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variant spelling of cutlass.
A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax.
a peculiar, long, thin, marine fish (Trichiurus lepturus) of the southern United States and West Indies, having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp daggerlike teeth; -- called also frostfish, saber fish, silver eel, and, improperly, swordfish; also, several related members of the genus Trichiurus. It is closely related to snake mackerel.
One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.
The business of a cutler.
A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.
The art of making edged tools or cutlery.
A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.
One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket
easy to cut or chew.
One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.
Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.
In a cutting manner.
A knife.
A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.
A short spoon.
A low stool.
The chief police officer of a large city.
The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.
An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larv/ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.
A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.
A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.
a genus of whale lice.
A salt of cyanic acid.
See Aurocyanide.
Having an azure color.
Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.
A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.
The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin.
One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.
A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium.
A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.
An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.
A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.
A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll.
Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a/ration of the blood.
A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.
Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue.
Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin.
A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.
A salt of cyanuric acid.
A cyanide.
Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids.
In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.
A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from / to / of an inch.
A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllid/; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.
Any plant of the natural order Cycadace/, as the sago palm, etc.
a natural family of ancient palmlike plants closely related to ferns in that fertilization is by means of spermatozoids.
Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.
an order of primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms.
an order of fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the Devonian: seed ferns.
a class or subdivision of plants comprising palmlike gymnosperms: it includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta).
A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.
the pre-Mycenaean civilization on the Cyclades islands in the S Aegean sea.
A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.
A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europ/um.
A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.
To pass through a cycle{2} of changes; to recur in cycles.
To cause to pass through a cycle{2}.
Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides.
The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.
A cycler.
Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets.
One of the Cycloganoidei.
An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example.
See Arcograph.
One of the Cycloidei.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.
An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial.
Same as 2d and 3d Cycloid.
A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.
The art of measuring circles.
A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.
Pertaining to a cyclone.
An apparatus to assist in locating the center of a cyclone.
See Note under Cyclops, 1.
The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.
Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.
Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.
A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia.
a genus of tropical Old World ferns having closely crowded circular sori and no indusia.
Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean.
a colorless flammable gas (C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic.
One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.
a natural family comprising the lumpfishes.
the type genus of the Cyclopteridae, consisting of lumpfishes. It includes Cyclopterus lumpus of the North Atlantic.
A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially.
A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine.
The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.
a small genus of terrestrial ferns of tropical and subtropical southern hemisphere.
in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales.
a chemical substance produced by some soil fungi, which suppresses the cellular immune response by inhibiting T cell activation, and has been used in medicine to reduce foreign tissue rejection, especially subsequent to organ transplant surgery.
A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures.
A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.
Pertaining to the Cyclostomi.
Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within.
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.
a mild bipolar disorder.
of or pertaining to cyclothymia.
a particle accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles; it is used in investigations in nuclear physics and particle physics.
a genus of epiphytic or terrestrial tropical American orchids.
See Cider.
an order of ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles.
a genus of plants including the quince.
A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (Cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose.
A young swan.
A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan.
Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form.
Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.
the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder.
In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical.
the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder.
The quality or condition of being cylindrical.
Having the form of a cylinder.
A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical.
Belonging to a scale used in measuring cylinders.
A slight covering; a scarf. See Simar.
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