To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.

drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.

causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of decentralizing.

In a central manner or situation.

a genus of southern European herbs and subshrubs.

any of a group of small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed.

a natural family of fish comprising the sunfishes. See sunfish.

See Center.

To place or fix in the center or on a central point.

An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.

same as centerboard.

A retractable or sliding keel used on sailboats, 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 drifting to leeward when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States

same as centered.

same as centerpiece.

An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.

a contracted form of CENTRal EXchange.

Placed in the center or middle; central; situated at or near a center.

The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.

A centrifugal machine.

to drive out; to subject to the action of a centrifuge.

the process of separating substances by the use of a centrifuge.

to drive out; to subject to the action of a centrifuge.

to separate (particles in a suspension) from a liquid by centrifugation.

The property or quality of being centrifugal.

See Centring.

one of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of nine triplet microtubules, which form the asters during mitosis.

Tending, or causing, to approach the center.

Centripetency.

Tendency toward the center.

Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example.

Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it.

In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies.

Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal.

An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center.

Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.

a specialized condensed region of a chromosomes that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape.

pertaining to the centromere, the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis.

a natural family of fishes comprising the robalos (also called snooks).

the type genus of the Centropomidae, comprising the snooks, and including Centropomus undecimalis, a large bony sport fish also esteemed as food.

a genus of sea basses.

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.

used in former classification systems; approximately synonymous with order Caryophyllales.

The nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc.

A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center.

The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

See Sentry.

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.

Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir.

The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.

To increase a hundredfold.

To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times.

Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon.

To divide into hundreds.

A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century.

An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the /Magdeburg Centuries./ See under Century.

A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.

A freeman of the lowest class; one not a thane or of the servile classes; a churl.

Of the nature of an onion, as in odor; alliaceous.

Feeding upon onions.

Relating to, or affected with, headache. A remedy for the headache.

Pain in the head; headache.

Same as Anthodium.

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.

A large division of Mollusca, including all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix.

Having a head.

A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.

One of a group of phospholipids (nitrogenous phosphorized fatty substances), present in all living cells and particularly evident in nervous tissue. The cephalins consist of glycerol phosphate in which the two free hydroxyls of the glycerol are esterified with fatty acids, and the phosphate forms an ester linkage to the hydroxyl of ethanolamine. The phosphate may be linked to the alpha (end) or beta (middle) hydroxyl of the glycerol portion. The natural isomers are of the alpha form, and have the general formula R.O.CH2.CHOR/.CH2.O.PO2.O.CH2.CH2.NH2, where R and R/ are the acyl residues of long-chain fatty acids, which may be the same or different.

Form or development of the skull; as, the races of man differ greatly in cephalism.

Same as Phrenitis.

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.

Relating to the long axis of the body.

Shaped like the head.

The science which treats of the head.

One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods.

An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery.

The measurement of the heads of living persons.

The head.

The cephalata.

The highest class of Mollusca.

One of the Cephalopoda.

Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.

One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris) of the family Mobulidae, known as devilfish, sea devil, manta and manta ray. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south, and is sometimes found as far north as New York Bay. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods.

any of a class of chemical substances, some of which have therapeutically useful antibacterial activity, whose structure contains a beta-lactam ring fused to a six-membered ring containing a sulfur and a nitrogen atom. The first of the series, cephalosporin C, was discovered by G. Brotzu in 1955 in the culture broth of a Cephalosporium species found off the coast of Sardinia. Other cephalosporins have been found to be produced by species of soil bacteria (actinomycetes). Many semisynthetic analogs have been tested for antibacterial effect, and several of them have found use as important clinically useful antibacterial agents, some of which may be taken orally for treatment of bacterial infections. The cephalosporins are the second class of beta-lactam antibiotic to be discovered, the first being the penicillins and more recent classes being the thienamycins and sulfazecins. The cephamycins are a variant of cephalosporins with a methoxyl group on the beta-lactam ring, rendering them more resistant to penicillinases. Among the cephalosporins which have been found clinically useful are cephalexin, cephaloridine, and cephalothin.

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.

An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery.

Dissection or opening of the head.

An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.

The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.

Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks.

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.

a genus comprising the gillemots.

a conditioned emotional response, an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.

Having the texture and color of new wax; like wax; waxy.

Beebread.

Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.

The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.

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).

one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the backs of nudibranchs and other related mollusks that serve as gills.

A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.

Pertaining to, or containing, cerasin.

A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

a genus of weedy plants of the pink family, comprising the mouse-ear chickweeds.

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.

Covered with wax.

Sophistical.

A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.

Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. A ceratobranchial bone, or cartilage.

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.

Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch. A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid.

a natural family coextensive with the genus Ceratophyllum; the hornworts.

the sole genus constituting the family Ceratophyllaceae; the hornworts.

the type genus of the Ceratopogonidae.

a natural family of insects including the biting midges and sand flies.

a suborder of extinct animals including triceratops.

any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls, of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.

an extinct family of American ceratopsian dinosaurs.