CPage 159
- English Word Cellaret Definition A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.
- English Word Cellarist Definition Same as Cellarer.
- English Word Celled Definition of Cell
- English Word Celled Definition Containing a cell or cells.
- English Word Cellepore Definition A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.
- English Word Celli Definition of Cello
- English Word Celliferous Definition Bearing or producing cells.
- English Word Cello Definition A contraction for Violoncello.
- English Word Cellos Definition of Cello
- English Word Cellular Definition Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.
- English Word Cellulated Definition Cellular.
- English Word Cellule Definition A small cell.
- English Word Celluliferous Definition Bearing or producing little cells.
- English Word Cellulitis Definition An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.
- English Word Celluloid Definition A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.
- English Word Cellulose Definition Consisting of, or containing, cells.
- English Word Cellulose Definition The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin.
- English Word Celotomy Definition The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia.
- English Word Celsiture Definition Height; altitude.
- English Word Celsius Definition The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.