English Dictionary: Caesalpinia | by the DICT Development Group |
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Cassel brown \Cas"sel brown\, Cassel earth \Cas"sel earth\ . A brown pigment of varying permanence, consisting of impure lignite. It was found originally near Cassel (now Kassel), Germany. | |
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Cheeselep \Cheese"lep\, n. [Cf. {Keslop}.] A bag in which rennet is kept. | |
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Cheslip \Ches"lip\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The wood louse. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Cisalpine \Cis*al"pine\, a. [L. Cisalpinus; cis on this side + Alpinus Alpine.] On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine. | |
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Coagulability \Co*ag`u*la*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated. --Ure. | |
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Coagulable \Co*ag"u*la*ble\, a. Capable of being coagulated. --Boyle. | |
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Polygonaceous \Pol`y*go*na"ceous\, a. [See {Polygonum}.] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of apetalous plants ({Polygonace[91]}), of which the knotweeds (species of {Polygonum}) are the type, and which includes also the docks ({Rumex}), the buckwheat, rhubarb, sea grape ({Coccoloba}), and several other genera. | |
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Kino \Ki"no\, n. The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine. Note: The chief supply is from an East Indian leguminous tree, the {Pterocarpus Marsupium}. Other sources are the African {Pterocarpus erinaceus}, the tropical American sea grape ({Coccoloba uvifera}), and several Australian Eucalypti. See {Botany bay kino}, under {Botany bay}, {Gum butea}, under {Gum}, and {Eucalyptus}. | |
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Sea grape \Sea" grape`\ 1. (Bot.) (a) The gulf weed. See under {Gulf}. (b) A shrubby plant ({Coccoloba uvifera}) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine. 2. pl. (Zo[94]l.) The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid ({Loligo}). | |
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Cocklebur \Coc"kle*bur`\, n. (Bot.) A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus {Xanthium}; -- called also {clotbur}. | |
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Cockloft \Cock"loft`\ (?; 115) n. [Prop., a loft where cocks roost.] An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building. --Dryden. Swift. | |
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Cockyolly \Cock`y*ol"ly\, [or] Cockyoly bird \Cock`y*ol"y, bird\ . [Cf. {Cock}, fowl; {Yellow}.] A pet name for any small bird. | |
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Marsh marigold \Marsh mar"i*gold\ (Bot.) A perennial plant of the genus {Caltha} ({C. palustris}), growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of {cowslip}. See {Cowslip}. | |
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Cowslip \Cow"slip`\ (-sl[icr]p`), n. [AS. c[umac]slyppe, c[umac]sloppe, prob. orig., cow's droppings. Cf. {Slop}, n.] (Bot.) 1. A common flower in England ({Primula veris}) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States. 2. In the United States, the marsh marigold ({Caltha palustris}), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of {Marsh marigold}. {American cowslip} (Bot.), a pretty flower of the West ({Dodecatheon Meadia}), belonging to the same order ({Primulace[91]}) with the English cowslip. {French cowslip} (Bot.), bear's-ear ({Primula Auricula}). | |
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Marsh marigold \Marsh mar"i*gold\ (Bot.) A perennial plant of the genus {Caltha} ({C. palustris}), growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of {cowslip}. See {Cowslip}. | |
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Cowslip \Cow"slip`\ (-sl[icr]p`), n. [AS. c[umac]slyppe, c[umac]sloppe, prob. orig., cow's droppings. Cf. {Slop}, n.] (Bot.) 1. A common flower in England ({Primula veris}) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States. 2. In the United States, the marsh marigold ({Caltha palustris}), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of {Marsh marigold}. {American cowslip} (Bot.), a pretty flower of the West ({Dodecatheon Meadia}), belonging to the same order ({Primulace[91]}) with the English cowslip. {French cowslip} (Bot.), bear's-ear ({Primula Auricula}). | |
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Cowslipped \Cow"slipped`\ (-sl[icr]pt`), a. Adorned with cowslips. [bd]Cowslipped lawns.[b8] --Keats. | |
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Eclipse \E*clipse"\, n. [F. [82]clipse, L. eclipsis, fr. Gr. [?], prop., a forsaking, failing, fr. [?] to leave out, forsake; [?] out + [?] to leave. See {Ex-}, and {Loan}.] 1. (Astron.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet. Note: In ancient times, eclipses were, and among unenlightened people they still are, superstitiously regarded as forerunners of evil fortune, a sentiment of which occasional use is made in literature. That fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark. --Milton. 2. The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness. All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. --Sir W. Raleigh. As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. --Shelley. {Annular eclipse}. (Astron.) See under {Annular}. {Cycle of eclipses}. See under {Cycle}. | |
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Cycle \Cy"cle\ (s?"k'l), n. [F. ycle, LL. cyclus, fr. Gr. ky`klos ring or circle, cycle; akin to Skr. cakra wheel, circle. See {Wheel}.] 1. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres. --Milton. 2. An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year. Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years. --Burke. 3. An age; a long period of time. Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. --Tennyson. 4. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar. [Obs.] We . . . present our gardeners with a complete cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year. --Evelyn. 5. The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins. 6. (Bot.) One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves. --Gray. 7. A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede. {Calippic cycle}, a period of 76 years, or four Metonic cycles; -- so called from Calippus, who proposed it as an improvement on the Metonic cycle. {Cycle of eclipses}, a period of about 6,586 days, the time of revolution of the moon's node; -- called {Saros} by the Chaldeans. | |
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{Cycle of indiction}, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors. {Cycle of the moon}, or {Metonic cycle}, a period of 19 years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon returns to the same day of the year; -- so called from Meton, who first proposed it. {Cycle of the sun}, {Solar cycle}, a period of 28 years, at the end of which time the days of the month return to the same days of the week. The dominical or Sunday letter follows the same order; hence the solar cycle is also called the {cycle of the Sunday letter}. In the Gregorian calendar the solar cycle is in general interrupted at the end of the century. | |
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{Cycle of indiction}, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors. {Cycle of the moon}, or {Metonic cycle}, a period of 19 years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon returns to the same day of the year; -- so called from Meton, who first proposed it. {Cycle of the sun}, {Solar cycle}, a period of 28 years, at the end of which time the days of the month return to the same days of the week. The dominical or Sunday letter follows the same order; hence the solar cycle is also called the {cycle of the Sunday letter}. In the Gregorian calendar the solar cycle is in general interrupted at the end of the century. | |
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{Cycle of indiction}, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors. {Cycle of the moon}, or {Metonic cycle}, a period of 19 years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon returns to the same day of the year; -- so called from Meton, who first proposed it. {Cycle of the sun}, {Solar cycle}, a period of 28 years, at the end of which time the days of the month return to the same days of the week. The dominical or Sunday letter follows the same order; hence the solar cycle is also called the {cycle of the Sunday letter}. In the Gregorian calendar the solar cycle is in general interrupted at the end of the century. | |
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{Cycle of indiction}, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors. {Cycle of the moon}, or {Metonic cycle}, a period of 19 years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon returns to the same day of the year; -- so called from Meton, who first proposed it. {Cycle of the sun}, {Solar cycle}, a period of 28 years, at the end of which time the days of the month return to the same days of the week. The dominical or Sunday letter follows the same order; hence the solar cycle is also called the {cycle of the Sunday letter}. In the Gregorian calendar the solar cycle is in general interrupted at the end of the century. | |
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Black \Black\, a. [OE. blak, AS. bl[91]c; akin to Icel. blakkr dark, swarthy, Sw. bl[84]ck ink, Dan. bl[91]k, OHG. blach, LG. & D. blaken to burn with a black smoke. Not akin to AS. bl[be]c, E. bleak pallid. [?]98.] 1. Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. O night, with hue so black! --Shak. 2. In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. --Shak. 3. Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. [bd]This day's black fate.[b8] [bd]Black villainy.[b8] [bd]Arise, black vengeance.[b8] [bd]Black day.[b8] [bd]Black despair.[b8] --Shak. 4. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks. Note: Black is often used in self-explaining compound words; as, black-eyed, black-faced, black-haired, black-visaged. {Black act}, the English statute 9 George I, which makes it a felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or to hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blackened or disguised. Subsequent acts inflicting heavy penalties for malicious injuries to cattle and machinery have been called black acts. {Black angel} (Zo[94]l.), a fish of the West Indies and Florida ({Holacanthus tricolor}), with the head and tail yellow, and the middle of the body black. {Black antimony} (Chem.), the black sulphide of antimony, {Sb2S3}, used in pyrotechnics, etc. {Black bear} (Zo[94]l.), the common American bear ({Ursus Americanus}). {Black beast}. See {B[88]te noire}. {Black beetle} (Zo[94]l.), the common large cockroach ({Blatta orientalis}). {Black and blue}, the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue. [bd]To pinch the slatterns black and blue.[b8] --Hudibras. {Black bonnet} (Zo[94]l.), the black-headed bunting ({Embriza Sch[d2]niclus}) of Europe. {Black canker}, a disease in turnips and other crops, produced by a species of caterpillar. {Black cat} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher, a quadruped of North America allied to the sable, but larger. See {Fisher}. {Black cattle}, any bovine cattle reared for slaughter, in distinction from dairy cattle. [Eng.] {Black cherry}. See under {Cherry}. {Black cockatoo} (Zo[94]l.), the palm cockatoo. See {Cockatoo}. {Black copper}. Same as {Melaconite}. {Black currant}. (Bot.) See {Currant}. {Black diamond}. (Min.) See {Carbonado}. {Black draught} (Med.), a cathartic medicine, composed of senna and magnesia. {Black drop} (Med.), vinegar of opium; a narcotic preparation consisting essentially of a solution of opium in vinegar. {Black earth}, mold; earth of a dark color. --Woodward. {Black flag}, the flag of a pirate, often bearing in white a skull and crossbones; a signal of defiance. {Black flea} (Zo[94]l.), a flea beetle ({Haltica nemorum}) injurious to turnips. {Black flux}, a mixture of carbonate of potash and charcoal, obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of niter. --Brande & C. {Black fly}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) In the United States, a small, venomous, two-winged fly of the genus {Simulium} of several species, exceedingly abundant and troublesome in the northern forests. The larv[91] are aquatic. (b) A black plant louse, as the bean aphis ({A. fab[91]}). {Black Forest} [a translation of G. Schwarzwald], a forest in Baden and W[81]rtemburg, in Germany; a part of the ancient Hercynian forest. {Black game}, or {Black grouse}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Blackcock}, {Grouse}, and {Heath grouse}. {Black grass} (Bot.), a grasslike rush of the species {Juncus Gerardi}, growing on salt marshes, and making good hay. {Black gum} (Bot.), an American tree, the tupelo or pepperidge. See {Tupelo}. {Black Hamburg (grape)} (Bot.), a sweet and juicy variety of dark purple or [bd]black[b8] grape. {Black horse} (Zo[94]l.), a fish of the Mississippi valley ({Cycleptus elongatus}), of the sucker family; the Missouri sucker. {Black lemur} (Zo[94]l.), the {Lemurniger} of Madagascar; the {acoumbo} of the natives. {Black list}, a list of persons who are for some reason thought deserving of censure or punishment; -- esp. a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, made for the protection of tradesmen or employers. See {Blacklist}, v. t. {Black manganese} (Chem.), the black oxide of manganese, {MnO2}. {Black Maria}, the close wagon in which prisoners are carried to or from jail. {Black martin} (Zo[94]l.), the chimney swift. See {Swift}. {Black moss} (Bot.), the common so-called long moss of the southern United States. See {Tillandsia}. {Black oak}. See under {Oak}. {Black ocher}. See {Wad}. {Black pigment}, a very fine, light carbonaceous substance, or lampblack, prepared chiefly for the manufacture of printers' ink. It is obtained by burning common coal tar. {Black plate}, sheet iron before it is tinned. --Knight. {Black quarter}, malignant anthrax with engorgement of a shoulder or quarter, etc., as of an ox. {Black rat} (Zo[94]l.), one of the species of rats ({Mus rattus}), commonly infesting houses. {Black rent}. See {Blackmail}, n., 3. {Black rust}, a disease of wheat, in which a black, moist matter is deposited in the fissures of the grain. {Black sheep}, one in a family or company who is unlike the rest, and makes trouble. {Black silver}. (Min.) See under {Silver}. {Black and tan}, black mixed or spotted with tan color or reddish brown; -- used in describing certain breeds of dogs. {Black tea}. See under {Tea}. {Black tin} (Mining), tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed, stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form of a black powder, like fine sand. --Knight. {Black walnut}. See under {Walnut}. {Black warrior} (Zo[94]l.), an American hawk ({Buteo Harlani}). Syn: Dark; murky; pitchy; inky; somber; dusky; gloomy; swart; Cimmerian; ebon; atrocious. | |
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Cyclobranchiate \Cy`clo*bran"chi*ate\ (s?`kl?-br?n"k?-?t), a. [Cyclo- + branchiate.] (Zo[94]l) Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets. | |
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Cyclop \Cy"clop\ (s?"kl?p), n. See Note under {Cyclops}, 1. | |
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Cyclopedia \Cy`clo*pe"di*a\ Cyclop91dia \Cy`clo*p[91]"di*a\(s?`kl?-p?"d?-?), n. [NL., from Gr. ky`klos circle + paidei`a the bringing up of a child, education, erudition, fr. paidey`ein to bring up a child. See {Cycle}, and cf. {Encyclopedia}, {Pedagogue}.] The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See {Encyclopedia}. | |
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Cyclopean \Cy`clo*pe"an\ (s?`kl?-p?"an), a. [L. Cyclopeus, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?], fr. [?][?][?][?][?] Cyclops: cf. F. cyclopeen.] Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture. | |
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Cyclopedia \Cy`clo*pe"di*a\ Cyclop91dia \Cy`clo*p[91]"di*a\(s?`kl?-p?"d?-?), n. [NL., from Gr. ky`klos circle + paidei`a the bringing up of a child, education, erudition, fr. paidey`ein to bring up a child. See {Cycle}, and cf. {Encyclopedia}, {Pedagogue}.] The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See {Encyclopedia}. | |
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Cyclopedic \Cy`clo*ped"ic\ (s?`kl?-p?d"?k [or] -p?"d?k), a. Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge. | |
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Cyclopedist \Cy`clo*pe"dist\ (-p?"d?st), n. A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia. | |
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Green \Green\, a. [Compar. {Greener}; superl. {Greenest.}] [OE. grene, AS. gr?ne; akin to D. groen, OS. gr?ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr?n, Dan. & Sw. gr?n, Icel. gr?nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See {Grow.}] 1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald. 2. Having a sickly color; wan. To look so green and pale. --Shak. 3. Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. --Burke. 4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. 5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.] We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L. Watts. 6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs. --Sir W. Scott. 7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. --Shak. {Green brier} (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the United States; -- called also {cat brier}. {Green con} (Zo[94]l.), the pollock. {Green crab} (Zo[94]l.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally named {joe-rocker}. {Green crop}, a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop, etc. {Green diallage}. (Min.) (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene. (b) Smaragdite. {Green dragon} (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant ({Aris[91]ma Dracontium}), resembling the Indian turnip; -- called also {dragon root}. {Green earth} (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also {mountain green}. {Green ebony}. (a) A south American tree ({Jacaranda ovalifolia}), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing. (b) The West Indian green ebony. See {Ebony}. {Green fire} (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate), to which the color of the flame is due. {Green fly} (Zo[94]l.), any green species of plant lice or aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants. {Green gage}, (Bot.) See {Greengage}, in the Vocabulary. {Green gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of a pair of large green glands in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[91]. {Green hand}, a novice. [Colloq.] {Green heart} (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and Guiana is the {Nectandra Rodi[d2]i}, that of Martinique is the {Colubrina ferruginosa}. {Green iron ore} (Min.) dufrenite. {Green laver} (Bot.), an edible seaweed ({Ulva latissima}); -- called also {green sloke}. {Green lead ore} (Min.), pyromorphite. {Green linnet} (Zo[94]l.), the greenfinch. {Green looper} (Zo[94]l.), the cankerworm. {Green marble} (Min.), serpentine. {Green mineral}, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See {Greengill}. {Green monkey} (Zo[94]l.) a West African long-tailed monkey ({Cercopithecus callitrichus}), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies early in the last century, and has become very abundant there. {Green salt of Magnus} (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum. {Green sand} (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made. {Green sea} (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck. {Green sickness} (Med.), chlorosis. {Green snake} (Zo[94]l.), one of two harmless American snakes ({Cyclophis vernalis}, and {C. [91]stivus}). They are bright green in color. {Green turtle} (Zo[94]l.), an edible marine turtle. See {Turtle}. {Green vitriol}. (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as {copperas}, {melanterite} and {sulphate of iron}. {Green ware}, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. {Green woodpecker} (Zo[94]l.), a common European woodpecker ({Picus viridis}); -- called also {yaffle}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cyclopic \Cy*clop"ic\ (s?-kl?p"?k), a. [Gr. [?][?][?][?][?], fr. [?][?][?][?].] Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cyclops \Cy"clops\ (s?"kl?ps), n. sing. & pl. [L. Cyclops, Gr. Ky`klwps (strictly round-eyed), pl. Ky`klwpes; ky`klos circle + 'w`ps eye.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna. Note: Pope, in his translation of the [bd]Odyssey,[b8] uniformly spells this word Cyclop, when used in the singular. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See {Copepoda}. 3. A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lumpfish \Lump"fish`\, n. [From {Lump}, on account of its bulkiness: cf. G. & D. lump, F. lompe.] (Zo[94]l.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish ({Cyclopterus lumpus}) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also {lumpsucker}, {cock-paddle}, {sea owl}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Casselberry, FL (city, FIPS 11050) Location: 28.66342 N, 81.32352 W Population (1990): 18911 (8089 housing units) Area: 15.7 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32707 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Caswell Beach, NC (town, FIPS 10960) Location: 33.90482 N, 78.04854 W Population (1990): 175 (439 housing units) Area: 7.9 sq km (land), 1.9 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cecil Field Nas, FL Zip code(s): 32215 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cecil-Bishop, PA (CDP, FIPS 11883) Location: 40.31644 N, 80.19101 W Population (1990): 2701 (974 housing units) Area: 6.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
cycle of reincarnation n. See {wheel of reincarnation}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
cycle of reincarnation A term coined by {Ivan Sutherland} ca. 1970 to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose {peripheral} hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main {CPU}, at which point the cycle begins again. Several iterations of this cycle have been observed in {graphics-processor} ({blitter}) design, and at least one or two in communications and {floating-point} processors. Also known as "the Wheel of Life", "the Wheel of Samsara" and other variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological idea. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
cyclebabble speed}. {IBM} uses raw clock speed as the speed of the computer. In the {IBM PC} and {IBM PC XT}, the clock is divided by 4 to produce the 4-phase bus clocks. Thus a 4 MHz IBM XT really runs at 0.895 MHz, because that 4 MHz was really 3.58 MHz which gets divided by four. A {Tandy} {Color Computer} ran at exactly the same speed, but clock speed was specified as bus speed, 0.895 MHz, leaving the impression that it was 4 times slower. Actually it ran a little faster with a more efficient {instruction set}. If the actual clock frequency had been specified on a {CoCo 3}, it would have been 14.32 MHz, although the bus speed was still 0.895 MHz. That high speed also generated video, color, and {hidden refresh} timing. 100 MHz computers are running at bus speeds of around 25 MHz. (1997-02-13) |