Cimiss
Ci″miss (?), n. [L. cimex, -icis, a bug.] (Zoöl.) The bedbug. Wright.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Cimmerian
Cim‐me″ri‐an (?), a. [L. Cimmerius.] [Written also Kimmerian.] 1. Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpe...
Cimolite
Cim″o‐lite (?), n. [Gr. � (sc. �) Cimolian earth, fr. �, L. Cimolus, an island of the Cyclades.] (Min.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.
Cinch
Cinch (?), n. [Sp. cincha, fr. L. cingere to gird.]1. A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.2. A tight grip.
Cinch (2)
Cinch, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cinched (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Cinch"ing.] 1. To put a cinch upon; to girth tightly.2. To get a sure hold upon; to get into a tight place, as for forcing ...
Cinch (3)
Cinch, v. i. To perform the action of cinching; to tighten the cinch; — often with up.
Cinch (4)
Cinch, n. [Cf. cinch a girth, a tight grip, as v., to get a sure hold upon; perh. so named from the tactics used in the game; also cf. Sp. cinco five (the five spots of the colo...
Cinch (5)
Cinch, v. t. In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
Cinchona
Cin‐cho″na (?), n. [So named from the wife of Count Chinchon, viceroy of Peru in the seventeenth century, who by its use was freed from an intermittent fever, and after her retu...
Cinchonaceous
Cin′cho‐na″ceous (?), a. Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.
Cinchonic
Cin‐chon″ic (?), a. Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne.
Cinchonidine
Cin‐chon″i‐dine (?), n. [From Cinchona.] (Chem.) One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, wi...
Cinchonine
Cin″cho‐nine (?), n. [From Cinchona: cf. F. cinchonine.] (Chem.) One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; — called also cinchonia.
Cinchonism
Cin″cho‐nism (?), n. [From Cinchona.] (Med.) A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.
Cinchonize
Cin″cho‐nize (?), v. t. To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.
Cincinnati epoch
Cin′cin‐na″ti ep″och (?). (Geol.) An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson ...
Cincinnus
Cin‐cin″nus (?), n.; pl. -ni (#). [Also cicinus, cicinnus.] (Bot.) A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis; — c...
Cincture
Cinc″ture (?), n. [L. cinctura, fr. cingere, cinctum, to gird.] 1. A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, — as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.2. That whic...
Cinctured
Cinc″tured (?), n. Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.
Cinder
Cin″der (sĭn″dẽr), n. [AS. sinder slag, dross; akin to Icel. sindr dross, Sw. sinder, G. sinter, D. sintel; perh. influenced by F. cendre ashes, fr. L. cinis. Cf. Sinter.] 1. Pa...
Cindery
Cin″der‐y (?), a. Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.
Cinefaction
Cin′e‐fac″tion (?), n. [LL. cinefactio: L. cinis ashes + facere to make: cf. F. cinéfaction.] Cineration; reduction to ashes.
Cinematic
{ Cin′e‐mat″ic (?), Cin′e‐mat″ic‐al (?) }, a. See Kinematic.
Cinematics
Cin′e‐mat″ics (?), n. sing. See Kinematics.
Cinematograph
Cin′e‐mat″o‐graph (?), n. [Gr. �, �, motion + -graph.] 1. A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rap...
Cinematographer
Cin′e‐ma‐tog″ra‐pher (?), n. One who exhibits moving pictures or who takes chronophotographs by the cinematograph. — Cin′e‐mat′o‐graph″ic (#), a. — Cin′e‐mat′o‐graph″ic‐al‐ly (#...
Cinemograph
Ci‐ne″mo‐graph (?), n. [Gr. � motion + -graph.] An integrating anemometer.