Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 64
Cite (v. t.) 引用；引……為證；舉出；表揚，表彰；傳令嘉獎 [（+for）]；【律】傳喚，傳訊；想起 To bespeak; to indicate. [Obs.]
Aged honor cites a virtuous youth. -- Shak.
Cite (v. t.) (Law) To notify of a proceeding in court. -- Abbot.
Syn: To quote; mention, name; refer to; adduce; select; call; summon. See Quote.
Cite (n.) 〔口語〕例證，引文 (＝ Citation) A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases" [syn: citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation].
Cite (v.) Make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" [syn: mention, advert, bring up, cite, name, refer].
Cite (v.) Commend; "he was cited for his outstanding achievements" [syn: mention, cite].
Cite (v.) Refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work" [syn: reference, cite].
Cite (v.) Repeat a passage from; "He quoted the Bible to her" [syn: quote, cite].
Cite (v.) Refer to for illustration or proof; "He said he could quote several instances of this behavior" [syn: quote, cite].
Cite (v.) Advance evidence for [syn: adduce, abduce, cite].
Cite (v.) Call in an official matter, such as to attend court [syn: summon, summons, cite].
Citer (n.) One who cites.
Citess (n.) A city woman. [R.]
Cithara (n.) (Mus.) An ancient instrument resembling the harp. [Also spelled kithara.]
Citharistic (a.) Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.
Cithern (n.) See Cittern.
Compare: Cittern
Cittern (n.) (Mus.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] -- Shak.
Note: Not to be confounded with zither.
Cithern (n.) A 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings [syn: cittern, cithern, cither, citole, gittern].
Citicism (n.) The manners of a cit or citizen.
Citied (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a city. "Smoky, citied towns" [R.] -- Drayton.
Citied (a.) Containing, or covered with, cities. [R.] "The citied earth." -- Keats.
Citified (a.) Aping, or having, the manners of a city.
Citified (a.) Being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person [syn: citified, cityfied, city-bred, city-born].
Citigradae (n. pl.) (Zool.) A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders ({Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider.
Citigrade (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to the Citigradae.
Citigrade (n.) One of the Citigradae.
Citiner (n.) One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen. [Obs.] -- Champan.
Citizen (n.) [C] 市民，（城市）居民；公民；【美】（與軍人，警察相對的）平民，老百姓 One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.
That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. -- G. Eliot.
Citizen (n.) An inhabitant of a city; a townsman. -- Shak.
Citizen (n.) A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.
Note: This protection is . . . national protection, recognition of the individual, in the face of foreign nations, as a member of the state, and assertion of his security and rights abroad as well as at home. -- Abbot
Citizen (n.) One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.
Citizen (a.) Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.
Citizen (a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious. [Obs.]
I am not well, But not so citizen a wanton as To seem to die ere sick. -- Shak.
Citizen (n.) A native or naturalized member of a state or other political community [ant: alien, foreigner, noncitizen, outlander].
Citizen, () persons. One who, under the constitution and laws of the United States, has a right to vote for representatives in congress, and other public officers, and who is qualified to fill offices in the gift of the people. In a more extended sense, under the word citizen, are included all white persons born in the United States, and naturalized persons born out of the same, who have not lost their right as such. This includes men, women, and children.
Citizen, () Citizens are either native born or naturalized. Native citizens may fill any office; naturalized citizens may be elected or appointed to any office under the constitution of the United States, except the office of president and vice-president. The constitution provides, that "the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states." Art. 4, s. 2.
Citizen, () All natives are not citizens of the United States; the descendants of the aborigines, and those of African origin, are not entitled to the rights of citizens. Anterior to the adoption of the constitution of the United States, each state had the right to make citizens of such persons as it pleased. That constitution does not authorize any but white persons to become citizens of the United States; and it must therefore be presumed that no one is a citizen who is not white. 1 Litt. R. 334; 10 Conn. R. 340; 1 Meigs, R. 331.
Citizen, () A citizen of the United States, residing in any state of the Union, is a citizen of that state. 6 Pet. 761 Paine, 594;1 Brock. 391; 1 Paige, 183 Metc. & Perk. Dig. h.t.; vide 3 Story's Const. Sec. 1687 Bouv. Inst. Index, b. t.; 2 Kent, Com. 258; 4 Johns. Ch. R. 430; Vatt. B. 1, c. Id, Sec. 212; Poth. Des Personnes, tit. 2, s. 1. Vide Body Politic; Inhabitant.
Citizeness (n.) 【罕】女公民 A female citizen. [R.]
Citizenship (n.) [U] 公民的權利與義務；公民權；市民權；公民（或市民）身分；個人的品德表現 The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
Citizenship (n.) The status of a citizen with rights and duties.
Citizenship (n.) Conduct as a citizen; "award for good citizenship."
Citizenship, () The rights and privileges of a citizen in distinction from a foreigner (Luke 15:15; 19:14; Acts 21:39). Under the Mosaic law non-Israelites, with the exception of the Moabites and the Ammonites and others mentioned in Deut. 23:1-3, were admitted to the general privileges of citizenship among the Jews (Ex. 12:19; Lev. 24:22; Num. 15:15; 35:15; Deut. 10:18; 14:29; 16:10, 14).
The right of citizenship under the Roman government was granted by the emperor to individuals, and sometimes to provinces, as a favour or as a recompense for services rendered to the state, or for a sum of money (Acts 22:28). This "freedom" secured privileges equal to those enjoyed by natives of Rome. Among the most notable of these was the provision that a man could not be bound or imprisoned without a formal trial (Acts 22:25, 26), or scourged (16:37). All Roman citizens had the right of appeal to Caesar (25:11).
Citole (n.) (Mus.) 西特琴（一種類似吉他的古樂器）A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer. [Obs.]
Compare: Dulcimer
Dulcimer (n.) (Mus.) (a) 揚琴 An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.
Dulcimer (n.) (b) An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. -- Dan. iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.
Dulcimer (n.) A stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings.
Dulcimer (n.) A trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers.
Dulcimer, () (Heb. sumphoniah), A musical instrument mentioned in Dan. 3:5, 15, along with other instruments there named, as sounded before the golden image. It was not a Jewish instrument. In the margin of the Revised Version it is styled the "bag-pipe." Luther translated it "lute," and Grotius the "crooked trumpet." It is probable that it was introduced into Babylon by some Greek or Western-Asiatic musician. Some Rabbinical commentators render it by "organ," the well-known instrument composed of a series of pipes, others by "lyre." The most probable interpretation is that it was a bag-pipe similar to the zampagna of Southern Europe.
Citole (n.) A 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings [syn: cittern, cithern, cither, citole, gittern].
Compare: Pyrocitric
Pyrocitric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called respectively citraconic, itaconic, and mesaconic acid.
Compare: Distillation
Distillation (n.) 蒸餾；淨化 [U]；蒸餾物 ；[C] [U]；精華 [S] The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
Distillation (n.) That which falls in drops. [R.] -- Johnson
Distillation (n.) (Chem.) The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam.
Note: The evaporation of water, its condensation into clouds, and its precipitation as rain, dew, frost, snow, or hail, is an illustration of natural distillation.
Distillation (n.) The substance extracted by distilling. -- Shak.
Destructive distillation (Chem.), The distillation, especially of complex solid substances, so that the ultimate constituents are separated or evolved in new compounds, -- usually requiring a high degree of heat; as, the destructive distillation of soft coal or of wood.
Dry distillation, The distillation of substances by themselves, or without the addition of water or of other volatile solvent; as, the dry distillation of citric acid.
Fractional distillation. (Chem.) See under Fractional.
Citraconic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or having certain characteristics of, citric and aconitic acids.
Citraconic acid (Chem.), 檸康酸 A white, crystalline, deliquescent substance, C3H4(CO2H)2, obtained by distillation of citric acid. It is a compound of the ethylene series.
Citrate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of citric acid.
Citrate (n.) A salt or ester of citric acid.
Citrate (v.) Cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid.
Citric (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid.
Citric acid (Chem.), An organic acid, C3H4OH.(CO2H)3, extracted from lemons, currants, gooseberries, etc., as a white crystalline substance, having a pleasant sour taste.
Citrination (n.) The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color. -- Thynne.
Citrine (n.) A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.
Citrine (a.) Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow.
Citrine ointment (Med.), A yellowish mercurial ointment, the unguentum hydrargyri nitratis.
Citrine (n.) Semiprecious yellow quartz resembling topaz.
Citron (n.) (Bot) A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic; it is produced by the citron tree ({Citrus medica). The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce. The fruit was once called the lime.
Citron (n.) A citron tree , Citrus medica.
Citron (n.) A citron melon.
Citron melon. A small variety of muskmelon with sugary greenish flesh.
Citron melon. A small variety of watermelon, whose solid white flesh is used in making sweetmeats and preserves.
Citron tree (Bot.), The tree which bears citrons. It was probably a native of northern India, and is now understood to be the typical form of Citrus Medica.
Citron (n.) Large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved.
Citron (n.) Thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind [syn: citron, citron tree, Citrus medica].
Citrus (n.) (Bot.) 【植】柑橘屬植物；柑橘 A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.
Citrus (n.) (Bot.) Any tree belonging to the genus Citrus, having leathery evergreen leaves and bearing a soft pulpy fruit covered by a thick skin; -- called also citrus tree.
Citrus (n.) (Bot.) The fruit of a tree belonging to the genus Citrus, having a thick shiny skin and a soft, sweet to tart pulp.
Citrus (n.) Any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions [syn: citrus, citrus fruit, citrous fruit].
Citrus (n.) Any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds [syn: citrus, citrus tree].
Citrus -- U.S. County in Florida
Population (2000): 118085
Housing Units (2000): 62204
Land area (2000): 583.810635 sq. miles (1512.062538 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 189.337907 sq. miles (490.382908 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 773.148542 sq. miles (2002.445446 sq. km)
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 28.894637 N, 82.469163 W
Headwords:
Citrus
Citrus, FL
Citrus County
Citrus County, FL
Citrus, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 10581
Housing Units (2000): 2659
Land area (2000): 0.897850 sq. miles (2.325420 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.897850 sq. miles (2.325420 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13560
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 34.114891 N, 117.891786 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Citrus, CA
Citrus
Citrus (a.) 柑橘屬植物的 Of or relating to any of the citrus plants or their fruits.
Cittern (n.) (Mus.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] -- Shak.
Note: Not to be confounded with zither.
Cittern (n.) A 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings [syn: cittern, cithern, cither, citole, gittern].
Cittern-head (n.) Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. -- Marsion
Cities (n. pl. ) of City.
City (n.) A large town.
City (n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.
A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and though the bishopric has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet remaineth a city. -- Blackstone
When Gorges constituted York a city, he of course meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word city has no other meaning in English law. -- Palfrey
City (n.) The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city. "What is the city but the people?" -- Shak.
Syn: See Village.
City (a.) Of or pertaining to a city. -- Shak.
City council. See under Council.
City court, The municipal court of a city. [U. S.]
City ward, A watchman, or the collective watchmen, of a city. [Obs.] -- Fairfax.
City (n.) A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city" [syn: city, metropolis, urban center].
City (n.) An incorporated administrative district established by state charter; "the city raised the tax rate."
City (n.) People living in a large densely populated municipality; "the city voted for Republicans in 1994" [syn: city, metropolis].
City, () The earliest mention of city-building is that of Enoch, which was built by Cain (Gen. 4:17). After the confusion of tongues, the descendants of Nimrod founded several cities (10:10-12).
Next, we have a record of the cities of the Canaanites, Sidon, Gaza, Sodom, etc. (10:12, 19; 11:3, 9; 36:31-39). The earliest description of a city is that of Sodom (19:1-22). Damascus is said to be the oldest existing city in the world. Before the time of Abraham there were cities in Egypt (Num. 13:22). The Israelites in Egypt were employed in building the "treasure cities" of Pithom and Raamses (Ex. 1:11); but it does not seem that they had any cities of their own in Goshen (Gen. 46:34; 47:1-11). In the kingdom of Og in Bashan there were sixty "great cities with walls," and twenty-three cities in Gilead partly rebuilt by the tribes on the east of Jordan (Num. 21:21, 32, 33, 35; 32:1-3, 34-42; Deut. 3:4, 5, 14; 1 Kings 4:13). On the west of Jordan were thirty-one "royal cities" (Josh. 12), besides many others spoken of in the history of Israel.
A fenced city was a city surrounded by fortifications and high walls, with watch-towers upon them (2 Chr. 11:11; Deut. 3:5).
There was also within the city generally a tower to which the citizens might flee when danger threatened them (Judg. 9:46-52).
A city with suburbs was a city surrounded with open pasture-grounds, such as the forty-eight cities which were given to the Levites (Num. 35:2-7). There were six cities of refuge, three on each side of Jordan, namely, Kadesh, Shechem, Hebron, on the west of Jordan; and on the east, Bezer, Ramoth-gilead, and Golan. The cities on each side of the river were nearly opposite each other. The regulations concerning these cities are given in Num. 35:9-34; Deut. 19:1-13; Ex. 21:12-14.
When David reduced the fortress of the Jebusites which stood on Mount Zion, he built on the site of it a palace and a city, which he called by his own name (1 Chr. 11:5), the city of David. Bethlehem is also so called as being David's native town (Luke 2:4).
Jerusalem is called the Holy City, the holiness of the temple being regarded as extending in some measure over the whole city (Neh. 11:1).
Pithom and Raamses, Built by the Israelites as "treasure cities," were not places where royal treasures were kept, but were fortified towns where merchants might store their goods and transact their business in safety, or cities in which munitions of war were stored. (See PITHOM.)
CITY, government. A town incorporated by that name. Originally, this word did not signify a town, but a portion of mankind who lived under the same government: what the Romans called civitas, and, the Greeks polis; whence the word politeia, civitas seu reipublicae status et administratio. Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. 1. 1, t. 1, n. 202; Henrion de Pansey, Pouvoir Municipal, pp. 36, 37.
Compare: Chive
Chive, Chives (n.) (Bot.) A perennial plant ({Allium Schoenoprasum), allied to the onion, having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning.
The young leaves are used in omelets, etc. [Written also cive.]
Syn: chive, cive, schnittlaugh, Allium schoenoprasum.
Chive, Chives (n.) The bulbous herb Allium Schoenoprasum used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning.
Cive (n.) (Bot.) Same as Chive.
Cive (n.) Perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning [syn: chives, chive, cive, schnittlaugh, Allium schoenoprasum].
Civet (n.) 麝貓香料 A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet ({Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.
Civet (n.) (Zool.) 【動】麝貓 The animal that produces civet ({Viverra civetta); -- called also civet cat. It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species.
Civet (v. t.) To scent or perfume with civet. -- Cowper
Civet (n.) Cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes [syn: civet, civet cat].
Civic (a.) Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.
Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), A crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.
Civic (a.) Of or relating or belonging to a city; "civic center"; "civic problems."
Civic (a.) Of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals; "civil rights"; "civil liberty"; "civic duties"; "civic pride" [syn: civil, civic].
CIVIC, () Cyclone Integrated Video Interfaces Controller (Apple).
Civicism (n.) The principle of civil government.
Civics (n.) The science of civil government.
Civics (n.) The social science of municipal affairs.
Civil (a.) Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.
Civil (a.) Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.
England was very rude and barbarous; for it is but even the other day since England grew civil. -- Spenser.
Civil (a.) Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.
Civil men come nearer the saints of God than others; they come within a step or two of heaven. -- Preston
Civil (a.) Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.
Note: "A civil man now is one observant of slight external courtesies in the mutual intercourse between man and man; a civil man once was one who fulfilled all the duties and obligations flowing from his position as a 'civis' and his relations to the other members of that 'civitas.'" -- Trench
Civil (a.) Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.
Civil (a.) Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.
Civil action, An action to enforce the rights or redress the wrongs of an individual, not involving a criminal proceeding.
Civil architecture, The architecture which is employed in constructing buildings for the purposes of civil life, in distinction from military and naval architecture, as private houses, palaces, churches, etc.
Civil death. (Law.) See under Death.
Civil engineering. See under Engineering.
Civil law. See under Law.
Civil list. See under List.
Civil remedy (Law), That given to a person injured, by action, as opposed to a criminal prosecution.
Civil service, All service rendered to and paid for by the state or nation other than that pertaining to naval or military affairs.
Civil service reform, The substitution of business principles and methods for the spoils system in the conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of appointments to office.
Civil state, The whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states.
Civil suit. Same as Civil action.
Civil war. See under War.
Civil year. See under Year.
Civil (a.) Applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military; "civil authorities."
Civil (a.) Not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others; "even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"- W.S. Maugham [syn: civil, polite] [ant: rude, uncivil].
Civil (a.) Of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state; "civil affairs"; "civil strife"; "civil disobedience"; "civil branches of government."
Civil (a.) Of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals; "civil rights"; "civil liberty"; "civic duties"; "civic pride" [syn: civil, civic].
Civil (a.) (Of divisions of time) Legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life; "the civil calendar"; "a civil day begins at mean midnight" [ant: sidereal].
Civil (a.) Of or in a condition of social order; "civil peoples."
Civil. () This word has various significations. 1. It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty.
Civil. () It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Civil. () It is also used in contradistinction to military or ecclesiastical, to natural or foreign; thus we speak of a civil station, as opposed to a military or ecclesiastical station, a civil death as opposed to a natural death; a civil war as opposed to a foreign war. Story on the Const. Sec. 789; 1 Bl. Coin. 6, 125, 251; Montesq. Sp. of Laws, B 1, c. 3; Ruth. Inst. B. 2, c. 2; Id. ch. 3Id. ch. 8, p. 359; Hein. Elem. Jurisp. Nat. B. 2, ch. 6.
Civilian (n.) One skilled in the civil law.
Ancient civilians and writers upon government. -- Swift.
Civilian (n.) A student of the civil law at a university or college. -- R. Graves.
Civilian (n.) One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.
Civilian (a.) Associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military; "civilian clothing"; "civilian life" [ant: military].
Civilian (n.) A nonmilitary citizen [ant: man, military man, military personnel, serviceman].
Civilian. A doctor, professor, or student of the civil law.
Civilian (n.) [ C ] (C2) 平民；老百姓 A person who is not a member of the police or the armed forces.
// The bomb killed four soldiers and three civilians.
Civilist (n.) A civilian. [R.] -- Warburton.
Civilities (n. pl. ) of Civillty.
Civility (n.) The state of society
in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a
state of civilization. [Obs.]
Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility, and fallen again to ruin. -- Sir
J. Davies.
The gradual depature of all deeper signification from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization. -- Trench.
Civility (n.) A civil office, or a civil process. [Obs.]
To serve in a civility. -- Latimer.
Civility (n.) Courtesy; politeness; kind attention; good breeding; a polite act or expression.
The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be. -- Chesterfield.
The sweet civilities of life. -- Dryden.
Syn: Urbanity; affability; complaisance.
Civilizable (a.) Capable of being civilized.
Civilization (n.) 文明，教化 The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.
Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles -- . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion. -- Burke
Civilization (n.) (Law) Rendering a criminal process civil. [Obs.]
Civilization (n.) A society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations); "the people slowly progressed from barbarism to civilization" [syn: {civilization}, {civilisation}].
Civilization (n.) the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization [syn: {civilization}, {civilisation}].
Civilization (n.) A particular society at a particular time and place; "early Mayan civilization" [{culture}, {civilization}, {civilisation}].
Civilization (n.) The quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste; "a man of intellectual refinement"; "he is remembered for his generosity and civilization" [syn: {refinement}, {civilization}, {civilisation}].
Civilized (imp. & p. p.) of Civilize.
Civilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Civilize.
Civilize (v. t.) 使開化，使文明; (v. i.) 變文明 To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.
Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. -- Dryden
Civilize (v. t.) To admit as suitable to a civilized state. [Obs. or R.] "Civilizing adultery." -- Milton.
Syn: To polish; refine; humanize.
Civilize (v.) Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: {educate}, {school}, {train}, {cultivate}, {civilize}, {civilise}].
Civilize (v.) Raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized" [syn: {civilize}, {civilise}].
Civilized (a.) Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.
Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. -- J. Quincy.
Civilized (a.) Having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world" [syn: civilized, civilised] [ant: noncivilised, noncivilized].
Civilized (a.) Marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite].
Civilizer (n.) One who, or that which, civilizes or tends to civilize.
Civily (adv.) In a civil manner; as regards civil rights and privileges; politely; courteously; in a well bred manner.
Civism (n.) State of citizenship. [R.] -- Dyer.
Cizar (v. i.) To clip with scissors. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Compare: Scissors
Scissors (n. pl.) A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors. [Formerly written also cisors, cizars, and scissars.]
Scissors grinder (Zool.), The European goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]
Cizars (n. pl.) Scissors. [Obs.] -- Swift.
Cize (n.) Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See Size.
Compare: Bonnyclabber
Bonnyclabber (n.) Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber. -- B. Jonson.
Clabber (n.) Milk curdled so as to become thick.
Clabber (v. i.) To become clabber; to lopper.
Clabber (n.) Raw milk that has soured and thickened.
Clabber (v.) Turn into curds; "curdled milk" [syn: curdle, clabber, clot] [ant: homogenise, homogenize].
Clachan (n.) A small village containing a church. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott
Sitting at the clachon alehouse. -- R. L. Stevenson.
Clacked (imp. & p. p.) of Clack.
Clacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clack.
Clack (v. i.) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.
We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches. -- Thackeray.
Clack (v. i.) To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.
Clack (v. t.) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
Clack (v. t.) To utter rapidly and inconsiderately. -- Feltham.
To clack wool, To cut off the sheep's mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. [Eng.]
Clack (n.) A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.
Clack (n.) Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
Clack (n.) Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.
Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack. -- South.
Clack box (Mach.), The box or chamber in which a clack valve works.
Clack dish, A dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice. --Shak.
Clack door (Mining), Removable cover of the opening through which access is had to a pump valve.
Clack valve (Mach.), A valve; esp. one hinged at one edge, which, when raised from its seat, falls with a clacking sound.
Clack (n.) A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated [syn: clack, clap].
Clack (n.) A simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction [syn: clack valve, clack, clapper valve].
Clack (v.) Make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter, clack, brattle].
Clack (v.) Make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens [syn: cluck, click, clack].
Clack (v.) Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble].
Clacker (n.) One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.
Clacker (n.) A claqueur. See Claqueur.
Compare: Clothe
Clothe (v. i.) To wear clothes. [Poetic]
Care no more to clothe eat. -- Shak.
Clothe (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Clothed or Clad); p. pr. & vb. n. Clothing.] To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.
Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. -- Shak.
Clothe (v. t.) To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly.
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. -- Prov. xxiii. 21.
The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. -- Goldsmith.
Clothe (v. t.) Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power.
Language in which they can clothe their thoughts. -- Watts.
His sides are clothed with waving wood. -- J. Dyer.
Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. -- Milton.
Clothe (v.) Provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel] [ant: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress].
Clothe (v.) Furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors [syn: invest, clothe, adorn].
Clothe (v.) Cover as if with clothing; "the mountain was clothed in tropical trees" [syn: clothe, cloak, drape, robe].
Clad (v. t.) To clothe. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Clad () imp. & p. p. of Clothe.
Clad (a.) 穿……衣服的；被……覆蓋的 [（+in）]；包層（或鍍層）金屬的；有包層（或鍍層）的 Wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination; "clothed and in his right mind" -- Bible; "proud of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad nurses" [syn: clothed, clad] [ant: unclothed].
Clad (a.) Having an outer covering especially of thin metal; "steel-clad"; "armor-clad."
Clad (a.) (Literary) (Of people) （指人）穿…衣服的；（指物）覆蓋著…的 Dressed, or (of things) covered.
// A strange figure appeared in the doorway, clad in white.
// An ivy-clad wall.
// An armour-clad vehicle.
Cladding (n.) A protective covering that protects the outside of a building [syn: facing, cladding].
Cladding (n.) [ U ] 包層；覆面；鍍層；保護層 Material that covers the surface of something and protects it.
// The pipes froze because the cladding had fallen off.
Cladocera (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of the Entomostraca.
Note: They have a bivalve shell, covering the body but not the head, and from four to six pairs of legs and two pairs of anten[ae], for use in swimming. They mostly inhabit fresh water.
Cladophyll (n.) (Bot.) A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom ({Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax ({Myrsiphillum).
Cladophyll (n.) A flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf [syn: cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade].
Claggy (a.) Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.
Claik (n.) See Clake.
Compare: Clake
Clake, Claik (n.) (Zool.) The bernicle goose; -- now called barnacle goose and also called clack goose.
Claimed (imp. & p. p.) of Claim.
Claiming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Claim.
Claim (v. t.) 要求，認領，索賠；聲稱，主張 To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
Claim (v. t.) To proclaim. [Obs.] -- Spenser.