Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious.

In a caviling manner.

Frivolous or sophistical objection.

One who cavils.

Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing.

A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place.

Containing a body cavity; as, the cavitary or nematoid worms.

Hollowness.

Cavo-rilievo.

Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.

To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.

A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America.

The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.

An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.

See Calker.

Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.

A kind of wig.

Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.

See Key, a ledge.

Cayenne pepper.

The south America alligator. See Alligator.

A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key.

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.

An Indian pony.

A chief or petty king among some tribes of Indians in America.

same as citizens' band; that portion of the radio frequency spectrum allocated by the FCC for the use of individual citizens for short-distance personal or business use, from either fixed or mobile stations. Also used attributively, as CB radio.

the complete blood count; a clinical test which counts the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in one cubic milimeter of blood.

the chemical suymbol for cadmium, a metallic element of atomic number 48.

an acronym for compact disk, a disk-shaped recording of binary data that is smaller than a phonograph record, and is recorded and played back by a compact disk player, an electronic device containing a laser. The term is also used generically to refer to the medium as a data storage medium.

a recordable compact disk; a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only.

a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system); a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user.

A recordable compact disk; a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only.

the chemical symbol for cerium, the most abundant element of the rare-earth group.

Extinction.

Without intermission or end.

A natural family including all the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins.

one of the Visayan islands of the central Philippines, important for its fine harbor.

An inhabitant of the island of Cebu; a member of the Visayan (or Bisayan) people of the Philippines.

The language of the people of Cebu in the Philippines; its lexicon contributes to the official languag of the Philippines.

A genus of pygmy marmosets.

the type genus of the Cebidae.

of, pertaining to, or like a cecum.

A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.

A natural family comprising the gall midges.

Blindness.

A natural family of insects, in some classifications included in family Moraceae.

The caecum, the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens.

Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness.

The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.

Of or pertaining to cedar.

a species of chatterer (Bombycilla cedrorum, formerly Ampelis cedrorum) widely distributed over temperate North America, so named from its frequenting cedar trees; -- called also cedar bird, cherry bird, Canada robin, and American waxwing. It is a brownish bird about 7 inches long, between the size of a robin and a sparrow, has a crest on the head, a black face mask, and a yellow-tipped tail. The name comes from the black color of the tips of the wings, like that of a black sealing wax. They sometimes are seen in flocks.

Same as cedar waxwing.

Covered, or furnished with, cedars.

Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.

The durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar and cedarlike trees; especially the wood of the red cedar, often used for cedar chests.

To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.

A mark placed under the letter c [thus, /], to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in fa/ade.

Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.

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.

Of or pertaining to cedar or the cedar tree.

Of the nature of cedar.

A scroll; a writing; a schedule.

Fit to be felled.

a genus of tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-like flowers.

a small South American spiny tree (Erythrina crista-galli) with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.

To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.

The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor. The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.

A girdle.

A cincture, girdle, or belt; -- chiefly used in English as a dressmaking term.

A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.

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.

the type genus of the Celastraceae, comprising the plants called climbing bittersweet; bittersweet and shrubby bittersweet; they are woody vines and shrubs native chiefly to Asia and Australia, bearing yellow to orange capsules which open to expose red-coated seeds. See also bittersweet{3b}.

The act or art of engraving or embossing.

One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.

To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.

Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned.

The act, process, or time of celebrating.

One who celebrates; a praiser.

Famous.

Celebration; solemnization.

Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food.

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.

a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard.

An inhabitant of heaven.

To make celestial.

In a celestial manner.

To make like heaven.

A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.

Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.

See C/llac.

Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.

The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.

Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.

One who lives unmarried.

A description of apparent spots on the disk of the sun, or on planets.

To place or inclose in a cell.

resembling a cell.

The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.

A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

The space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar.

A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

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.

Same as Cellarer.

Containing a cell or cells.

A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

Bearing or producing cells.

A contraction for Violoncello.

a transparent paper-like product made of regenerated cellulose, produced in sheets and rolls, which is impervious to moisture and germs, and which is used to wrap candy, cigarettes, and a wide variety of other products for distribution and retail sale; as, a pack of cigarettes in a cellophane wrapper.

Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.

the state of having cells.

Cellular.

A small cell.

Bearing or producing little cells.

small lumpy deposits of body fat esp. on women's thighs and buttocks. Not used as a technical term.

An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.

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.

The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, cotton, linen, paper, etc. It is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin.

of or containing or made from cellulose.

a genus of annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa.