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in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales.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.
A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.
A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.
A performer upon cymbals.
Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.
A genus of marine univalve shells; the gondola.
A scalloped or /pattypan/ variety of summer squash.
A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.
A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.
See Carvacrol.
A liquid organic base, C10H13.NH2, derived from cymene.
Producing cymes.
A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures.
To trace or copy with a cymograph.
Having the form of a cyme.
An instrument for exhibiting and measuring wave motion an instrument for determining the frequency of electic wave oscillations, esp. in connection with wireless telegraphy.
See Chrysoberyl.
Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.
Any device for detecting the presence of electric waves. The influence of electric waves on the resistance of a particular kind of electric circuit, on the magnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes.
Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.
Welsh. The Welsh language.
A collective term for the Welsh race; -- so called by themselves .
A small cyme, or one of very few flowers.
Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.
A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal.
Bear baiting with a dog.
A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.
The art of hunting with dogs.
One of a sect or school of philosophers founded by Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term Cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.
Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.
In a cynical manner.
The quality of being cynical.
The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opinions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions.
the type genus of the family Cynocephalidae.
a genus of creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa.
any member of the Cynodontia, a group of small carnivorous reptiles.
a division of Triassic Therapsida comprising small carnivorous reptiles often with mammallike teeth.
a natural family of fish including the tonguefishes.
A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes.
a genus of mammals comprising the prairie dogs.
A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.
the battle that ended the second Macedonian War (197 BC); the Romans defeated King Philip of Macedon.
a genus of sea trout.
Of or pertaining to a cynosure.
The constellation of the Lesser Bear (Ursa Minor), to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.
the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon; daughter of Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with Roman Diana.
See Cion, and Scion.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large family of plants of which the sedge is the type.
A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian papyrus.
See Cipher.
The free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain Bryozoa.
A punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to insects. It is still in use among some Oriental nations.
A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See Cowrie.
a natural family of marine gastropods comprising the cowries.
a large tropical American tree (Cordia alliodora) grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood.
A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.
A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.
any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of Australia and N Caledonia.
A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot.
Cyprinoid.
a natural family of fishes including the carp; tench; roach; rudd; and dace.
an order of fishes including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as Cyprinoidea, a suborder of Ostariophysi.
One of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. See Minnow.
a large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies.
Like the carp (Cyprinus). One of the Cyprinidae, or Carp family, as the goldfish, barbel, etc.
the type genus of the family Cyprinidae; carp.
of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture; as, Cypriote monasteries.
a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium.
A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.
A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.
A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning.
Same as Cyprus.
A one-seeded, one-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.
Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselid/.)