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.

One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.

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.

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.

the type genus of the bird family Cinclidae. It includes the water ouzels Cinclus aquaticus of Europe and Cinclus mexicanus of western North America.

A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.

Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.

Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.

Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.

photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, used in a movie camera.

incineration; reduction to ashes.

the art of creating motion pictures; as, this story would be good cinema; -- often used in the phrase the cinema.

See Kinematic.

See Kinematics.

an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.

One who takes motion pictures with a movie camera, especially one expert in the art.

An integrating anemometer.

Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous.

A Linn/an genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.

Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.

The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.

Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.

Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.

Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.

Full of ashes.

A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants the language of the Cingalese. Of or pertaining to the Cingalese.

A girth.

A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells. The clitellus of earthworms. The base of the crown of a tooth.

Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.

Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon.

See Cinnamic.

The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices. Cassia.

A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.

The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds.

A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds.

Five; the number five in dice or cards.

A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five.

Five-spotted.