Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.
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One of the Cirripedia.
An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.
See under Cloud.
See under Cloud.
A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.
Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf. Resembling a tendril or cirrus.
The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.
Cirrose.
The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.
Varicose.
Any operation for the removal of varices by incision.
On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.
On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer.
The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to Coregonus Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.
The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased.
On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian.
On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane.
On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side.
A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines.
Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.
A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at C/teaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor. Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.
An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids.
See Cystic.
a genus of small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and northern Africa.
A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously.
Capable of being cited.
A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
Summons to appear, as before a judge.
An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.
One who cites.
Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory.
To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.
One who cites.
A city woman.
An ancient stringed musical instrument resembling the harp.
Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.
a musical instrument resembling a harp with strings stretch over a flat sounding box; the zither. It is played with a plectrum and with fingers.
See Cittern.
The manners of a cit or citizen.
Belonging to, or resembling, a city.
Aping, or having, the manners of a city.
A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider.
Pertaining to the Citigrad/. One of the Citigrad/.
One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen.
Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.
A female citizen.
that portion of the radio frequency spectrum allocated by the FCC for the use of individual citizens for short-distance personal or business use, from either fixed or mobile stations. Abreviated CB. Called also Citizens Radio Service.
The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer.
Pertaining to, derived from, or having certain characteristics of, citric and aconitic acids.
A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange (Citrus trifoliata). It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
A salt of citric acid.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid.
a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation; -- called also vitamin P.
The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color.
A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.
A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic; it is produced by the citron tree (Citrus medica). The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce. The fruit was once called the lime.
a cross between Citrus sinensis and Poncirus trifoliata.
wood of a citron tree.
of or pertaining to a citrus tree; as, a citrous disease.
an amino acid that is an intermediate in the conversion of ornithine to arginine.
a genus of vines including the watermelons (Citrullus lanata).
A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, lime, tangerine, citron, grapefruit, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.
same as citrus{2}.
An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.
Of or pertaining to a city.
raised in a city.
having the customs or manners or dress of city people.
including or occurring in all parts of a city; as, citywide bussing; a citywide strike.
Same as Chive.
To scent or perfume with civet.
Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.
The principle of civil government.
The science of civil government.
civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform.
Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.
a person having or showing active concern for protection of civil liberties protected by law.
One skilled in the civil law.
A civilian.
The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization.
Capable of being civilized.
The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.
To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.
Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.
One who, or that which, civilizes or tends to civilize.
In a civil manner; as regards civil rights and privileges; politely; courteously; in a well bred manner.
State of citizenship.
To clip with scissors.
Scissors.
Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See Size.
To become clabber; to lopper.
A small village containing a church.
A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.
One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.
imp. p. p. of Clothe.
An order of the Entomostraca.
a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf.
the type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia.
A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).
Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.
See Clake.
The bernicle goose; -- now called barnacle goose and also called clack goose.
A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
Capable of being claimed.
One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.
One who claims; a claimant.
Having no claim.
See Chiaroscuro.
Act of hearing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.
One alleged to have the power of clairaudience.
A small inclosed pond used for gathering and greening oysters.
A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discerning objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.
One who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern objects not present to the senses.
To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously.
The act of crying out.
A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.
Like or pertaining to the Clamatores.
The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.
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