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Cerulein

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

Cerulenin

an antifungal antibiotic, C12H17NO3. It inhibits the growth of yeasts by interfering with the synthesis of sterols and fatty acids.

Ceruleum

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

Cerumen

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

Ceruminous

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

Ceruse

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

Cerused

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

Cerussite Cerusite

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

Cervelat

An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.

Cervical

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

Cervicide

The act of killing deer; deer-slaying.

cervid

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

Cervidae

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

Cervine

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

Cervix

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

Cervus

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

Ceryl

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

cesarean section

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.

cesium

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.

Cespitine

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

Cespitose

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

Cespitous

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

Cess

To cease; to neglect.

Cessation

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

Cessavit

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

Cesser

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

Cession

A yielding to physical force.

Cessionary

Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt.

Cesspipe

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

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.

Cest

A woman's girdle; a cestus.

Cestidae

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

Cestoda

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

cestode

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

cestoid

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

Cestoidea

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.

Cestraciont

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the genus Cestracion.

Cestus

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

Cetacea

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:

Cete

One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.

Cetene

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

Ceterach

A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).

Cetic

Of or pertaining to a whale.

Cetin

A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.

Cetology

The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.

Cetraric

Pertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetaria Islandica).

Cetrarin

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

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

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, spermaceti.

Ceylanite

A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste.

Ceylon

the former name of an island republic in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of India, now called Sri Lanka. It is an independent nation with an area of 25,332 sq. mi. and a population of about 14 million people.

Ceylonese

Of or pertaining to Ceylon; -- since the change of name, replaced by Sri Lankan. A native or natives of Ceylon; -- since the change of name, replaced by Sri Lankan.

Cha

Tea; -- the Chinese (Mandarin) name, used generally in early works of travel, and now for a kind of rolled tea used in Central Asia.

cha-cha

a modern ballroom dance from Latin America; it uses two slow steps followed by three quick small steps, with swaying movements of the hips, and has many variations of movements based on that rhythm.

Chab

The red-bellied woodpecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).

Chablis

A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.

Chabuk Chabouk

A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment.

Chace

To pursue. See Chase v. t.

Chack

To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.

Chacma

A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.]

Chaconne

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.

Chaenopsis

a genus of clinid fishes consisting of the pikeblennies.

Chaeronea

either of two battles in ancient Greece, one in which Philip of Macedon defeated the Athenians and Thebans (338 BC), or another in which Sulla defeated Mithridates (86 BC).

chaeta

a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.

chaetal

of or relating to chaetae (setae or bristles).

Chaetetes

A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones.

Chaetodont

Of or pertaining to the Ch/todonts or the family Ch/todontid/.

chaetognath

any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth.

Chaetognatha Chaetognatha

a phylum consisting of the arrowworms, a group of small active transparent 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

Pertaining to the Ch/topoda. One of the Ch/topoda.

Chaetopoda

A very extensive order of Annelida (segmented worms), characterized by the presence of lateral set/, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligoch/ta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polych/ta, including most of the marine species.

Chaetotaxy

The arrangement of bristles on an insect.

Chafe

Heat excited by friction.

Chafer

A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.

Chafery

An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.

Chafeweed

The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.

Chaff

To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

Chaffer

To buy or sell; to trade in.

Chaffinch

A bird of Europe (Fringilla c/lebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.

Chaffing

The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.

Chaffwax Chafewax

Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

Chaffy

Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.

Chafing

The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing.

Chagas' disease

a form of trypanosomiasis caused by infection with Trypamosoma cruzi, found principally in South America. It is transmitted by certain species of reduviid bugs, and has natural reservoirs in dogs, armadillos, rodents and other domestic and wild mammals.

chagrined

feeling vexed, especially due to feeling inferior or unworthy and hence embarrassed; as, chagrined at the poor sales of his book.

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