State of being a church.

One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service.

The office of a churchwarden.

Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms.

The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.

Churlish; rough; selfish.

Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.

In a churlish manner.

Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.

Rude; churlish; violent.

To perform the operation of churning.

agitated vigorously; -- of a liquid.

The act of one who churns.

To utter by churring.

A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.

An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket.

See Choose.

A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, such as chopped fruits or green tomatoes, etc., often cooked with sweets and acids such as sugar and vinegar, with ginger and spices.

aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; gall; as, he had the chutzpah to question my decision.

Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle.

Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.

A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.

producing or converting into chyle.

Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.

Chylifactive.

The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.

Chylifactive.

To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.

Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.

A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.

The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

Bearing or containing chyme.

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

To form into chyme.

Of or pertaining to chyme.

An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.

Former; previous; of times gone by; as, a ci-devant governor.

Pertaining to food; edible.

The act of taking food.

A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.

A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.

Any species of the genus Cicada or of the family Cicadidae. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (Cicada septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada.

a natural family comprising the leafhoppers.

a family of insects comprising the cicadas.

A cicada. See Cicada.

A cicatrix.

Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.

The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.

Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound.

The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.

A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.

The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.

To heal; to have a new skin.

Full of scars.

Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.

Pica type; -- so called by French printers.

Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.

Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression.

The chick-pea.

Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.

The state or conduct of a cicisbeo.

A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.

A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages.

a natural family of birds comprising the storks.

an order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet, including the herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; and ibises.

To tame.

The act of taming.

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.

The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.

A maker of cider.

A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water.

A wax candle used in religous rites.

A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.

cylindrical, tapering at each end; having the shape of a cigar.

same as cigarette.

A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

a small fusiform fish (Decapterus punctatus), allied to the mackerel, found in the West Atlantic and on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

a small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper.

an Old World herb (Coriandrum sativum) with aromatic parsleylike leaves and seed.

The eyelashes.

of or pertaining to a cilium or cilia.

One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth.

Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.

A kind of haircloth undergarment.

Of or pertaining to Cilicia in Asia Minor. A native or inhabitant of Cilicia.

Made, or consisting, of hair.

Having the form of cilia; very fine or slender.

Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medus/.

See Cilia.

See Sill., n. a foundation.

A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.

A kind of molding. See Cyma.

See Simar.

A kind of confectionery or cake.

A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.

Of or pertaining to the Cimbri. One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric.

Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting Northern Germany. The language of the Cimbri.

A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.

See Scimiter.

A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.

See Cimbia.

a small genus of perennial herbs of N temperate regions: bugbane.

The bedbug.

Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.

A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.

In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.

A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.

Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.

Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona.

One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.

One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.

A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.

To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.

A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called also scorpioid cyme.

a natural family of birds comprising the water ouzels, also called dippers, which dive under water in flowing streams.