Certitude (n.) Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty.
Cerule (a.) Blue; cerulean.
Cerulean (a.) Sky-colored; blue; azure.
Ceruleous (a.) Cerulean.
Cerulific (a.) Producing a blue or sky color.
Cerumen (n.) The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.
Ceruminous (a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands.
Ceruse (n.) White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.
Ceruse (n.) A cosmetic containing white lead.
Ceruse (n.) The native carbonate of lead.
Cerused (a.) Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face.
Cerusite (n.) Alt. of Cerussite
Cerussite (n.) Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.
Cervantite (n.) See under Antimony.
Cervelat (n.) An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.
Cervical (a.) Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae.
Cervicide (n.) The act of killing deer; deer-slaying.
Cervine (a.) Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family Cervidae.
Cervixes (pl. ) of Cervix
Cervices (pl. ) of Cervix
Cervix (n.) The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.
Cervus (n.) A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other allied species.
Ceryl (n.) A radical, C27H55 supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc.
Cesarean (a.) Alt. of Cesarian
Cesarian (a.) Same as Caesarean, Caesarian.
Cesarism (n.) See Caesarism.
Cespitine (n.) An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.
Cespititious (a.) Same as Cespitious.
Cespitose (a.) Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
Cespitous (a.) Pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy.
Cess (n.) A rate or tax.
Cess (n.) Bound; measure.
Cessed (imp. & p. p.) of Cess
Cessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cess
Cess (v. t.) To rate; to tax; to assess.
Cess (v. i.) To cease; to neglect.
Cessant (a.) Inactive; dormant
Cessation (n.) A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.
Cessavit (n.) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
Cesser (v. i.) a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years.
Cessible (a.) Giving way; yielding.
Cession (n.) A yielding to physical force.
Cession (n.) Concession; compliance.
Cession (n.) A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.
Cession (n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
Cession (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
Cessionary (a.) Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt.
Cessment (v. t.) An assessment or tax.
Cessor (v. i.) One who neglects, for two years, to perform the service by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. See Cessavit.
Cessor (v. t.) An assessor.
Cesspipe (n.) A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool.
Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.
Cest (n.) A woman's girdle; a cestus.
Cestode (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
Cestode (n.) One of the Cestoidea.
Cestoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
Cestoid (n.) One of the Cestoidea.
Cestoidea (n. pl.) A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm.
Cestoldean (n.) One of the Cestoidea.
Cestraciont (n.) A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples.
Cestraciont (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the genus Cestracion.
Cestus (n.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.
Cestus (n.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.
Cestus (n.) A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.
Cestuy (pron.) Alt. of Cestui
Cestui (pron.) He; the one.
Cesura (n.) See Caesura.
Cesural (a.) See Caesural.
Cetacea (n. pl.) An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders:
Cetacean (n.) One of the Cetacea.
Cetaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cetacea.
Cete (n.) One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.
Cetene (n.) An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.
Ceterach (n.) A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).
Cetewale (n.) Same as Zedoary.
Cetic (a.) Of or pertaining to a whale.
Cetin (n.) A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.
Cetological (a.) Of or pertaining to cetology.
Cetologist (a.) One versed in cetology.
Cetology (n.) The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.
Cetraric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetaria Islandica).
Cetrarin (n.) A white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which is cetraric acid, a white, crystalline, bitter substance.
Cetyl (n.) A radical, C16H33, not yet isolated, but supposed to exist in a series of compounds homologous with the ethyl compounds, and derived from spermaceti.
Cetylic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, spermaceti.
Ceylanite (n.) A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste.
Ceylonese (a.) Of or pertaining to Ceylon.
Ceylonese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Ceylon.
C. G. S. () An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.
Chab (n.) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).
Chabasite (n.) Alt. of Cabazite
Cabazite (n.) A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying, in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie.
Chablis (n.) A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.
Chablis (n.) a white wine resembling Chablis{1}, but made elsewhere, as in California.
Chabouk (n.) Alt. of Chabuk
Chabuk (n.) A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment.
Chace (n.) See 3d Chase, n., 3.
Chace (v. t.) To pursue. See Chase v. t.
Chachalaca (n.) The Texan guan (Ortalis vetula).
Chak (v. i.) To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.
Chacma (n.) A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.]