER. () By cipher is also understood a mode of secret writing. Public ministers and other public agents frequently use ciphers in their correspondence, and it is sometimes very useful so to correspond in times of war. A key is given to each minister before his departure, namely, the cipher for writing ciphers, (chiffre chiffrant,) and the cipher for deciphering (chiffre dechiffrant.) Besides these, it is usual to give him a common cipher, (chiffre banal,) which is known to all the ministers of the same power, who occasionally use it in their correspondence with each other.
CIPHER. () When it is suspected that, a cipher becomes known to the cabinet where the minister is residing, recourse is had to a preconcerted sign in order to annul, entirely or in part, what has been written in cipher, or rather to indicate that the contents are to be understood in an inverted or contrary sense. A cipher of reserve is also employed in extraordinary cases.
Cipherer (n.) One who ciphers.
Cipherhood (n.) Nothingness. [R.] -- Goodwin.
Cipolin (n.) (Min.) A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.
Cippi (n. pl. ) of Cippus.
Cippus (n.) [L., stake, post.] 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. -- Gwilt.
Circ (n.) [See Circus.] An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus. [R.] -- T. Warton.
Circa (adv., prep.) [L.] Approximately; about; commonly abbreviated ca.; -- used especially before dates and numerical measures; as, he was born circa 1650; ca. 50 feet high.
Syn: ca.
Circar (n.) A district, or part of a province. See Sircar. [India]
Compare: Circassia
Circassia (n.) (in British English) A region of S Russia, on the Black Sea north of the Caucasus Mountains.
Circassian (a.) Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia.
Circassian (n.) A native or
inhabitant of Circassia.
Circassian (n.) A member of the Sunni
Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia.
Circassian (n.) A mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia.
Circassian (n.) A northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian
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. Circensial