CPage 296
- English Word Cimiss Definition The bedbug.
- English Word Cimmerian Definition Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.
- English Word Cimmerian Definition Without any light; intensely dark.
- English Word Cimolite Definition A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.
- English Word Cinch Definition A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
- English Word Cinch Definition A tight grip.
- English Word Cinchona Definition A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.
- English Word Cinchona Definition The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.
- English Word Cinchonaceous Definition Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.
- English Word Cinchonic Definition Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona.
- English Word Cinchonidine Definition One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.
- English Word Cinchonine Definition One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
- English Word Cinchonism Definition A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.
- English Word Cinchonize Definition To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.
- English Word Cincinnati epoch Definition An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New York.
- English Word Cincture Definition A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
- English Word Cincture Definition That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.
- English Word Cincture Definition The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
- English Word Cinctured Definition Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.
- English Word Cinder Definition Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.