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.

The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia.

Height; altitude.

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.

A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.

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). An inhabitant of Celtiberia.

The language of the Celts.

A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language.

To render Celtic; to assimilate to the Celts.

The first proposed name for a supposed new element of the rare-earth group, accompanying lutecium and scandium in the gadolinite earths. It is now considered identical to Lutetium. The proposed symbol was Ct (no period), but this name and symbol are no longer used.

a type of lettuce (Lactuca sativa asparagina) valued especially for its edible stems.

An old name for the harpsichord.

To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.

Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.

The act or process of cementing.

Having the quality of cementing or uniting firmly.

A person or thing that cements.

Of or pertaining to a cemetery.

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.

Meal-taking; dining or supping.

Of or pertaining to dinner or supper.

One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.

Of or pertaining to a cenobite.

The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.

The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.

The introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (as addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution); a modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished from palingenesis.

of or pertaining to cenogenesis. Opposite of palingenetic.

An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.

A cenotaph.

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 c/nozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.

To burn or scatter incense.

A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.

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.

suppressed or subjected to censorship; as, the censored press in some countries. Opposite of uncensored.

Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.

Censorial.

Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.

The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.

Relating to, or containing, a census.

Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.

To judge.

One who censures.

A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.

A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.

Rate by the hundred; percentage.

Relating to a hundred.

A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.

A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (Centaurea Calcitrapa).

A genus of low-growing herbs mostly of the northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers.

A fight in which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes.

a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross.

A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Eryther/a Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.

a fractional monetary unit of several countries such as El Salvador, St. Thomas and Principe, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, and Portugal.

Of or relating to a hundred years. A person a hundred years old.

The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century.

The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.

Once in a hundred years.

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.

being or placed in the center.

The part of the outfield directly ahead of the catcher.

Same as Center, n., 6.

Hundredth. A hundredth part.

The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.

A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime.

Hundredth.

See centare.

Hundred-headed.

Divided into a hundred parts.

Having a hundred leaves.

Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts. Of or pertaining to the centigrade thermometer; as, 10/ centigrade (or 10/ C.). In measurements, abreviated C.

The hundredth part of a gram; a mass equal to .15432 of a grain. See 3rd Gram.

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.

A work divided into a hundred parts.

The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.

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.

Sentinel.