A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.

Of or pertaining to crypts.

the science which studies methods to discovering the secret meaning of encrypted messages for which one does not possess the secret decoding information (called the key).

Hidden; secret; occult.

Secretly; occultly; in a manner so as to hide or obscure meaning.

One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.

A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata. A group of nudibranch mollusks.

Having concealed or rudimentary gills.

a genus of cockroaches.

any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne; evergreen perennials growing in fresh or brackish water; tropical Asia.

Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.

A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.

The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

One skilled in cryptogamic botany.

Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.

A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.

a genus sometimes placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Cryptogrammataceae.

one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems.

Cipher; something written in cipher.

Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical.

One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.

Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.

Same as Cryptographer.

The act or art of writing in code or secret characters; also, secret characters, codes or ciphers, or messages written in a secret code.

Secret or enigmatical language.

A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.

A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.

An order of flying, drom/ognathous birds, including the tinamous of South America. See Tinamou.

Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline.

See Gobulin.

A crystalline substance.

A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.

Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.

The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized; the formation of crystals.

To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.

To be converted into a crystal; to take on a crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive attraction; to precipitate from a solution in the form of crystals.

smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits.

Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.

The science which pertains to the production of crystals.

One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.

Pertaining to crystallography.

In the manner of crystallography.

The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.

A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid.

The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies.

Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.

The art of measuring crystals.

Crystallization.

acronym for the Confederate States of America.

An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory.

Having a comblike margin, as a ctenoid scale Pertaining to the Ctenoidei. A ctenoidean.

Relating to the Ctenoidei. One of the Ctenoidei.

A group of fishes, established by Agassiz, characterized by having scales with a pectinated margin, as in the perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial.

A phylum of invertebrates, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. They are commonly called the comb jellies, because the separate paddles somewhat resemble combs. This phylum was formerly classified as a subdivision (class) within the C/lenterata.

One of the Ctenophora.

Of or pertaining to the Ctenophora.

A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles.

the chemical symbol for copper.

To shut up or confine.

a country on the island of Cuba.

The act of lying down; a reclining.

Lying down; recumbent.

The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.

A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

a small compartment.

A snug or confined or secluded place; a small room or a snug space within a room.

Sucked by cubs.

To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.

The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in (Med.), Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.

Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs).

The state of being a cub.

A curve of the third degree.

Shaped like or approximately like a cube.

Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.

In a cubical method.

The quality of being cubical.

A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

Belonging to a chamber or bedroom.

Of the form of a cube.

The lowest course of stones in a building.

A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests.

A movement or phase in post-impressionism (which see, below).

The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist.

A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand.

Having the measure of a cubit.

Having no cubs.

Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron.

A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.

Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot. The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.

Cuboid.

See Coca.

To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.

To cuckold.

Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking.

The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively.

The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.

A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.

a bee, parasitic in the larval stage in the nests of other bees, feeding either upon their food or larvae. They belong to the genera Nomada, Melecta, Epeolus, and others.

a bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees.

a common European arum (Arum maculatum) with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; it emerges in early spring, and is the source of a sagolike starch called arum.

A species of Ranunculus (Ranunculus bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup.

A species of Cardamine (Cardamine pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi).

A plant of the genus Arum (Arum maculatum); the European wake-robin.

A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her.

The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies.

Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.

A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as certain concave and arched sepals or petals.

Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculid/).

A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below.

Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.

A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds.

the type genus of the Cucurbitaceae.

a natural family of plants including the cucumber; melon; squash; and pumpkin.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.

A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.

Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms.

That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea.

A clown; a low rustic; a dolt.

A close embrace.