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Cimbal

A kind of confectionery or cake.

Cimbia

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

Cimbrian

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

Cimbric

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

Cimeliarch

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

Cimex

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

Cimicifuga

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

Cimmerian

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

Cimolite

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

Cinch

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

Cinchona

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.

Cinchonaceous

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

Cinchonic

Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona.

Cinchonidine

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.

Cinchonine

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

Cinchonism

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

Cinchonize

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

Cincinnus

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

Cinclidae

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

Cinclus

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

Cincture

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

Cinctured

Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.

Cinder

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

Cindery

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

cine-film

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

cinema

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

Cinematograph

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.

Cinematographer

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

Cineraria

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

Cinerary

Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.

Cineration

The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.

Cinerescent

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

Cineritious

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

Cingalese

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

Cingulum

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.

Cinnabarine

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

Cinnamene

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

Cinnamic

Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon.

Cinnamon

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.

Cinnamone

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

Cinnamyl

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

Cinnoline

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

Cinque

Five; the number five in dice or cards.

Cinque-pace

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

Cinquecentist

An Italian of the sixteenth century, esp. a poet or artist.

Cinquecento

The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.

Cinquefoil

The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.

Cinura

The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma.

Cipher

To write in occult characters.

Cipolin

A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.

Cippus

A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc.

Circ

An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.

circa

Approximately; about; commonly abbreviated ca.; -- used especially before dates and numerical measures; as, he was born circa 1650; ca. 50 feet high.

Circar

A district, or part of a province. See Sircar.

Circassian

Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia. A native or inhabitant of Circassia.

Circean

Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.

Circinate

To make a circle around; to encompass.

Circle

To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.

Circled

Having the form of a circle; round.

Circler

A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a.

Circlet

A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband.

circuit breaker

A device contained within an electrical circuit designed to interrupt the circuit when the current exceeds a preset value; it is sometimes called a contact breaker. Its function is to prevent fire or damage to the circuit or the devices on the circuit which could be caused by excess current, such as that caused by a short-circuit. It differs from a fuse in not having a conducting element which melts (see 2nd fuse, n.). Circuit breakers are designed to be easily reset, i. e. to reclose the circuit after it has been opened by the circuit breaker; this is usually accomplished by simply moving a switch back and forth. They are commonly used in buildings to protect individual electrical lines, and are often contained in groups within a box called a circuit breaker panel, which divides the current from a main electrical line into multiple circuits each protected by a separate circuit breaker. Less commonly they may be found on individual devices.

Circuiter

One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge.

Circuitous

Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.

Circuity

A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.

circular-knit

knit on a circular form so as to have no seams; -- said of stockings.

Circularity

The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.

Circulate

To cause to pass from place to place, or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit.

circulating

moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same point; as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.

Circulation

The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.

Circulatorious

Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant.

Circulatory

A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.

Circumambient

Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.

Circumcenter

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

Circumcise

To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.

Circumcision

The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.

Circumduce

To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.

Circumesophagal

Surrounding the esophagus; -- in (Zool.) said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

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