A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.
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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/.)
Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene. A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n.
A native or inhabitant of Cyrene.
Relating to capital letters.
A circular projecting portion.
A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ. In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.
Inclosed in a cyst.
Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.
The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).
An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes.
One of the Cystidea.
An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.
One of the Cystidea.
A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.
A cyst. See Cyst.
Inflammation of the bladder.
A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.
Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.
Same as Cystidea.
Same as Cystidean.
A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.
Relating to stone in the bladder.
A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.
Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.
A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.
The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.
Pertaining to the goddess Venus.
The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.
See Protoplasm.
The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.
A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.
Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.
Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.
Producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue.
Cell production or development; cytogenesis.
Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.
The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.
A pyrimidine (C4H5N3O) which is one of the four major basic components of DNA and RNA in most organisms, forming glyosides with ribose and deoxyribose. It is the basic component of cytidine, deoxycytidine, cytosine, cytidine monophosphate, and derivatives of those compounds.
Of or pertaining to the cytoskeleton; as, cytoskeletal microtubules.
An arrangement of microtubules, microfilaments, and larger filaments within a cell serving to provide structural support of components of the cell, and to transport components from one part of the cell to another; the filaments are composed of protein and form a latticelike arrangement which may change rapidly with time.
The soluble components of the fluid matter enclosed within the cellular membrane; the portion of the cytoplasm which remains after removal of particulate components.
The inhibition or cessation of cell growth or division.
Having an inhibitory action on cell growth or cell division.
The mouth of a protozoan.
The movement of cells toward or away from other cells, as a result of some stimulation, such as chemical signals transmitted and received by the cells.
A branch of taxonomy which uses the characteristics of cellular structures, such as somatic chromosomes, to classify organisms.
The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.
A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.
The title of the wife of the czarowitz.
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