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C Dictionary C - The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same.
Caaba Dictionary C - noun The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray.
Caas Dictionary C - noun singular & plural Case.
Cab Dictionary C - noun A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
Cabal Dictionary C - noun Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala.
Caballed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cabal.
Caballing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cabal.
Cabala Dictionary C - noun A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.
Cabalism Dictionary C - noun The secret science of the cabalists.
Cabalist Dictionary C - noun One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions.
Cabalistic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cabalistical.
Cabalistical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic.
Cabalistically Dictionary C - adverb In a cabalistic manner.
Cabalize Dictionary C - intransitive verb To use cabalistic language.
Caballer Dictionary C - noun One who cabals.
Caballine Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a horse.
Cabaret Dictionary C - noun A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed.
Cabas Dictionary C - noun A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; - often written caba.
Cabassou Dictionary C - noun A species of armadillo of the genus Xenurus (X. unicinctus and X. hispidus); the tatouay.
Cabbage Dictionary C - noun An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.
Cabbaged Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cabbage.
Cabbaging Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cabbage.
Cabbler Dictionary C - noun One who works at cabbling.
Cabbling Dictionary C - noun The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.
Cabeca Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cabesse.
Cabesse Dictionary C - noun The finest kind of silk received from India.
Caber Dictionary C - noun A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.
Cabezon Dictionary C - noun A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin.
Cabiai Dictionary C - noun The capybara. See Capybara.
Cabin Dictionary C - noun A cottage or small house; a hut.
Cabined Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cabin.
Cabining Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cabin.
Cabinet Dictionary C - noun A hut; a cottage; a small house.
Cabineting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cabinet.
Cabinetmaker Dictionary C - noun One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.
Cabinetmaking Dictionary C - noun The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.
Cabinetwork Dictionary C - noun The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.
Cabirean Dictionary C - noun One of the Cabiri.
Cabbiri Dictionary C - noun plural Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; - also called sons of Hephaestus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals.
Cabirian Dictionary C - adjective Same as Cabiric.
Cabiric Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Cabiri, or to their mystical worship.
Cable Dictionary C - noun A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.
Cabled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cable.
Cabling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cable.
Cablegram Dictionary C - noun A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.
Cablelaid Dictionary C - adjective Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
Cablet Dictionary C - noun A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
Cabmen Dictionary C - pleural of Cabman.
Cabman Dictionary C - noun The driver of a cab.
Cabob Dictionary C - noun A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; - so called in Turkey and Persia.
Caboched Dictionary C - adjective Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; - said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.
Caboodle Dictionary C - noun The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; - usually in the phrase the whole caboodle.
Caboose Dictionary C - noun A house on deck, where the cooking is done; - commonly called the galley.
Cabotage Dictionary C - noun Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.
Cabree Dictionary C - noun The pronghorn antelope.
Cabrerite Dictionary C - noun An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; - so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain.
Cabrilla Dictionary C - noun A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.
Cabriole Dictionary C - noun A curvet; a leap. See Capriole.
Cabriolet Dictionary C - noun A one-horse carriage with two seats and a calash top.
Cabrit Dictionary C - noun Same as Cabree.
Caburn Dictionary C - noun A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.
Cacaemia Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cachaemia.
Cachaemia Dictionary C - noun A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.
Cacaine Dictionary C - noun The essential principle of cacao; - now called theobromine.
Cacajao Dictionary C - noun A South American short-tailed monkey (Pithecia (/ Brachyurus) melanocephala).
Cacao Dictionary C - noun A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.
Cachalot Dictionary C - noun The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale.
Cache Dictionary C - noun A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.
Cachectic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cachectical.
Cachectical Dictionary C - adjective Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies; cachectical blood.
Cachepot Dictionary C - noun An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.
Cachet Dictionary C - noun A seal, as of a letter.
Cachexia Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cachexy.
Cachexy Dictionary C - noun A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).
Cachinnation Dictionary C - noun Loud or immoderate laughter; - often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections.
Cachinnatory Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter.
Cachiri Dictionary C - noun A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry.
Cacholong Dictionary C - noun An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.
Cachou Dictionary C - noun A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.
Cachucha Dictionary C - noun An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero.
Cachunde Dictionary C - noun A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.
Cacique Dictionary C - noun See Cazique.
Cack Dictionary C - intransitive verb To ease the body by stool; to go to stool.
Cackerel Dictionary C - noun The mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. See Mendole.
Cackled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cackle.
Cackling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cackle.
Cackle Dictionary C - intransitive verb To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
Cackler Dictionary C - noun A fowl that cackles.
Cacochymia Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cacochymy.
Cacochymy Dictionary C - noun A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood.
Cacochymic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cacochymical.
Cacochymical Dictionary C - adjective Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood.
Cacodemon Dictionary C - noun An evil spirit; a devil or demon.
Cacodoxical Dictionary C - adjective Heretical.
Cacodoxy Dictionary C - noun Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy.
Cacodyl Dictionary C - noun Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines.
Cacodylic Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, cacodyl.
Cacoethes Dictionary C - noun A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, "The itch for writing".
Cacogastric Dictionary C - adjective Troubled with bad digestion.
Cacographic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.
Cacography Dictionary C - noun Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.
Cacolet Dictionary C - noun A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.
Cacology Dictionary C - noun Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words.
Cacomixle Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cacomixl.
Cacomixtle Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cacomixl.
Cacomixl Dictionary C - noun A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and California.
Cacoon Dictionary C - noun One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.
Cacophonic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cacophonious.
Cacophonical Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cacophonious.
Cacophonous Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cacophonious.
Cacophonious Dictionary C - adjective Harsh-sounding.
Cacophonies Dictionary C - pleural of Cacophony.
Cacophony Dictionary C - noun An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables.
Cacotechny Dictionary C - noun A corruption or corrupt state of art.
Cacoxene Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cacoxenite.
Cacoxenite Dictionary C - noun A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.
Cactaceous Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example.
Cactuses Dictionary C - pleural of Cactus.
Cacti Dictionary C - pleural of Cactus.
Cactus Dictionary C - noun Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.
Cacuminal Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; - applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.
Cacuminate Dictionary C - intransitive verb To make sharp or pointed.
Cad Dictionary C - noun A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
Cadastral Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to landed property.
Cadastre Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cadaster.
Cadaster Dictionary C - noun An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property.
Cadaver Dictionary C - noun A dead human body; a corpse.
Cadaveric Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
Cadaverous Dictionary C - adjective Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
Cadbait Dictionary C - noun See Caddice.
Caddice Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Caddis.
Caddis Dictionary C - noun The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm.
Caddish Dictionary C - adjective Like a cad; lowbred and presuming.
Caddow Dictionary C - noun A jackdaw.
Caddies Dictionary C - pleural of Caddy.
Caddy Dictionary C - noun A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.
Cade Dictionary C - adjective Bred by hand; domesticated; petted.
Cadence Dictionary C - noun The act or state of declining or sinking.
Cadency Dictionary C - noun Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages.
Cadene Dictionary C - noun A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant.
Cadent Dictionary C - adjective Falling.
Cadenza Dictionary C - noun A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.
Cader Dictionary C - noun See Cadre.
Cadet Dictionary C - noun The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son.
Cadetship Dictionary C - noun The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship.
Cadew Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cadeworm.
Cadeworm Dictionary C - noun A caddice. See Caddice.
Cadged Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cadge.
Cadging Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cadge.
Cadge Dictionary C - verb transitive & intransitive To carry, as a burden.
Cadger Dictionary C - verb transitive A packman or itinerant huckster.
Cadgy Dictionary C - adjective Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton.
Cadi Dictionary C - noun An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.
Cadie Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Caddie.
Caddie Dictionary C - noun A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger.
Cadilesker Dictionary C - noun A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers.
Cadillac Dictionary C - noun A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking.
Cadis Dictionary C - noun A kind of coarse serge.
Cadmean Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet - /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /. These are called Cadmean letters.
Cadmia Dictionary C - noun An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.
Cadmian Dictionary C - adjective See Cadmean.
Cadmic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as, cadmic sulphide.
Cadmium Dictionary C - noun A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore.
Cadrans Dictionary C - noun An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.
Cadre Dictionary C - noun The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
Caducary Dictionary C - adjective Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.
Caducean Dictionary C - adjective Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand.
Caduceus Dictionary C - noun The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.
Caducibranchiate Dictionary C - adjective With temporary gills: - applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.
Caducity Dictionary C - noun Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility.
Caducous Dictionary C - Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.
Caduke Dictionary C - adjective Perishable; frail; transitory.
Cady Dictionary C - noun See Cadie.
Caeca Dictionary C - noun plural See Caecum.
Caecal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the caecum, or blind gut.
Caecias Dictionary C - noun A wind from the northeast.
Caecilian Dictionary C - noun A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha.
Caecums Dictionary C - pleural of Caecum.
Caecum Dictionary C - noun A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct.
Caenozoic Dictionary C - adjective See Cenozoic.
Caen stone Dictionary C - A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France.
Caesar Dictionary C - noun A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Caesar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar.
Caesarean Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Caesarian.
Caesarian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Caesar or the Caesars; imperial.
Caesarism Dictionary C - noun A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Caesar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government.
Caesious Dictionary C - adjective Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray.
Caesium Dictionary C - noun A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water; - so called from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum. It was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis, and is the most strongly basic and electro-positive substance known. Symbol Cs. Atomic weight 132.6.
Caespitose Dictionary C - adjective Same as Cespitose.
Caesuras Dictionary C - pleural of Caesura.
Caesurae Dictionary C - pleural of Caesura.
Caesura Dictionary C - noun A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.
Caesural Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a caesura.
Cafe Dictionary C - noun A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.
Cafenet Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cafeneh.
Cafeneh Dictionary C - noun A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold.
Caffeic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, coffee.
Caffeine Dictionary C - noun A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana.
Caffetannic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the tannin of coffee.
Caffila Dictionary C - noun See Cafila.
Caffre Dictionary C - noun See Kaffir.
Cafila Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cafileh.
Cafileh Dictionary C - noun A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.
Caftan Dictionary C - noun A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash.
Cag Dictionary C - noun See Keg.
Cage Dictionary C - noun A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
Caged Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cage.
Caging Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cage.
Cageling Dictionary C - noun A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird.
Cagit Dictionary C - noun A kind of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands.
Cagmag Dictionary C - noun A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind.
Cagot Dictionary C - noun One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.
Cahier Dictionary C - noun A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.
Cahincic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of a species of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps C. racemosa; as, cahincic acid.
Cahoot Dictionary C - noun Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person.
Caimacam Dictionary C - noun The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey.
Caiman Dictionary C - noun See Cayman.
Cainozoic Dictionary C - adjective See Cenozic.
Caique Dictionary C - noun A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size.
Ca ira Dictionary C - The refrain of a famous song of the French Revolution.
Caird Dictionary C - noun A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar.
Cairn Dictionary C - noun A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
Cairngormstone Dictionary C - A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.
Caisson Dictionary C - noun A chest to hold ammunition.
Caitiff Dictionary C - adjective Captive; wretched; unfortunate.
Cajeput Dictionary C - noun See Cajuput.
Cajoled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cajole.
Cajoling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cajole.
Cajole Dictionary C - intransitive verb To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.
Cajolement Dictionary C - noun The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery.
Cajoler Dictionary C - noun A flatterer; a wheedler.
Cajoleries Dictionary C - pleural of Cajolery.
Cajolery Dictionary C - noun A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.
Cajuput Dictionary C - noun A highly stimulating volatile inflammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.
Cajuputene Dictionary C - noun A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.
Cake Dictionary C - noun A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
Caked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cake.
Caking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cake.
Caking coal Dictionary C - See Coal.
Cal Dictionary C - noun Wolfram, an ore of tungsten.
Calabar Dictionary C - noun A district on the west coast of Africa.
Calabarine Dictionary C - noun An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean.
Calabash Dictionary C - noun The common gourd (plant or fruit).
Calaboose Dictionary C - noun A prison; a jail.
Calade Dictionary C - noun A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.
Caladium Dictionary C - noun A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.
Calaite Dictionary C - noun A mineral. See Turquoise.
Calamanco Dictionary C - noun A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked.
Calamander wood Dictionary C - A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood.
Calamar Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Calamary.
Calamary Dictionary C - noun A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid.
Calambac Dictionary C - noun A fragrant wood; agalloch.
Calambour Dictionary C - noun A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac; - used by cabinetmakers.
Calamiferous Dictionary C - adjective Producing reeds; reedy.
Calamine Dictionary C - noun A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.
Calamint Dictionary C - noun A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme.
Calamist Dictionary C - noun One who plays upon a reed or pipe.
Calamistrate Dictionary C - intransitive verb To curl or friz, as the hair.
Calamistration Dictionary C - noun The act or process of curling the hair.
Calamistrum Dictionary C - noun A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs.
Calamite Dictionary C - noun A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.
Calamitous Dictionary C - adjective Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable.
Calamities Dictionary C - pleural of Calamity.
Calamity Dictionary C - noun Any great misfortune or cause of misery; - generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.
Calami Dictionary C - pleural of Calamus.
Calamus Dictionary C - noun The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.
Calando Dictionary C - adjective Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.
Calash Dictionary C - noun A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage.
Calaverite Dictionary C - noun A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; - first found in Calaveras County California.
Calcaneal Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries.
-neums Dictionary C - pleural of Calcaneum.
-nea Dictionary C - pleural of Calcaneum.
Calcaneum Dictionary C - noun One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; - called also fibulare.
Calcar Dictionary C - noun A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
Calcaria Dictionary C - pleural of Calcar.
Calcarate Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Calcarated.
Calcarated Dictionary C - adjective Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred.
Calcareo-argillaceous Dictionary C - adjective consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths.
Calcareo-bituminous Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen.
Calcareo-siliceous Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of, or containing calcareous and siliceous earths.
Calcareous Dictionary C - adjective Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.
Calcareousness Dictionary C - noun Quality of being calcareous.
Calcariferous Dictionary C - adjective Lime-yielding; calciferous.
Calcarine Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain.
Calcavella Dictionary C - noun A sweet wine from Portugal; - so called from the district of Carcavelhos.
Calceated Dictionary C - adjective Fitted with, or wearing, shoes.
Calced Dictionary C - adjective Wearing shoes; calceated; - in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.
Calcedon Dictionary C - noun A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.
Calcedonic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Calcedonian.
Calcedonian Dictionary C - adjective See Chalcedonic.
Calceiform Dictionary C - adjective Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate.
Calceolaria Dictionary C - noun A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.
Calceolate Dictionary C - adjective Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform.
Calces Dictionary C - noun plural See Calx.
Calcic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime.
Calciferous Dictionary C - adjective Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime.
Calcific Dictionary C - adjective Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles.
Calcification Dictionary C - noun The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; - normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.
Calcified Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.
Calciform Dictionary C - adjective In the form of chalk or lime.
Calcifying Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Calcify.
Calcify Dictionary C - verb transitive To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Calcigenous Dictionary C - adjective Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc.
Calcigerous Dictionary C - adjective Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth.
Calcimine Dictionary C - noun A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water.
Calcimined Dictionary C - imperative &past particle of Calcimine.
Calcimining Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Calcimine.
Calciminer Dictionary C - noun One who calcimines.
Calcinable Dictionary C - adjective That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil.
Calcinate Dictionary C - intransitive verb To calcine.
Calcination Dictionary C - noun The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.
Calcinatory Dictionary C - noun A vessel used in calcination.
Calciden Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Calcine.
Calcining Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Calcine.
Calcine Dictionary C - intransitive verb To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.
Calciner Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, calcines.
Calcispongiae Dictionary C - noun plural An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera.
Calcite Dictionary C - noun Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.
Calcitrant Dictionary C - adjective Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory.
Calcitrate Dictionary C - Intransitive verb To kick.
Calcitration Dictionary C - noun Act of kicking.
Calcium Dictionary C - noun An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca.
Calcivorous Dictionary C - adjective Eroding, or eating into, limestone.
Calcographer Dictionary C - noun One who practices calcography.
Calcographic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Calcographical.
Calcographical Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or in the style of, calcography.
Calcography Dictionary C - noun The art of drawing with chalk.
Calc-sinter Dictionary C - noun See under Calcite.
Calc-spar Dictionary C - noun Same as Calcite.
Calc-tufa Dictionary C - noun See under Calcite.
Calculable Dictionary C - adjective That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation.
Calculary Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to calculi.
Calculater Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Calculate.
Calculating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Calculate.
Calculate Dictionary C - intransitive verb To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.
Calculated Dictionary C - past particle & adjective Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.
Calculation Dictionary C - noun The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.
Calculative Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation.
Calculator Dictionary C - noun One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects.
Calculatory Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to calculation.
Calcule Dictionary C - noun Reckoning; computation.
Calculi Dictionary C - noun plural See Calculus.
Calculous Dictionary C - adjective Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a calculous concretion.
Calculus Dictionary C - noun Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.
Caldron Dictionary C - noun A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. Written also cauldron..
Caleche Dictionary C - noun See Calash.
Caledonia Dictionary C - noun The ancient Latin name of Scotland; - still used in poetry.
Caledonian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Caledonia or Scotland; Scottish; Scotch.
Caledonite Dictionary C - noun A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland.
Calefacient Dictionary C - adjective Making warm; heating.
Calefaction Dictionary C - noun The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.
Calefactive Dictionary C - adjective See Calefactory.
Calefactor Dictionary C - noun A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
Calefactory Dictionary C - adjective Making hot; producing or communicating heat.
Calefied Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Calefy.
Calefying Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Calefy.
Calefy Dictionary C - intransitive verb To make warm or hot.
Calembour Dictionary C - noun A pun.
Calendar Dictionary C - noun An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.
Calendared Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Calendar.
Calendaring Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Calendar.
Calendarial Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.
Calendary Dictionary C - adjective Calendarial.
Calender Dictionary C - noun A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.
Calendered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Calender.
Calendering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Calender.
Calendographer Dictionary C - noun One who makes calendars.
Calendrer Dictionary C - noun A person who calenders cloth; a calender.
Calendric Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Calendrical.
Calendrical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a calendar.
Calends Dictionary C - noun plural The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.
Calendula Dictionary C - noun A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.
Calendulin Dictionary C - noun A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.
Calenture Dictionary C - noun A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.
Calescence Dictionary C - noun Growing warmth; increasing heat.
Calves Dictionary C - pleural of Calf.
Calf Dictionary C - noun The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.
Calfskin Dictionary C - noun The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin.
Cali Dictionary C - noun The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu.
Caliber Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Calibre.
Calibre Dictionary C - noun The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber.
Calibrate Dictionary C - intransitive verb To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.
Calibration Dictionary C - noun The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.
Calice Dictionary C - noun See Chalice.
Calicle Dictionary C - noun One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian.
Calicoes Dictionary C - pleural of Calico.
Calico Dictionary C - noun Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
Calicoback Dictionary C - noun The calico bass.
Calicular Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Caliculate.
Caliculate Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate.
Calid Dictionary C - adjective Hot; burning; ardent.
Calidity Dictionary C - noun Heat.
Caliduct Dictionary C - noun A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam.
Calif Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Califate.
Califate Dictionary C - noun Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.
Californian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to California.
Caligation Dictionary C - noun Dimness; cloudiness.
Caliginosity Dictionary C - noun Darkness.
Caliginous Dictionary C - adjective Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.
Caligo Dictionary C - noun Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.
Caligraphic Dictionary C - adjective See Calligraphic.
Caligraphy Dictionary C - noun See Caligraphy.
Calin Dictionary C - noun An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters.
Calipash Dictionary C - noun A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle.
Calipee Dictionary C - noun A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy.
Calipers Dictionary C - noun plural An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; - called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses.
Caliph Dictionary C - noun Successor or vicar; - a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey.
Caliphate Dictionary C - noun The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.
Calippic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer.
Calisaya bark Dictionary C - A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species.
Calistheneum Dictionary C - noun A gymnasium; esp. one for light physical exercise by women and children.
Calisthenis Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to calisthenics.
Calisthenics Dictionary C - noun The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.
Caliver Dictionary C - noun An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore.
Calix Dictionary C - noun A cup. See Calyx.
Calked Dictionary C - imperative &past particle of Calk.
Calking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Calk.
Calk Dictionary C - verb transitive To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.
Calker Dictionary C - noun One who calks.
Calkin Dictionary C - noun A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.
Called Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Call.
Calling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Call.
Call Dictionary C - verb transitive To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
Calla Dictionary C - noun A genus of plants, of the order Araceae.
Callat Dictionary C - noun Same as Callet.
Calle Dictionary C - noun A kind of head covering; a caul.
Caller Dictionary C - noun One who calls.
Callet Dictionary C - noun A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip.
Callid Dictionary C - adjective Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.
Callidity Dictionary C - noun Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.
Calligrapher Dictionary C - noun One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
Calligraphic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Calligraphical.
Calligraphical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
Calligraphist Dictionary C - noun A calligrapher.
Calligraphy Dictionary C - noun Fair or elegant penmanship.
Calliope Dictionary C - noun The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
Calliopsis Dictionary C - noun A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
Callipash Dictionary C - noun See Calipash.
Callipee Dictionary C - noun See Calipee.
Callipers Dictionary C - noun plural See Calipers.
Callisection Dictionary C - noun Painless vivisection; - opposed to sentisection.
Callisthenic Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Callisthenics.
Callisthenics Dictionary C - noun See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
Callithump Dictionary C - noun A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
Callithumpian Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
Callosan Dictionary C - adjective Of the callosum.
Callose Dictionary C - adjective Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
Callosities Dictionary C - pleural of Callosity.
Callosity Dictionary C - noun A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
Callosum Dictionary C - noun The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
Callot Dictionary C - noun A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.
Callous Dictionary C - adjective Hardened; indurated.
Callow Dictionary C - adjective Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged.
Callus Dictionary C - noun Same as Callosity.
Calm Dictionary C - noun Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.
Calmed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Calm.
Calming Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Calm.
Calmer Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, makes calm.
Calmly Dictionary C - adverb In a calm manner.
Calmness Dictionary C - noun The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose.
Calmucks Dictionary C - noun plural A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks.
Calmy Dictionary C - noun Tranquil; peaceful; calm.
Calomel Dictionary C - noun Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.
Calorescence Dictionary C - noun The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.
Caloric Dictionary C - noun The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; - not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.
Caloricity Dictionary C - noun A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.
Caloriduct Dictionary C - noun A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.
Calorie Dictionary C - noun The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0 to 1 . Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound.
Calorifacient Dictionary C - adjective See Calorificient.
Calorifere Dictionary C - noun An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.
Calorifiant Dictionary C - adjective See Calorificient.
Calorific Dictionary C - adjective Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating.
Calorification Dictionary C - noun Production of heat, esp. animal heat.
Calorificient Dictionary C - adjective Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; - applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.
Calorimeter Dictionary C - noun An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.
Calorimetric Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the process of using the calorimeter.
Calorimetry Dictionary C - noun Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.
Calorimotor Dictionary C - noun A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.
Calotte Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Callot.
Calotype Dictionary C - noun A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; - also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.
Caloyer Dictionary C - noun A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos.
Calque Dictionary C - verb transitive See 2d Calk, v. t.
Caltrop Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Caltrap.
Caltrap Dictionary C - noun A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.
Calumba Dictionary C - noun The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic.
Calumbin Dictionary C - noun A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root.
Calumet Dictionary C - noun A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.
Calumniated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Calumniate.
Calumniating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Calumniate.
Calumniate Dictionary C - verb transitive To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.
Calumniation Dictionary C - noun False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.
Calumniator Dictionary C - noun One who calumniates.
Calumniatory Dictionary C - adjective Containing calumny; slanderous.
Calumnious Dictionary C - adjective Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.
Calumnies Dictionary C - pleural of Calumny.
Calumny Dictionary C - noun False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.
Calvaria Dictionary C - noun The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion.
Calvary Dictionary C - noun The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of Jerusalem.
Calved Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Calve.
Calving Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Calve.
Calve Dictionary C - intransitive verb To bring forth a calf.
Calver Dictionary C - intransitive verb To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon.
Calvessnout Dictionary C - noun Snapdragon.
Calvinism Dictionary C - noun The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches.
Calvinist Dictionary C - noun A follower of Calvin; a believer in Calvinism.
Calvinistic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Calvinistical.
Calvinistical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Calvin, or Calvinism; following Calvin; accepting or Teaching Calvinism.
Calvinize Dictionary C - verb transitive To convert to Calvinism.
Calvish Dictionary C - adjective Like a calf; stupid.
Calxes Dictionary C - pleural of Calx.
Calx Dictionary C - noun Quicklime.
Calycifloral Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of callyciflorous.
Callyciflorous Dictionary C - adjective Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; - applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.
Calyciform Dictionary C - adjective Having the form or appearance of a calyx.
Calycinal Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Calycine.
Calycine Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to a calyx; having the nature of a calyx.
Calycle Dictionary C - noun A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside.
Calycled Dictionary C - adjective Calyculate.
Calycozoa Dictionary C - noun plural A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.
Calycular Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle.
Calyculate Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Calyculated.
Calyculated Dictionary C - adjective Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.
Calymene Dictionary C - noun A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age.
Calyon Dictionary C - noun Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.
Calypso Dictionary C - noun A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68 N.
Calyptra Dictionary C - noun A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.
Calyptriform Dictionary C - adjective Having the form a calyptra, or extinguisher.
Calyxes Dictionary C - pleural of Calyx.
Calyces Dictionary C - pleural of Calyx.
Calyx Dictionary C - noun The covering of a flower. See Flower.
Calzoons Dictionary C - noun plural Drawers.
Cam Dictionary C - noun A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
Camaieu Dictionary C - noun A cameo.
Camail Dictionary C - noun A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece.
Camarasaurus Dictionary C - noun A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.
Camarilla Dictionary C - noun The private audience chamber of a king.
Camass Dictionary C - noun A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians.
Camber Dictionary C - noun An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).
Cambered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Camber.
Cambering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Camber.
Camberkeeled Dictionary C - adjective Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; - said of a ship.
Cambial Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to exchanges in commerce; of exchange.
Cambist Dictionary C - noun A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.
Cambistry Dictionary C - noun The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc.
Cambium Dictionary C - noun A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.
Camblet Dictionary C - noun See Camlet.
Camboge Dictionary C - noun See Gamboge.
Camboose Dictionary C - noun See Caboose.
Cambrasine Dictionary C - noun A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.
Cambrel Dictionary C - noun See Gambrel, n., 2.
Cambria Dictionary C - noun The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern poets.
Cambrian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.
Cambric Dictionary C - noun A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.
Cambro-Briton Dictionary C - noun A Welshman.
Came Dictionary C - imp. of Come.
Camel Dictionary C - noun A large ruminant used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens and for riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long time without drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The llama, alpaca, and vicu a, of South America, belong to a related genus (Auchenia).
Camel-backed Dictionary C - adjective Having a back like a camel; humpbacked.
Cameleon Dictionary C - noun See Chaceleon.
Camellia Dictionary C - noun An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. Camellia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and C. Sassanqua and C. oleifera are grown in China for the oil which is pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of Camellia Thea.
Camelopard Dictionary C - noun An African ruminant; the giraffe. See Giraffe.
Camelot Dictionary C - noun See Camelet.
Camelshair Dictionary C - adjective Of camel's hair.
Cameos Dictionary C - pleural of Cameo.
Cameo Dictionary C - noun A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like.
Cameras Dictionary C - pleural of Camera.
Camerae Dictionary C - pleural of Camera.
Camera Dictionary C - noun A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.
Camerade Dictionary C - noun See Comrade.
Cameralistic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue.
Cameralistics Dictionary C - noun The science of finance or public revenue.
Camera lucida Dictionary C - An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. It is generally used with the microscope.
Camera obscura Dictionary C - An apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a darkened chamber, or box, so that the outlines may be traced.
Camerated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Camerate.
Camerzting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Camerate.
Camerate Dictionary C - intransitive verb To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.
Cameration Dictionary C - noun A vaulting or arching over.
Camerlingo Dictionary C - noun The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power.
Cameronian Dictionary C - noun A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charles II.
Camis Dictionary C - noun A light, loose dress or robe.
Camisade Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Camisado.
Camisado Dictionary C - noun A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.
Camisard Dictionary C - noun One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; - so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.
Camisated Dictionary C - adjective Dressed with a shirt over the other garments.
Camisole Dictionary C - noun A short dressing jacket for women.
Camlet Dictionary C - noun A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton.
Camleted Dictionary C - adjective Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined.
Cammas Dictionary C - noun See Camass.
Cammock Dictionary C - noun A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; - called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock.
Camomile Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chamomile.
Chamomile Dictionary C - noun A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.
Camonflet Dictionary C - noun A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners.
Camous Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Camoys.
Camoys Dictionary C - adjective Flat; depressed; crooked; - said only of the nose.
Camoused Dictionary C - adjective Depressed; flattened.
Camously Dictionary C - adverb Awry.
Camp Dictionary C - noun The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
Camped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Camp.
Camping Dictionary C - past particle & vb noun of Camp.
Campagna Dictionary C - noun An open level tract of country; especially "Campagna di Roma." The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome.
Campagnol Dictionary C - noun A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
Campaign Dictionary C - noun An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.
Campaigner Dictionary C - noun One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.
Campana Dictionary C - noun A church bell.
Campaned Dictionary C - adjective Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells.
Campanero Dictionary C - noun The bellbird of South America. See Bellbird.
Campanes Dictionary C - noun plural Bells.
Campania Dictionary C - noun Open country.
Campaniform Dictionary C - adjective Bell-shaped.
Campanile Dictionary C - noun A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.
Campaniliform Dictionary C - adjective Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform.
Campanologist Dictionary C - noun One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.
Campanology Dictionary C - noun The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art.
Campanula Dictionary C - noun A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; - also called bellflower.
Campanulaceous Dictionary C - adjective Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceae) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.
Campanularian Dictionary C - noun A hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae.
Campanulate Dictionary C - adjective Bell-shaped.
Campbellite Dictionary C - noun A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.
Campeachy Wood Dictionary C - Logwood.
Camper Dictionary C - noun One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.
Campestral Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Campestrian.
Campestrian Dictionary C - adjective Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.
Camptight Dictionary C - noun A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.
Camphene Dictionary C - noun One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.
Camphine Dictionary C - noun Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.
Camphire Dictionary C - noun An old spelling of Camphor.
Camphogen Dictionary C - noun See Cymene.
Camphol Dictionary C - noun See Borneol.
Camphor Dictionary C - noun A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative.
Camphoraceous Dictionary C - adjective Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.
Camphorate Dictionary C - verb transitive To impregnate or treat with camphor.
Camporated Dictionary C - Combined or impregnated with camphor.
Camphoric Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor.
Camphretic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from camphor.
Campion Dictionary C - noun A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous.
Campus Dictionary C - noun The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.
Campylospermous Dictionary C - adjective Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely.
Campylotropous Dictionary C - adjective Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.
Camus Dictionary C - noun See Camis.
Camwood Dictionary C - noun See Barwood.
Can Dictionary C - an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. See Gan..
Canned Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Can.
Canning Dictionary C - past particle &vb. noun of Can.
Could Dictionary C - imperative of Can.
Canaanite Dictionary C - noun A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.
Canaanitish Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.
Ca ada Dictionary C - noun A small ca on; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.
Canada Dictionary C - noun A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.
Canadian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Canada.
Canaille Dictionary C - noun The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
Canakin Dictionary C - noun A little can or cup.
Canal Dictionary C - noun An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.
Canal coal Dictionary C - See Cannel coal.
Canaliculate Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Canaliculated.
Canaliculated Dictionary C - adjective Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
Canaliculi Dictionary C - pleural of Canaliculus.
Canaliculus Dictionary C - noun A minute canal.
Canalization Dictionary C - noun Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.
Canard Dictionary C - noun An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.
Canarese Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.
Canary Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.
Canaries Dictionary C - pleural of Canary.
Canary bird Dictionary C - A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch.
Canaster Dictionary C - noun A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; - so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America.
Can buoy Dictionary C - See under Buoy, n.
Cancan Dictionary C - noun A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.
Canceled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cancel.
Cancelled Dictionary C - of Cancel.
Canceling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cancel.
Cancelling Dictionary C - of Cancel.
Cancel Dictionary C - intransitive verb To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
Cancelier Dictionary C - intransitive verb To turn in flight; - said of a hawk.
Canceleer Dictionary C - noun The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop.
Cancellarean Dictionary C - adjective Cancellarean.
Cancellate Dictionary C - verb transitive Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.
Cancellated Dictionary C - adjective Crossbarred; marked with cross lines.
Cancellation Dictionary C - noun The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
Cancelli Dictionary C - verb transitive An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.
Cancellous Dictionary C - adjective Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.
Cancer Dictionary C - noun A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.
Cancerated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cancerate.
Cancerate Dictionary C - intransitive verb To grow into a canser; to become cancerous.
Canceration Dictionary C - noun The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.
Cancerite Dictionary C - noun Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.
Cancriform Dictionary C - adjective Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.
Cancrine Dictionary C - adjective Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.
Cancrinite Dictionary C - noun A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide.
Cancroid Dictionary C - adjective Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.
Cand Dictionary C - noun Fluor spar. See Kand.
Candelabra Dictionary C - pleural of Candelabrum.
Candelabrums Dictionary C - pleural of Candelabrum.
Candelabrum Dictionary C - noun A lamp stand of any sort.
Candent Dictionary C - adjective Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.
Canderos Dictionary C - noun An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made.
Candescence Dictionary C - noun See Incandescence.
Candicant Dictionary C - adjective Growing white.
Candid Dictionary C - adjective White.
Candidacy Dictionary C - noun The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.
Candidate Dictionary C - noun One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.
Candidateship Dictionary C - noun Candidacy.
Candidating Dictionary C - noun The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement.
Candidature Dictionary C - noun Candidacy.
Candidly Dictionary C - adverb In a candid manner.
Candidness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being candid.
Candied Dictionary C - adjective Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.
Candify Dictionary C - verb transitive / v. intransitive To make or become white, or candied.
Candiot Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary.
Candite Dictionary C - noun A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon.
Candle Dictionary C - noun A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light.
Candleberry tree Dictionary C - A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; - also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.
Candlebomb Dictionary C - noun A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.
Candle coal Dictionary C - See Cannel coal.
Candlefish Dictionary C - noun A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; - called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it.
Candleholder Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance.
Candlelight Dictionary C - noun The light of a candle.
Candlemas Dictionary C - noun The second day of February, on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; - so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day.
Candlestick Dictionary C - noun An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.
Candlewaster Dictionary C - noun One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
Candock Dictionary C - noun A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).
Candor Dictionary C - noun Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.
Candroy Dictionary C - noun A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.
Candying Dictionary C - particle pr & verb noun of Candy.
Candy Dictionary C - verb transitive To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
Candytuft Dictionary C - noun An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the I. umbellata, first, discovered in the island of Candia.
Cane Dictionary C - noun A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
Caned Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cane.
Caning Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cane.
Canebrake Dictionary C - noun A thicket of canes.
Canella Dictionary C - noun A genus of trees of the order Canellaceae, growing in the West Indies.
Canescent Dictionary C - adjective Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.
Can hook Dictionary C - A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.
Cannicula Dictionary C - noun The Dog Star; Sirius.
Canicular Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.
Canicule Dictionary C - noun Canicula.
Caninal Dictionary C - adjective See Canine, a.
Canine Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.
Canes Dictionary C - pleural of Canis.
Canis Dictionary C - noun A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canidae, including the dogs and wolves.
Canister Dictionary C - noun A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.
Canker Dictionary C - noun A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; - called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.
Cankered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Canker.
Cankering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Canker.
Canker-bit Dictionary C - adjective Eaten out by canker, or as by canker.
Canker bloom Dictionary C - The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
Canker blossom Dictionary C - That which blasts a blossom as a canker does.
Cankeredly Dictionary C - adverb Fretfully; spitefully.
Canker fly Dictionary C - A fly that preys on fruit.
Cankerous Dictionary C - adjective Affecting like a canker.
Canker rash Dictionary C - A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
Cankerworm Dictionary C - noun The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvae are also called cankerworms.
Cankery Dictionary C - adjective Like a canker; full of canker.
Canna Dictionary C - noun A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. See Cane, 4.
Cannabene Dictionary C - noun A colorless oil obtained from hemp by distillation, and possessing its intoxicating properties.
Cannabin Dictionary C - noun A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin.
Cannabine Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to hemp; hempen.
Cannabis Dictionary C - noun A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp.
Cannel coal Dictionary C - A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles.
Cannery Dictionary C - noun A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on.
Cannibal Dictionary C - noun A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind.
Cannibalism Dictionary C - noun The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity.
Cannibally Dictionary C - adverb In the manner of cannibal.
Cannikin Dictionary C - noun A small can or drinking vessel.
Cannily Dictionary C - adverb In a canny manner.
Canniness Dictionary C - noun Caution; crafty management.
Cannons Dictionary C - pleural of Cannon.
Cannon Dictionary C - pleural of Cannon.
Cannonade Dictionary C - noun The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; - usually, an attack of some continuance.
Cannonading Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cannonade.
Cannon bone Dictionary C - See Canon Bone.
Cannoned Dictionary C - adjective Furnished with cannon.
Cannoneer Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cannonier.
Cannonier Dictionary C - noun A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
Cannonering Dictionary C - noun The use of cannon.
Cannonry Dictionary C - noun Cannon, collectively; artillery.
Cannot Dictionary C - Am, is, or are, not able; - written either as one word or two.
Cannula Dictionary C - noun A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar.
Cannular Dictionary C - adjective Having the form of a tube; tubular.
Cannulated Dictionary C - adjective Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle.
Canny Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cannei.
Cannei Dictionary C - adjective Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary.
Canoes Dictionary C - pleural of Canoe.
Canoe Dictionary C - noun A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder.
Canoed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Canoe.
Canoeing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Canoe.
Canoeist Dictionary C - noun A canoeman.
Canoemen Dictionary C - pleural of Canoeman.
Canoeman Dictionary C - noun One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe.
Canon Dictionary C - noun A law or rule.
Ca on Dictionary C - noun A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.
Canon bit Dictionary C - That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
Canon bone Dictionary C - The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
Canoness Dictionary C - noun A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
Canonic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cannonical.
Cannonical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons.
Canonically Dictionary C - adverb In a canonical manner; according to the canons.
Canonicalness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being canonical; canonicity.
Canonicals Dictionary C - noun plural The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.
Canonicate Dictionary C - noun The office of a canon; a canonry.
Canonicity Dictionary C - noun The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
Canonist Dictionary C - noun A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.
Canonistic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a canonist.
Canonization Dictionary C - noun The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
Canonized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Canonize.
Canonizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Canonize.
Canonize Dictionary C - verb transitive To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.
Canonry Dictionary C - noun plural A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.
Canonship Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Canopus in Egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming.
Canopus Dictionary C - noun A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.
Canopies Dictionary C - pleural of Canopy.
Canopy Dictionary C - noun A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.
Canopes Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Canopy.
Canopying Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Canopy.
Canorous Dictionary C - adjective Melodious; musical.
Canorousness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being musical.
Canstick Dictionary C - noun Candlestick.
Cant Dictionary C - noun A corner; angle; niche.
Canted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cant.
Canting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cant.
Can't Dictionary C - A colloquial contraction for can not.
Cantab Dictionary C - noun A Cantabrigian.
Cantabile Dictionary C - adjective In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.
Cantabrian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain.
Cantabrigian Dictionary C - noun A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England.
Cantalever Dictionary C - noun A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.
Cantaloupe Dictionary C - noun A muskmelon of several varieties, having when mature, a yellowish skin, and flesh of a reddish orange color.
Cantankerous Dictionary C - adjective Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious.
Cantar Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cantarro.
Cantarro Dictionary C - noun A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds.
Cantata Dictionary C - noun A poem set to music; a musical composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody.
Cantation Dictionary C - noun A singing.
Cantatory Dictionary C - adjective Containing cant or affectation; whining; singing.
Cantatrice Dictionary C - noun A female professional singer.
Canteen Dictionary C - noun A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink.
Cantel Dictionary C - noun See Cantle.
Canter Dictionary C - noun A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
Cantered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Canter.
Cantering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Canter.
Canterbury Dictionary C - noun A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made.
Cantharidal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.
Cantharides Dictionary C - noun plural See Cantharis.
Cantharidin Dictionary C - noun The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms.
Cantharis Dictionary C - noun A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; - also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.
Cant hook Dictionary C - A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; - used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc.
Canthoplasty Dictionary C - noun The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.
Canthi Dictionary C - pleural of Canthus.
Canthus Dictionary C - noun The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye.
Canticles Dictionary C - pleural of Canticle.
Canticle Dictionary C - noun A song; esp. a little song or hymn.
Canticoy Dictionary C - noun A social gathering; usually, one for dancing.
Cantile Dictionary C - intransitive verb Same as Cantle, v. t.
Cantilena Dictionary C - noun See Cantabile.
Cantilever Dictionary C - noun Same as Cantalever.
Cantillate Dictionary C - intransitive verb To chant; to recite with musical tones.
Cantillation Dictionary C - noun A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.
Cantine Dictionary C - noun See Canteen.
Cantiniere Dictionary C - noun A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a vivandiere.
Cantion Dictionary C - noun A song or verses.
Cantle Dictionary C - noun A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part.
Cantlet Dictionary C - noun A piece; a fragment; a corner.
Cantos Dictionary C - pleural of Canto.
Canto Dictionary C - noun One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
Canton Dictionary C - noun A song or canto.
Cantoned Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Canton.
Cantoning Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Canton.
Cantonal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.
Canton crape Dictionary C - A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; - called also Oriental crape.
Canton flannel Dictionary C - See Cotton flannel.
Cantonize Dictionary C - intransitive verb To divide into cantons or small districts.
Cantonment Dictionary C - noun A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.
Cantoon Dictionary C - noun A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.
Cantor Dictionary C - noun A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.
Cantoral Dictionary C - adjective Of or belonging to a cantor.
Cantoris Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall.
Cantrap Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cantrip.
Cantrip Dictionary C - noun A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief.
Cantred Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cantref.
Cantref Dictionary C - noun A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales.
Canty Dictionary C - adjective Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry.
Canuck Dictionary C - noun A Canadian.
Canula Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Canulated.
Canular Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Canulated.
Canulated Dictionary C - adjective See Cannula, Cannular, and Cannulated.
Canvas Dictionary C - noun A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; - used for tents, sails, etc.
Canvasback Dictionary C - noun A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; - so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.
Canvassed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Canvass.
Canvassing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Canvass.
Canvass Dictionary C - noun To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote.
Canvasser Dictionary C - noun One who canvasses.
Cany Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes.
Canyon Dictionary C - noun The English form of the Spanish word Ca on.
Canzone Dictionary C - noun A song or air for one or more voices, of Provencal origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal.
Canzonet Dictionary C - noun A short song, in one or more parts.
Caoutchin Dictionary C - noun An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc.
Caoutchouc Dictionary C - noun A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization.
Caoutchoucin Dictionary C - noun See Caoutchin.
Cap Dictionary C - noun A covering for the head.
Capped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cap.
Capping Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cap.
Capabilities Dictionary C - pleural of Capability.
Capability Dictionary C - noun The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability.
Capable Dictionary C - adjective Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault.
Capableness Dictionary C - noun The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.
Capacified Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Capacify.
Capacify Dictionary C - verb transitive To quality.
Capacious Dictionary C - adjective Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor.
Capaciosly Dictionary C - adverb In a capacious manner or degree; comprehensively.
Capaciousness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.
Capacitated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Capacitate.
Capacitating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Capacitate.
Capacitate Dictionary C - verb transitive To render capable; to enable; to qualify.
Capacities Dictionary C - pleural of Capacity.
Capacity Dictionary C - noun The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; - used in reference to physical things.
Capape Dictionary C - adverb See Cap-a-pie.
Capapie Dictionary C - adverb From head to foot; at all points.
Caparison Dictionary C - noun An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative.
Caparisoned Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Caparison.
Caparisoning Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Caparison.
Caparro Dictionary C - noun A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail.
Capcase Dictionary C - noun A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest.
Cape Dictionary C - noun A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
Capel Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Caple.
Caple Dictionary C - noun A horse; a nag.
Capelan Dictionary C - noun See Capelin.
Capelin Dictionary C - noun A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family Salmonidae, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod.
Cappeline Dictionary C - noun A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.
Capella Dictionary C - noun A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga.
Capellane Dictionary C - noun The curate of a chapel; a chaplain.
Capelle Dictionary C - noun The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.
Capellet Dictionary C - noun A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down.
Capellmeister Dictionary C - noun The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master.
Capered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Caper.
Capering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Caper.
Caper Dictionary C - intransitive verb To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.
Caperberry Dictionary C - noun The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.
Caper bush Dictionary C - Alt. of Caper tree.
Caper tree Dictionary C - See Capper, a plant, 2.
Capercailzie Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Capercally.
Capercally Dictionary C - noun A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; - called also cock of the woods.
Caperclaw Dictionary C - verb transitive To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse.
Caperer Dictionary C - noun One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances.
Capful Dictionary C - noun As much as will fill a cap.
Capias Dictionary C - noun A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; - also called writ of capias.
Capibara Dictionary C - noun See Capybara.
Capillaceous Dictionary C - adjective Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.
Capillaire Dictionary C - noun A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.
Capillament Dictionary C - noun A filament.
Capillariness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being capillary.
Capillarity Dictionary C - noun The quality or condition of being capillary.
Capillary Dictionary C - adjective Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
Capillation Dictionary C - noun A capillary blood vessel.
Capillature Dictionary C - noun A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair.
Capilliform Dictionary C - adjective In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.
Capillose Dictionary C - adjective Having much hair; hairy.
Capistrate Dictionary C - adjective Hooded; cowled.
Capital Dictionary C - noun Of or pertaining to the head.
Capitalist Dictionary C - noun One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.
Capitalization Dictionary C - noun The act or process of capitalizing.
Capitalized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Capitalize.
Capitalizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Capitalize.
Capitalize Dictionary C - verb transitive To convert into capital, or to use as capital.
Capitally Dictionary C - adverb In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally.
Capitalness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being capital; preeminence.
Capitan Pasha Dictionary C - Alt. of Pacha.
Pacha Dictionary C - The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.
Capitate Dictionary C - adjective Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.
Capitatim Dictionary C - adjective Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant.
Capitation Dictionary C - noun A numbering of heads or individuals.
Capite Dictionary C - noun See under Tenant.
Capitellate Dictionary C - adjective Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.
Capitibranchiata Dictionary C - noun plural A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.
Capitol Dictionary C - The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met.
Capitolian Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Capitoline.
Capitoline Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome.
Capitula Dictionary C - noun plural See Capitulum.
Capitular Dictionary C - noun An act passed in a chapter.
Capitularly Dictionary C - adverb In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter.
Capitularies Dictionary C - pleural of Capitulary.
Capitulary Dictionary C - noun A capitular.
Capitulated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Capitulate.
Capitulating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Capitulate.
Capitulate Dictionary C - noun To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.
Capitulation Dictionary C - noun A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
Capitulator Dictionary C - noun One who capitulates.
Capitule Dictionary C - noun A summary.
Capitulum Dictionary C - noun A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat.
Capivi Dictionary C - noun A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See Copaiba.
Caplin Dictionary C - noun See Capelin.
Capling Dictionary C - noun The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel.
Capnomancy Dictionary C - noun Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke.
Capnomor Dictionary C - noun A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar.
Capoc Dictionary C - noun A sort of cotton so short and fine that it can not be spun, used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc.
Capoches Dictionary C - pleural of Capoch.
Capoch Dictionary C - noun A hood; especially, the hood attached to the gown of a monk.
Capoched Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Capoch.
Capon Dictionary C - noun A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table.
Caponet Dictionary C - noun A young capon.
Caponiere Dictionary C - noun A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.
Caponize Dictionary C - verb transitive To castrate, as a fowl.
Capot Dictionary C - noun A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points.
Capotted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Capot.
Capote Dictionary C - noun A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.
Capouch Dictionary C - noun & transitive verb Same as Capoch.
Cappadine Dictionary C - noun A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.
Cappaper Dictionary C - See cap, n., also Paper, n.
Cappeak Dictionary C - noun The front piece of a cap; - now more commonly called visor.
Cappella Dictionary C - noun See A cappella.
Capper Dictionary C - noun One whose business is to make or sell caps.
Capping plane Dictionary C - A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.
Capra Dictionary C - noun A genus of ruminants, including the common goat.
Caprate Dictionary C - noun A salt of capric acid.
Capreolate Dictionary C - adjective Having a tendril or tendrils.
Capreoline Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the roebuck.
Capric Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives.
Cariccio Dictionary C - noun A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; - often called caprice.
Capricioso Dictionary C - adjective In a free, fantastic style.
Caprice Dictionary C - intransitive verb An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
Capricious Dictionary C - adjective Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.
Capricorn Dictionary C - noun The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic.
Caprid Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type.
Caprification Dictionary C - noun The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.
Caprifole Dictionary C - noun The woodbine or honeysuckle.
Caprifoliaceous Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacae.
Capriform Dictionary C - adjective Having the form of a goat.
Caprigenous Dictionary C - adjective Of the goat kind.
Caprine Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols.
Capriole Dictionary C - intransitive verb A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.
Capriped Dictionary C - adjective Having feet like those of a goat.
Caproate Dictionary C - noun A salt of caproic acid.
Caproic Dictionary C - adjective See under Capric.
Caprylate Dictionary C - noun A salt of caprylic acid.
Caprylic Dictionary C - adjective See under Capric.
Capsaicin Dictionary C - noun A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.
Capsheaf Dictionary C - noun The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.
Capsicin Dictionary C - noun A red liquid or soft resin extracted from various species of capsicum.
Capsicine Dictionary C - noun A volatile alkaloid extracted from Capsicum annuum or from capsicin.
Capsicum Dictionary C - noun A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red or Cayenne pepper of commerce.
Capsized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Capsize.
Capsizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Capsize.
Capsize Dictionary C - verb transitive & intransitive To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body.
Capsquare Dictionary C - noun A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.
Capstan Dictionary C - noun A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket.
Capstone Dictionary C - noun A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; - so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
Capsular Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Capsulary.
Capsulary Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous.
Capsulate Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Capsulated.
Capsulated Dictionary C - adjective Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box.
Capsule Dictionary C - noun a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc.
Captain Dictionary C - noun A head, or chief officer.
Captaincy Dictionary C - noun The rank, post, or commission of a captain.
Captainry Dictionary C - noun Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship.
Captainship Dictionary C - noun The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander.
Captation Dictionary C - noun A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction.
Caption Dictionary C - noun A caviling; a sophism.
Captious Dictionary C - adjective Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
Captiously Dictionary C - adverb In a captious manner.
Captiousness Dictionary C - noun Captious disposition or manner.
Captivated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Captivate.
Captivating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Captivate.
Captivate Dictionary C - verb transitive To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
Captivation Dictionary C - noun The act of captivating.
Captive Dictionary C - noun A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another.
Captived Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Captive.
Captiving Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Captive.
Captivity Dictionary C - noun The state of being a captive or a prisoner.
Captor Dictionary C - noun One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize.
Capture Dictionary C - noun The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.
Captured Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Capture.
Capturing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Capture.
Capuccio Dictionary C - noun A capoch or hood.
Capuched Dictionary C - adjective Cover with, or as with, a hood.
Capuchin Dictionary C - noun A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.
Capucine Dictionary C - noun See Capuchin, 3.
Capulet Dictionary C - noun Same as Capellet.
Capulin Dictionary C - noun The Mexican cherry (Prunus Capollin).
Capita Dictionary C - pleural of Caput.
Caput Dictionary C - noun The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.
Capybara Dictionary C - noun A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; - called also cabiai and water hog.
Car Dictionary C - noun A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
Carabid Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidae.
Carabine Dictionary C - noun A carbine.
Carabineer Dictionary C - noun A carbineer.
Caraboid Dictionary C - adjective Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus.
Carabus Dictionary C - noun A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects.
Carac Dictionary C - noun See Carack.
Caracal Dictionary C - noun A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs.
Caracara Dictionary C - noun A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards.
Carack Dictionary C - noun A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon.
Caracole Dictionary C - noun A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.
Caracoled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Caracole.
Caracoly Dictionary C - noun An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewelry is made.
Caracore Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Caracora.
Caracora Dictionary C - noun A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies.
Carafe Dictionary C - noun A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; - called also croft.
Carageen Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Caragheen.
Caragheen Dictionary C - noun See Carrageen.
Carambola Dictionary C - noun An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry.
Caramel Dictionary C - noun Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.
Carangoid Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.
Caranx Dictionary C - noun A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or golden mackerel.
Carapace Dictionary C - noun The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
Carapato Dictionary C - noun A south American tick of the genus Amblyomma. There are several species, very troublesome to man and beast.
Carapax Dictionary C - noun See Carapace.
Carat Dictionary C - noun The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.
Caravan Dictionary C - noun A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.
Caravaneer Dictionary C - noun The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.
Caravansaries Dictionary C - pleural of Caravansary.
Caravansary Dictionary C - noun A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court.
Caravel Dictionary C - noun A name given to several kinds of vessels.
Caraway Dictionary C - noun A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.
Carbamic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to an acid so called.
Carbamide Dictionary C - noun The technical name for urea.
Carbamine Dictionary C - noun An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.
Carbanil Dictionary C - noun A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.
Carbazol Dictionary C - noun A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines.
Carbazotate Dictionary C - noun A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.
Carbazotic Dictionary C - adjective Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen.
Carbide Dictionary C - noun A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; - formerly termed carburet.
Carbimide Dictionary C - noun The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.
Carbine Dictionary C - noun A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry.
Carbineer Dictionary C - noun A soldier armed with a carbine.
Carbinol Dictionary C - noun Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; - also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.
Carbohydrate Dictionary C - noun One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.
Carbohydride Dictionary C - noun A hydrocarbon.
Carbolic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.
Carbolize Dictionary C - verb transitive To apply carbolic acid to; to wash or treat with carbolic acid.
Carbon Dictionary C - noun An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite.
Carbonaceous Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.
Carbonade Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Carbonado.
Carbonado Dictionary C - noun Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop.
Carbonadoed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Carbonade.
Carbonadoing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Carbonade.
Carbonadoes Dictionary C - pleural of Carbonado.
Carbonarism Dictionary C - noun The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.
Carbonari Dictionary C - pleural of Carbonaro.
Carbonaro Dictionary C - noun A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.
Carbonatation Dictionary C - noun The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas.
Carbonate Dictionary C - noun A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.
Carbonated Dictionary C - adjective Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.
Carbone Dictionary C - verb transitive To broil. Obs. "We had a calf's head carboned".
Carbonic Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide.
Carbonide Dictionary C - noun A carbide.
Carboniferous Dictionary C - adjective Producing or containing carbon or coal.
Carbonization Dictionary C - noun The act or process of carbonizing.
Carbonized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Carbonize.
Carbonizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Carbonize.
Carbonize Dictionary C - verb transitive To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.
Carbonometer Dictionary C - noun An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means.
Carbonyl Dictionary C - noun The radical (CO), occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.
Carbostyril Dictionary C - noun A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids.
Carboxide Dictionary C - noun A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide.
Carboxyl Dictionary C - noun The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; - called also oxatyl.
Carboy Dictionary C - noun A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; - used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.
Carbuncle Dictionary C - noun A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.
Carbuncled Dictionary C - adjective Set with carbuncles.
Carbuncular Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.
Carbunculation Dictionary C - noun The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold.
Carburet Dictionary C - noun A carbide. See Carbide.
Carbureted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Carburet.
Carburetted Dictionary C - of Carburet.
Carbureting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Carburet.
Carburetting Dictionary C - of Carburet.
Carburetant Dictionary C - noun Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases.
Carburetor Dictionary C - noun An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power.
Carburization Dictionary C - noun The act, process, or result of carburizing.
Carburized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Carburize.
Carburizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Carburize.
Carburize Dictionary C - verb transitive To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; - said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile hydrocarbons.
Carcajou Dictionary C - noun The wolverene; - also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene.
Carcanet Dictionary C - noun A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar.
Carcase Dictionary C - noun See Carcass.
Carcasses Dictionary C - pleural of Carcass.
Carcass Dictionary C - noun A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.
Carcavelhos Dictionary C - noun A sweet wine. See Calcavella.
Carcelage Dictionary C - noun Prison fees.
Carcel lamp Dictionary C - A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.
Carceral Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to a prison.
Carcinological Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to carcinology.
Carcinology Dictionary C - noun The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); - called also malacostracology and crustaceology.
Carcinoma Dictionary C - noun A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer.
Carcinomatous Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to carcinoma.
Carcinosys Dictionary C - noun The affection of the system with cancer.
Card Dictionary C - noun A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
Carded Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Card.
Carding Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Card.
Cardamine Dictionary C - noun A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.
Cardamom Dictionary C - noun The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine.
Cardboard Dictionary C - noun A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.
Cardcase Dictionary C - noun A case for visiting cards.
Cardecu Dictionary C - noun A quarter of a crown.
Carder Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc.
Cardia Dictionary C - noun The heart.
Cardiac Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.
Cardiacal Dictionary C - adjective Cardiac.
Cardiacle Dictionary C - noun A pain about the heart.
Cardiagraph Dictionary C - noun See Cardiograph.
Cardialgla Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cardialgy.
Cardialgy Dictionary C - noun A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.
Cardigan jacket Dictionary C - A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves.
Cardinal Dictionary C - adjective Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.
Cardinalate Dictionary C - noun The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.
Cardinalize Dictionary C - verb transitive To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
Cardinalship Dictionary C - noun The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal.
Cardiograph Dictionary C - noun An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements.
Cardiographic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
Cardioid Dictionary C - noun An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart.
Cardioinhibitory Dictionary C - adjective Checking or arresting the heart's action.
Cardiolgy Dictionary C - noun The science which treats of the heart and its functions.
Cardiometry Dictionary C - noun Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation.
Cardiosphygmograph Dictionary C - noun A combination of cardiograph and sphygmograph.
Carditis Dictionary C - noun Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis.
Cardines Dictionary C - pleural of Cardo.
Cardo Dictionary C - noun The basal joint of the maxilla in insects.
Cardol Dictionary C - noun A yellow oily liquid, extracted from the shell of the cashew nut.
Cardoon Dictionary C - noun A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; - used in cookery and as a salad.
Care Dictionary C - noun A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
Cared Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Care.
Caring Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Care.
Careened Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Careen.
Careening Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Careen.
Careen Dictionary C - verb transitive To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.
Careenage Dictionary C - noun Expense of careening ships.
Career Dictionary C - noun A race course: the ground run over.
Careered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Career.
Careering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Career.
Careful Dictionary C - adjective Full of care; anxious; solicitous.
Carefully Dictionary C - adverb In a careful manner.
Carefulness Dictionary C - noun Quality or state of being careful.
Careless Dictionary C - adjective Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.
Carelessly Dictionary C - adverb In a careless manner.
Carelessness Dictionary C - noun The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.
Carene Dictionary C - noun A fast of forty days on bread and water.
Caress Dictionary C - noun An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.
Caressed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Caress.
Caressing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Caress.
Caressingly Dictionary C - adjective In caressing manner.
Caret Dictionary C - noun A mark ^ used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.
Caretuned Dictionary C - adjective Weary; mournful.
Careworn Dictionary C - adjective Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.
Carex Dictionary C - noun A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceae; the sedges.
Carf Dictionary C - pret. of Carve.
Cargason Dictionary C - noun A cargo.
Cargoes Dictionary C - pleural of Cargo.
Cargo Dictionary C - noun The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.
Cargoose Dictionary C - noun A species of grebe (Podiceps crisratus); the crested grebe.
Cariama Dictionary C - noun A large, long-legged South American bird (Dicholophus cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc. See Seriema.
Caries Dictionary C - pleural of Carib.
Carib Dictionary C - noun A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the West India islands.
Caribbean Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Caribbee.
Caribbee Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sea) lying between those islands and Central America.
Caribe Dictionary C - noun A south American fresh water fish of the genus Serrasalmo of many species, remarkable for its voracity. When numerous they attack man or beast, often with fatal results.
Caribou Dictionary C - noun The American reindeer, especially the common or woodland species (Rangifer Caribou).
Caricature Dictionary C - verb transitive An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
Caricatured Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Caricature.
Caricaturing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Caricature.
Caricaturist Dictionary C - noun One who caricatures.
Caricous Dictionary C - adjective Of the shape of a fig; as, a caricous tumor.
Carillon Dictionary C - noun A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.
Carina Dictionary C - noun A keel.
Carinaria Dictionary C - noun A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills.
Carinatae Dictionary C - noun plural A grand division of birds, including all existing flying birds; - So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone.
Carinate Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Carinated.
Carinated Dictionary C - adjective Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).
Cariole Dictionary C - noun A small, light, open one-horse carriage.
Cariopsis Dictionary C - noun See Caryopsis.
Cariosity Dictionary C - noun Caries.
Carious Dictionary C - adjective Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.
Cark Dictionary C - noun A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.
Carkanet Dictionary C - noun A carcanet.
Carking Dictionary C - adjective Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares.
Carl Dictionary C - noun A rude, rustic man; a churl.
Carlin Dictionary C - noun An old woman.
Carline Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Caroline.
Caroline Dictionary C - noun A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents.
Carling Dictionary C - noun A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; - usually in pl.
Carline thistle Dictionary C - A prickly plant of the genus Carlina (C. vulgaris), found in Europe and Asia.
Carlings Dictionary C - noun plural Same as Carl, 3.
Carlist Dictionary C - noun A partisan of Charles X. of France, or of Don Carlos of Spain.
Carlock Dictionary C - noun A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.
Carlot Dictionary C - noun A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman.
Carlovingian Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, founded by, of descended from, Charlemagne; as, the Carlovingian race of kings.
Carmagnole Dictionary C - noun A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution.
Carman Dictionary C - noun A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car.
Carmelite Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Carmelin.
Carmelin Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.
Carminated Dictionary C - adjective Of, relating to, or mixed with, carmine; as, carminated lake.
Carminative Dictionary C - adjective Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic.
Carmine Dictionary C - noun A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.
Carminic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine.
Carmot Dictionary C - noun The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed.
Carnage Dictionary C - noun Flesh of slain animals or men.
Carnal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual.
Carnalism Dictionary C - noun The state of being carnal; carnality; sensualism.
Carnalist Dictionary C - noun A sensualist.
Carnality Dictionary C - noun The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind.
Carnalized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Carnalize.
Carnalizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Carnalize.
Carnalize Dictionary C - verb transitive To make carnal; to debase to carnality.
Carnallite Dictionary C - noun A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.
Carnally Dictionary C - adverb According to the flesh, to the world, or to human nature; in a manner to gratify animal appetites and lusts; sensually.
Carnal-minded Dictionary C - adjective Worldly-minded.
Carnal-mindedness Dictionary C - noun Grossness of mind.
Carnary Dictionary C - noun A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.
Carnassial Dictionary C - adjective Adapted to eating flesh.
Carnate Dictionary C - adjective Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.
Carnation Dictionary C - noun The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.
Carnationed Dictionary C - adjective Having a flesh color.
Carnauba Dictionary C - noun The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.
Carnelian Dictionary C - noun A variety of chalcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good polish, and often used for seals.
Carneous Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of, or like, flesh; carnous; fleshy.
Carney Dictionary C - noun A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat.
Carnifex Dictionary C - noun The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman.
Carnification Dictionary C - noun The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh.
Carnify Dictionary C - intransitive verb To form flesh; to become like flesh.
Carnin Dictionary C - noun A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin.
Carnival Dictionary C - noun A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday.
Carnivora Dictionary C - noun plural An order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though some of them, as the bears, also eat vegetable food. The teeth are large and sharp, suitable for cutting flesh, and the jaws powerful.
Carnivoracity Dictionary C - noun Greediness of appetite for flesh.
Carnivore Dictionary C - noun One of the Carnivora.
Carnivorous Dictionary C - adjective Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
Carnose Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Carnous.
Carnous Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to flesh; fleshy.
Carnosity Dictionary C - noun A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth.
Carob Dictionary C - noun An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; - called also carob tree.
Caroche Dictionary C - noun A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach.
Caroched Dictionary C - adjective Placed in a caroche.
Caroigne Dictionary C - noun Dead body; carrion.
Carol Dictionary C - noun A round dance.
Caroled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Carol.
Carolled Dictionary C - of Carol.
Caroling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Carol.
Carolling Dictionary C - of Carol.
Carrol Dictionary C - noun A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century.
Carolin Dictionary C - noun A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.
Carolina pink Dictionary C - See Pinkboot.
Carolinian Dictionary C - noun A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.
Carolitic Dictionary C - adjective Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.
Caroluses Dictionary C - pleural of Carolus.
Caroli Dictionary C - pleural of Carolus.
Carolus Dictionary C - noun An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I.
Carom Dictionary C - noun A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.
Caromel Dictionary C - noun See Caramel.
Caroteel Dictionary C - noun A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs.
Carotic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to stupor; as, a carotic state.
Carotid Dictionary C - noun One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head. See Illust. of Aorta..
Carotidal Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as, the carotid gland.
Carotin Dictionary C - noun A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.
Carousal Dictionary C - noun A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse.
Carouse Dictionary C - noun A large draught of liquor.
Caroused Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Carouse.
Carousing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Carouse.
Carouser Dictionary C - noun One who carouses; a reveler.
Carousingly Dictionary C - adverb In the manner of a carouser.
Carped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Carp.
Carping Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Carp.
Carp Dictionary C - intransitive verb To talk; to speak; to prattle.
Carps Dictionary C - pleural of Carp.
Carpal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the carpus, or wrist.
Carpalia Dictionary C - pleural of Carpale.
Carpale Dictionary C - noun One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.
Carpathian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a range of mountains in Austro-Hungary, called the Carpathians, which partially inclose Hungary on the north, east, and south.
Carpel Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Carpellum.
Carpellum Dictionary C - noun A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore.
Carpellary Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.
Carpenter Dictionary C - noun An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.
Carpentering Dictionary C - noun The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of working in timber; carpentry.
Carpentry Dictionary C - noun The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.
Carper Dictionary C - noun One who carps; a caviler.
Carpet Dictionary C - noun A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.
Carpeted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Carpet.
Carpeting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Carpet.
Carpetbag Dictionary C - noun A portable bag for travelers; - so called because originally made of carpet.
Carpetbagger Dictionary C - noun An adventurer; - a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
Carpetless Dictionary C - adjective Without a carpet.
Carpetmonger Dictionary C - noun One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
Carpetway Dictionary C - noun A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field.
Carphology Dictionary C - noun See Floccillation.
Carpintero Dictionary C - noun A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvae, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird.
Carpogenic Dictionary C - adjective Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.
Carpolite Dictionary C - noun A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.
Carpological Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to carpology.
Carpologist Dictionary C - noun One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.
Carpology Dictionary C - noun That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.
Carpophagous Dictionary C - adjective Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.
Carpophore Dictionary C - noun A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.
Carpophyll Dictionary C - noun A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. See Illust. of Gymnospermous..
Carpophyte Dictionary C - noun A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.
Carpospore Dictionary C - noun A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae.
Carpi Dictionary C - pleural of Carpus.
Carpus Dictionary C - noun The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.
Carrack Dictionary C - noun See Carack.
Carrageen Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Carrigeen.
Carrigeen Dictionary C - noun A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.
Carrancha Dictionary C - noun The Brazilian kite (Polyborus Brasiliensis); - so called in imitation of its notes.
Carraway Dictionary C - noun See Caraway.
Carrel Dictionary C - noun See Quarrel, an arrow.
Carriable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being carried.
Carriage Dictionary C - noun That which is carried; burden; baggage.
Carriageable Dictionary C - adjective Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages.
Carriboo Dictionary C - noun See Caribou.
Carrick Dictionary C - noun A carack. See Carack.
Carrier Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
Carrion Dictionary C - noun The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.
Carrom Dictionary C - noun See Carom.
Carronade Dictionary C - noun A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.
Carron oil Dictionary C - A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds; - first used at the Carron iron works in Scotland.
Carrot Dictionary C - noun An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.
Carroty Dictionary C - adjective Like a carrot in color or in taste; - an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.
Carrow Dictionary C - noun A strolling gamester.
Carried Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Carry.
Carrying Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Carry.
Carry Dictionary C - verb transitive To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; - often with away or off.
Carries Dictionary C - pleural of Carry.
Carryall Dictionary C - noun A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
Carryk Dictionary C - noun A carack.
Carrytale Dictionary C - noun A talebearer.
Carse Dictionary C - noun Low, fertile land; a river valley.
Cart Dictionary C - noun A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.
Carted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cart.
Carting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cart.
Cartage Dictionary C - noun The act of carrying in a cart.
Cartbote Dictionary C - noun Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.
Carte Dictionary C - noun Bill of fare.
Quarte Dictionary C - noun A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast.
Carte blanche Dictionary C - A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority.
Cartes de visite Dictionary C - pleural of Carte de visite.
Carte de visite Dictionary C - A visiting card.
Cartel Dictionary C - noun An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners.
Carter Dictionary C - noun A charioteer.
Cartesian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the French philosopher Rene Descartes, or his philosophy.
Cartesianism Dictionary C - noun The philosophy of Descartes.
Carthaginian Dictionary C - adjective Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of northern Africa.
Carthamin Dictionary C - noun A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or Carthamus tinctorius.
Carthusian Dictionary C - noun A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.
Cartilage Dictionary C - noun A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle.
Cartilagineous Dictionary C - adjective See Cartilaginous.
Cartilaginification Dictionary C - noun The act or process of forming cartilage.
Cartilaginous Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
Cartman Dictionary C - noun One who drives or uses a cart; a teamster; a carter.
Cartographer Dictionary C - noun One who makes charts or maps.
Cartographic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cartographical.
Cartographical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to cartography.
Cartographically Dictionary C - adverb By cartography.
Cartography Dictionary C - noun The art or business of forming charts or maps.
Cartomancy Dictionary C - noun The art of telling fortunes with cards.
Carton Dictionary C - noun Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.
Cartoon Dictionary C - noun A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; - used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.
Cartoonist Dictionary C - noun One skilled in drawing cartoons.
Cartouches Dictionary C - pleural of Cartouch.
Cartouch Dictionary C - noun A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge.
Cartridge Dictionary C - noun A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material.
Cartularies Dictionary C - pleural of Cartulary.
Cartulary Dictionary C - noun A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.
Cartway Dictionary C - noun A way or road for carts.
Cartwright Dictionary C - noun An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
Carucage Dictionary C - noun A tax on every plow or plowland.
Carucate Dictionary C - noun A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; - by some said to be about 100 acres.
Caruncle Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Caruncula.
Caruncula Dictionary C - noun A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.
Caruncular Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Carunculous.
Carunculous Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.
Carunculate Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Carunculated.
Carunculated Dictionary C - adjective Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.
Carus Dictionary C - noun Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
Carvacrol Dictionary C - noun A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).
Carved Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Carve.
Carving Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Carve.
Carve Dictionary C - verb transitive To cut.
Carvel Dictionary C - noun Same as Caravel.
Carvelbuilt Dictionary C - adjective Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
Carven Dictionary C - adjective Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved.
Carvene Dictionary C - noun An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.
Carver Dictionary C - noun One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc.
Carvist Dictionary C - noun A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year.
Carvol Dictionary C - noun One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.
Car wheel Dictionary C - A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.
Caryatic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Caryatid.
Caryatid Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a caryatid.
Caryatids Dictionary C - pleural of Caryatid.
Caryatides Dictionary C - noun plural Caryatids.
Caryophyllaceous Dictionary C - adjective Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink.
Caryophyllin Dictionary C - noun A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.
Caryophyllous Dictionary C - adjective Caryophyllaceous.
Caryopses Dictionary C - pleural of Caryopsis.
Caryopsis Dictionary C - noun A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.
Casal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.
Cascabel Dictionary C - noun The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. See Illust. of Cannon..
Cascade Dictionary C - noun A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.
Cascalho Dictionary C - noun A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.
Cascara sagrada Dictionary C - Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
Cascarilla Dictionary C - noun A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.
Cascarillin Dictionary C - noun A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.
Case Dictionary C - noun A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
Cased Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Case.
Casing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Case.
Caseation Dictionary C - noun A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.
Case-bay Dictionary C - noun The space between two principals or girders.
Caseharden Dictionary C - verb transitive To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.
Casehardened Dictionary C - adjective Having the surface hardened, as iron tools.
Casehardening Dictionary C - noun The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel.
Caseic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.
Casein Dictionary C - noun A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin.
Case knife Dictionary C - A knife carried in a sheath or case.
Casemate Dictionary C - noun A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.
Casemated Dictionary C - adjective Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate.
Casement Dictionary C - noun A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window.
Casemented Dictionary C - adjective Having a casement or casements.
Caseous Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy.
Casern Dictionary C - noun A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks.
Case shot Dictionary C - A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.
Caseum Dictionary C - noun Same as Casein.
Caseworm Dictionary C - noun A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.
Cash Dictionary C - noun A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
Cashed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cash.
Cashbook Dictionary C - noun A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.
Cashew Dictionary C - noun A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long.
Cashier Dictionary C - noun One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.
Cahiered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cashier.
Cashiering Dictionary C - past particle &vb. noun of Cashier.
Cashierer Dictionary C - noun One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs.
Cashmere Dictionary C - noun A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.
Cashmerette Dictionary C - noun A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere.
Cashoo Dictionary C - noun See Catechu.
Casings Dictionary C - noun plural Dried dung of cattle used as fuel.
Casinos Dictionary C - pleural of Casino.
Casini Dictionary C - pleural of Casino.
Casino Dictionary C - noun A small country house.
Cask Dictionary C - noun Same as Casque.
Casket Dictionary C - noun A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.
Casque Dictionary C - noun A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.
Cass Dictionary C - verb transitive To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away.
Cassada Dictionary C - noun See Cassava.
Cassareep Dictionary C - noun A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot.
Cassate Dictionary C - verb transitive To render void or useless; to vacate or annul.
Cassation Dictionary C - noun The act of annulling.
Cassava Dictionary C - noun A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; - called also manioc.
Casse Paper Dictionary C - Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.
Casserole Dictionary C - noun A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain.
Cassia Dictionary C - noun A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.
Cassican Dictionary C - noun An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.
Cassideous Dictionary C - adjective Helmet-shaped; - applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite.
Cassidony Dictionary C - noun The French lavender (Lavandula Stoechas).
Cassimere Dictionary C - noun A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.
Cassinette Dictionary C - noun A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.
Cassinian ovals Dictionary C - See under Oval.
Cassino Dictionary C - noun A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points.
Cassioberry Dictionary C - noun The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.
Cassiopeia Dictionary C - noun A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; - so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia.
Cassiterite Dictionary C - noun Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black.
Cassius Dictionary C - noun A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius.
Cassock Dictionary C - noun A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.
Cassocked Dictionary C - adjective Clothed with a cassock.
Cassolette Dictionary C - noun a box, or vase, with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.
Cassonade Dictionary C - noun Raw sugar; sugar not refined.
Cassowaries Dictionary C - pleural of Cassowary.
Cassowary Dictionary C - noun A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc.
Cassumunar Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cassumuniar.
Cassumuniar Dictionary C - noun A pungent, bitter, aromatic, gingerlike root, obtained from the East Indies.
Cast Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cast.
Casting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cast.
Castalian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses.
Castanea Dictionary C - noun A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin.
Castanet Dictionary C - noun See Castanets.
Castanets Dictionary C - noun plural Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; - used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.
Castaway Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
Caste Dictionary C - noun One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.
Castellan Dictionary C - noun A governor or warden of a castle.
Castellanies Dictionary C - pleural of Castellany.
Castellany Dictionary C - noun The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.
Castellated Dictionary C - adjective Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated.
Castellation Dictionary C - noun The act of making into a castle.
Caster Dictionary C - noun One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.
Castigated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Castigate.
Castigating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Castigate.
Castigate Dictionary C - verb transitive To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.
Castigation Dictionary C - noun Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.
Castigator Dictionary C - noun One who castigates or corrects.
Castigatory Dictionary C - adjective Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.
Castile soap Dictionary C - A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.
Castilian Dictionary C - noun An inhabitant or native of Castile, in Spain.
Castillan Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Castile, in Spain.
Cast iron Dictionary C - Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; - used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.
Cast-iron Dictionary C - adjective Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.
Castle Dictionary C - noun A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.
Castled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Castle.
Castling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Castle.
Castlebuilder Dictionary C - noun Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes.
Castle-guard Dictionary C - noun The guard or defense of a castle.
Castlery Dictionary C - noun The government of a castle.
Castlet Dictionary C - noun A small castle.
Castleward Dictionary C - noun Same as Castleguard.
Cast-off Dictionary C - adjective Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.
Castor Dictionary C - noun A genus of rodents, including the beaver. See Beaver.
Castorite Dictionary C - noun A variety of the mineral called petalite, from Elba.
Castor and Pollux Dictionary C - See Saint Elmo's fire, under Saint.
Castor bean Dictionary C - The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.).
Castoreum Dictionary C - noun A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; - used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.
Castorin Dictionary C - noun A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum.
Castor oil Dictionary C - A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorous and insipid.
Castrametation Dictionary C - noun The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp.
Castrated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Castrate.
Castrating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Castrate.
Castrate Dictionary C - verb transitive To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.
Castration Dictionary C - noun The act of castrating.
Castrato Dictionary C - noun A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano.
Castrel Dictionary C - noun See Kestrel.
Castrensial Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to a camp.
Castrensian Dictionary C - adjective Castrensial.
Cast steel Dictionary C - See Cast steel, under Steel.
Casual Dictionary C - adjective Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.
Casualism Dictionary C - noun The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.
Casualist Dictionary C - noun One who believes in casualism.
Casually Dictionary C - adverb Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally.
Casualness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being casual.
Casualties Dictionary C - pleural of Casualty.
Casualty Dictionary C - noun That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
Casuarina Dictionary C - noun A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.
Casuist Dictionary C - noun One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry.
Casuistic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Casuistieal.
Casuistieal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry.
Casuistry Dictionary C - adjective The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases.
Casus Dictionary C - noun An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident.
Cat Dictionary C - noun An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.
tted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cat.
Catting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cat.
Cata Dictionary C - The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic.
Catabaptist Dictionary C - noun One who opposes baptism, especially of infants.
Catabasion Dictionary C - noun A vault under altar of a Greek church.
Catabiotic Dictionary C - adjective See under Force.
Catacaustic Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a.
Catachresis Dictionary C - noun A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles". Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young.
Catachrestic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Catachrestical.
Catachrestical Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched.
Cataclysm Dictionary C - noun An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
Cataclysmal Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cataclysmic.
Cataclysmic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.
Cataclysmist Dictionary C - noun One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.
Catacomb Dictionary C - noun A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; - commonly in the plural.
Catacoustic Dictionary C - noun That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics.
Catadioptric Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Catadioptrical.
Catadioptrical Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light.
Catadioptrics Dictionary C - noun The science which treats of catadioptric phenomena, or of the used of catadioptric instruments.
Catadrome Dictionary C - noun A race course.
Catadromous Dictionary C - adjective Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; - said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.
Catafalco Dictionary C - noun See Catafalque.
Catafalque Dictionary C - noun A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.
Catagmatic Dictionary C - adjective Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.
Cataian Dictionary C - noun A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; - formerly a term of reproach.
Catalan Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Catalonia.
Catalectic Dictionary C - adjective Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.
Catalepsy Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Catalepsis.
Catalepsis Dictionary C - noun A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.
Cataleptic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.
Catallacta Dictionary C - noun plural A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.
Catallactics Dictionary C - noun The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.
Catalog Dictionary C - noun & verb Catalogue.
Catalogize Dictionary C - verb transitive To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue.
Catalogue Dictionary C - noun A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.
Catalogued Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Catalogue.
Cataloguing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Catalogue.
Cataloguer Dictionary C - noun A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues.
Catalpa Dictionary C - noun A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; - called also Indian bean.
Catalyse Dictionary C - pleural of Catalysis.
Catalysis Dictionary C - noun Dissolution; degeneration; decay.
Catalytic Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or causing, catalysis.
Catamaran Dictionary C - noun A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; - used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.
Catamenia Dictionary C - noun plural The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.
Catamenial Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.
Catamite Dictionary C - noun A boy kept for unnatural purposes.
Catamount Dictionary C - noun The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.
Catanadromous Dictionary C - adjective Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous.
Catapasm Dictionary C - noun A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc.
Catapeltic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a catapult.
Catapetalous Dictionary C - adjective Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
Cataphonic Dictionary C - adjective Of or relating to cataphonics; catacoustic.
Cataphonics Dictionary C - noun That branch of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds; catacoustics.
Cataphract Dictionary C - noun Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.
Cataphracted Dictionary C - adjective Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.
Cataphractic Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract.
Cataphysical Dictionary C - adjective Unnatural; contrary to nature.
Cataplasm Dictionary C - noun A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice.
Catapuce Dictionary C - noun Spurge.
Catapult Dictionary C - noun An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.
Cataract Dictionary C - noun A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.
Cataractous Dictionary C - adjective Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.
Catarrh Dictionary C - noun An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as, catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.
Catarrhal Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.
Catarrhine Dictionary C - noun One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.
Catarrhous Dictionary C - adjective Catarrhal.
Catastaltic Dictionary C - adjective Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities.
Catastasis Dictionary C - noun That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed.
Catasterism Dictionary C - noun A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars.
Catastrophe Dictionary C - noun An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.
Catastrophic Dictionary C - adjective Of a pertaining to a catastrophe.
Catastrophism Dictionary C - noun The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; - opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.
Catastrophist Dictionary C - noun One who holds the theory or catastrophism.
Catawba Dictionary C - noun A well known light red variety of American grape.
Catawbas Dictionary C - noun plural An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee.
Catbird Dictionary C - noun An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat.
Catboat Dictionary C - noun A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix.
Catcall Dictionary C - noun A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise.
Caught Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Catch.
Catched Dictionary C - of Catch.
Catching Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Catch.
Catch Dictionary C - verb transitive To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
Catchable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being caught.
Catch-basin Dictionary C - noun A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer.
Catchdrain Dictionary C - noun A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
Catcher Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, catches.
Catchfly Dictionary C - noun A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.
Catch-meadow Dictionary C - noun A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.
Catchment Dictionary C - noun A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.
Catchpenny Dictionary C - adjective Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show.
Catchpoll Dictionary C - noun A bailiff's assistant.
Catchup Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Catsup.
Catsup Dictionary C - noun A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc.
Catchwater Dictionary C - noun A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.
Catchweed Dictionary C - noun See Cleavers.
Catchweight Dictionary C - adverb Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight.
Catchword Dictionary C - noun Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
Catchwork Dictionary C - noun A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
Cate Dictionary C - noun Food. Obs. See Cates.
Catechetic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Catechetical.
Catechetical Dictionary C - adjective Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching.
Catechetically Dictionary C - adverb In a catechetical manner; by question and answer.
Catechetics Dictionary C - noun The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers.
Catechin Dictionary C - noun One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance; - called also catechuic acid, and catechuin.
Catechisation Dictionary C - noun The act of catechising.
Catechised Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Catechise.
Catechising Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Catechise.
Catechise Dictionary C - verb transitive To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, - esp. in regard to points of religious faith.
Catechiser Dictionary C - noun One who catechises.
Catechism Dictionary C - noun A form of instruction by means of questions and answers.
Catechismal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechetical.
Catechist Dictionary C - noun One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.
Catechistic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Catechistical.
Catechistical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism.
Catechize Dictionary C - verb transitive See Catechise.
Catechu Dictionary C - noun A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc.
Catechuic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See catechin.
Catechumen Dictionary C - L. catechunenus, Gr. / instructed, from /. See One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.
Catechumenate Dictionary C - noun The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.
Catechumenical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions.
Catechumenist Dictionary C - noun A catechumen.
Categorematic Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being employed by itself as a term; - said of a word.
Categorical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a category.
Categorically Dictionary C - adverb Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.
Categoricalness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
Categorist Dictionary C - noun One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies.
Categorize Dictionary C - verb transitive To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.
Categories Dictionary C - pleural of Category.
Category Dictionary C - noun One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
Catel Dictionary C - noun Property; - often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income.
Catelectrode Dictionary C - noun The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery.
Catelectrotonic Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.
Catelectrotonus Dictionary C - noun The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.
Catene Dictionary C - pleural of Catena.
Catena Dictionary C - noun A chain or series of things connected with each other.
Catenary Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Catenarian.
Catenarian Dictionary C - adjective Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve.
Catenated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Catenate.
Catenating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Catenate.
Catenate Dictionary C - verb transitive To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain.
Catenation Dictionary C - noun Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation.
Catenulate Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of little links or chains.
Cater Dictionary C - noun A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
Catered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cater.
Catering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cater.
Cateran Dictionary C - noun A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier.
Cater-cornered Dictionary C - adjective Diagonal.
Cater-cousin Dictionary C - noun A remote relation. See Quater-cousin.
Caterer Dictionary C - noun One who caters.
Cateress Dictionary C - noun A woman who caters.
Caterpillar Dictionary C - noun The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.
Caterwauled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Caterwaul.
Caterwauling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Caterwaul.
Caterwaul Dictionary C - intransitive verb To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise.
Catery Dictionary C - noun The place where provisions are deposited.
Cates Dictionary C - noun Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.
Cat-eyed Dictionary C - adjective Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark.
Catfall Dictionary C - noun A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.
Catfish Dictionary C - noun A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.
Catgut Dictionary C - noun A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.
Catharine wheel Dictionary C - See catherine wheel.
Catharist Dictionary C - noun One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; - applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.
Cat-harpin Dictionary C - noun See Cat-harping.
Cat-harping Dictionary C - noun One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.
Catharsis Dictionary C - noun A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.
Cathartic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Catharical.
Catharical Dictionary C - adjective Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.
Cathartin Dictionary C - noun The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; - called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.
Cathay Dictionary C - noun China; - an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.).
Cathead Dictionary C - noun A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.
Cathedra Dictionary C - noun The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority.
Cathedral Dictionary C - noun The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.
Cathedralic Dictionary C - adjective Cathedral.
Cathedrated Dictionary C - adjective Relating to the chair or office of a teacher.
Catheretic Dictionary C - noun A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.
Catherine wheel Dictionary C - Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.
Catheter Dictionary C - noun The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine.
Catheterism Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Catheterization.
Catheterization Dictionary C - noun The operation of introducing a catheter.
Catheterized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Catheterize.
Catheterizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Catheterize.
Catheterize Dictionary C - verb transitive To operate on with a catheter.
Cathetometer Dictionary C - noun An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard.
Catheti Dictionary C - pleural of Cathetus.
Cathetus Dictionary C - noun One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle.
Cathode Dictionary C - noun The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; - opposed to anode.
Cathodic Dictionary C - adjective A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence.
Cat-hole Dictionary C - noun One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
Catholic Dictionary C - adjective Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.
Catholical Dictionary C - adjective Catholic.
Catholicism Dictionary C - noun The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity.
Catholicity Dictionary C - noun The state or quality of being catholic; universality.
Catholicize Dictionary C - verb transitive & intransitive To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.
Catholicly Dictionary C - adverb In a catholic manner; generally; universally.
Catholicness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being catholic; universality; catholicity.
Catholicon Dictionary C - noun A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.
Catholicos Dictionary C - noun The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.
Catilinarian Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy.
Cation Dictionary C - noun An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; - opposed to anion.
Catkin Dictionary C - noun An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. - so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.
Catlike Dictionary C - adjective Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly.
Catling Dictionary C - noun A little cat; a kitten.
Catlinite Dictionary C - noun A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Indians for their pipes.
Catnip Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Catmint.
Catmint Dictionary C - noun A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.
Cato-cathartic Dictionary C - noun A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.
Catonian Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible.
Cat o' nine tails Dictionary C - See under Cat.
Catopter Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Catoptron.
Catoptron Dictionary C - noun A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror.
Catoptric Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Catoptrical.
Catoptrical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to catoptrics; produced by reflection.
Catoptrics Dictionary C - noun That part of optics which explains the properties and phenomena of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors or polished bodies; - formerly called anacamptics.
Catoptromancy Dictionary C - noun A species of divination, which was performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.
Catopron Dictionary C - noun See Catopter.
Catpipe Dictionary C - noun See Catcall.
Cat-rigged Dictionary C - adjective Rigged like a catboat.
Cat-salt Dictionary C - noun A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.
Cat's-eye Dictionary C - noun A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The name is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.
Cat's-foot Dictionary C - noun A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.
Cat-silver Dictionary C - noun Mica.
Catskill period Dictionary C - The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology.
Catsos Dictionary C - pleural of Catso.
Catso Dictionary C - noun A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat.
Cat's-paw Dictionary C - noun A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.
Cat's-tail Dictionary C - noun See Timothy, Cat-tail, Cirrus.
Catstick Dictionary C - noun A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat.
Catstitch Dictionary C - verb transitive To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.
Cat-tail Dictionary C - noun A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin.
Cattish Dictionary C - adjective Catlike; feline.
Cattle Dictionary C - noun plural Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Catty Dictionary C - noun An East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds.
Caucasian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.
Caucus Dictionary C - noun A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting.
Caucused Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Caucus.
Caucusing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Caucus.
Caudad Dictionary C - adverb Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.
Cauda galli Dictionary C - A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit.
Caudal Dictionary C - adjective Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage.
Caudata Dictionary C - noun plural See Urodela.
Caudate Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Caudated.
Caudated Dictionary C - adjective Having a tail; having a termination like a tail.
Caudices Dictionary C - pleural of Caudex.
Caudexes Dictionary C - pleural of Caudex.
Caudex Dictionary C - noun The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.
Caudicle Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Caudicula.
Caudicula Dictionary C - noun A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.
Caudle Dictionary C - noun A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.
Caudled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Caudle.
Caudling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Caudle.
Cauf Dictionary C - noun A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
Caufle Dictionary C - noun A gang of slaves. Same as Coffle.
Cauk Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cauker.
Cauker Dictionary C - noun See Cawk, Calker.
Caul Dictionary C - noun A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net.
Caulescent Dictionary C - adjective Having a leafy stem.
Caulicle Dictionary C - noun A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; - otherwise called a radicle.
Cauliculi Dictionary C - pleural of Cauliculus.
Cauliculus Dictionary C - noun In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.
Cauliflower Dictionary C - noun An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.
Cauliform Dictionary C - adjective Having the form of a caulis.
Cauline Dictionary C - adjective Growing immediately on a caulis; of or pertaining to a caulis.
Caules Dictionary C - pleural of Caulis.
Caulis Dictionary C - noun An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers.
Caulk Dictionary C - verb transitive & noun See Calk.
Caulocarpous Dictionary C - adjective Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs.
Cauma Dictionary C - noun Great heat, as of the body in fever.
Cauponize Dictionary C - intransitive verb To sell wine or victuals.
Causable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being caused.
Causal Dictionary C - adjective Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.
Causality Dictionary C - noun The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
Causally Dictionary C - adverb According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes.
Causation Dictionary C - noun The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
Causationist Dictionary C - noun One who believes in the law of universal causation.
Causative Dictionary C - adjective Effective, as a cause or agent; causing.
Causatively Dictionary C - adverb In a causative manner.
Causator Dictionary C - noun One who causes.
Cause Dictionary C - verb That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
Caused Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cause.
Causing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cause.
Causeful Dictionary C - noun Having a cause.
Causeless Dictionary C - adjective 1. Self-originating; uncreated.
Causelessness Dictionary C - noun The state of being causeless.
Causer Dictionary C - noun One who or that which causes.
Causeuse Dictionary C - noun A kind of sofa for two persons. A tete-/-tete.
Causeway Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Causey.
Causey Dictionary C - noun A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground.
Causewayed Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Causeyed.
Causeyed Dictionary C - adjective Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved.
Causidical Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
Caustic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Caustical.
Caustical Dictionary C - adjective Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.
Caustically Dictionary C - adverb In a caustic manner.
Causticily Dictionary C - noun The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash.
Causticness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being caustic; causticity.
Cautel Dictionary C - noun Caution; prudence; wariness.
Cautelous Dictionary C - adjective Caution; prudent; wary.
Cauter Dictionary C - noun A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
Cauterant Dictionary C - noun A cauterizing substance.
Cauterism Dictionary C - noun The use or application of a caustic; cautery.
Cauterization Dictionary C - noun The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.
Cauterized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cauterize.
Cauterizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cauterize.
Cauterize Dictionary C - verb transitive To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
Cauteries Dictionary C - pleural of Cautery.
Cautery Dictionary C - noun A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.
Caution Dictionary C - noun A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.
Cautioned Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Caution.
Cautioning Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Caution.
Cautionary Dictionary C - adjective Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.
Cautioner Dictionary C - noun One who cautions or advises.
Cautionry Dictionary C - noun Suretyship.
Cautious Dictionary C - adjective Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.
Cautiously Dictionary C - adverb In a cautious manner.
Cautiousness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being cautious.
Cavalcade Dictionary C - noun A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade.
Cavalero Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cavaliero.
Cavaliero Dictionary C - noun A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine.
Cavalier Dictionary C - noun A military man serving on horseback; a knight.
Cavalierish Dictionary C - adjective Somewhat like a cavalier.
Cavalierism Dictionary C - noun The practice or principles of cavaliers.
Cavalierly Dictionary C - adverb In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly.
Cavalierness Dictionary C - noun A disdainful manner.
Cavally Dictionary C - noun A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): - called also horse crevalle. See Illust. under Carangoid..
Cavalry Dictionary C - noun That part of military force which serves on horseback.
Cavalryman Dictionary C - noun One of a body of cavalry.
Cavatina Dictionary C - noun Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; - a term now variously and vaguely used.
Cave Dictionary C - noun A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
Caved Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cave.
Caving Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cave.
Caveat Dictionary C - noun A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.
Caveating Dictionary C - noun Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
Caveator Dictionary C - noun One who enters a caveat.
Cavendish Dictionary C - noun Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
Cavern Dictionary C - noun A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.
Caverned Dictionary C - adjective Containing caverns.
Cavernous Dictionary C - adjective Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.
Cavernulous Dictionary C - adjective Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal.
Cavesson Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cavezon.
Cavezon Dictionary C - noun A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses.
Cavetto Dictionary C - noun A concave molding; - used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column.
Caviare Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Caviar.
Caviar Dictionary C - noun The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; - used as a relish, esp. in Russia.
Cavicorn Dictionary C - adjective Having hollow horns.
Cavicornia Dictionary C - noun plural A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.
Caviled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cavil.
Cavilled Dictionary C - of Cavil.
Caviling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cavil.
Cavilling Dictionary C - of Cavil.
Cavil Dictionary C - intransitive verb To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.
Caviler Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Caviller.
Caviller Dictionary C - noun One who cavils.
Cavilingly Dictionary C - adverb In a caviling manner.
Cavillation Dictionary C - noun Frivolous or sophistical objection.
Cavilous Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cavillous.
Cavillous Dictionary C - adjective Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing.
Cavin Dictionary C - noun A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place.
Cavitary Dictionary C - adjective Containing a body cavity; as, the cavitary or nematoid worms.
Cavities Dictionary C - pleural of Cavity.
Cavity Dictionary C - noun Hollowness.
Cavo-relievo Dictionary C - noun Cavo-rilievo.
Cavo-rilievo Dictionary C - noun Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.
Cavorted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cavort.
Cavorting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cavort.
Cavort Dictionary C - intransitive verb To prance ostentatiously; - said of a horse or his rider.
Cavies Dictionary C - pleural of Cavy.
Cavy Dictionary C - noun A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America.
Cawed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Caw.
Cawing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Caw.
Caw Dictionary C - intransitive verb To cry like a crow, rook, or raven.
Cawk Dictionary C - noun An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.
Cawker Dictionary C - noun See Calker.
Cawky Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.
Caxon Dictionary C - noun A kind of wig.
Caxton Dictionary C - noun Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.
Cay Dictionary C - noun See Key, a ledge.
Cayenne Dictionary C - noun Cayenne pepper.
Cayman Dictionary C - noun The south America alligator. See Alligator.
Cayugas Dictionary C - noun plural A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.
Cayuse Dictionary C - noun An Indian pony.
Cazique Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cazic.
Cazic Dictionary C - noun A chief or petty king among some tribes of Indians in America.
Ceased Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cease.
Ceasing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cease.
Cease Dictionary C - intransitive verb To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.
Ceaseless Dictionary C - adjective Without pause or end; incessant.
Cecidomyia Dictionary C - noun A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.
Cecity Dictionary C - noun Blindness.
Cecutiency Dictionary C - noun Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness.
Cedar Dictionary C - noun The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.
Cedared Dictionary C - adjective Covered, or furnished with, cedars.
Cedarn Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
Ceded Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cede.
Ceding Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cede.
Cede Dictionary C - verb transitive To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.
Cedilla Dictionary C - noun A mark placed under the letter c thus, c, to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in facade.
Cedrat Dictionary C - noun Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.
Cedrene Dictionary C - noun A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type.
Cedrine Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to cedar or the cedar tree.
Cedriret Dictionary C - noun Same as Coerulignone.
Cedry Dictionary C - adjective Of the nature of cedar.
Cedule Dictionary C - noun A scroll; a writing; a schedule.
Ceduous Dictionary C - adjective Fit to be felled.
Ceiled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Ceil.
Ceiling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Ceil.
Ceil Dictionary C - verb transitive To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.
Ceint Dictionary C - noun A girdle.
Celadon Dictionary C - noun A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.
Celandine Dictionary C - noun A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; - called also greater celandine and swallowwort.
Celature Dictionary C - noun The act or art of engraving or embossing.
Celebrant Dictionary C - noun One who performs a public religious rite; - applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.
Celebrated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Celebrate.
Celebrating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Celebrate.
Celebrate Dictionary C - verb transitive To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.
Celebration Dictionary C - noun The act, process, or time of celebrating.
Celebrator Dictionary C - noun One who celebrates; a praiser.
Celebrious Dictionary C - adjective Famous.
Celebrities Dictionary C - pleural of Celebrity.
Celebrity Dictionary C - noun Celebration; solemnization.
Celeriac Dictionary C - noun Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food.
Celerity Dictionary C - noun Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.
Celery Dictionary C - noun A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.
Celestial Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.
Celestialize Dictionary C - verb transitive To make celestial.
Celestially Dictionary C - adverb In a celestial manner.
Celestify Dictionary C - verb transitive To make like heaven.
Celestine Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Celestite.
Celestite Dictionary C - noun Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.
Celestinian Dictionary C - noun A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.
Celiac Dictionary C - adjective See Coellac.
Celibacy Dictionary C - noun The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.
Celibate Dictionary C - noun Celibate state; celibacy.
Celibatist Dictionary C - noun One who lives unmarried.
Celidography Dictionary C - noun A description of apparent spots on the disk of the sun, or on planets.
Cell Dictionary C - noun A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
Celled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cell.
Cella Dictionary C - noun The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.
Cellar Dictionary C - noun A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
Cellarage Dictionary C - noun The space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar.
Cellarer Dictionary C - noun A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.
Cellaret Dictionary C - noun A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.
Cellarist Dictionary C - noun Same as Cellarer.
Cellepore Dictionary C - noun A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.
Celliferous Dictionary C - adjective Bearing or producing cells.
Cellos Dictionary C - pleural of Cello.
Celli Dictionary C - pleural of Cello.
Cello Dictionary C - noun A contraction for Violoncello.
Cellular Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.
Cellulated Dictionary C - adjective Cellular.
Cellule Dictionary C - noun A small cell.
Celluliferous Dictionary C - adjective Bearing or producing little cells.
Cellulitis Dictionary C - noun An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.
Celluloid Dictionary C - noun A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; - originally called xylonite.
Cellulose Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of, or containing, cells.
Celotomy Dictionary C - noun The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia.
Celsiture Dictionary C - noun Height; altitude.
Celsius Dictionary C - noun The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.
Celt Dictionary C - noun One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France.
Celtiberian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus).
Celtic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue.
Celticism Dictionary C - noun A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language.
Celticize Dictionary C - verb transitive To render Celtic; to assimilate to the Celts.
Cembalo Dictionary C - noun An old name for the harpsichord.
Cement Dictionary C - noun Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
Cemented Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cement.
Cementing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cement.
Cemental Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.
Cementation Dictionary C - noun The act or process of cementing.
Cementatory Dictionary C - adjective Having the quality of cementing or uniting firmly.
Cementer Dictionary C - noun A person or thing that cements.
Cementitious Dictionary C - noun Of the nature of cement.
Cemeterial Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a cemetery.
Cemeteries Dictionary C - pleural of Cemetery.
Cemetery Dictionary C - noun A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
Cenanthy Dictionary C - noun The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.
Cenation Dictionary C - noun Meal-taking; dining or supping.
Cenatory Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to dinner or supper.
Cenobite Dictionary C - noun One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.
Cenobitic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cenobitical.
Cenobitical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a cenobite.
Cenobitism Dictionary C - noun The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.
Cenogamy Dictionary C - noun The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.
Cenotaph Dictionary C - noun An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
Cenotaphy Dictionary C - noun A cenotaph.
Cenozoic Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic. See Geology.
Cense Dictionary C - noun A census; - also, a public rate or tax.
Censed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cense.
Censing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cense.
Censer Dictionary C - noun A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.
Censor Dictionary C - noun One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.
Censorial Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.
Censorian Dictionary C - adjective Censorial.
Censorious Dictionary C - adjective Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
Censorship Dictionary C - noun The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.
Censual Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or containing, a census.
Censurable Dictionary C - adjective Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.
Censure Dictionary C - noun Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
Censured Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Censure.
Censuring Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Censure.
Censurer Dictionary C - noun One who censures.
Census Dictionary C - noun A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; - usually made once in five years.
Cent Dictionary C - noun A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
Centage Dictionary C - noun Rate by the hundred; percentage.
Cental Dictionary C - noun A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; - called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.
Centare Dictionary C - noun A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.
Centaur Dictionary C - noun A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
Centaurea Dictionary C - noun A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).
Centaury Dictionary C - noun A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.
Centenarian Dictionary C - adjective Of or relating to a hundred years.
Centenary Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.
Centenaries Dictionary C - pleural of Centenary.
Centennial Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.
Centennially Dictionary C - adverb Once in a hundred years.
Center Dictionary C - noun A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
Centered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Centre.
Centred Dictionary C - of Centre.
Centering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Centre.
Centring Dictionary C - of Centre.
Centre Dictionary C - intransitive verb To be placed in a center; to be central.
Centerbit Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Centrebit.
Centrebit Dictionary C - noun An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
Centerboard Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Centreboard.
Centreboard Dictionary C - noun A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States.
Centerfire cartridge Dictionary C - See under Cartridge.
Centerpiece Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Centrepiece.
Centrepiece Dictionary C - noun An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
Centesimal Dictionary C - adjective Hundredth.
Centesimation Dictionary C - noun The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.
Centesm Dictionary C - noun Hundredth.
-mi Dictionary C - pleural of Centesimo.
Centesimo Dictionary C - noun A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime.
Centiare Dictionary C - noun See centare.
Centicipitous Dictionary C - adjective Hundred-headed.
Centifidous Dictionary C - adjective Divided into a hundred parts.
Centifolious Dictionary C - adjective Having a hundred leaves.
Centigrade Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts.
Centigram Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Centigramme.
Centigramme Dictionary C - noun The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram.
Centiliter Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Centilitre.
Centilitre Dictionary C - noun The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or capacity equal to a little more than six tenths -0.6102 of a cubic inch, or one third -0.338 of a fluid ounce.
Centiloquy Dictionary C - noun A work divided into a hundred parts.
Centime Dictionary C - noun The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.
Centimeter Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Centimetre.
Centimetre Dictionary C - noun The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths -0.3937 of an inch. See Meter.
Centinel Dictionary C - noun Sentinel.
Centinody Dictionary C - noun A weed with a stem of many joints (Illecebrum verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass.
Centiped Dictionary C - noun A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet.
Centistere Dictionary C - noun The hundredth part of a stere, equal to .353 cubic feet.
Centner Dictionary C - noun A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.
Centos Dictionary C - pleural of Cento.
Cento Dictionary C - noun A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.
Centonism Dictionary C - noun The composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos.
Central Dictionary C - adjective Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points.
Centrale Dictionary C - noun The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.
Centralism Dictionary C - noun The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.
Centralities Dictionary C - pleural of Centrality.
Centrality Dictionary C - noun The state of being central; tendency towards a center.
Centralization Dictionary C - noun The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.
Centralized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Centralize.
Centralizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Centralize.
Centralize Dictionary C - verb transitive To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.
Centrally Dictionary C - adverb In a central manner or situation.
Centric Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Centrical.
Centrical Dictionary C - adjective Placed in the center or middle; central.
Centricity Dictionary C - noun The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.
Centrifugal Dictionary C - adjective Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
Centrifugence Dictionary C - noun The property or quality of being centrifugal.
Centripetal Dictionary C - adjective Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
Centripetence Dictionary C - noun Centripetency.
Centripetency Dictionary C - noun Tendency toward the center.
Centriscoid Dictionary C - adjective Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example.
Centrobaric Dictionary C - adjective Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it.
Centrode Dictionary C - noun In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.
Centroid Dictionary C - noun The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies.
Centrolecithal Dictionary C - adjective Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal.
Centrolinead Dictionary C - noun An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center.
Centrolineal Dictionary C - adjective Converging to a center; - applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.
Centrosome Dictionary C - noun A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.
Centrostaltic Dictionary C - adjective A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center.
Centrums Dictionary C - pleural of Centrum.
Centra Dictionary C - pleural of Centrum.
Centrum Dictionary C - noun The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
Centry Dictionary C - noun See Sentry.
Centumviri Dictionary C - pleural of Centumvir.
Centumvir Dictionary C - noun One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.
Centumviral Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir.
Centumvirate Dictionary C - noun The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.
Centuple Dictionary C - adjective Hundredfold.
Centuplicated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Centuplicate.
Centuplicating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Centuplicate.
Centuplicate Dictionary C - adjective To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times.
Centurial Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon.
Centuriate Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds.
Centuriator Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Centurist.
Centurist Dictionary C - noun An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the "Magdeburg Centuries." See under Century.
Centurion Dictionary C - noun A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century.
Centuries Dictionary C - pleural of Century.
Century Dictionary C - noun A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
Cepevorous Dictionary C - adjective Feeding upon onions.
Cephalad Dictionary C - adverb Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.
Cephalalgia Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cephalalgy.
Cephalalgy Dictionary C - noun Pain in the head; headache.
Cephalalgic Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or affected with, headache.
Cephalanthium Dictionary C - noun Same as Anthodium.
Cephalaspis Dictionary C - noun A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.
Cephalata Dictionary C - noun plural A large division of Mollusca, including all except the bivalves; - so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix.
Cephalate Dictionary C - adjective Having a head.
Cephalic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior.
Cephalitis Dictionary C - noun Same as Phrenitis.
Cephalization Dictionary C - noun Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development.
Cephalo Dictionary C - A combining form denoting the head, of the head, connected with the head; as, cephalosome, cephalopod.
Cephalocercal Dictionary C - adjective Relating to the long axis of the body.
Cephaloid Dictionary C - adjective Shaped like the head.
Cephalology Dictionary C - noun The science which treats of the head.
Cephalomere Dictionary C - noun One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods.
Cephalometer Dictionary C - noun An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery.
Cephalon Dictionary C - noun The head.
Cephalophora Dictionary C - noun plural The cephalata.
Cephalopod Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cephalopode.
Cephalopode Dictionary C - noun One of the Cephalopoda.
Cephalopoda Dictionary C - noun plural The highest class of Mollusca.
Cephalopodic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cephalopodous.
Cephalopodous Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.
Cephaloptera Dictionary C - noun One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.
Cephalosome Dictionary C - noun The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods.
Cephalostyle Dictionary C - noun The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.
Cephalothorax Dictionary C - noun The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.
Cephalotome Dictionary C - noun An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery.
Cephalotomy Dictionary C - noun Dissection or opening of the head.
Cephalotribe Dictionary C - noun An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
Cephalotripsy Dictionary C - noun The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.
Cephalotrocha Dictionary C - noun A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.
Cephalous Dictionary C - adjective Having a head; - applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks.
Cepheus Dictionary C - noun A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.
Ceraceous Dictionary C - adjective Having the texture and color of new wax; like wax; waxy.
Cerago Dictionary C - noun Beebread.
Ceramic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.
Ceramics Dictionary C - noun The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.
Cerargyrite Dictionary C - noun Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).
Cerasin Dictionary C - noun A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; - called also meta-arabinic acid.
Cerasinous Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, cerasin.
Cerastes Dictionary C - noun A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.
Cerate Dictionary C - noun An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.
Cerated Dictionary C - particle adjective Covered with wax.
Ceratine Dictionary C - adjective Sophistical.
Ceratobranchia Dictionary C - noun plural A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.
Ceratobranchial Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch.
Ceratodus Dictionary C - noun A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium.
Ceratohyal Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch.
Ceratosaurus Dictionary C - noun A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.
Ceratospongiae Dictionary C - noun plural An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.
Ceraunics Dictionary C - noun That branch of physics which treats of heat and electricity.
Ceraunoscope Dictionary C - noun An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.
Cerberean Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus.
Cerberus Dictionary C - noun A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly.
Cercal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the tail.
Cercarle Dictionary C - pleural of Cercaria.
Cercaria Dictionary C - noun The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.
Cercarian Dictionary C - adjective Of, like, or pertaining to, the Cercariae.
Cercopod Dictionary C - noun One of the jointed antenniform appendages of the posterior somites of certain insects.
Cerci Dictionary C - pleural of Cercus.
Cercus Dictionary C - noun See Cercopod.
Cere Dictionary C - noun The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.
Cered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cere.
Cering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cere.
Cereal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
Cerealia Dictionary C - noun plural Public festivals in honor of Ceres.
Cerealin Dictionary C - noun A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid.
Cerebel Dictionary C - noun The cerebellum.
Cerebellar Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cerebellous.
Cerebellous Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the cerebellum.
Cerebellums Dictionary C - pleural of Cerebellum.
Cerebella Dictionary C - pleural of Cerebellum.
Cerebellum Dictionary C - noun The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.
Cerebral Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the cerebrum.
Cerebralism Dictionary C - noun The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.
Cerebralist Dictionary C - noun One who accepts cerebralism.
Cerebrate Dictionary C - intransitive verb To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.
Cerebration Dictionary C - noun Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.
Cerebric Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the brain.
Cerebricity Dictionary C - noun Brain power.
Cerebriform Dictionary C - adjective Like the brain in form or substance.
Cerebrifugal Dictionary C - adjective Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards.
Cerebrin Dictionary C - noun A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance.
Cerebripetal Dictionary C - adjective Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards.
Cerebritis Dictionary C - noun Inflammation of the cerebrum.
Cerebroid Dictionary C - adjective Resembling, or analogous to, the cerebrum or brain.
Cerebrology Dictionary C - noun The science which treats of the cerebrum or brain.
Cerebropathy Dictionary C - noun A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; - called also brain fag.
Cerebroscopy Dictionary C - noun Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of disease; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope).
Cerebrose Dictionary C - noun A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.
Cerebro-spinal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
Cerebrums Dictionary C - pleural of Cerebrum.
Cerebra Dictionary C - pleural of Cerebrum.
Cerebrum Dictionary C - noun The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.
Cerecloth Dictionary C - noun A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter.
Cerement Dictionary C - noun A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.
Ceremonial Dictionary C - adjective Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites.
Ceremonialism Dictionary C - noun Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony.
Ceremonially Dictionary C - adverb According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean.
Ceremonialness Dictionary C - noun Quality of being ceremonial.
Ceremonious Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. In this sense ceremonial is now preferred..
Ceremoniously Dictionary C - adverb In a ceremonious way.
Ceremoniousness Dictionary C - noun The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious.
Ceremonies Dictionary C - pleural of Ceremony.
Ceremony Dictionary C - noun Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies.
Cereous Dictionary C - adjective Waxen; like wax.
Ceres Dictionary C - noun The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage.
Ceresin Dictionary C - noun A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.
Cereus Dictionary C - noun A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.
Cerial Dictionary C - adjective Same as Cerrial.
Ceriferous Dictionary C - adjective Producing wax.
Cerin Dictionary C - noun A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol.
Cerinthian Dictionary C - noun One of an ancient religious sect, so called from Cerinthus, a Jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics.
Ceriph Dictionary C - noun One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters.
Cerise Dictionary C - adjective Cherry-colored; a light bright red; - applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
Cerite Dictionary C - noun A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiidae; - so called from its hornlike form.
Cerium Dictionary C - noun A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air.
Cernuous Dictionary C - adjective Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; - said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.
Cero Dictionary C - noun A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, - the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis).
Cerograph Dictionary C - noun A writing on wax.
Cerographic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cerographical.
Cerographical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to cerography.
Cerographist Dictionary C - noun One who practices cerography.
Cerography Dictionary C - noun The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
Cerolite Dictionary C - noun A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.
Ceroma Dictionary C - noun The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.
Ceromancy Dictionary C - noun Divination by dropping melted wax in water.
Ceroon Dictionary C - noun A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.
Ceroplastic Dictionary C - adjective Relating to the art of modeling in wax.
Ceroplastics Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Ceroplasty.
Ceroplasty Dictionary C - noun The art of modeling in wax.
Cerosin Dictionary C - noun A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae.
Cerote Dictionary C - noun See Cerate.
Cerotene Dictionary C - noun A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.
Cerotic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.
Cerotin Dictionary C - noun A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; - called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.
Cerrial Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the cerris.
Cerris Dictionary C - noun A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; - called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.
Certain Dictionary C - adjective Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
Certainly Dictionary C - adverb Without doubt or question; unquestionably.
Certainness Dictionary C - noun Certainty.
Certainties Dictionary C - pleural of Certainty.
Certainty Dictionary C - noun The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.
Certes Dictionary C - adverb Certainly; in truth; verily.
Certificate Dictionary C - noun A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior.
Certificated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Certificate.
Certificating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Certificate.
Certification Dictionary C - noun The act of certifying.
Certifier Dictionary C - noun One who certifies or assures.
Certified Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Certify.
Certifying Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Certify.
Certify Dictionary C - verb transitive To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.
Certiorari Dictionary C - noun A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irregularities may be corrected. It is obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court.
Certitude Dictionary C - noun Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty.
Cerule Dictionary C - adjective Blue; cerulean.
Cerulean Dictionary C - adjective Sky-colored; blue; azure.
Ceruleous Dictionary C - adjective Cerulean.
Cerulific Dictionary C - adjective Producing a blue or sky color.
Cerumen Dictionary C - noun The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.
Ceruminous Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands.
Ceruse Dictionary C - noun White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.
Cerused Dictionary C - adjective Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face.
Cerusite Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cerussite.
Cerussite Dictionary C - noun Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.
Cervantite Dictionary C - noun See under Antimony.
Cervelat Dictionary C - noun An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.
Cervical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae.
Cervicide Dictionary C - noun The act of killing deer; deer-slaying.
Cervine Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family Cervidae.
Cervixes Dictionary C - pleural of Cervix.
Cervices Dictionary C - pleural of Cervix.
Cervix Dictionary C - noun The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.
Cervus Dictionary C - noun A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other allied species.
Ceryl Dictionary C - noun A radical, C27H55 supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc.
Cesarean Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cesarian.
Cesarian Dictionary C - adjective Same as Caesarean, Caesarian.
Cesarism Dictionary C - noun See Caesarism.
Cespitine Dictionary C - noun An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.
Cespititious Dictionary C - adjective Same as Cespitious.
Cespitose Dictionary C - adjective Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
Cespitous Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy.
Cess Dictionary C - noun A rate or tax.
Cessed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cess.
Cessing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cess.
Cessant Dictionary C - adjective Inactive; dormant.
Cessation Dictionary C - noun A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.
Cessavit Dictionary C - noun A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
Cesser Dictionary C - intransitive verb a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years.
Cessible Dictionary C - adjective Giving way; yielding.
Cession Dictionary C - noun A yielding to physical force.
Cessionary Dictionary C - adjective Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt.
Cessment Dictionary C - verb transitive An assessment or tax.
Cessor Dictionary C - intransitive verb 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.
Cesspipe Dictionary C - noun A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool.
Cesspool Dictionary C - noun A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.
Cest Dictionary C - noun A woman's girdle; a cestus.
Cestode Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
Cestoid Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
Cestoidea Dictionary C - noun plural A class of parasitic worms (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.
Cestoldean Dictionary C - noun One of the Cestoidea.
Cestraciont Dictionary C - noun 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.
Cestus Dictionary C - noun A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.
Cestuy Dictionary C - pronoun Alt. of Cestui.
Cestui Dictionary C - pronoun He; the one.
Cesura Dictionary C - noun See Caesura.
Cesural Dictionary C - adjective See Caesural.
Cetacea Dictionary C - noun plural 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:.
Cetacean Dictionary C - noun One of the Cetacea.
Cetaceous Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Cetacea.
Cete Dictionary C - noun One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.
Cetene Dictionary C - noun An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.
Ceterach Dictionary C - noun A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).
Cetewale Dictionary C - noun Same as Zedoary.
Cetic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a whale.
Cetin Dictionary C - noun A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.
Cetological Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to cetology.
Cetologist Dictionary C - adjective One versed in cetology.
Cetology Dictionary C - noun The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.
Cetraric Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetaria Islandica).
Cetrarin Dictionary C - noun 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 Dictionary C - noun 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 Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, spermaceti.
Ceylanite Dictionary C - noun A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste.
Ceylonese Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Ceylon.
C. G. S. Dictionary C - 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 Dictionary C - noun The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).
Chabasite Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cabazite.
Cabazite Dictionary C - noun 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 Dictionary C - noun A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.
Chabouk Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chabuk.
Chabuk Dictionary C - noun A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment.
Chace Dictionary C - noun See 3d Chase, n., 3.
Chachalaca Dictionary C - noun The Texan guan (Ortalis vetula).
Chak Dictionary C - intransitive verb To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.
Chacma Dictionary C - noun A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); - called also ursine baboon. See Illust. of Baboon..
Chaconne Dictionary C - noun An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations.
Chad Dictionary C - noun See Shad.
Chaetetes Dictionary C - noun A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones.
Chaetiferous Dictionary C - adjective Bearing setae.
Chaetodont Dictionary C - noun A marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae. The chaetodonts have broad, compressed bodies, and usually bright colors.
Chaetognath Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha.
Chaetognatha Dictionary C - noun plural An order of free-swimming marine worms, of which the genus Sagitta is the type. They have groups of curved spines on each side of the head.
Chaetopod Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the Chaetopoda.
Chaetopoda Dictionary C - noun plural A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochaeta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychaeta, including most of the marine species.
Chaetotaxy Dictionary C - noun The arrangement of bristles on an insect.
Chafed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chafe.
Chafing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chafe.
Chafe Dictionary C - verb transitive To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
Chafer Dictionary C - noun One who chafes.
Chafery Dictionary C - verb transitive An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
Chafewax Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chaffwax.
Chaffwax Dictionary C - noun Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
Chafeweed Dictionary C - noun The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.
Chaff Dictionary C - noun The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
Chaffed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chaff.
Chaffing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chaff.
Chaffer Dictionary C - noun One who chaffs.
Chaffered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chaffer.
Chaffering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chaffer.
Chafferer Dictionary C - noun One who chaffers; a bargainer.
Chaffern Dictionary C - verb transitive A vessel for heating water.
Chaffery Dictionary C - noun Traffic; bargaining.
Chaffinch Dictionary C - noun A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; - called also copper finch.
Chaffless Dictionary C - adjective Without chaff.
Chaffy Dictionary C - adjective Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
Chagreen Dictionary C - noun See Shagreen.
Chagrin Dictionary C - noun Vexation; mortification.
Chagrined Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chagrin.
Chargrining Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chagrin.
Chain Dictionary C - noun A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.
Chained Dictionary C - imperative past particle of Chain.
Chaining Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chain.
Chainless Dictionary C - adjective Having no chain; not restrained or fettered.
Chainlet Dictionary C - noun A small chain.
Chain pump Dictionary C - A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge.
Chain stitch Dictionary C - An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; - used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery.
Chain wheel Dictionary C - A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel.
Chainwork Dictionary C - noun Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.
Chair Dictionary C - noun A movable single seat with a back.
Chaired Dictionary C - imperative &particle pronoun of Chair.
Chairing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chair.
Chairmen Dictionary C - pleural of Chairman.
Chairman Dictionary C - noun The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.
Chairmanship Dictionary C - noun The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.
Chaise Dictionary C - noun A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse.
Chaja Dictionary C - noun The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, / Chauna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; - called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.
Chalazas Dictionary C - pleural of Chalaza.
Chalazae Dictionary C - pleural of Chalaza.
Chalaza Dictionary C - noun The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.
Chalazal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the chalaza.
Chalaze Dictionary C - noun Same as Chalaza.
Chalaziferous Dictionary C - adjective Having or bearing chalazas.
Chalazion Dictionary C - noun A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands.
Chalcanthite Dictionary C - noun Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under Blue.
Chalcedonic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to chalcedony.
Chalcedonies Dictionary C - pleural of Chalcedony.
Chalcedony Dictionary C - noun A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax.
Chalchihuitl Dictionary C - noun The Mexican name for turquoise. See Turquoise.
Chalcid fly Dictionary C - One of a numerous family of hymenopterous insects (Chalcididae. Many are gallflies, others are parasitic on insects.
Chalcidian Dictionary C - noun One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidae), having four small or rudimentary legs.
Chalcocite Dictionary C - noun Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster.
Chalcographer Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chalcographist.
Chalcographist Dictionary C - noun An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.
Chalcography Dictionary C - noun The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing.
Chalcopyrite Dictionary C - noun Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color.
Chaldaic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
Chaldaism Dictionary C - noun An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect.
Chaldean Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
Chaldee Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
Chaldrich Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chalder.
Chalder Dictionary C - noun A kind of bird; the oyster catcher.
Chaldron Dictionary C - noun An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke.
Chalet Dictionary C - noun A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.
Chalice Dictionary C - noun A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Chaliced Dictionary C - adjective Having a calyx or cup; cup-shaped.
Chalk Dictionary C - noun A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.
Chalked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chalk.
Chalking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chalk.
Chalkcutter Dictionary C - noun A man who digs chalk.
Chalkiness Dictionary C - noun The state of being chalky.
Chalkstone Dictionary C - noun A mass of chalk.
Chalky Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.
Challenge Dictionary C - noun An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
Challenged Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Challenge.
Challenging Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Challenge.
Challengeable Dictionary C - adjective That may be challenged.
Challenger Dictionary C - noun One who challenges.
Challis Dictionary C - noun A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses.
Chalon Dictionary C - noun A bed blanket.
Chalybean Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel.
Chalybeate Dictionary C - adjective Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.
Chalybeous Dictionary C - adjective Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.
Chalybite Dictionary C - noun Native iron carbonate; - usually called siderite.
Cham Dictionary C - verb transitive To chew.
Chamade Dictionary C - noun A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
Chamal Dictionary C - noun The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.
Chamber Dictionary C - noun A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
Chambered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chamber.
Chambering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chamber.
Chamberer Dictionary C - noun One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid.
Chamberlain Dictionary C - noun An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
Chamberlainship Dictionary C - noun Office of a chamberlain.
Chambermaid Dictionary C - noun A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.
Chambertin Dictionary C - noun A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.
Chambrel Dictionary C - noun Same as Gambrel.
Chameck Dictionary C - noun A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.
Chameleon Dictionary C - noun A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.
Chameleonize Dictionary C - verb transitive To change into various colors.
Chamfer Dictionary C - noun The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
Chamfered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chamfer.
Chamfering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chamfer.
Chamfret Dictionary C - noun A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.
Chamfron Dictionary C - noun The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse.
Chamlet Dictionary C - noun See Camlet.
Chamois Dictionary C - noun A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.
Champed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Champ.
Champing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Champ.
Champ Dictionary C - verb transitive To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard.
Champe Dictionary C - noun The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.
Champagne Dictionary C - noun A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.
Champaign Dictionary C - noun A flat, open country.
Champer Dictionary C - noun One who champs, or bites.
Champertor Dictionary C - noun One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.
Champerty Dictionary C - noun Partnership in power; equal share of authority.
Champignon Dictionary C - noun An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris).
Chappion Dictionary C - noun One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's honor or rights; or one who acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero.
Championed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Champion.
Championing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Champion.
Champion Dictionary C - verb transitive To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.
Championness Dictionary C - noun A female champion.
Championship Dictionary C - noun State of being champion; leadership; supremacy.
Champlain period Dictionary C - A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; - so named from beds near Lake Champlain.
Chamsin Dictionary C - noun See Kamsin.
Chance Dictionary C - noun A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; - in this sense often personified.
Chanced Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chance.
Chancing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chance.
Chanceable Dictionary C - adjective Fortuitous; casual.
Chanceably Dictionary C - adverb By chance.
Chanceful Dictionary C - adjective Hazardous.
Chancel Dictionary C - verb transitive That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.
Chancellery Dictionary C - noun Chancellorship.
Chancellor Dictionary C - noun A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.
Chancellorship Dictionary C - noun The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
Chance-medley Dictionary C - noun The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.
Chancery Dictionary C - noun In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.
Chancre Dictionary C - noun A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; - called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre.
Chancroid Dictionary C - noun A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; - called also soft chancre.
Chancrous Dictionary C - adjective Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.
Chandelier Dictionary C - noun A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.
Chandler Dictionary C - noun A maker or seller of candles.
Chandlerly Dictionary C - adjective Like a chandler; in a petty way.
Chandlery Dictionary C - noun Commodities sold by a chandler.
Chandoo Dictionary C - noun An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking.
Chandry Dictionary C - noun Chandlery.
Chanfrin Dictionary C - noun The fore part of a horse's head.
Changed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Change.
Changing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Change.
Change Dictionary C - verb transitive To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance.
Changeability Dictionary C - noun Changeableness.
Changeable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.
Changeableness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.
Changeably Dictionary C - adverb In a changeable manner.
Changeful Dictionary C - adjective Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.
Changeless Dictionary C - adjective That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose.
Changeling Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
Changer Dictionary C - noun One who changes or alters the form of anything.
Chank Dictionary C - noun The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank chell.
Channel Dictionary C - noun The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
Channeled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Channel.
Channelled Dictionary C - of Channel.
Channeling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Channel.
Channelling Dictionary C - of Channel.
Chanson Dictionary C - noun A song.
Chansonnettes Dictionary C - pleural of Chansonnette.
Chansonnette Dictionary C - noun A little song.
Chanted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chant.
Chanting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chant.
Chant Dictionary C - verb transitive To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.
Chantant Dictionary C - adjective Composed in a melodious and singing style.
Chanter Dictionary C - noun One who chants; a singer or songster.
Chanterelle Dictionary C - noun A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous.
Chanticleer Dictionary C - noun A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing.
Chantor Dictionary C - noun A chanter.
Chantress Dictionary C - noun A female chanter or singer.
Chantries Dictionary C - pleural of Chantry.
Chantry Dictionary C - noun An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.
Chaomancy Dictionary C - noun Divination by means of appearances in the air.
Chaos Dictionary C - noun An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.
Chaotic Dictionary C - adjective Resembling chaos; confused.
Chaotically Dictionary C - adverb In a chaotic manner.
Chapped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chap.
Chapping Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chap.
Chap Dictionary C - verb transitive To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
Chaparral Dictionary C - noun A thicket of low evergreen oaks.
Chapbook Dictionary C - noun Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.
Chape Dictionary C - noun The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
Chapeux Dictionary C - pleural of Chapeau.
Chapeau Dictionary C - noun A hat or covering for the head.
Chaped Dictionary C - past particle / adjective Furnished with a chape or chapes.
Chapel Dictionary C - noun A subordinate place of worship.
Chapeless Dictionary C - adjective Without a chape.
Chapelet Dictionary C - noun A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider.
Chapellanies Dictionary C - pleural of Chapellany.
Chapellany Dictionary C - noun A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.
Chapelry Dictionary C - noun The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel.
Chaperon Dictionary C - noun A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.
Chaperoned Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chaperon.
Chaperoning Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chaperon.
Chaperonage Dictionary C - noun Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.
Chapfallen Dictionary C - adjective Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, - an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.
Chapiter Dictionary C - noun A capital Obs. See Chapital.
Chaplain Dictionary C - noun An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.
Chaplaincy Dictionary C - noun The office, position, or station of a chaplain.
Chaplainship Dictionary C - noun The office or business of a chaplain.
Chapless Dictionary C - adjective Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless.
Chaplet Dictionary C - noun A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.
Chapleted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chaplet.
Chapmen Dictionary C - pleural of Chapman.
Chapman Dictionary C - noun One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.
Chappy Dictionary C - Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
Chaps Dictionary C - noun plural The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap.
Chapter Dictionary C - noun A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
Chaptrel Dictionary C - noun An impost.
Char Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Charr.
Charr Dictionary C - noun One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.
Chare Dictionary C - verb transitive To perform; to do; to finish.
Charred Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Char.
Charring Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Char.
Chara Dictionary C - noun A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.
Chars-a-banc Dictionary C - pleural of Char-a-bancs.
Char-a-bancs Dictionary C - noun A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise.
Charact Dictionary C - noun A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. Obs. See Character.
Character Dictionary C - noun A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.
Charactered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Character.
Characterism Dictionary C - noun A distinction of character; a characteristic.
Characteristic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.
Characteristical Dictionary C - adjective Characteristic.
Characteristically Dictionary C - adverb In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
Characterization Dictionary C - noun The act or process of characterizing.
Characterized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Characterize.
Characterizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Characterize.
Characterize Dictionary C - verb transitive To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.
Characterless Dictionary C - adjective Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.
Charactery Dictionary C - noun The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.
Charade Dictionary C - noun A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.
Charbocle Dictionary C - noun Carbuncle.
Charbon Dictionary C - noun A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.
Charcoal Dictionary C - verb transitive Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.
Chard Dictionary C - noun The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.
Charged Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Charge.
Charging Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Charge.
Charge Dictionary C - verb transitive To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
Chargeable Dictionary C - adjective That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.
Chargeableness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being chargeable or expensive.
Chargeably Dictionary C - adverb At great cost; expensively.
Chargeant Dictionary C - adjective Burdensome; troublesome.
Charges d'affaires Dictionary C - pleural of Charge d'affaires.
Charge d'affaires Dictionary C - noun A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
Chargeful Dictionary C - adjective Costly; expensive.
Chargehouse Dictionary C - noun A schoolhouse.
Chargeless Dictionary C - adjective Free from, or with little, charge.
Chargeous Dictionary C - adjective Burdensome.
Charger Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which charges.
Chargeship Dictionary C - noun The office of a charge d'affaires.
Charily Dictionary C - adverb In a chary manner; carefully; cautiously; frugally.
Chariness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being chary.
Chariot Dictionary C - noun A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.
Charioted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chariot.
Charioting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chariot.
Chariotee Dictionary C - noun A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.
Charioteer Dictionary C - noun One who drives a chariot.
Charism Dictionary C - noun A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.
Charismatic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a charism.
Charitable Dictionary C - adjective Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind.
Charitableness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.
Charitably Dictionary C - adverb In a charitable manner.
Charities Dictionary C - pleural of Charity.
Charity Dictionary C - noun Love; universal benevolence; good will.
Charivari Dictionary C - noun A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.
Chark Dictionary C - noun Charcoal; a cinder.
Charked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chark.
Charlatan Dictionary C - noun One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
Charlatanic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Charlatanical.
Charlatanical Dictionary C - adjective Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
Charlatanism Dictionary C - noun Charlatanry.
Charlatanry Dictionary C - noun Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
Charles's Wain Dictionary C - The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. See Ursa major, under Ursa.
Charlock Dictionary C - noun A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock.
Charlotte Dictionary C - noun A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked.
Charm Dictionary C - noun A melody; a song.
Charmed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Charm.
Charming Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Charm.
Charmel Dictionary C - noun A fruitful field.
Charmer Dictionary C - noun One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician.
Charmeress Dictionary C - noun An enchantress.
Charmful Dictionary C - adjective Abounding with charms.
Charmless Dictionary C - adjective Destitute of charms.
Charneco Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Charnico.
Charnico Dictionary C - noun A sort of sweet wine.
Charnel Dictionary C - adjective Containing the bodies of the dead.
Charon Dictionary C - noun The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.
Charpie Dictionary C - noun Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; - used for surgical dressings.
Charqui Dictionary C - noun Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun.
Charras Dictionary C - noun The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus.
Charre Dictionary C - noun See Charge, n., 17.
Charry Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.
Chart Dictionary C - noun A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
Charted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chart.
Charta Dictionary C - noun Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.
Chartaceous Dictionary C - adjective Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.
Charte Dictionary C - noun The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.
Charter Dictionary C - noun A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
Chartered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Charter.
Chartering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Charter.
Charterer Dictionary C - noun One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.
Charterhouse Dictionary C - noun A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
Charterist Dictionary C - noun Same as Chartist.
Chartism Dictionary C - noun The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.
Chartist Dictionary C - noun A supporter or partisan of chartism.
Chartless Dictionary C - adjective Without a chart; having no guide.
Chartographer Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chartography.
Chartographic Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chartography.
Chartography Dictionary C - noun Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.
Chartomancy Dictionary C - noun Divination by written paper or by cards.
Chartometer Dictionary C - noun An instrument for measuring charts or maps.
Chartreuse Dictionary C - noun A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.
Chartreux Dictionary C - noun A Carthusian.
Chartulary Dictionary C - noun See Cartulary.
Charwomen Dictionary C - pleural of Charwoman.
Charwoman Dictionary C - noun A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
Chary Dictionary C - adjective Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal.
Charybdis Dictionary C - noun A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
Chasable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being chased; fit for hunting.
Chased Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chase.
Chasing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chase.
Chase Dictionary C - verb transitive To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
Chaser Dictionary C - noun One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.
Chasible Dictionary C - noun See Chasuble.
Chasm Dictionary C - noun A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
Chasmed Dictionary C - adjective Having gaps or a chasm.
Chasmy Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms.
Chasse Dictionary C - noun A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.
Chasselas Dictionary C - noun A white grape, esteemed for the table.
Chassepot Dictionary C - noun A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.
Chasseur Dictionary C - noun One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.
Chassis Dictionary C - noun A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. See Gun carriage..
Chast Dictionary C - verb transitive to chasten.
Chaste Dictionary C - adjective Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.
Chastely Dictionary C - adverb In a chaste manner; with purity.
Chastened Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chasten.
Chastening Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chasten.
Chasten Dictionary C - verb transitive To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.
Chastener Dictionary C - noun One who chastens.
Chasteness Dictionary C - noun Chastity; purity.
Chastisable Dictionary C - adjective Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable.
Chastised Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chastise.
Chastising Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chastise.
Chastise Dictionary C - verb transitive To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
Chastisement Dictionary C - noun The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.
Chastiser Dictionary C - noun One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector.
Chastity Dictionary C - noun The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
Chasuble Dictionary C - noun The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle.
Chatted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chat.
Chatting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chat.
Chat Dictionary C - intransitive verb To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
Chateux Dictionary C - pleural of Chateau.
Chateau Dictionary C - noun A castle or a fortress in France.
Chatelaine Dictionary C - noun An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.
Chatelet Dictionary C - noun A little castle.
Chatellany Dictionary C - noun Same as Castellany.
Chati Dictionary C - noun A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).
Chatoyant Dictionary C - adjective Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.
Chatoyment Dictionary C - noun Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors.
Chattel Dictionary C - noun Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.
Chattelism Dictionary C - noun The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel.
Chattered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chatter.
Chattering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chatter.
Chatter Dictionary C - intransitive verb To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
Chatteration Dictionary C - noun The act or habit of chattering.
Chatterer Dictionary C - noun A prater; an idle talker.
Chattiness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.
Chatty Dictionary C - adjective Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.
Chatwood Dictionary C - noun Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.
Chaud-medley Dictionary C - noun The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance-medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray.
Chaudron Dictionary C - noun See Chawdron.
Chauffer Dictionary C - noun A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.
Chauldron Dictionary C - noun See Chawdron.
Chaun Dictionary C - noun A gap.
Chaunt Dictionary C - noun & verb See Chant.
Chaunter Dictionary C - noun A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
Chaunterie Dictionary C - noun See Chantry.
Chaus Dictionary C - noun a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).
Chausses Dictionary C - noun plural The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.
Chaussure Dictionary C - noun A foot covering of any kind.
Chauvinism Dictionary C - noun Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
Chavender Dictionary C - noun The chub.
Chawed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chaw.
Chawing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chaw.
Chaw Dictionary C - verb transitive To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.
Chawdron Dictionary C - noun Entrails.
Chay root Dictionary C - The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff.
Chazy epoch Dictionary C - An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; - so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology.
Cheap Dictionary C - noun A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.
Cheapened Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cheapen.
Cheapening Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cheapen.
Cheapen Dictionary C - verb transitive To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
Cheapener Dictionary C - noun One who cheapens.
Cheap-jack Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Cheap-john.
Cheap-john Dictionary C - noun A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.
Cheaply Dictionary C - adverb At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
Cheapness Dictionary C - noun Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.
Chear Dictionary C - noun & verb See Cheer.
Cheat Dictionary C - noun An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
Cheated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cheat.
Cheating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cheat.
Cheatable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being cheated.
Cheatableness Dictionary C - noun Capability of being cheated.
Cheater Dictionary C - noun One who cheats.
Chebacco Dictionary C - noun A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; - called also pinkstern and chebec.
Chebec Dictionary C - noun See Chebacco.
Check Dictionary C - noun A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.
Checked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Check.
Checking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Check.
Checkage Dictionary C - noun The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.
Checker Dictionary C - verb transitive One who checks.
Checkered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Checker.
Checkering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Checker.
Checkerberries Dictionary C - pleural of Checkerberry.
Checkerberry Dictionary C - noun A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).
Checkerboard Dictionary C - noun A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
Checkers Dictionary C - verb A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.
Checkerwork Dictionary C - noun Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
Checklaton Dictionary C - noun Ciclatoun.
Checkless Dictionary C - adjective That can not be checked or restrained.
Checkmate Dictionary C - noun The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, - which ends the game.
Checkmated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Checkmate.
Checkmating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Checkmate.
Checkrein Dictionary C - noun A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; - called also a bearing rein.
Checkroll Dictionary C - noun A list of servants in a household; - called also chequer roll.
Checkstring Dictionary C - noun A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.
Checkwork Dictionary C - noun Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
Checky Dictionary C - adjective Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; - said of the field or of an armorial bearing.
Cheddar Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese.
Cheek Dictionary C - noun The side of the face below the eye.
Cheeked Dictionary C - adjective Having a cheek; - used in composition.
Cheeky Dictionary C - a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.
Cheeped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cheep.
Cheep Dictionary C - intransitive verb To chirp, as a young bird.
Cheer Dictionary C - noun The face; the countenance or its expression.
Cheered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cheer.
Cheering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cheer.
Cheerer Dictionary C - noun One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens.
Cheerful Dictionary C - adjective Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.
Cheerfully Dictionary C - adverb In a cheerful manner, gladly.
Cheerfulness Dictionary C - noun Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
Cheerily Dictionary C - adverb In a cheery manner.
Cheeriness Dictionary C - noun The state of being cheery.
Cheeringly Dictionary C - adverb In a manner to cheer or encourage.
Cheerisness Dictionary C - noun Cheerfulness.
Cheerless Dictionary C - adjective Without joy, gladness, or comfort.
Cheerly Dictionary C - adjective Gay; cheerful.
Cheerry Dictionary C - adjective Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person.
Cheese Dictionary C - noun The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
Cheeselep Dictionary C - noun A bag in which rennet is kept.
Cheesemonger Dictionary C - noun One who deals in cheese.
Cheeseparing Dictionary C - noun A thin portion of the rind of a cheese.
Cheesiness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being cheesy.
Cheesy Dictionary C - adjective Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.
Cheetah Dictionary C - noun A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus.
Chef Dictionary C - noun A chief of head person.
Chefs-d'oeuvre Dictionary C - pleural of Chef-d'oeuvre.
Chef-d'oeuvre Dictionary C - noun A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc.
Chegoe Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chegre.
Chegre Dictionary C - noun See Chigoe.
Cheiloplasty Dictionary C - noun The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.
Cheilopoda Dictionary C - noun See Ch/lopoda.
Cheirepter Dictionary C - noun One of the Cheiroptera.
Cheiroptera Dictionary C - noun plural An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.
Cheiropterous Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.
Cheiropterygia Dictionary C - pleural of Cheiropterygium.
Cheiropterygium Dictionary C - noun The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.
Cheirosophy Dictionary C - noun The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.
Cheirotherium Dictionary C - noun A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.
Chekelatoun Dictionary C - noun See Ciclatoun.
Chekmak Dictionary C - noun A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.
Chelae Dictionary C - pleural of Chela.
Chela Dictionary C - noun The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.
Chelate Dictionary C - adjective Same as Cheliferous.
Chelerythrine Dictionary C - noun An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.
Chelicerae Dictionary C - pleural of Chelicera.
Chelicera Dictionary C - noun One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.
Chelidon Dictionary C - noun The hollow at the flexure of the arm.
Chelidonic Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine.
Chelidonius Dictionary C - noun A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. - anciently worn as a medicinal charm.
Chelifer Dictionary C - noun See Book scorpion, under Book.
Cheliferous Dictionary C - adjective Having cheliform claws, like a crab.
Cheliform Dictionary C - adjective Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.
Chelone Dictionary C - noun A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; - called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.
Chelonia Dictionary C - noun plural An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.
Chelonian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind.
Chelura Dictionary C - noun A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and sometimes destroy timber.
Chely Dictionary C - noun A claw. See Chela.
Chemic Dictionary C - noun A chemist; an alchemist.
Chemical Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical combinations.
Chemically Dictionary C - adverb According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.
Chemiglyphic Dictionary C - adjective Engraved by a voltaic battery.
Chemiloon Dictionary C - noun A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one.
Chemise Dictionary C - noun A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.
Chemisette Dictionary C - noun An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.
Chemism Dictionary C - noun The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; - sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.
Chemist Dictionary C - noun A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.
Chemistry Dictionary C - noun That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See Atom, Molecule.
Chemitype Dictionary C - noun One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.
Chemolysis Dictionary C - noun A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents alone.
Chemosmosis Dictionary C - noun Chemical action taking place through an intervening membrane.
Chemosmotic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or produced by, chemosmosis.
Chemung period Dictionary C - A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.
Cheng Dictionary C - noun A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth.
Chenille Dictionary C - noun Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.
Chenomorphae Dictionary C - noun plural An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers.
Chepster Dictionary C - noun The European starling.
Cheque Dictionary C - noun See Check.
Chequer Dictionary C - noun & verb Same as Checker.
Chequing Dictionary C - noun A coin. See Sequin.
Chequy Dictionary C - noun Same as Checky.
Cherif Dictionary C - noun See Cherif.
Cherimoyer Dictionary C - noun A small downy-leaved tree (Anona Cherimolia), with fragrant flowers. It is a native of Peru.
Cherished Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cherish.
Cherising Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cherish.
Cherish Dictionary C - verb transitive To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
Cherisher Dictionary C - noun One who cherishes.
Cherishment Dictionary C - noun Encouragement; comfort.
Chermes Dictionary C - noun See Kermes.
Cherogril Dictionary C - noun See Cony.
Cherokees Dictionary C - noun plural An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.
Cheroot Dictionary C - noun A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.
Cherry Dictionary C - noun A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;.
Chersonese Dictionary C - noun A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.
Chert Dictionary C - noun An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.
Cherty Dictionary C - adjective Like chert; containing chert; flinty.
Cherubs Dictionary C - pleural of Cherub.
Cherubim Dictionary C - pleural of Cherub.
Cherub Dictionary C - noun A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x.
Cherubic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cherubical.
Cherubical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to cherubs; angelic.
Cherubin Dictionary C - adjective Cherubic; angelic.
Cherup Dictionary C - intransitive verb To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup.
Chervil Dictionary C - noun A plant (Anthriscus cerefolium) with pinnately divided aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups and salads.
Ches Dictionary C - pret. of Chese.
Chese Dictionary C - verb transitive To choose.
Chesible Dictionary C - noun See Chasuble.
Cheslip Dictionary C - noun The wood louse.
Chess Dictionary C - noun A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.
Chess-apple Dictionary C - noun The wild service of Europe (Purus torminalis).
Chessboard Dictionary C - noun The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.
Chessel Dictionary C - noun The wooden mold in which cheese is pressed.
Chesses Dictionary C - noun plural The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
Chessil Dictionary C - noun Gravel or pebbles.
Chessmen Dictionary C - pleural of Chessman.
Chessman Dictionary C - noun A piece used in the game of chess.
Chessom Dictionary C - noun Mellow earth; mold.
Chesstree Dictionary C - noun A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.
Chessy copper Dictionary C - The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
Chest Dictionary C - noun A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
Chested Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chest.
Chesterlite Dictionary C - noun A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.
Chesteyn Dictionary C - noun The chestnut tree.
Chest founder Dictionary C - A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.
Chestnut Dictionary C - noun The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.
Chetah Dictionary C - noun See Cheetah.
Chetvert Dictionary C - noun A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels.
Chevachie Dictionary C - noun See Chivachie.
Chevage Dictionary C - noun See Chiefage.
Chevaux Dictionary C - pleural of Cheval.
Cheval Dictionary C - noun A horse; hence, a support or frame.
Chevaux-de-frise Dictionary C - pleural of Cheval-de-frise.
Cheval-de-frise Dictionary C - noun A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc.
Chevalier Dictionary C - noun A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man.
Cheve Dictionary C - intransitive verb To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise.
Chevelure Dictionary C - noun A hairlike envelope.
Cheven Dictionary C - noun A river fish; the chub.
Cheventein Dictionary C - noun A variant of Chieftain.
Cheveril Dictionary C - intransitive verb Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility.
Cheverliize Dictionary C - intransitive verb To make as pliable as kid leather.
Chevet Dictionary C - noun The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.
Cheviot Dictionary C - noun A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.
Chevisance Dictionary C - noun Achievement; deed; performance.
Chevrette Dictionary C - noun A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages.
Chevron Dictionary C - noun One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
Chevroned Dictionary C - particle adjective Having a chevron; decorated with an ornamental figure of a zigzag from.
Chevronel Dictionary C - noun A bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.
Chevronwise Dictionary C - adverb In the manner of a chevron; as, the field may be divided chevronwise.
Chevrotain Dictionary C - noun A small ruminant of the family Tragulidae a allied to the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil.
Chevy Dictionary C - verb transitive See Chivy, v. t.
Chewed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chew.
Chewing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chew.
Chew Dictionary C - verb transitive To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.
Chewer Dictionary C - noun One who chews.
Chewet Dictionary C - noun A kind of meat pie.
Chewink Dictionary C - noun An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; - called also towhee bunting and ground robin.
Cheyennes Dictionary C - noun plural A warlike tribe of indians, related to the blackfeet, formerly inhabiting the region of Wyoming, but now mostly on reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their horsemanship.
Chian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea.
Chiaroscurist Dictionary C - noun A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.
Chiaroscuro Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro.
Chiaro-oscuro Dictionary C - noun The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.
Chiasm Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chiasma.
Chiasma Dictionary C - noun A commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves.
Chiasmus Dictionary C - noun An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence.
Chiastolite Dictionary C - noun A variety of andalusite; - called also macle. The tessellated appearance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal.
Chibbal Dictionary C - noun See Cibol.
Chibouque Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chibouk.
Chibouk Dictionary C - noun A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.
Chic Dictionary C - noun Good form; style.
Chica Dictionary C - noun A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.
Chicane Dictionary C - noun The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; - specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
Chicaner Dictionary C - noun One who uses chicanery.
Chicanery Dictionary C - noun Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Chiccory Dictionary C - noun See Chicory.
Chiches Dictionary C - pleural of Chich.
Chich Dictionary C - noun The chick-pea.
Chicha Dictionary C - noun See Chica.
Chichevache Dictionary C - noun A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.
Chichling Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chichling vetch.
Chichling vetch Dictionary C - noun A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.
Chick Dictionary C - intransitive verb To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
Chickabiddy Dictionary C - noun A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.
Chickadee Dictionary C - noun A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; - named from its note.
Chickaree Dictionary C - noun The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); - so called from its cry.
Chickasaws Dictionary C - noun plural A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory.
Chicken Dictionary C - noun A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
Chicken-breasted Dictionary C - adjective Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
Chicken-hearted Dictionary C - adjective Timid; fearful; cowardly.
Chicken pox Dictionary C - A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.
Chickling Dictionary C - noun A small chick or chicken.
Chick-pea Dictionary C - noun A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram.
Chickweed Dictionary C - noun The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds.
Chicky Dictionary C - noun A chicken; - used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls.
Chicory Dictionary C - noun A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive.
Chide Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
Chider Dictionary C - noun One who chides or quarrels.
Chideress Dictionary C - noun She who chides.
Chidester Dictionary C - noun A female scold.
Chidingly Dictionary C - adverb In a chiding or reproving manner.
Chief Dictionary C - noun The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent.
Chiefage Dictionary C - noun A tribute by the head; a capitation tax.
Chief baron Dictionary C - The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.
Chiefest Dictionary C - adjective First or foremost; chief; principal.
Chief hare Dictionary C - A small rodent (Lagamys princeps) inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; - also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare.
Chief justice Dictionary C - The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court.
Chief-justiceship Dictionary C - noun The office of chief justice.
Chiefless Dictionary C - adjective Without a chief or leader.
Chiefly Dictionary C - adverb In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.
Chiefrie Dictionary C - noun A small rent paid to the lord paramount.
Chieftain Dictionary C - noun A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.
Chieftaincy Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chieftainship.
Chieftainship Dictionary C - noun The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.
Chierte Dictionary C - noun Love; tender regard.
Chievance Dictionary C - noun An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount.
Chieve Dictionary C - intransitive verb See Cheve, v. i.
Chiff-chaff Dictionary C - noun A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); - called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.
Chiffonier Dictionary C - noun Alt. of niere.
Chiffo Dictionary C - noun Alt. of niere.
niere Dictionary C - noun One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
Chignon Dictionary C - noun A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head.
Chigoe Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chigre.
Chigre Dictionary C - noun A species of flea (Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger.
Chikara Dictionary C - noun The goat antelope (Tragops Bennettii) of India.
Chilblain Dictionary C - noun A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.
Children Dictionary C - pleural of Child.
Child Dictionary C - noun A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; - in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.
Childed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Child.
Childing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Child.
Childbearing Dictionary C - noun The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.
Childbed Dictionary C - noun The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
Childbirth Dictionary C - noun The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.
Childcrowing Dictionary C - noun The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
Childe Dictionary C - noun A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.
Childermas day Dictionary C - A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; - called also Holy Innocent's Day.
Childhood Dictionary C - noun The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
Childish Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.
Childishly Dictionary C - adverb In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
Childishness Dictionary C - noun The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
Childlessness Dictionary C - noun The state of being childless.
Childlike Dictionary C - adjective Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
Childly Dictionary C - adjective Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.
Childness Dictionary C - noun The manner characteristic of a child.
Childship Dictionary C - noun The state or relation of being a child.
Chili Dictionary C - noun A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum.
Chiliad Dictionary C - noun A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.
Chiliagon Dictionary C - noun A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides.
Chiliahedron Dictionary C - noun A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces.
Chilian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Chili.
Chiliarch Dictionary C - noun The commander or chief of a thousand men.
Chiliarchy Dictionary C - noun A body consisting of a thousand men.
Chiliasm Dictionary C - noun The millennium.
Chiliast Dictionary C - noun One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.
Chiliastic Dictionary C - adjective Millenarian.
Chill Dictionary C - noun A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
Chilled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chill.
Chilling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chill.
Chilli Dictionary C - noun See Chili.
Chilliness Dictionary C - noun A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.
Chillness Dictionary C - noun Coolness; coldness; a chill.
Chilly Dictionary C - adjective Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.
Chilognath Dictionary C - noun A myriapod of the order Chilognatha.
Chilognatha Dictionary C - noun plural One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together.
Chiloma Dictionary C - noun The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.
Chilopod Dictionary C - noun A myriapod of the order Chilopoda.
Chilopoda Dictionary C - noun plural One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.
Chilostoma Dictionary C - noun plural Alt. of Chilostomata.
Chilostomata Dictionary C - noun plural An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells.
Chilostomatous Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma.
Chiltern Hundreds Dictionary C - A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.
Chimaera Dictionary C - noun A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.
Chimaeroid Dictionary C - adjective Related to, or like, the chimaera.
Chimango Dictionary C - A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara.
Chimb Dictionary C - noun The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.
Chime Dictionary C - noun See Chine, n., 3.
Chimed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chime.
Chiming Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chime.
Chimer Dictionary C - noun One who chimes.
Chimeras Dictionary C - pleural of Chimera.
Chimera Dictionary C - noun A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
Chimere Dictionary C - noun The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached.
Chimeric Dictionary C - adjective Chimerical.
Chimerical Dictionary C - adjective Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.
Chimerically Dictionary C - adverb Wildy; vainly; fancifully.
Chiminage Dictionary C - noun A toll for passage through a forest.
Chimneys Dictionary C - pleural of Chimney.
Chimney Dictionary C - noun A fireplace or hearth.
Chimney-breast Dictionary C - noun The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; - commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
Chimney-piece Dictionary C - noun A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace.
Chimpanzee Dictionary C - noun An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.
Chin Dictionary C - noun The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.
China Dictionary C - noun A country in Eastern Asia.
Chinaldine Dictionary C - noun See Quinaldine.
Chinamen Dictionary C - pleural of Chinaman.
Chinaman Dictionary C - noun A native of China; a Chinese.
Chincapin Dictionary C - noun See Chinquapin.
Chinch Dictionary C - noun The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
Chincha Dictionary C - noun A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis.
Chinche Dictionary C - adjective Parsimonious; niggardly.
Chincherie Dictionary C - noun Penuriousness.
Chinchilla Dictionary C - noun A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.
Chinchona Dictionary C - Alt. of Chincona.
Chincona Dictionary C - See Cinchona.
Chin cough Dictionary C - Whooping cough.
Chine Dictionary C - noun A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
Chined Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chine.
Chinese Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
Chink Dictionary C - noun A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
Chinked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chink.
Chinking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chink.
Chinky Dictionary C - adjective Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Chinned Dictionary C - adjective Having a chin; - used chiefly in compounds; as, short-chinned.
Chinoidine Dictionary C - noun See Quinodine.
Chinoline Dictionary C - noun See Quinoline.
Chinone Dictionary C - noun See Quinone.
Chinook Dictionary C - noun One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.
Chinquapin Dictionary C - noun A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat.
Chinsed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chinse.
Chinsing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chinse.
Chinse Dictionary C - verb transitive & intransitive To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.
Chintzes Dictionary C - pleural of Chintz.
Chintz Dictionary C - noun Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed.
Chioppine Dictionary C - noun Same as Chopine, n.
Chipped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chip.
Chipping Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chip.
Chip Dictionary C - verb transitive To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
Chipmunk Dictionary C - noun A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus.
Chipper Dictionary C - intransitive verb To chirp or chirrup.
Chippeways Dictionary C - noun plural A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and western shores of Lake Superior; - called also Objibways.
Chipping bird Dictionary C - The chippy.
Chipping squirrel Dictionary C - See Chipmunk.
Chippy Dictionary C - adjective Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.
Chips Dictionary C - noun A ship's carpenter.
Chiragra Dictionary C - noun Gout in the hand.
Chiragrical Dictionary C - adjective Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease.
Chiretta Dictionary C - noun A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.
Chirk Dictionary C - intransitive verb To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries.
Chirm Dictionary C - intransitive verb To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird.
Chirognomy Dictionary C - noun The art of judging character by the shape and appearance of the hand.
Chirograph Dictionary C - noun A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.
Chirographer Dictionary C - noun One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.
Chirographic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Chirographical.
Chirographical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to chirography.
Chirographist Dictionary C - noun A chirographer; a writer or engrosser.
Chirography Dictionary C - noun The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.
Chirogymnast Dictionary C - noun A mechanical contrivance for exercising the fingers of a pianist.
Chirological Dictionary C - adjective Relating to chirology.
Chirologist Dictionary C - noun One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.
Chirology Dictionary C - noun The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.
Chiromancer Dictionary C - noun One who practices chiromancy.
Chiromancy Dictionary C - noun The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.
Chiromanist Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chiromantist.
Chiromantist Dictionary C - noun A chiromancer.
Chiromantic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Chiromantical.
Chiromantical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to chiromancy.
Chiromonic Dictionary C - adjective Relating to chironomy.
Chironomy Dictionary C - noun The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime; gesture.
Chiroplast Dictionary C - noun An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.
Chiropodist Dictionary C - noun One who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions.
Chiropody Dictionary C - noun The art of treating diseases of the hands and feet.
Chirosophist Dictionary C - noun A fortune teller.
Chirped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chirp.
Chirping Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chirp.
Chirp Dictionary C - intransitive verb To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.
Chirper Dictionary C - noun One who chirps, or is cheerful.
Chirpingly Dictionary C - adverb In a chirping manner.
Chirre Dictionary C - intransitive verb To coo, as a pigeon.
Chirruped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chirrup.
Chirruping Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chirrup.
Chirrup Dictionary C - verb transitive To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.
Chirrupy Dictionary C - adjective Cheerful; joyous; chatty.
Chirurgeon Dictionary C - noun A surgeon.
Chirurgeonly Dictionary C - adverb Surgically.
Chirurgery Dictionary C - noun Surgery.
Chirurgic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Chirurgical.
Chirurgical Dictionary C - adjective Surgical.
Chisel Dictionary C - noun A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; - usually driven by a mallet or hammer.
Chiseled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chisel.
Chiselled Dictionary C - of Chisel.
Chiseling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chisel.
Chiselling Dictionary C - of Chisel.
Chisleu Dictionary C - noun The ninth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of November with a part of December.
Chisley Dictionary C - adjective Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; - said of a soil.
Chit Dictionary C - noun The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.
Chitchat Dictionary C - noun Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.
Chitin Dictionary C - noun A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.
Chitinization Dictionary C - noun The process of becoming chitinous.
Chitinous Dictionary C - adjective Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin.
Chiton Dictionary C - noun An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.
Chitter Dictionary C - intransitive verb To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird.
Chitterling Dictionary C - noun The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings.
Chitterlings Dictionary C - noun plural The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.
Chittra Dictionary C - noun The axis deer of India.
Chitty Dictionary C - adjective Full of chits or sprouts.
Chivachie Dictionary C - noun A cavalry raid; hence, a military expedition.
Chivalric Dictionary C - adjective Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.
Chivalrous Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.
Chivalrously Dictionary C - adverb In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously.
Chivalry Dictionary C - noun A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
Chive Dictionary C - noun A filament of a stamen.
Chivied Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chivy.
Chivying Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chivy.
Chivy Dictionary C - verb transitive To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.
Chlamydate Dictionary C - adjective Having a mantle; - applied to certain gastropods.
Chlamyphore Dictionary C - noun A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.
Chlamyses Dictionary C - pleural of Chlamys.
Chlamydes Dictionary C - pleural of Chlamys.
Chlamys Dictionary C - noun A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak.
Chloasma Dictionary C - noun A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.
Chloral Dictionary C - noun A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol.
Chloralamide Dictionary C - noun A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.
Chloralism Dictionary C - noun A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral.
Chloralum Dictionary C - noun An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
Chloranil Dictionary C - noun A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline.
Chlorate Dictionary C - noun A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.
Chloraurate Dictionary C - noun See Aurochloride.
Chlorhydric Dictionary C - adjective Same as Hydrochloric.
Chlorhydrin Dictionary C - noun One of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups.
Chloric Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; - said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3.
Chloridate Dictionary C - verb transitive To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography.
Chloride Dictionary C - noun A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).
Chloridic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride.
Chloridize Dictionary C - verb transitive See Chloridate.
Chlorimetry Dictionary C - noun See Chlorometry.
Chlorinated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chlorinate.
Chlorinating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chlorinate.
Chlorinate Dictionary C - verb transitive To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.
Chlorination Dictionary C - noun The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.
Chlorine Dictionary C - noun One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.
Chloriodic Dictionary C - adjective Compounded of chlorine and iodine; containing chlorine and iodine.
Chloriodine Dictionary C - noun A compound of chlorine and iodine.
Chlorite Dictionary C - noun The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia.
Chloritic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, chlorite; as, chloritic sand.
Chlormethane Dictionary C - noun A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; - called also methyl chloride.
Chloro- Dictionary C - A prefix denoting that chlorine is an ingredient in the substance named.
Chlorocruorin Dictionary C - noun A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms.
Chlorodyne Dictionary C - noun A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.
Chloroform Dictionary C - noun A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anaesthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.
Chloroformed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chloroform.
Chloroforming Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chloroform.
Chloroleucite Dictionary C - noun Same as Chloroplastid.
Chlorometer Dictionary C - noun An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.
Chlorometry Dictionary C - noun The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
Chloropal Dictionary C - noun A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.
Chloropeptic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin-hydrochloric acid.
Chlorophane Dictionary C - noun A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light.
Chlorophyll Dictionary C - noun Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals.
Chloroplastid Dictionary C - noun A granule of chlorophyll; - also called chloroleucite.
Chloroplatinic Dictionary C - adjective See Platinichloric.
Chlorosis Dictionary C - noun The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.
Chlorotic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.
Chlorous Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; - said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid, HClO2.
Chlorpicrin Dictionary C - noun A heavy, colorless liquid, CCl3.NO2, of a strong pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of chlorine.
Chloruret Dictionary C - noun A chloride.
Choak Dictionary C - verb transitive & intransitive See Choke.
Choanoid Dictionary C - adjective Funnel-shaped; - applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.
Chocard Dictionary C - noun The chough.
Chocked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chock.
Chocking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chock.
Chock Dictionary C - verb transitive To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
Chockablock Dictionary C - adjective Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
Chock-full Dictionary C - adjective Quite full; choke-full.
Chocolate Dictionary C - noun A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.
Choctaws Dictionary C - noun plural A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.
Chode Dictionary C - the old imp. of chide. See Chide.
Chogset Dictionary C - noun See Cunner.
Choice Dictionary C - noun Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
Choiceful Dictionary C - adjective Making choices; fickle.
Choicely Dictionary C - adverb With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference.
Choiceness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.
Choir Dictionary C - noun A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.
Choked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Choke.
Choking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Choke.
Choke Dictionary C - verb transitive To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
Chokeberry Dictionary C - noun The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.
Chokecherry Dictionary C - noun The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
Choke damp Dictionary C - See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
Chokedar Dictionary C - noun A watchman; an officer of customs or police.
Choke-full Dictionary C - adjective Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.
Choke pear Dictionary C - A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.
Choker Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, chokes.
Choke-strap Dictionary C - noun A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
Choky Chokey Dictionary C - adjective Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.
Cholaemaa Dictionary C - noun A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.
Cholagogue Dictionary C - adjective Promoting the discharge of bile from the system.
Cholate Dictionary C - noun A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.
Cholecystis Dictionary C - noun The gall bladder.
Cholecystotomy Dictionary C - noun The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.
Choledology Dictionary C - noun A treatise on the bile and bilary organs.
Choleic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.
Choler Dictionary C - noun The bile; - formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.
Cholera Dictionary C - noun One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.
Choleraic Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.
Choleric Dictionary C - adjective Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.
Cholericly Dictionary C - adverb In a choleric manner; angrily.
Choleriform Dictionary C - adjective Resembling cholera.
Cholerine Dictionary C - noun The precursory symptoms of cholera.
Choleroid Dictionary C - adjective Choleriform.
Cholesteric Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid.
Cholesterin Dictionary C - noun A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.
Choliamb Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Choliambic.
Choliambic Dictionary C - noun A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.
Cholic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cholinic.
Cholinic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile.
Choline Dictionary C - noun See Neurine.
Cholochrome Dictionary C - noun See Bilirubin.
Cholophaein Dictionary C - noun See Bilirubin.
Choltry Dictionary C - noun A Hindoo caravansary.
Chomp Dictionary C - intransitive verb To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.
Chondrification Dictionary C - noun Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.
Chondrify Dictionary C - verb transitive & intransitive To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.
Chondrigen Dictionary C - noun The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.
Chondrigenous Dictionary C - adjective Affording chondrin.
Chondrin Dictionary C - noun A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.
Chondrite Dictionary C - noun A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.
Chondritic Dictionary C - adjective Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.
Chondritis Dictionary C - noun An inflammation of cartilage.
Chondro- Dictionary C - A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.
Chondrodite Dictionary C - noun A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.
Chondroganoidea Dictionary C - noun An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; - so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
Chondrogen Dictionary C - noun Same as Chondrigen.
Chondrogenesis Dictionary C - noun The development of cartilage.
Chondroid Dictionary C - adjective Resembling cartilage.
Chondrology Dictionary C - noun The science which treats of cartilages.
Chondromata Dictionary C - pleural of Chondroma.
Chondroma Dictionary C - noun A cartilaginous tumor or growth.
Chondrometer Dictionary C - noun A steelyard for weighting grain.
Chondropterygian Dictionary C - adjective Having a cartilaginous skeleton.
Chondropterygii Dictionary C - noun plural A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter.
Chondrostei Dictionary C - noun plural An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; - so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.
Chondrotomy Dictionary C - noun The dissection of cartilages.
Chondrule Dictionary C - noun A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
Chose Dictionary C - imperative of Choose.
Chosen Dictionary C - past participle of Choose.
Choosing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Choose.
Choose Dictionary C - verb transitive To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.
Chooser Dictionary C - noun One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector.
Chopped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chop.
Chopping Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chop.
Chop Dictionary C - verb transitive To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; - often with up.
Chopboat Dictionary C - noun A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.
Chopchurch Dictionary C - noun An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.
Chopfallen Dictionary C - adjective Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen.
Chophouse Dictionary C - noun A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house.
Chopin Dictionary C - noun A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.
Chopine Dictionary C - noun A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more.
Chop-logic Dictionary C - noun One who bandies words or is very argumentative.
Chopness Dictionary C - noun A kind of spade.
Chopper Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, chops.
Choppy Dictionary C - adjective Full of cracks.
Chops Dictionary C - noun plural The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.
Chopstick Dictionary C - noun One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
Choragic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a choragus.
Choragi Dictionary C - pleural of Choragus.
Choragus Dictionary C - noun A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens.
Choral Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.
Choralist Dictionary C - noun A singer or composer of chorals.
Chorally Dictionary C - adverb In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.
Chord Dictionary C - noun The string of a musical instrument.
Chorded Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chord.
Chording Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chord.
Chorda Dictionary C - noun A cord.
Chordal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a chord.
Chordata Dictionary C - noun plural A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
Chordee Dictionary C - noun A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.
Chore Dictionary C - noun A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
Chored Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chore.
Choring Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chore.
Chorea Dictionary C - noun St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.
Choree Dictionary C - noun See Choreus.
Choregraphic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Choregraphical.
Choregraphical Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to choregraphy.
Choregraphy Dictionary C - noun The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes.
Choreic Dictionary C - adjective Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.
Chorepiscopal Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.
Chorepiscopi Dictionary C - pleural of Chorepiscopus.
Chorepiscopus Dictionary C - noun A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.
Choreus Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Choree.
Choriambs Dictionary C - pleural of Choriamb.
Choriamb Dictionary C - noun Same as Choriambus.
Choriambic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to a choriamb.
Choriambi Dictionary C - pleural of Choriambus.
Choriambuses Dictionary C - pleural of Choriambus.
Choriambus Dictionary C - noun A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.
Choric Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a chorus.
Chorion Dictionary C - noun The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.
Chorisis Dictionary C - noun The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.
Chorist Dictionary C - noun A singer in a choir; a chorister.
Chorister Dictionary C - noun One of a choir; a singer in a chorus.
Choristic Dictionary C - adjective Choric; choral.
Chorograph Dictionary C - noun An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
Chorographer Dictionary C - noun One who describes or makes a map of a district or region.
Chorographical Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to chorography.
Chorography Dictionary C - noun the mapping or description of a region or district.
Choroid Dictionary C - adjective resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball.
Choroidal Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the choroid coat.
Chorology Dictionary C - noun The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.
Chorometry Dictionary C - noun The art of surveying a region or district.
Choruses Dictionary C - pleural of Chorus.
Chorus Dictionary C - noun A band of singers and dancers.
Chorused Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chorus.
Chorusing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chorus.
Choses Dictionary C - pleural of Chose.
Chouan Dictionary C - noun One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.
Chough Dictionary C - noun A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; - also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.
Chouicha Dictionary C - noun The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.
Chouka Dictionary C - noun The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.
Choule Dictionary C - noun See Jowl.
Choultry Dictionary C - noun See Choltry.
Choused Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chouse.
Chousing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chouse.
Chouse Dictionary C - verb transitive To cheat, trick, defraud; - followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.
Chout Dictionary C - noun An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue.
Chowchow Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).
Chowder Dictionary C - noun A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.
Chowry Dictionary C - noun A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies.
Chowter Dictionary C - verb transitive To grumble or mutter like a froward child.
Choy root Dictionary C - See Chay root.
Chrematistics Dictionary C - noun The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.
Chreotechnics Dictionary C - noun The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce.
Chrestomathic Dictionary C - adjective Teaching what is useful.
Chrestomathy Dictionary C - noun A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.
Chrism Dictionary C - noun Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.
Chrismal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.
Chrismation Dictionary C - noun The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.
Chrismatory Dictionary C - noun A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept.
Chrisom Dictionary C - noun A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
Christ Dictionary C - noun The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.
Christcross Dictionary C - noun The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, - sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial.
Christcross-row Dictionary C - The alphabet; - formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm.
Christened Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Christen.
Christening Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Christen.
Christen Dictionary C - verb transitive To baptize and give a Christian name to.
Christendom Dictionary C - noun The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it.
Christian Dictionary C - noun One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ.
Christianism Dictionary C - noun The Christian religion.
Christianite Dictionary C - noun Same as Anorthite.
Christianity Dictionary C - noun The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ.
Christianization Dictionary C - noun The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.
Christianized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Christianize.
Christianizing Dictionary C - past particle verb noun of Christianize.
Christianize Dictionary C - verb transitive To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans.
Christianlike Dictionary C - adjective Becoming to a Christian.
Christianly Dictionary C - adverb In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion.
Christianness Dictionary C - noun Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity.
Christless Dictionary C - adjective Without faith in Christ; unchristian.
Christlike Dictionary C - adjective Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc.
Christly Dictionary C - adjective Christlike.
Christmas Dictionary C - noun An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.
Christmastide Dictionary C - noun The season of Christmas.
Christocentric Dictionary C - adjective Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion.
Christology Dictionary C - noun A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.
Christom Dictionary C - noun See Chrisom.
Christophany Dictionary C - noun An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion.
Christ's-thorn Dictionary C - noun One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.
Chromascope Dictionary C - noun An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.
Chromate Dictionary C - noun A salt of chromic acid.
Chromatic Dictionary C - adjective Relating to color, or to colors.
Chromatical Dictionary C - adjective Chromatic.
Chromatically Dictionary C - adverb In a chromatic manner.
Chromatics Dictionary C - noun The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.
Chromatin Dictionary C - noun Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.
Chromatism Dictionary C - noun The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens.
Chromatogenous Dictionary C - adjective Producing color.
Chromatography Dictionary C - noun A treatise on colors.
Chromatology Dictionary C - noun A treatise on colors.
Chromatophore Dictionary C - noun A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.
Chromatoscope Dictionary C - noun A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; - used in studying the scintillation of the stars.
Chromatosphere Dictionary C - noun A chromosphere.
Chromatrope Dictionary C - noun An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.
Chromatype Dictionary C - noun A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.
Chrome Dictionary C - noun Same as Chromium.
Chromic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; - said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence.
Chromid Dictionary C - noun One of the Chromidae, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.
Chromidrosis Dictionary C - noun Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.
Chromism Dictionary C - noun Same as Chromatism.
Chromite Dictionary C - noun A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; - called also chromic iron.
Chromium Dictionary C - noun A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.
Chromos Dictionary C - pleural of Chromo.
Chromo Dictionary C - noun A chromolithograph.
Chromoblast Dictionary C - noun An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.
Chromogen Dictionary C - Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.
Chromogenic Dictionary C - adjective Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria.
Chromograph Dictionary C - noun An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; - called also hectograph.
Chromoleucite Dictionary C - noun A chromoplastid.
Chromolithograph Dictionary C - noun A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.
Chromolithographer Dictionary C - noun One who is engaged in chromolithography.
Chromolithographic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.
Chromolithography Dictionary C - noun Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.
Chromophane Dictionary C - noun A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.
Chromophore Dictionary C - noun Any chemical group or residue (as NO2; N2; or O2) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.
Chromophotography Dictionary C - noun The art of producing photographs in colors.
Chromophotolithograph Dictionary C - noun A photolithograph printed in colors.
Chromoplastid Dictionary C - noun A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; - also called chromoleucite.
Chromosome Dictionary C - noun One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
Chromosphere Dictionary C - noun An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.
Chromospheric Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
Chromotype Dictionary C - noun A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.
Chromous Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds.
Chromule Dictionary C - noun A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.
Chronic Dictionary C - adjective Relating to time; according to time.
Chronical Dictionary C - adjective Chronic.
Chronicle Dictionary C - noun An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.
Chronicled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chronicle.
Chronicling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chronicle.
Chronicler Dictionary C - noun A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian.
Chronique Dictionary C - noun A chronicle.
Chronogram Dictionary C - noun An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.
Chronogrammatic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Chronogrammatical.
Chronogrammatical Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.
Chronogrammatist Dictionary C - noun A writer of chronograms.
Chronograph Dictionary C - noun An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity.
Chronographer Dictionary C - noun One who writes a chronography; a chronologer.
Chronographic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a chronograph.
Chronography Dictionary C - noun A description or record of past time; history.
Chronologer Dictionary C - noun Same as Chronologist.
Chronologic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Chronological.
Chronological Dictionary C - adjective Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables.
Chronologist Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chronologer.
Chronologies Dictionary C - pleural of Chronology.
Chronology Dictionary C - noun The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
Chronometer Dictionary C - noun An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.
Chronometric Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Chronometrical.
Chronometrical Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.
Chronometry Dictionary C - noun The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.
Chronopher Dictionary C - noun An instrument signaling the correct time to distant points by electricity.
Chronoscope Dictionary C - noun An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.
Chrysalid Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.
Chrysalids Dictionary C - pleural of Chrysalid.
Chrysalides Dictionary C - pleural of Chrysalis.
Chrysalis Dictionary C - noun The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).
Chrysaniline Dictionary C - noun A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color.
Chrysanthemum Dictionary C - noun A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.
Chrysarobin Dictionary C - noun A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid.
Chrysaurin Dictionary C - noun An orange-colored dyestuff, of artificial production.
Chryselephantine Dictionary C - adjective Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.
Chrysene Dictionary C - noun One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.
Chrysoberyl Dictionary C - noun A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.
Chrysochlore Dictionary C - noun A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold.
Chrysocolla Dictionary C - noun A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.
Chrysogen Dictionary C - noun A yellow crystalline substance extracted from crude anthracene.
Chrysography Dictionary C - noun The art of writing in letters of gold.
Chrysoidine Dictionary C - noun An artificial, yellow, crystalline dye, C6H5N2.C6H3(NH2)2. Also, one of a group of dyestuffs resembling chrysoidine proper.
Chrysolite Dictionary C - noun A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; - called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.
Chrysology Dictionary C - noun That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.
Chrysopa Dictionary C - noun A genus of neuropterous insects. See Lacewing.
Chrysophane Dictionary C - noun A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.
Chrysophanic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling, chrysophane.
Chrysoprase Dictionary C - noun An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.
Chrysoprasus Dictionary C - noun See Chrysoprase.
Chrysosperm Dictionary C - noun The seed of gold; a means of creating gold.
Chrysotype Dictionary C - noun A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold.
Chthonic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions.
Chthonophagia Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chthonophagy.
Chthonophagy Dictionary C - noun A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.
Chub Dictionary C - noun A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.
Chubbed Dictionary C - adjective Chubby.
Chubbedness Dictionary C - noun The state of being chubby.
Chubby Dictionary C - adjective Like a chub; plump, short, and thick.
Chub-faced Dictionary C - adjective Having a plump, short face.
Chucked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chuck.
Chucking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chuck.
Chuck Dictionary C - intransitive verb To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
Chuckled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Chuckle.
Chuckling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chuckle.
Chuckle Dictionary C - verb transitive To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck.
Chucklehead Dictionary C - noun A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce.
Chuckleheaded Dictionary C - adjective Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid.
Chuck-Will's-widow Dictionary C - noun A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; - so called from its note.
Chud Dictionary C - verb transitive To champ; to bite.
Chuet Dictionary C - noun Minced meat.
Chufa Dictionary C - noun A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.
Chuff Dictionary C - noun A coarse or stupid fellow.
Chuffily Dictionary C - adverb Clownishly; surlily.
Chuffiness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being chuffy.
Chuffy Dictionary C - adjective Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.
Chulan Dictionary C - noun The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea.
Chum Dictionary C - noun A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.
Chummed Dictionary C - imperative past particle of Chum.
Chumming Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Chum.
Chump Dictionary C - noun A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.
Chunam Dictionary C - noun Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar.
Chunk Dictionary C - noun A short, thick piece of anything.
Chunky Dictionary C - adjective Short and thick.
Church Dictionary C - noun A building set apart for Christian worship.
Churched Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Church.
Churching Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Church.
Church-ale Dictionary C - noun A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used.
Church-bench Dictionary C - noun A seat in the porch of a church.
Churchdom Dictionary C - noun The institution, government, or authority of a church.
Churchgoer Dictionary C - noun One who attends church.
Churchgoing Dictionary C - adjective Habitually attending church.
Church-haw Dictionary C - noun Churchyard.
Churchism Dictionary C - noun Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.
Churchless Dictionary C - adjective Without a church.
Churchlike Dictionary C - adjective Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman.
Churchliness Dictionary C - noun Regard for the church.
Churchly Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.
Churchmen Dictionary C - pleural of Churchman.
Churchman Dictionary C - noun An ecclesiastic or clergyman.
Churchmanly Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman.
Churchmanship Dictionary C - noun The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.
Church modes Dictionary C - The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
Churchship Dictionary C - noun State of being a church.
Churchwarden Dictionary C - noun One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service.
Churchwardenship Dictionary C - noun The office of a churchwarden.
Churchy Dictionary C - adjective Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms.
Churchyard Dictionary C - noun The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.
Churl Dictionary C - noun A rustic; a countryman or laborer.
Churlish Dictionary C - adjective Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
Churlishly Dictionary C - adverb In a churlish manner.
Churlishness Dictionary C - noun Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.
Churly Dictionary C - adjective Rude; churlish; violent.
Churme Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chirm.
Churn Dictionary C - verb transitive A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
Churned Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Churn.
Churning Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Churn.
Churrus Dictionary C - noun A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.
Churrworm Dictionary C - noun An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; - called also fan cricket.
Chuse Dictionary C - verb transitive See Choose.
Chute Dictionary C - noun A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
Chutney Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Chutnee.
Chutnee Dictionary C - noun A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.
Chylaceous Dictionary C - adjective Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle.
Chylaqueous Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; - said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.
Chyle Dictionary C - noun A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.
Chylifaction Dictionary C - noun The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, - a digestive process.
Chylifactive Dictionary C - adjective Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
Chyliferous Dictionary C - adjective Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.
Chylific Dictionary C - adjective Chylifactive.
Chylification Dictionary C - noun The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.
Chylificatory Dictionary C - adjective Chylifactive.
Chylify Dictionary C - verb transitive & intransitive To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.
Chylopoetic Dictionary C - adjective Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.
Chylous Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.
Chyluria Dictionary C - noun A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.
Chyme Dictionary C - noun The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.
Chymic Dictionary C - Alt. of Chymistry.
Chymist Dictionary C - Alt. of Chymistry.
Chymistry Dictionary C - See Chemic, Chemist, Chemistry.
Chymiferous Dictionary C - adjective Bearing or containing chyme.
Chymification Dictionary C - noun The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.
Chymify Dictionary C - verb transitive To form into chyme.
Chymous Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to chyme.
Chyometer Dictionary C - noun An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.
Cibarious Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to food; edible.
Cibation Dictionary C - noun The act of taking food.
Cibol Dictionary C - noun A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.
Ciboria Dictionary C - pleural of Ciborium.
Ciborium Dictionary C - noun A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.
Cicadas Dictionary C - pleural of Cicada.
Cicadae Dictionary C - pleural of Cicada.
Cicada Dictionary C - noun Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada.
Cicala Dictionary C - noun A cicada. See Cicada.
Cicatrice Dictionary C - noun A cicatrix.
Cicatricial Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.
Cicatricle Dictionary C - noun The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.
Cicatrisive Dictionary C - adjective Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound.
Cicatrices Dictionary C - pleural of Cicatrix.
Cicatrix Dictionary C - noun The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.
Cicatrizant Dictionary C - noun A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.
Cicatrization Dictionary C - noun The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.
Cicatrized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cicatrize.
Cicatrizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cicatrize.
Cicatrize Dictionary C - verb transitive To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.
Cicatrose Dictionary C - adjective Full of scars.
Cicely Dictionary C - noun Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.
Cicero Dictionary C - noun Pica type; - so called by French printers.
Ciceroni Dictionary C - pleural of Cicerone.
Cicerones Dictionary C - pleural of Cicerone.
Cicerone Dictionary C - noun One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.
Ciceronian Dictionary C - adjective Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.
Ciceronianism Dictionary C - noun Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression.
Cichoraceous Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.
Cich-pea Dictionary C - noun The chick-pea.
Cicisbeism Dictionary C - noun The state or conduct of a cicisbeo.
Cicisbei Dictionary C - pleural of Cicisbeo.
Cicisbeo Dictionary C - noun A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.
Ciclatoun Dictionary C - noun A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages.
Cicurate Dictionary C - verb transitive To tame.
Cicuration Dictionary C - noun The act of taming.
Cicuta Dictionary C - noun a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.
Cicutoxin Dictionary C - noun The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.
Cid Dictionary C - noun Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.
Cider Dictionary C - noun The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.
Ciderist Dictionary C - noun A maker of cider.
Ciderkin Dictionary C - noun A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water.
Ci-devant Dictionary C - adjective Former; previous; of times gone by; as, a ci-devant governor.
Cierge Dictionary C - noun A wax candle used in religous rites.
Cigar Dictionary C - noun A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.
Cigarette Dictionary C - noun A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.
Cilia Dictionary C - noun plural The eyelashes.
Ciliary Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.
Ciliata Dictionary C - noun plural One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth.
Ciliate Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Ciliated.
Ciliated Dictionary C - adjective Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.
Cilice Dictionary C - noun A kind of haircloth undergarment.
Cilician Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Cilicia in Asia Minor.
Cilicious Dictionary C - adjective Made, or consisting, of hair.
Ciliform Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Ciliiform.
Ciliiform Dictionary C - adjective Having the form of cilia; very fine or slender.
Ciliograde Dictionary C - adjective Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medusae.
Cilium Dictionary C - noun See Cilia.
Cill Dictionary C - noun See Sill., n. a foundation.
Cillosis Dictionary C - noun A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.
Cima Dictionary C - noun A kind of molding. See Cyma.
Cimar Dictionary C - noun See Simar.
Cimbal Dictionary C - noun A kind of confectionery or cake.
Cimbia Dictionary C - noun A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.
Cimbrian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Cimbri.
Cimbric Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting Northern Germany.
Cimeliarch Dictionary C - noun A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.
Cimeter Dictionary C - noun See Scimiter.
Cimices Dictionary C - pleural of Cimex.
Cimex Dictionary C - noun A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.
Cimia Dictionary C - noun See Cimbia.
Cimiss Dictionary C - noun The bedbug.
Cimmerian Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.
Cimolite Dictionary C - noun A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.
Cinch Dictionary C - noun A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
Cinchona Dictionary C - noun 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.
Cinchonaceous Dictionary C - adjective Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.
Cinchonic Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona.
Cinchonidine Dictionary C - noun 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 Dictionary C - noun One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; - called also cinchonia.
Cinchonism Dictionary C - noun A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.
Cinchonize Dictionary C - verb transitive To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.
Cincinnati epoch Dictionary C - 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 Dictionary C - noun A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, - as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
Cinctured Dictionary C - noun Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.
Cinder Dictionary C - noun Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
Cindery Dictionary C - adjective Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.
Cinefaction Dictionary C - noun Cineration; reduction to ashes.
Cinematic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cinematical.
Cinematical Dictionary C - adjective See Kinematic.
Cinematics Dictionary C - noun singular See Kinematics.
Cineraceous Dictionary C - adjective Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous.
Cineraria Dictionary C - noun A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.
Cinerary Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.
Cineration Dictionary C - noun The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
Cinereous Dictionary C - adjective Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.
Cinerescent Dictionary C - adjective Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.
Cineritious Dictionary C - adjective Like ashes; having the color of ashes, - as the cortical substance of the brain.
Cinerulent Dictionary C - adjective Full of ashes.
Cingalese Dictionary C - noun singular & plural A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants.
Cingle Dictionary C - noun A girth.
Cingulum Dictionary C - noun A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.
Cinnabar Dictionary C - noun Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.
Cinnabarine Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.
Cinnamene Dictionary C - noun Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.
Cinnamic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon.
Cinnamomic Dictionary C - adjective See Cinnamic.
Cinnamon Dictionary C - noun 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.
Cinnamone Dictionary C - noun A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.
Cinnamyl Dictionary C - noun The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds.
Cinnoline Dictionary C - noun A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds.
Cinque Dictionary C - noun Five; the number five in dice or cards.
Cinquecento Dictionary C - noun & adjective The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.
Cinquefoil Dictionary C - noun 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.
Cinque-pace Dictionary C - noun A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five.
Cinque Ports Dictionary C - 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 Dictionary C - adjective Five-spotted.
Cinter Dictionary C - noun See Center.
Cinura Dictionary C - noun plural The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma.
Cion Dictionary C - noun See Scion.
Cipher Dictionary C - noun A character 0 which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.
Ciphered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cipher.
Ciphering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cipher.
Cipherer Dictionary C - noun One who ciphers.
Cipherhood Dictionary C - noun Nothingness.
Cipolin Dictionary C - noun A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.
Cippi Dictionary C - pleural of Cippus.
Cippus Dictionary C - noun 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 Dictionary C - noun An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.
Circar Dictionary C - noun A district, or part of a province. See Sircar.
Circassian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia.
Circean Dictionary C - adjective 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 Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Circensian.
Circensian Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to, or held in, the Circus, In Rome.
Circinal Dictionary C - adjective Circinate.
Circinate Dictionary C - adjective Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; - a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.
Circination Dictionary C - noun An orbicular motion.
Circle Dictionary C - noun A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.
Circled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Circle.
Circling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Circle.
Circler Dictionary C - noun A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a.
Circlet Dictionary C - noun A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband.
Circocele Dictionary C - noun See Cirsocele.
Circuit Dictionary C - noun The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.
Circuiteer Dictionary C - noun A circuiter.
Circuiter Dictionary C - noun One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge.
Circuition Dictionary C - noun The act of going round; circumlocution.
Circuitous Dictionary C - adjective Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
Circuity Dictionary C - noun A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.
Circulable Dictionary C - adjective That may be circulated.
Circular Dictionary C - adjective In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.
Circularity Dictionary C - noun The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.
Circularly Dictionary C - adverb In a circular manner.
Circulary Dictionary C - adjective Circular; illogical.
Ciorculated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Circulate.
Circulating Dictionary C - Past particle & verb noun of Circulate.
Circulate Dictionary C - intransitive verb To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
Circulation Dictionary C - noun The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
Circulative Dictionary C - adjective Promoting circulation; circulating.
Circulator Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, circulates.
Circulatorious Dictionary C - adjective Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant.
Circulatory Dictionary C - adjective Circular; as, a circulatory letter.
Circulet Dictionary C - noun A circlet.
Circuline Dictionary C - adjective Proceeding in a circle; circular.
Circum- Dictionary C - A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about.
Circumagitate Dictionary C - verb transitive To agitate on all sides.
Circumambage Dictionary C - noun A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness.
Circumambiency Dictionary C - noun The act of surrounding or encompassing.
Circumambient Dictionary C - adjective Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.
Circumambulate Dictionary C - verb transitive To walk round about.
Circumbendibus Dictionary C - noun A roundabout or indirect way.
Circumcenter Dictionary C - noun The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.
Circumcised Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Circumcise.
Circumcising Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Circumcise.
Circumcise Dictionary C - verb transitive To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.
Circumciser Dictionary C - noun One who performs circumcision.
Circumcision Dictionary C - noun The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.
Circumclusion Dictionary C - noun Act of inclosing on all sides.
Circumcursation Dictionary C - noun The act of running about; also, rambling language.
Circumdenudation Dictionary C - noun Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object.
Circumduce Dictionary C - verb transitive To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.
Circumduct Dictionary C - verb transitive To lead about; to lead astray.
Circumduction Dictionary C - noun A leading about; circumlocution.
Circumesophagal Dictionary C - adjective Surrounding the esophagus; - in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.
Circumesophageal Dictionary C - adjective Circumesophagal.
Circumfer Dictionary C - verb transitive To bear or carry round.
Circumference Dictionary C - noun The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.
Circumferential Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.
Circumferentially Dictionary C - adverb So as to surround or encircle.
Circumferentor Dictionary C - noun A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360 , and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.
Circumflant Dictionary C - adjective Blowing around.
Circumflected Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Circumflect.
Circumflecting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Circumflect.
Circumflect Dictionary C - verb transitive To bend around.
Circumflection Dictionary C - noun See Circumflexion.
Circumflex Dictionary C - noun A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
Circumflexed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Circumflex.
Circumflexing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Circumflex.
Circumflexion Dictionary C - noun The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
Circumfluence Dictionary C - noun A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid.
Circumfluent Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Circumfluous.
Circumfluous Dictionary C - adjective Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid.
Circumforanean Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Circumforaneous.
Circumforaneous Dictionary C - adjective Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house.
Circumfulgent Dictionary C - adjective Shining around or about.
Circumfuse Dictionary C - verb transitive To pour round; to spread round.
Circumfusile Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being poured or spread round.
Circumfusion Dictionary C - noun The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round.
Circumgestation Dictionary C - noun The act or process of carrying about.
Circumgyrate Dictionary C - verb transitive & intransitive To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion.
Circumgyration Dictionary C - noun The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round.
Circumgyratory Dictionary C - adjective Moving in a circle; turning round.
Circumgyre Dictionary C - intransitive verb To circumgyrate.
Circumincession Dictionary C - noun The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.
Circumjacence Dictionary C - noun Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering on every side.
Circumjacent Dictionary C - adjective Lying round; bordering on every side.
Circumjovial Dictionary C - noun One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter.
Circumlittoral Dictionary C - adjective Adjointing the shore.
Circumlocution Dictionary C - noun The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.
Circumlocutional Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.
Circumlocutory Dictionary C - adjective Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.
Circummeridian Dictionary C - adjective About, or near, the meridian.
Circummure Dictionary C - verb transitive To encompass with a wall.
Circumnavigable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being sailed round.
Circumnavigated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Circumnavigate.
Circumnavigating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Circumnavigate.
Circumnavigate Dictionary C - verb transitive To sail completely round.
Circumnavigation Dictionary C - noun The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.
Circumnavigator Dictionary C - noun One who sails round.
Circumnutate Dictionary C - intransitive verb To pass through the stages of circumnutation.
Circumnutation Dictionary C - noun The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
Circumpolar Dictionary C - adjective About the pole; - applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.
Circumposition Dictionary C - noun The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed.
Circumrotary Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Circumrotatory.
Circumrotatory Dictionary C - adjective turning, rolling, or whirling round.
Circumrotate Dictionary C - verb transitive & intransitive To rotate about.
Circumrotation Dictionary C - noun The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round.
Circumscissile Dictionary C - adjective Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.
Circumscribable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being circumscribed.
Circumscribed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Circumscribe.
Circumscribing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Circumscribe.
Circumscribe Dictionary C - verb transitive to write or engrave around.
Circumscriber Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, circumscribes.
Circumscriptible Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.
Circumscription Dictionary C - noun An inscription written around anything.
Circumscriptive Dictionary C - adjective Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of.
Circumscriptively Dictionary C - adverb In a limited manner.
Circumscriptly Dictionary C - adverb In a literal, limited, or narrow manner.
Circumspect Dictionary C - adjective Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.
Circumspection Dictionary C - noun Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.
Circumspective Dictionary C - adjective Looking around every way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger.
Circumspectively Dictionary C - adverb Circumspectly.
Circumspectly Dictionary C - adverb In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.
Circumspectness Dictionary C - noun Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution.
Circumstance Dictionary C - noun That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
Circumstanced Dictionary C - particle adjective Placed in a particular position or condition; situated.
Circumstant Dictionary C - adjective Standing or placed around; surrounding.
Circumstantiable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being circumstantiated.
Circumstantial Dictionary C - adjective Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents.
Circumstantiality Dictionary C - noun The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail.
Circumstantially Dictionary C - adverb In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally.
Circumstantiated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Circumstantiate.
Circumstantiating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Circumstantiate.
Circumstantiate Dictionary C - verb transitive To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.
Circumterraneous Dictionary C - adjective Being or dwelling around the earth.
Circumundulate Dictionary C - verb transitive To flow round, as waves.
Circumvallate Dictionary C - verb transitive To surround with a rampart or wall.
Circumvallation Dictionary C - noun The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.
Circumvection Dictionary C - noun The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.
Circumvented Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Circumvent.
Circumventing Dictionary C - past particle verb noun of Circumvent.
Circumvent Dictionary C - verb transitive To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
Circumvention Dictionary C - noun The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
Circumventive Dictionary C - adjective Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.
Circumventor Dictionary C - noun One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
Circumvest Dictionary C - verb transitive To cover round, as with a garment; to invest.
Circumvolant Dictionary C - adjective Flying around.
Circumvolation Dictionary C - noun The act of flying round.
Circumvolution Dictionary C - noun The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.
Circumvolved Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Circumvolve.
Circumvolving Dictionary C - past particle verb noun of Circumvolve.
Circumvolve Dictionary C - verb transitive To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.
Circuses Dictionary C - pleural of Circus.
Circus Dictionary C - noun A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.
Cirl bunting Dictionary C - A European bunting (Emberiza cirlus).
Cirque Dictionary C - noun A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.
Cirrate Dictionary C - adjective Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.
Cirrhiferous Dictionary C - adjective See Cirriferous.
Cirrhose Dictionary C - adjective Same as Cirrose.
Cirrhosis Dictionary C - noun A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.
Cirrhotic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.
Cirrhous Dictionary C - adjective See Cirrose.
Cirrhus Dictionary C - noun Same as Cirrus.
Cirri Dictionary C - noun plural See Cirrus.
Cirriferous Dictionary C - adjective Bearing cirri, as many plants and animals.
Cirriform Dictionary C - adjective Formed like a cirrus or tendril; - said of appendages of both animals and plants.
Cirrigerous Dictionary C - adjective Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages.
Cirrigrade Dictionary C - adjective Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.
Cirriped Dictionary C - noun One of the Cirripedia.
Cirripedia Dictionary C - noun plural An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.
Cirrobranchiata Dictionary C - noun plural A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.
Cirro-cumulus Dictionary C - noun See under Cloud.
Cirrose Dictionary C - adjective Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.
Cirrostomi Dictionary C - noun plural The lowest group of vertebrates; - so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.
Cirro-stratus Dictionary C - noun See under Cloud.
Cirrous Dictionary C - adjective Cirrose.
Cirrus Dictionary C - noun A tendril or clasper.
Cirsocele Dictionary C - noun The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.
Cirsoid Dictionary C - adjective Varicose.
Cirsotomy Dictionary C - noun Any operation for the removal of varices by incision.
Cis- Dictionary C - A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side.
Cisalpine Dictionary C - adjective On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; - opposed to transalpine.
Cisatlantic Dictionary C - adjective On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; - used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer.
Cisco Dictionary C - noun The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.
Ciselure Dictionary C - noun The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased.
Cisleithan Dictionary C - adjective On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian.
Cismontane Dictionary C - adjective On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane.
Cispadane Dictionary C - adjective On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side.
Cissoid Dictionary C - noun A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines.
Cist Dictionary C - noun A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.
Cisted Dictionary C - adjective Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.
Cistercian Dictionary C - noun A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor.
Cistern Dictionary C - noun An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids.
Cistic Dictionary C - adjective See Cystic.
Cit Dictionary C - noun A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; - used contemptuously.
Citable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being cited.
Citadel Dictionary C - noun A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
Cital Dictionary C - noun Summons to appear, as before a judge.
Citation Dictionary C - noun An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.
Citator Dictionary C - noun One who cites.
Citatory Dictionary C - adjective Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory.
Cited Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cite.
Citing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cite.
Cite Dictionary C - verb transitive To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.
Citer Dictionary C - noun One who cites.
Citess Dictionary C - noun A city woman.
Cithara Dictionary C - noun An ancient instrument resembling the harp.
Citharistic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.
Cithern Dictionary C - noun See Cittern.
Citicism Dictionary C - noun The manners of a cit or citizen.
Citied Dictionary C - adjective Belonging to, or resembling, a city.
Citified Dictionary C - adjective Aping, or having, the manners of a city.
Citigradae Dictionary C - noun plural 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 Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the Citigradae.
Citiner Dictionary C - noun One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen.
Citizen Dictionary C - noun 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.
Citizeness Dictionary C - noun A female citizen.
Citizenship Dictionary C - noun The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
Citole Dictionary C - noun A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer.
Citraconic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or having certain characteristics of, citric and aconitic acids.
Citrate Dictionary C - noun A salt of citric acid.
Citric Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid.
Citrination Dictionary C - noun 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.
Citrine Dictionary C - adjective Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow.
Citron Dictionary C - noun A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.
Citrus Dictionary C - noun A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.
Cittern Dictionary C - noun An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
Cittern-head Dictionary C - noun Blockhead; dunce; - so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.
Cities Dictionary C - pleural of City.
City Dictionary C - noun A large town.
Cive Dictionary C - noun Same as Chive.
Civet Dictionary C - noun 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.
Civic Dictionary C - adjective Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.
Civicism Dictionary C - noun The principle of civil government.
Civics Dictionary C - noun The science of civil government.
Civil Dictionary C - adjective 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.
Civilian Dictionary C - noun One skilled in the civil law.
Civilist Dictionary C - noun A civilian.
Civilities Dictionary C - pleural of Civillty.
Civillty Dictionary C - noun The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization.
Civilizable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being civilized.
Civilization Dictionary C - noun The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.
Civilized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Civilize.
Civilizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Civilize.
Civilize Dictionary C - verb transitive To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.
Civilizer Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, civilizes or tends to civilize.
Civily Dictionary C - adverb In a civil manner; as regards civil rights and privileges; politely; courteously; in a well bred manner.
Civism Dictionary C - noun State of citizenship.
Cizar Dictionary C - intransitive verb To clip with scissors.
Cizars Dictionary C - noun plural Scissors.
Cize Dictionary C - noun Bulk; largeness. Obs. See Size.
Clabber Dictionary C - noun Milk curdled so as to become thick.
Clachan Dictionary C - noun A small village containing a church.
Clacked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clack.
Clacking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clack.
Clack Dictionary C - noun 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.
Clacker Dictionary C - noun One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.
Clad Dictionary C - v.t To clothe.
Cladocera Dictionary C - noun plural An order of the Entomostraca.
Cladophyll Dictionary C - noun A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).
Claggy Dictionary C - adjective Adhesive; - said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.
Claik Dictionary C - noun See Clake.
Claimed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Claim.
Claiming Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Claim.
Claim Dictionary C - To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
Claimable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being claimed.
Claimant Dictionary C - noun One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.
Claimer Dictionary C - noun One who claims; a claimant.
Claimless Dictionary C - adjective Having no claim.
Clair-obscur Dictionary C - noun See Chiaroscuro.
Clairvoyance Dictionary C - noun A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.
Clairvoyant Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.
Clake Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Claik.
Clam Dictionary C - verb transitive A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
Clammed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clam.
Clamming Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clam.
Clamant Dictionary C - adjective Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously.
Clamation Dictionary C - noun The act of crying out.
Clamatores Dictionary C - noun plural A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.
Clamatorial Dictionary C - adjective Like or pertaining to the Clamatores.
Clambake Dictionary C - noun The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.
Clambered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clamber.
Clambering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clamber.
Clamber Dictionary C - intransitive verb To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; - also used figuratively.
Clamjamphrie Dictionary C - noun Low, worthless people; the rabble.
Clammily Dictionary C - adverb In a clammy manner.
Clamminess Dictionary C - noun State of being clammy or viscous.
Clammy Dictionary C - Compartment Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.
Clamor Dictionary C - noun A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
Clamored Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clamor.
Clamoring Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clamor.
Clamorer Dictionary C - noun One who clamors.
Clamorous Dictionary C - adjective Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent.
Clamp Dictionary C - noun Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
Clamped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clamp.
Clamping Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clamp.
Clamper Dictionary C - noun An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper.
Clan Dictionary C - noun A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.
Clancular Dictionary C - adjective Conducted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed.
Clancularly Dictionary C - adverb privately; secretly.
Clandestine Dictionary C - adjective Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage.
Clandestinity Dictionary C - noun Privacy or secrecy.
Clanged Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clang.
Clanging Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clang.
Clang Dictionary C - verb transitive To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.
Clangor Dictionary C - verb transitive A sharp, harsh, ringing sound.
Clangorous Dictionary C - adjective Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.
Clangous Dictionary C - adjective Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound.
Clanjamfrie Dictionary C - noun Same as Clamjamphrie.
Clank Dictionary C - noun A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; - usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.
Clanked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clank.
Clanking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clank.
Clankless Dictionary C - adjective Without a clank.
Clannish Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan.
Clanship Dictionary C - noun A state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.
Clansmen Dictionary C - pleural of Clansman.
Clansman Dictionary C - noun One belonging to the same clan with another.
Clapped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clap.
Clapping Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clap.
Clap Dictionary C - verb transitive To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.
Clapboard Dictionary C - noun A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; - used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.
Clapbread Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Clapcake.
Clapcake Dictionary C - noun Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.
Clape Dictionary C - noun A bird; the flicker.
Clapper Dictionary C - noun A person who claps.
Clapperclaw Dictionary C - verb transitive To fight and scratch.
Claps Dictionary C - verb transitive Variant of Clasp.
Claptrap Dictionary C - noun A contrivance for clapping in theaters.
Claque Dictionary C - noun A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.
Claqueur Dictionary C - noun One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater.
Clare Dictionary C - noun A nun of the order of St. Clare.
Clarence Dictionary C - noun A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver.
Clarenceux Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Clarencieux.
Clarencieux Dictionary C - noun See King-at-arms.
Clarendon Dictionary C - noun A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.
Clare-obscure Dictionary C - noun See Chiaroscuro.
Claret Dictionary C - noun The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name is also given to similar wines made in the United States.
Claribella Dictionary C - noun A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ.
Clarichord Dictionary C - noun A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; - called also manichord and clavichord.
Clarification Dictionary C - noun The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.
Clarifier Dictionary C - noun That which clarifies.
Clarified Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clarify.
Clarifying Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clarify.
Clarify Dictionary C - verb transitive To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; - said of liquids, as wine or sirup.
Clarigate Dictionary C - intransitive verb To declare war with certain ceremonies.
Clarinet Dictionary C - noun A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.
Clarino Dictionary C - noun A reed stop in an organ.
Clarion Dictionary C - noun A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.
Clarionet Dictionary C - noun See Clarinet.
Clarisonus Dictionary C - adjective Having a clear sound.
Claritude Dictionary C - noun Clearness; splendor.
Clarity Dictionary C - noun Clearness; brightness; splendor.
Claro-obscuro Dictionary C - noun See Chiaroscuro.
Clarre Dictionary C - noun Wine with a mixture of honey and species.
Clart Dictionary C - verb transitive To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc.
Clarty Dictionary C - adjective Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty.
Clary Dictionary C - intransitive verb To make a loud or shrill noise.
Clashed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clash.
Clashing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clash.
Clash Dictionary C - intransitive verb To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.
Clashingly Dictionary C - adverb With clashing.
Clasped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clasp.
Clasping Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clasp.
Clasp Dictionary C - verb transitive To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
Clasper Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.
Claspered Dictionary C - adjective Furnished with tendrils.
Class Dictionary C - noun A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
Classed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Class.
Classing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Class.
Classible Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being classed.
Classic Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Classical.
Classical Dictionary C - noun Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
Classicalism Dictionary C - noun A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.
Classicalist Dictionary C - noun One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art.
Classicality Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Classicalness.
Classicalness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being classical.
Classically Dictionary C - adverb In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
Classicism Dictionary C - noun A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.
Classicist Dictionary C - noun One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
Classifiable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being classified.
Classific Dictionary C - adjective Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
Classification Dictionary C - noun The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.
Classificatory Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification.
Classifier Dictionary C - noun One who classifies.
Classified Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Classify.
Classifying Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Classify.
Classify Dictionary C - verb transitive To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.
Classes Dictionary C - pleural of Classis.
Classis Dictionary C - noun A class or order; sort; kind.
Classmen Dictionary C - pleural of Classman.
Classman Dictionary C - noun A member of a class; a classmate.
Classmate Dictionary C - noun One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
Clastic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models).
Clathrate Dictionary C - adjective Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.
Clattered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clatter.
Clattering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clatter.
Clatter Dictionary C - intransitive verb To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
Clatterer Dictionary C - noun One who clatters.
Clatteringly Dictionary C - adverb With clattering.
Claude Lorraine glass Dictionary C - A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.
Claudent Dictionary C - adjective Shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent muscle.
Claudicant Dictionary C - adjective Limping.
Claudication Dictionary C - noun A halting or limping.
Clause Dictionary C - noun A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.
Claustral Dictionary C - adjective Cloistral.
Claustra Dictionary C - pleural of Claustrum.
Claustrum Dictionary C - noun A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere of the brain of man.
Clausular Dictionary C - noun Consisting of, or having, clauses.
Clausure Dictionary C - noun The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
Clavate Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Clavated.
Clavated Dictionary C - adjective Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. See Illust. of Antennae..
Clave Dictionary C - imp. of Cleave.
Clavecin Dictionary C - noun The harpsichord.
Clavel Dictionary C - noun See Clevis.
Clavellate Dictionary C - adjective See Clavate.
Clavellated Dictionary C - adjective Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning.
Claver Dictionary C - noun See Clover.
Clavichord Dictionary C - noun A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.
Clavicle Dictionary C - noun The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter /, and is situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. In birds the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or wishbone.
Clavicorn Dictionary C - adjective Having club-shaped antennae. See Antennae.
Clavicornes Dictionary C - noun plural A group of beetles having club-shaped antennae.
Clavicular Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the clavicle.
Clavier Dictionary C - noun The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.
Claviform Dictionary C - adjective Club-shaped; clavate.
Claviger Dictionary C - noun One who carries the keys of any place.
Clavigerous Dictionary C - adjective Bearing a club or a key.
Claves Dictionary C - pleural of Clavis.
Clavises Dictionary C - pleural of Clavis.
Clavis Dictionary C - noun A key; a glossary.
Clavus Dictionary C - noun A callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn.
Clavies Dictionary C - pleural of Clavy.
Clavy Dictionary C - noun A mantelpiece.
Claw Dictionary C - noun A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
Clawed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Claw.
Clawing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Claw.
Clawback Dictionary C - noun A flatterer or sycophant.
Clawless Dictionary C - adjective Destitute of claws.
Clay Dictionary C - noun A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
Clayed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clay.
Claying Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clay.
Clay-brained Dictionary C - adjective Stupid.
Clayes Dictionary C - noun plural Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.
Clayey Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.
Clayish Dictionary C - adjective Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.
Claymore Dictionary C - noun A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.
Claytonia Dictionary C - noun An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; - sometimes called spring beauty.
Cleading Dictionary C - noun A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.
Clean Dictionary C - superlative Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
Cleaned Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clean.
Cleaning Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clean.
Clean-cut Dictionary C - adjective See Clear-cut.
Cleaner Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, cleans.
Cleanlily Dictionary C - adverb In a cleanly manner.
Clean-limbed Dictionary C - adjective With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow.
Cleanliness Dictionary C - noun State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.
Cleanly Dictionary C - superlative Habitually clean; pure; innocent.
Cleanness Dictionary C - noun The state or quality of being clean.
Cleansable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being cleansed.
Cleansed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cleanse.
Cleansing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cleanse.
Cleanse Dictionary C - verb transitive To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
Cleanser Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent.
Clean-timbered Dictionary C - adjective Well-proportioned; symmetrical.
Clear Dictionary C - superlative Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
Cleared Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clear.
Clearing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clear.
Clearage Dictionary C - noun The act of removing anything; clearance.
Clearance Dictionary C - noun The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.
Clear-cut Dictionary C - adjective Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo.
Clearedness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being cleared.
Clearer Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, clears.
Clear-headed Dictionary C - adjective Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent.
Clearly Dictionary C - adverb In a clear manner.
Clearness Dictionary C - noun The quality or state of being clear.
Clear-seeing Dictionary C - adjective Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
Clear-shining Dictionary C - adjective Shining brightly.
Clear-sighted Dictionary C - adjective Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason.
Clear-sightedness Dictionary C - noun Acute discernment.
Clearstarched Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clearstarch.
Clearstraching Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clearstarch.
Clearstarch Dictionary C - verb transitive To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
Clearstarcher Dictionary C - noun One who clearstarches.
Clearstory Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Clerestory.
Clerestory Dictionary C - noun The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.
Clearwing Dictionary C - noun A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.
Cleat Dictionary C - noun A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
Cleavable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of cleaving or being divided.
Cleavage Dictionary C - noun The act of cleaving or splitting.
Cleaved Dictionary C - imperative of Cleave.
Cleaving Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cleave.
Cleave Dictionary C - intransitive verb To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.
Cleft Dictionary C - imperative of Cleave.
Clove Dictionary C - of Cleave.
Cloven Dictionary C - of Cleave.
Cleavelandite Dictionary C - noun A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
Cleaver Dictionary C - noun One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
Cleavers Dictionary C - noun A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; - called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.
Cleche Dictionary C - adjective Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; - said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.
Clechy Dictionary C - adjective See Cleche.
Cledge Dictionary C - noun The upper stratum of fuller's earth.
Cledgy Dictionary C - adjective Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil.
Clee Dictionary C - noun A claw.
Clef Dictionary C - noun A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.
Cleft-footed Dictionary C - adjective Having a cloven foot.
Cleftgraft Dictionary C - verb transitive To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
Cleg Dictionary C - noun A small breeze or horsefly.
Cleistogamic Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cleistogamous.
Cleistogamous Dictionary C - adjective Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; - said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization.
Clem Dictionary C - verb transitive & intransitive To starve; to famish.
Clematis Dictionary C - noun A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; - called also virgin's bower.
Clemence Dictionary C - noun Clemency.
Clemencies Dictionary C - pleural of Clemency.
Clemency Dictionary C - noun Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
Clement Dictionary C - adjective Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.
Clementine Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.
Clench Dictionary C - noun & transitive verb See Clinch.
Cleped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clepe.
Cleping Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clepe.
Ycleped Dictionary C - of Clepe.
Clepe Dictionary C - verb transitive To call, or name.
Clepsine Dictionary C - noun A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.
Clepsydra Dictionary C - noun A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.
Cleptomania Dictionary C - noun See Kleptomania.
Clergeon Dictionary C - noun A chorister boy.
Clergial Dictionary C - adjective Learned; erudite; clerical.
Clergical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned.
Clergy Dictionary C - noun The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church.
Clergyable Dictionary C - adjective Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony.
Clergymen Dictionary C - pleural of Clergyman.
Clergyman Dictionary C - noun An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
Cleric Dictionary C - noun A clerk, a clergyman.
Clerical Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.
Clericalism Dictionary C - noun An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
Clericity Dictionary C - noun The state of being a clergyman.
Clerisy Dictionary C - noun The literati, or well educated class.
Clerk Dictionary C - noun A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
Clerk-ale Dictionary C - noun A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.
Clerkless Dictionary C - adjective Unlearned.
Clerklike Dictionary C - adjective Scholarlike.
Clerkliness Dictionary C - noun Scholarship.
Clerkly Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a clerk.
Clerkship Dictionary C - noun State, quality, or business of a clerk.
Cleromancy Dictionary C - noun A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.
Cleronomy Dictionary C - noun Inheritance; heritage.
Clerstory Dictionary C - noun See Clearstory.
Clever Dictionary C - adjective Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.
Cleverish Dictionary C - adjective Somewhat clever.
Cleverly Dictionary C - adverb In a clever manner.
Cleverness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.
Clevis Dictionary C - noun A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; - called also clavel, clevy.
Clew Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Clue.
Clue Dictionary C - noun A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.
Clewing Dictionary C - imperative &particle particle & verb noun of Clew.
Cliche Dictionary C - noun A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.
Clicked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Click.
Clicking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Click.
Click Dictionary C - intransitive verb To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
Click beetle Dictionary C - See Elater.
Clicker Dictionary C - noun One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.
Clicket Dictionary C - noun The knocker of a door.
Clicky Dictionary C - adjective Resembling a click; abounding in clicks.
Clidastes Dictionary C - noun A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.
Cliency Dictionary C - noun State of being a client.
Client Dictionary C - noun A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.
Clientage Dictionary C - noun State of being client.
Cliental Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a client.
Cliented Dictionary C - adjective Supplied with clients.
Clientelage Dictionary C - noun See Clientele, n., 2.
Clientele Dictionary C - noun The condition or position of a client; clientship.
Clientship Dictionary C - noun Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron.
Cliff Dictionary C - noun A high, steep rock; a precipice.
Cliff limestone Dictionary C - A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.
Cliffy Dictionary C - adjective Having cliffs; broken; craggy.
Clift Dictionary C - noun A cliff.
Clifted Dictionary C - adjective Broken; fissured.
Climacter Dictionary C - noun See Climacteric, n.
Climacteric Dictionary C - adjective Relating to a climacteric; critical.
Climacterical Dictionary C - adjective & noun See Climacteric.
Climatal Dictionary C - adjective Climatic.
Climatarchic Dictionary C - adjective Presiding over, or regulating, climates.
Climate Dictionary C - intransitive verb One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.
Climatic Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.
Climatical Dictionary C - adjective Climatic.
Climatized Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Climatize.
Climatizing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Climatize.
Climatize Dictionary C - verb transitive & intransitive To acclimate or become acclimated.
Climatography Dictionary C - noun A description of climates.
Climatological Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to climatology.
Climatologist Dictionary C - noun One versed in, or who studies, climatology.
Climatology Dictionary C - noun The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
Climature Dictionary C - noun A climate.
Climax Dictionary C - intransitive verb Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
Climbed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Climb.
Clomb Dictionary C - of Climb.
Climbing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Climb.
Climb Dictionary C - intransitive verb To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
Climbable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being climbed.
Climber Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, climbs.
Clime Dictionary C - noun A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.
Clinanthium Dictionary C - noun The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; - also called clinium.
Clinched Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clinch.
Clinching Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clinch.
Clinch Dictionary C - verb transitive To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
Clincher Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.
Clincher-built Dictionary C - adjective See Clinker-built.
Clung Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cling.
Clong Dictionary C - of Cling.
Clinging Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cling.
Cling Dictionary C - intransitive verb To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; - usually followed by to or together.
Clingstone Dictionary C - adjective Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches.
Clingy Dictionary C - adjective Apt to cling; adhesive.
Clinic Dictionary C - noun One confined to the bed by sickness.
Clinical Dictionary C - intransitive verb Alt. of Clinic.
Clinically Dictionary C - adverb In a clinical manner.
Clinique Dictionary C - noun A clinic.
Clinium Dictionary C - noun See Clinanthium.
Clinked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clink.
Clinking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clink.
Clink Dictionary C - intransitive verb To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
Clinkant Dictionary C - adjective See Clinquant.
Clinker Dictionary C - noun A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
Clinker-built Dictionary C - adjective Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.
Clinkstone Dictionary C - noun An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
Clinodiagonal Dictionary C - noun That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization.
Clinodome Dictionary C - noun See under Dome.
Clinographic Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
Clinoid Dictionary C - adjective Like a bed; - applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
Clinometer Dictionary C - noun An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level.
Clinometric Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.
Clinometry Dictionary C - noun That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.
Clinopinacoid Dictionary C - noun The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
Clinorhombic Dictionary C - adjective Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
Clinquant Dictionary C - adjective Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.
Clio Dictionary C - noun The Muse who presided over history.
Clione Dictionary C - noun A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.
Clipped Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clip.
Clipping Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clip.
Clip Dictionary C - verb transitive To embrace, hence; to encompass.
Clipper Dictionary C - noun One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.
Clique Dictionary C - intransitive verb A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; - generally used in a bad sense.
Cliquish Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit.
Cliquism Dictionary C - noun The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.
Clitellus Dictionary C - noun A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.
Clitoris Dictionary C - noun A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.
Clivers Dictionary C - noun See Cleavers.
Clivities Dictionary C - pleural of Clivity.
Clivity Dictionary C - noun Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.
Cloacae Dictionary C - pleural of Cloaca.
Cloaca Dictionary C - noun A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.
Cloacal Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to a cloaca.
Cloak Dictionary C - noun A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.
Cloaked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cloak.
Cloaking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cloak.
Cloakedly Dictionary C - adverb In a concealed manner.
Cloakroom Dictionary C - noun A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.
Clock Dictionary C - noun A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
Clocklike Dictionary C - adjective Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
Clockwork Dictionary C - noun The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
Clod Dictionary C - noun A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
Cloddish Dictionary C - adjective Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.
Cloddy Dictionary C - adjective Consisting of clods; full of clods.
Clodhopper Dictionary C - noun A rude, rustic fellow.
Clodhopping Dictionary C - adjective Boorish; rude.
Clodpate Dictionary C - noun A blockhead; a dolt.
Clodpated Dictionary C - adjective Stupid; dull; doltish.
Clodpoll Dictionary C - noun A stupid fellow; a dolt.
Cloff Dictionary C - noun Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
Clog Dictionary C - verb That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
Clogged Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clog.
Clogging Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clog.
Clogginess Dictionary C - noun The state of being clogged.
Cloggy Dictionary C - adjective Clogging, or having power to clog.
Cloisonne Dictionary C - adjective Inlaid between partitions: - said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champleve enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel.
Cloister Dictionary C - verb transitive An inclosed place.
Cloistered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cloister.
Cloistering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cloister.
Cloisteral Dictionary C - adjective Cloistral.
Cloisterer Dictionary C - noun One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.
Cloistral Dictionary C - adjective Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse.
Cloistress Dictionary C - noun A nun.
Cloke Dictionary C - noun & verb See Cloak.
Clomben Dictionary C - imp. & p. p. of Climb (for climbed).
Clomp Dictionary C - noun See Clamp.
Clonic Dictionary C - adjective Having an irregular, convulsive motion.
Cloom Dictionary C - verb transitive To close with glutinous matter.
Cloop Dictionary C - noun The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
Closed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Close.
Closing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Close.
Close Dictionary C - noun To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.
Close-banded Dictionary C - adjective Closely united.
Close-barred Dictionary C - adjective Firmly barred or closed.
Close-bodied Dictionary C - adjective Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment.
Close-fights Dictionary C - noun plural Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; - called also close quarters.
Closefisted Dictionary C - adjective Covetous; niggardly.
Closehanded Dictionary C - adjective Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted.
Closehauled Dictionary C - adjective Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; - said of a sailing vessel.
Closely Dictionary C - adverb In a close manner.
Closemouthed Dictionary C - adjective Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.
Closen Dictionary C - verb transitive To make close.
Closeness Dictionary C - noun The state of being close.
Closer Dictionary C - noun One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot.
Closereefed Dictionary C - adjective Having all the reefs taken in; - said of a sail.
Close-stool Dictionary C - noun A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.
Closet Dictionary C - noun A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.
Closeting Dictionary C - imperative &particle pr. & verb noun of Closet.
Close-tongued Dictionary C - adjective Closemouthed; silent.
Closh Dictionary C - noun A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.
Closure Dictionary C - verb transitive The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.
Clot Dictionary C - noun A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
Clotted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clot.
Clotting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clot.
Clotbur Dictionary C - noun The burdock.
Clote Dictionary C - noun The common burdock; the clotbur.
Cloths Dictionary C - pleural of Cloth.
Clothes Dictionary C - pleural of Cloth.
Cloth Dictionary C - noun A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.
Clothed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clothe.
Clothing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clothe.
Clothe Dictionary C - verb transitive To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.
Clotheshorse Dictionary C - noun A frame to hang clothes on.
Clothesline Dictionary C - noun A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
Clothespin Dictionary C - noun A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
Clothespress Dictionary C - noun A receptacle for clothes.
Clothier Dictionary C - noun One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth.
Clothred Dictionary C - past participle Clottered.
Clotpoll Dictionary C - noun See Clodpoll.
Clotter Dictionary C - intransitive verb To concrete into lumps; to clot.
Clotty Dictionary C - noun Full of clots, or clods.
Cloture Dictionary C - noun See Closure, 5.
Clotweed Dictionary C - noun Cocklebur.
Cloud Dictionary C - noun A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
Clouded Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cloud.
Clouding Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cloud.
Cloudage Dictionary C - noun Mass of clouds; cloudiness.
Cloudberry Dictionary C - noun A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamaemerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.
Cloud-built Dictionary C - adjective Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary.
Cloud-burst Dictionary C - noun A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
Cloud-capped Dictionary C - adjective Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds; as, cloud-capped mountains.
Cloud-compeller Dictionary C - noun Cloud-gatherer; - an epithet applied to Zeus.
Cloudily Dictionary C - adverb In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely.
Cloudiness Dictionary C - noun The state of being cloudy.
Cloudland Dictionary C - noun Dreamland.
Cloudless Dictionary C - adjective Without a cloud; clear; bright.
Cloudlet Dictionary C - noun A little cloud.
Cloudy Dictionary C - noun Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.
Clough Dictionary C - noun A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
Clout Dictionary C - noun A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
Clouted Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clout.
Clouting Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clout.
Clouterly Dictionary C - noun Clumsy; awkward.
Cloven-footed Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Cloven-hoofed.
Cloven-hoofed Dictionary C - adjective Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.
Clover Dictionary C - noun A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense.
Clovered Dictionary C - adjective Covered with growing clover.
Clowe-gilofre Dictionary C - noun Spice clove.
Clown Dictionary C - noun A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.
Clownage Dictionary C - noun Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery.
Clownery Dictionary C - noun Clownishness.
Clownish Dictionary C - adjective Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.
Clownishness Dictionary C - noun The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.
Cloyed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cloy.
Cloying Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cloy.
Cloy Dictionary C - verb transitive To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
Cloyless Dictionary C - adjective That does not cloy.
Cloyment Dictionary C - noun Satiety.
Club Dictionary C - noun A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
Clubbed Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Club.
Clubbing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Club.
Clubbable Dictionary C - adjective Suitable for membership in a club; sociable.
Clubber Dictionary C - noun One who clubs.
Clubbish Dictionary C - adjective Rude; clownish.
Clubbist Dictionary C - noun A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs.
Clubfist Dictionary C - noun A large, heavy fist.
Clubfisted Dictionary C - adjective Having a large fist.
Clubfoot Dictionary C - noun A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.
Clubfooted Dictionary C - adjective Having a clubfoot.
Clubhand Dictionary C - noun A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.
Clubhaul Dictionary C - verb transitive To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.
Clubhouse Dictionary C - noun A house occupied by a club.
Clubroom Dictionary C - noun The apartment in which a club meets.
Club-rush Dictionary C - noun A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.
Club-shaped Dictionary C - adjective Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennae of certain insects.
Clucked Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cluck.
Clucking Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cluck.
Cluck Dictionary C - intransitive verb To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
Clum Dictionary C - interjection Silence; hush.
Clumber Dictionary C - noun A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.
Clump Dictionary C - noun An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
Clumper Dictionary C - noun To form into clumps or masses.
Clumps Dictionary C - noun A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; - so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.
Clumpy Dictionary C - noun Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.
Clumsily Dictionary C - adverb In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.
Clumsiness Dictionary C - noun The quality of being clumsy.
Clumsy Dictionary C - superlative Stiff or benumbed, as with cold.
Clunch Dictionary C - noun Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.
Cluniac Dictionary C - noun A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. - Also used as a.
Cluniacensian Dictionary C - adjective Cluniac.
Clupeoid Dictionary C - adjective Of or pertaining to the Herring family.
Cluster Dictionary C - noun A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.
Clustered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Cluster.
Clustering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Cluster.
Clusteringly Dictionary C - adverb In clusters.
Clustery Dictionary C - noun Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.
Clutch Dictionary C - noun A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.
Clutched Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clutch.
Clutching Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clutch.
Clutter Dictionary C - noun A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
Cluttered Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Clutter.
Cluttering Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Clutter.
Clypeastroid Dictionary C - adjective Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; - applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.
Clypeate Dictionary C - adjective Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
Clypeiform Dictionary C - adjective Shield-shaped; clypeate.
Clypei Dictionary C - pleural of Clypeus.
Clypeus Dictionary C - noun The frontal plate of the head of an insect.
Clysmian Dictionary C - adjective Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes.
Clysmic Dictionary C - adjective Washing; cleansing.
Clyster Dictionary C - noun A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema.
Cnemial Dictionary C - adjective Pertaining to the shin bone.
Cnidae Dictionary C - pleural of Cnida.
Cnida Dictionary C - noun One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.
Cnidaria Dictionary C - noun plural A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.
Cnidoblast Dictionary C - noun One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidae.
Cnidocil Dictionary C - noun The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.
Co- Dictionary C - A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-.
Coacervate Dictionary C - adjective Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped.
Coacervation Dictionary C - noun A heaping together.
Coach Dictionary C - noun A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.
Coached Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Coach.
Coaching Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Coach.
Coachbox Dictionary C - The seat of a coachman.
Coachdog Dictionary C - One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog.
Coachee Dictionary C - noun A coachman.
Coachfellow Dictionary C - noun One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade.
Coachmen Dictionary C - pleural of Coachman.
Coachman Dictionary C - noun A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
Coachmanship Dictionary C - noun Skill in driving a coach.
Coachwhip snake Dictionary C - A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).
Coact Dictionary C - verb transitive To force; to compel; to drive.
Coaction Dictionary C - noun Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.
Coactive Dictionary C - adjective Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
Coactively Dictionary C - adverb In a coactive manner.
Coactivity Dictionary C - noun Unity of action.
Coadaptation Dictionary C - noun Mutual adaption.
Coadapted Dictionary C - adjective Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth.
Coadjument Dictionary C - noun Mutual help; cooperation.
Coadjust Dictionary C - verb transitive To adjust by mutual adaptations.
Coadjustment Dictionary C - noun Mutual adjustment.
Coadjutant Dictionary C - adjective Mutually assisting or operating; helping.
Coadjuting Dictionary C - adjective Mutually assisting.
Coadjutive Dictionary C - adjective Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant.
Coadjutor Dictionary C - noun One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker.
Coadjutorship Dictionary C - noun The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance.
Coadjutress Dictionary C - noun Alt. of Coadjutrix.
Coadjutrix Dictionary C - noun A female coadjutor or assistant.
Coadjuvancy Dictionary C - noun Joint help; cooperation.
Coadjuvant Dictionary C - adjective Cooperating.
Coadunate Dictionary C - adjective United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.
Coadunation Dictionary C - noun Union, as in one body or mass; unity.
Coadunition Dictionary C - noun Coadunation.
Coadventure Dictionary C - noun An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
Coadventurer Dictionary C - noun A fellow adventurer.
Coafforest Dictionary C - verb transitive To convert into, or add to, a forest.
Coag Dictionary C - noun See Coak, a kind of tenon.
Coagency Dictionary C - noun Agency in common; joint agency or agent.
Coagent Dictionary C - noun An associate in an act; a coworker.
Coagment Dictionary C - verb transitive To join together.
Coagmentation Dictionary C - noun The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union.
Coagulability Dictionary C - noun The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated.
Coagulable Dictionary C - adjective Capable of being coagulated.
Coagulant Dictionary C - noun That which produces coagulation.
Coagulate Dictionary C - adjective Coagulated.
Coagulated Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Coagulate.
Coagulating Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Coagulate.
Coagulation Dictionary C - noun The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.
Coagulative Dictionary C - adjective Having the power to cause coagulation; as, a coagulative agent.
Coagulator Dictionary C - noun That which causes coagulation.
Coagulatory Dictionary C - adjective Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects.
Coagula Dictionary C - pleural of Coagulum.
Coagulum Dictionary C - adjective The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.
Coaita Dictionary C - noun The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. See Illustration in Appendix.
Coak Dictionary C - noun See Coke, n.
Coal Dictionary C - noun A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
Coaled Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Coal.
Coaling Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Coal.
Coal-black Dictionary C - adjective As black as coal; jet black; very black.
Coalery Dictionary C - noun See Colliery.
Coalesced Dictionary C - imperative & past particle of Coalesce.
Coalescing Dictionary C - past particle & verb noun of Coalesce.
Coalesce Dictionary C - noun To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.
Coalescence Dictionary C - noun The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.
Coalescent Dictionary C - adjective Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.
Coalfish Dictionary C - noun The pollock; - called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock.
Coalgoose Dictionary C - noun The cormorant; - so called from its black color.
Coalite Dictionary C - intransitive verb To unite or coalesce.
Coalition Dictionary C - noun The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms.
Coalitioner Dictionary C - noun A coalitionist.
Coalitionist Dictionary C - noun One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.
Co-allies Dictionary C - pleural of Co-ally.
Co-ally Dictionary C - noun A joint ally.
Coal-meter Dictionary C - noun A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter.
Coalmouse Dictionary C - noun A small species of titmouse, with a black head; the coletit.
Coalpit Dictionary C - noun A pit where coal is dug.
Coal tar Dictionary C - A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making printer's ink, black varnish, etc. It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series.
Coal-whipper Dictionary C - noun One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.
Coal works Dictionary C - A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.
Coaly Dictionary C - noun Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.
Coamings Dictionary C - noun plural Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges.
Coannex Dictionary C - verb transitive To annex with something else.
Coaptation Dictionary C - noun The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.
Coarct Dictionary C - adjective Alt. of Coarctate.
Coarctate Dictionary C - adjective To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.
Coarctation Dictionary C - noun Confinement to a narrow space.
Coarse Dictionary C - superlative Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; - opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.
Coarse-grained Dictionary C - adjective Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement.
Coarsely Dictionary C - adverb In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
Coarsen Dictionary C -