A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form.

Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony.

According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean.

Quality of being ceremonial.

Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. [In this sense ceremonial is now preferred.]

In a ceremonious way.

The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious.

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.

Waxen; like wax.

The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage.

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.

A small visorless cap, worn by members of German student corps. It is made in the corps colors, and usually bears the insignia of the corps.

Cerium oxide, CeO2, a white infusible substance constituting about one per cent of the material of the common incandescent mantle.

Same as Cerrial.

Producing wax.

A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol.

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.

One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters.

Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.

A mineral of a brownish of cherry-red color, commonly massive. It is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals.

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.

Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.

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 (Scomberomorus regalis).

A writing on wax.

Of or pertaining to cerography.

One who practices cerography.

A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.

The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.

Divination by dropping melted wax in water.

A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

Relating to the art of modeling in wax. Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure.

The art of modeling in wax.

A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white lamin/.

See Cerate.

A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.

A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the paraffin series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.

A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.

Of or pertaining to the cerris.

A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.

Certainly.

Without doubt or question; unquestionably.

Certainty.

The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.

Certainly; in truth; verily.

a natural family of birds cosisting of several species of creepers, such as Certhia americana, the tree creeper.

presenting symptoms of mental illness sufficient for legal commitment to a mental institution.

A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior.

officially documented; -- of people.

The act of certifying.

endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements; guranteed; as, certified milk; certified mail; a certified check. Opposite of uncertified.

a check drawn on a bank and bearing marks from that bank guaranteeing that funds have been reserved for payment.

One who certifies or assures.

To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.

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.

Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty.

Blue; cerulean.

Sky-colored; blue; azure.

A fast dyestuff, C20H8O6, made by heating gallein with strong sulphuric acid. It dyes mordanted fabrics green.

Cerulean.

Tending to cerulean; light bluish.

A greenish blue pigment prepared in various ways, consisting essentially of cobalt stannate. Unlike other cobalt blues, it does not change color by gaslight.

Producing a blue or sky color.

The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.

Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands.

White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.

Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face.

Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.

See under Antimony.

An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.

Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebr/.

The act of killing deer; deer-slaying.

any member of the family Cervidae, a type of deer distinguished from the Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.

a natural family of deer including the reindeer, moose, elks, muntjacs, and roe deer.

Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family Cervid/.

The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.

A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other allied species.

A radical, C27H55 supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc.

the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius C/sar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation; -- called also caesarean.

Same as C/sarean, C/sarian.

Same as cesarean section.

See C/sarism.

the chemical element of atomic number 55. It is a univalent element, the most electropositive metal. Symbol Cs; atomic weight 132.905. IT has a melting point of 28.4/ C.

An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.

Same as Cespitious.

Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.

Pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy.

To cease; to neglect.

Inactive; dormant

A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.

A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.

a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years.

Giving way; yielding.

A yielding to physical force.

Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt.

An assessment or tax.

An assessor.

A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool.

A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.

A woman's girdle; a cestus.

A family of invertebrates coextensive with the order Cestida; ctenophores having a greatly flattened and elongated body.

A subclass of parasitic worms of the class Cestoidea. In some classifications, it is not differentiated from the parent class.

Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea. One of the Cestoidea.

Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea. One of the Cestoda.

A class of parasitic worms of the phylum Platyhelminthes (formerly 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.

One of the Cestoda.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the genus Cestracion.

He; the one.

A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.

See C/sura.

See C/sural.

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:

One of the Cetacea.

Of or pertaining to the Cetacea.

One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.

An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.

A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).

Same as Zedoary.

Of or pertaining to a whale.