CESS
CESS, as a noun, a rate or tax, and as a verb, to rate or lay a tax, is probably a corruption of assess, or from the same root.CESS, verb intransitive To neglect a legal duty.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CESSATION
CESSATION, noun1. A ceasing; a stop; a rest; the act of discontinuing motion or action of any kind, whether temporary or final.2. A ceasing or suspension of operation, force or ...
CESSAVIT
CESSAVIT, noun In law, a writ given by statute, to recover lands, when the tenant or occupier has ceased for two years to perform the service, which constitutes the condition of...
CESSER
CESSER, noun [See Cess.] A ceasing; a neglect to perform services or payment for two years. See Cessavit.]
CESSIBILITY
CESSIBILITY, noun [See Cede and Cession.] The act of giving way or receding.
CESSIBLE
CESSIBLE, adjective [See Cede.] Giving way; yielding; easy to give way.
CESSION
CESSION, noun1. The act of giving way; a yielding to force or impulse.2. A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; particularly, a surrender of conq...
CESSIONARY
CESSIONARY, adjective Having surrendered effects; as a cessionary bankrupt.
CESSMENT
CESSMENT, noun An assessment or tax.
CESSOR
CESSOR, noun1. In law, he that 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.]2. A...
CEST
CEST, noun A ladys girdle.
CESTUS
CESTUS, noun The girdle of Venus, or marriage-girdle, among the Greeks and Romans.
CESURA
CESURA,CESURAL, adjective Pertaining to the cesure.
CESURE
CESURE, noun A pause in verse, so introduced as to aid the recital, and render the versification more melodious. It divides a verse or line into equal or unequal parts. Its most...
CETACEOUS
CETACEOUS, adjective Pertaining to the whale; belonging to the whale kind. The cetacceous fishes include the genera monodon, balaena, physeter and delphinus. They have no gills,...
CETATE
CETATE, noun A compound of cetic acid, with a base.
CETERACH
CETERACH, noun A trivial name of a species of Asplenium, or spleen-wort.
CETIC
CETIC, adjective Pertaining to the whale. The cetic acid is a peculiar substance obtained from the spermaceti.
CETIN
CETIN, noun A name given to spermaceti by Chevreul.
CETOLOGICAL
CETOLOGICAL, noun Pertaining to cetology.
CETOLOGIST
CETOLOGIST, noun One who is versed in the natural history of the whale and its kindred animals.
CETOLOGY
CETOLOGY, noun The doctrine or natural history of cetaceous animals.
CETUS
CETUS, noun In astronomy, the whale, a large constellation of the Southern hemisphere, containing ninety-seven stars.
CEYLANITE
CEYLANITE, noun A mineral, classed with the ruby family; called also pleonaste. Its color is a muddy, dark blue, and grayish black, approaching to iron black. It occurs in grain...
CHABASIE
CHABASIE,CHABASITE, noun A mineral which has been regarded as a variety of zeolite. It is divisible into very obtuse rhomboids.This mineral occurs in crystals, whose primitive f...
CHAD
CHAD, noun A kind of fish; pronounced shad.
CHAFE
CHAFE, verb transitive1. To excite heat or inflammation by friction, as to chafe the skin; also, to fret and wear by rubbing, as to chafe a cable.2. To act violently upon, by ru...