CPage 178
- English Word Cerographist Definition One who practices cerography.
- English Word Cerography Definition The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
- English Word Cerography Definition A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
- English Word Cerolite Definition A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.
- English Word Ceroma Definition The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.
- English Word Ceroma Definition That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.
- English Word Ceroma Definition The cere of birds.
- English Word Ceromancy Definition Divination by dropping melted wax in water.
- English Word Ceroon Definition A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.
- English Word Ceroplastic Definition Relating to the art of modeling in wax.
- English Word Ceroplastic Definition Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure.
- English Word Ceroplastics Definition Alt. of Ceroplasty
- English Word Ceroplasty Definition The art of modeling in wax.
- English Word Cerosin Definition A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae.
- English Word Cerote Definition See Cerate.
- English Word Cerotene Definition A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.
- English Word Cerotic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.
- English Word Cerotin Definition A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.
- English Word Cerrial Definition Of or pertaining to the cerris.
- English Word Cerris Definition A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.