certainty : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

C-ration
n 1: a canned field ration issued by the United States Army

English Dictionary: certainty	by the DICT Development Group
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card index n an alphabetical listing of items (e.g., books in a library) with a separate card for each item Synonym(s): card index, card catalog, card catalogue
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Cardamine n bittercress, bitter cress [syn: Cardamine, {genus Cardamine}]
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Cardamine bulbifera n European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock [syn: coral-root bittercress, coralroot, coralwort, Cardamine bulbifera, Dentaria bulbifera]
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Cardamine bulbosa n small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America Synonym(s): spring cress, Cardamine bulbosa
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Cardamine diphylla n North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots Synonym(s): crinkleroot, crinkle-root, crinkle root, pepper root, toothwort, Cardamine diphylla, Dentaria diphylla
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Cardamine douglasii n small perennial herb of cooler regions of North America with racemose purple flowers Synonym(s): purple cress, Cardamine douglasii
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Cardamine pratensis n a bitter cress of Europe and America [syn: lady's smock, cuckooflower, cuckoo flower, meadow cress, Cardamine pratensis]
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Cardamine rotundifolia n mat-forming perennial found in cold springs of the eastern United States Synonym(s): American watercress, mountain watercress, Cardamine rotundifolia
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cardamom n rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning Synonym(s): cardamom, cardamon, Elettaria cardamomum aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces Synonym(s): cardamom, cardamon, cardamum
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cardamon n rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning Synonym(s): cardamom, cardamon, Elettaria cardamomum aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces Synonym(s): cardamom, cardamon, cardamum
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cardamum n aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces Synonym(s): cardamom, cardamon, cardamum
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cardinal adj serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure" Synonym(s): cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers" Antonym(s): ordinal n (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order Synonym(s): cardinal number, cardinal a variable color averaging a vivid red Synonym(s): cardinal, carmine crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male Synonym(s): cardinal, cardinal grosbeak, Richmondena Cardinalis, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird
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Cardinal Bellarmine n Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621) [syn: Bellarmine, Bellarmino, Cardinal Bellarmine, Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine]
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cardinal compass point n one of the four main compass points
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cardinal flower n North American lobelia having brilliant red flowers [syn: cardinal flower, Indian pink, Lobelia cardinalis]
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cardinal grosbeak n crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male Synonym(s): cardinal, cardinal grosbeak, Richmondena Cardinalis, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird
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Cardinal Newman n English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890) Synonym(s): Newman, John Henry Newman, Cardinal Newman
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cardinal number n the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order Synonym(s): cardinal number, cardinal
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Cardinal Richelieu n French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642) Synonym(s): Richelieu, Duc de Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu
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cardinal tetra n small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Colombia Synonym(s): cardinal tetra, Paracheirodon axelrodi
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cardinal vein n any of the major venous channels in primitive adult vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates
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cardinal virtue n one of the seven preeminent virtues
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cardinalate n cardinals collectively
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cardinalfish n small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters
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Cardinalis cardinalis n crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male Synonym(s): cardinal, cardinal grosbeak, Richmondena Cardinalis, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird
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cardinality n (mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping)
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cardinalship n the office of cardinal
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cardiomegaly n an abnormal enlargement of the heart; "mild cardiomegaly is common in athletes" Synonym(s): cardiomegaly, megalocardia, megacardia, enlarged heart
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cardiomyopathy n a disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium) Synonym(s): cardiomyopathy, myocardiopathy
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Cardium n type genus of the family Cardiidae: cockles [syn: Cardium, genus Cardium]
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Cardium edule n common edible European cockle [syn: edible cockle, Cardium edule]
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cardoon n southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots Synonym(s): cardoon, Cynara cardunculus only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes
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carotene n an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver Synonym(s): provitamin A, carotene, carotin yellow or orange-red fat-soluble pigments in plants
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carotenemia n excess carotene in the blood stream; can cause the skin to turn a pale yellow or red color Synonym(s): carotenemia, xanthemia
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carotenoid n any of a class of highly unsaturated yellow to red pigments occurring in plants and animals
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carotin n an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver Synonym(s): provitamin A, carotene, carotin
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Carthamus n safflower Synonym(s): Carthamus, genus Carthamus
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Carthamus tinctorius n thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil Synonym(s): safflower, false saffron, Carthamus tinctorius
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carting n the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it Synonym(s): cartage, carting
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carton n the quantity contained in a carton [syn: carton, cartonful] a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top
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cartonful n the quantity contained in a carton [syn: carton, cartonful]
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cartoon n a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine Synonym(s): cartoon, sketch a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence Synonym(s): cartoon, animated cartoon, toon v draw cartoons of
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cartoon strip n a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book Synonym(s): comic strip, cartoon strip, strip, funnies
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cartoonist n a person who draws cartoons
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Carya tomentosa n smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut Synonym(s): mockernut, mockernut hickory, black hickory, white-heart hickory, big-bud hickory, Carya tomentosa
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ceratin n a fibrous scleroprotein that occurs in the outer layer of the skin and in horny tissues such as hair, feathers, nails, and hooves Synonym(s): keratin, ceratin
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Ceratonia n carobs Synonym(s): Ceratonia, genus Ceratonia
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Ceratonia siliqua n evergreen Mediterranean tree with edible pods; the biblical carob Synonym(s): carob, carob tree, carob bean tree, algarroba, Ceratonia siliqua
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certain adj definite but not specified or identified; "set aside a certain sum each week"; "to a certain degree"; "certain breeds do not make good pets"; "certain members have not paid their dues"; "a certain popular teacher"; "a certain Mrs. Jones" having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured; "felt certain of success"; "was sure (or certain) she had seen it"; "was very sure in his beliefs"; "sure of her friends" Synonym(s): certain(p), sure Antonym(s): incertain, uncertain, unsure established beyond doubt or question; definitely known; "what is certain is that every effect must have a cause"; "it is certain that they were on the bus"; "his fate is certain"; "the date for the invasion is certain" Antonym(s): uncertain certain to occur; destined or inevitable; "he was certain to fail"; "his fate is certain"; "In this life nothing is certain but death and taxes"- Benjamin Franklin; "he faced certain death"; "sudden but sure regret"; "he is sure to win" Synonym(s): certain, sure Antonym(s): uncertain established irrevocably; "his fate is sealed" Synonym(s): sealed, certain Antonym(s): uncertain, unsealed reliable in operation or effect; "a quick and certain remedy"; "a sure way to distinguish the two"; "wood dust is a sure sign of termites" Synonym(s): certain, sure exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance; "be certain to disconnect the iron when you are through"; "be sure to lock the doors" Synonym(s): certain, sure
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certainly adv definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" Synonym(s): surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting
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certainty n the state of being certain; "his certainty reassured the others" Antonym(s): doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty something that is certain; "his victory is a certainty" Synonym(s): certainty, sure thing, foregone conclusion Antonym(s): precariousness, uncertainness, uncertainty
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Certhia americana n a common creeper in North America with a down-curved bill Synonym(s): brown creeper, American creeper, Certhia americana
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Chardonnay n white wine grape Synonym(s): Chardonnay, chardonnay grape dry white table wine resembling Chablis but made from Chardonnay grapes Synonym(s): Chardonnay, Pinot Chardonnay
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chardonnay grape n white wine grape Synonym(s): Chardonnay, chardonnay grape
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cherry tomato n plant bearing small red to yellow fruit [syn: {cherry tomato}, Lycopersicon esculentum cerasiforme] small red to yellow tomatoes
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chordamesoderm n the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord [syn: chordamesoderm, chordomesoderm]
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chordomesoderm n the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord [syn: chordamesoderm, chordomesoderm]
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co-ordinate n a number that identifies a position relative to an axis Synonym(s): coordinate, co-ordinate
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co-ordinated adj intentionally matched; "curtains and walls were color coordinated" Synonym(s): coordinated, co-ordinated, matching operating as a unit; "a unified utility system"; "a coordinated program" Synonym(s): coordinated, co-ordinated, interconnected, unified being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements; "she was usually good with her hands and well coordinated"- Mary McCarthy Synonym(s): coordinated, co- ordinated
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coordinate adj of equal importance, rank, or degree n a number that identifies a position relative to an axis Synonym(s): coordinate, co-ordinate v bring order and organization to; "Can you help me organize my files?" Synonym(s): organize, organise, coordinate bring into common action, movement, or condition; "coordinate the painters, masons, and plumbers"; "coordinate his actions with that of his colleagues"; "coordinate our efforts" be co-ordinated; "These activities coordinate well" bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation; "align the wheels of my car"; "ordinate similar parts" Synonym(s): align, ordinate, coordinate
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coordinate axis n one of the fixed reference lines of a coordinate system
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coordinate bond n a covalent bond in which both electrons are provided by one of the atoms Synonym(s): coordinate bond, dative bond
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coordinate clause n a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function
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coordinate geometry n the use of algebra to study geometric properties; operates on symbols defined in a coordinate system Synonym(s): analytic geometry, analytical geometry, coordinate geometry
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coordinate system n a system that uses coordinates to establish position [syn: coordinate system, frame of reference, reference system, reference frame]
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coordinated adj operating as a unit; "a unified utility system"; "a coordinated program" Synonym(s): coordinated, co-ordinated, interconnected, unified being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements; "she was usually good with her hands and well coordinated"- Mary McCarthy Synonym(s): coordinated, co- ordinated intentionally matched; "curtains and walls were color coordinated" Synonym(s): coordinated, co-ordinated, matching
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coordinated universal time n Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds [syn: coordinated universal time, UTC]
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coordinately adv in a coordinated manner
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coordinating adj serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction; "`and' in `John and Mary' or in `John walked and Mary rode' is a coordinating conjunction; and so is `or' in `will you go or stay?'" Synonym(s): coordinating(a), coordinative Antonym(s): subordinating(a), subordinative
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coordinating conjunction n the coordination by conjunction of linguistic units of the same status a conjunction (like `and' or `or') that connects two identically constructed grammatical constituents
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coordination n the skillful and effective interaction of movements [ant: incoordination] the regulation of diverse elements into an integrated and harmonious operation the grammatical relation of two constituents having the same grammatical form being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree
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coordination compound n a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated Synonym(s): complex, coordination compound
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coordinative adj serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction; "`and' in `John and Mary' or in `John walked and Mary rode' is a coordinating conjunction; and so is `or' in `will you go or stay?'" Synonym(s): coordinating(a), coordinative Antonym(s): subordinating(a), subordinative
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coordinator n someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously
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cordon n a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank adornment consisting of an ornamental ribbon or cord
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cordon bleu n a chef famous for his great skill an honor or award gained for excellence Synonym(s): blue ribbon, cordon bleu
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cordon off v divide by means of a rope; "The police roped off the area where the crime occurred" Synonym(s): rope in, rope off, cordon off
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core dump n (computer science) dump of the contents of the chief registers in the CPU; usually used for debugging
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Corrodentia n an order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice [syn: Psocoptera, order Psocoptera, Corrodentia, order Corrodentia]
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corroding n erosion by chemical action [syn: corrosion, corroding, erosion]
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cortina n a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils
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Cortinariaceae n a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales [syn: Cortinariaceae, family Cortinariaceae]
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Cortinarius n the largest genus in the Agaricales; agarics having rusty spores and prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils) Synonym(s): Cortinarius, genus Cortinarius
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Cortinarius armillatus n a fungus with large tawny caps and pale cinnamon gills and a red band of veil around the stalk; usually found near birch trees
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Cortinarius atkinsonianus n an edible fungus with a slimy viscid cap that is initially yellow but turns olive and then tawny; flesh is lavender
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Cortinarius corrugatus n a fungus with a viscid wrinkled tawny cap; the stalk has a basal bulb that diminishes as the stalk elongates; the gills are dark violet at first but soon turn brown
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Cortinarius gentilis n a poisonous fungus with a bright yellow brown cap and a long cinnamon colored stalk
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Cortinarius mutabilis n a fungus with a reddish purple cap having a smooth slimy surface; close violet gills; all parts stain dark purple when bruised Synonym(s): Cortinarius mutabilis, purple- staining Cortinarius
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Cortinarius semisanguineus n a fungus with a dry brown cap and rusty red gills and a yellowish stalk
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Cortinarius subfoetidus n a fungus with a sticky lavender cap and stalk that whitish above and covered with a silky lavender sheath
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Cortinarius violaceus n a fungus that is violet overall with a squamulose cap
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Cortone Acetate n a corticosteroid hormone (trade name Cortone Acetate) normally produced by the adrenal cortex; is converted to hydrocortisone Synonym(s): cortisone, Cortone Acetate
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court tennis n an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court Synonym(s): royal tennis, real tennis, court tennis
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court-martial n a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law a trial that is conducted by a military court v subject to trial by court-martial
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courting n a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief and intense courtship" Synonym(s): courtship, wooing, courting, suit
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craton n the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian
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create mentally v create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands Synonym(s): create by mental act, create mentally
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creatin n an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction Synonym(s): creatine, creatin
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creatine n an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction Synonym(s): creatine, creatin
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creatine phosphate n an organic compound of creatine and phosphoric acid; found in the muscles of vertebrates where its hydrolysis releases energy for muscular contraction Synonym(s): phosphocreatine, creatine phosphate, creatine phosphoric acid
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creatine phosphoric acid n an organic compound of creatine and phosphoric acid; found in the muscles of vertebrates where its hydrolysis releases energy for muscular contraction Synonym(s): phosphocreatine, creatine phosphate, creatine phosphoric acid
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creating by mental acts n the act of creating something by thinking
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creating by removal n the act of creating by removing something
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creating from raw materials n the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it
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creation n the human act of creating [syn: creation, {creative activity}] an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone the event that occurred at the beginning of something; "from its creation the plan was doomed to failure" Synonym(s): creation, conception the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society" Synonym(s): initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence" Synonym(s): universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos, macrocosm
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creation science n an effort to give scientific support for the truth of the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis
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creationism n the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis; "creationism denies the theory of evolution of species"
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credence n the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true; "he gave credence to the gossip"; "acceptance of Newtonian mechanics was unquestioned for 200 years" Synonym(s): credence, acceptance a kind of sideboard or buffet Synonym(s): credenza, credence
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credendum n (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided Synonym(s): article of faith, credendum
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credential n a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts Synonym(s): certificate, certification, credential, credentials
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credentialled adj certified as professional by evidence or testimonials; "credentialled day care workers"
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credentials n a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts Synonym(s): certificate, certification, credential, credentials
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credenza n a kind of sideboard or buffet Synonym(s): credenza, credence
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Cretan n a native or inhabitant of Crete
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cretan dittany n dwarf aromatic shrub of Crete [syn: dittany of crete, cretan dittany, crete dittany, hop marjoram, winter sweet, Origanum dictamnus]
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cretin n a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard]
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cretinism n severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting
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cretinous adj afflicted with cretinism
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cretonne n an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies
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Croatian adj of or relating to or characteristic of Croatia or its people or language; "Croatian villages" n a member of the Slavic people living in Croatia [syn: Croatian, Croat]
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croton n grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant Synonym(s): croton, Codiaeum variegatum tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil Synonym(s): croton, Croton tiglium
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Croton bug n small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest Synonym(s): German cockroach, Croton bug, crotonbug, water bug, Blattella germanica
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Croton eluteria n West Indian shrub with aromatic bark [syn: cascarilla, Croton eluteria]
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croton oil n viscid acrid brownish-yellow oil from the seeds of Croton tiglium having a violent cathartic action
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Croton tiglium n tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil [syn: croton, Croton tiglium]
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crotonbug n small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest Synonym(s): German cockroach, Croton bug, crotonbug, water bug, Blattella germanica
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crouton n a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads
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crowding n a situation in which people or things are crowded together; "he didn't like the crowding on the beach"
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crudeness n a wild or unrefined state [syn: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness] an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness" Synonym(s): crudeness, crudity, gaucheness an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her" Synonym(s): crudeness, roughness
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curettement n surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette Synonym(s): curettage, curettement
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Curie temperature n the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic Synonym(s): Curie temperature, Curie point
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curtain n hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) Synonym(s): curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall any barrier to communication or vision; "a curtain of secrecy"; "a curtain of trees" v provide with drapery; "curtain the bedrooms"
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curtain call n an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience Synonym(s): bow, curtain call
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curtain lecture n a private lecture to a husband by his wife
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curtain off v separate by means of a curtain
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curtain raiser n any preliminary activity a short play presented before the main play
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curtain raising n the first performance (as of a theatrical production); "the opening received good critical reviews" Synonym(s): opening, opening night, curtain raising
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curtain ring n a circular ring for holding up a curtain
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curtained adj furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies; "a curtained alcove" Antonym(s): curtainless, uncurtained
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curtainless adj not provided with curtains; "blank, curtainless windows stared back at her" Synonym(s): curtainless, uncurtained Antonym(s): curtained
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curtness n an abrupt discourteous manner [syn: abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortness]
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Cyrtomium n small genus of tropical Asiatic greenhouse ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceae Synonym(s): Cyrtomium, genus Cyrtomium
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Cyrtomium aculeatum n tropical Old World fern having glossy fronds suggestive of holly; sometimes placed in genus Polystichum Synonym(s): holly fern, Cyrtomium aculeatum, Polystichum aculeatum
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Dragon \Drag"on\, n. [F. dragon, L. draco, fr. Gr. [?], prob. fr. [?], [?], to look (akin to Skr. dar[?] to see), and so called from its terrible eyes. Cf. {Drake} a dragon, {Dragoon}.] 1. (Myth.) A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious. The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile. --Fairholt. Note: In Scripture the term dragon refers to any great monster, whether of the land or sea, usually to some kind of serpent or reptile, sometimes to land serpents of a powerful and deadly kind. It is also applied metaphorically to Satan. Thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. -- Ps. lxxiv. 13. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. -- Ps. xci. 13. He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. --Rev. xx. 2. 2. A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman. --Johnson. 3. (Astron.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco. 4. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent. 5. (Mil. Antiq.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle. --Fairholt. 6. (Zo[94]l.) A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also {flying lizard}. 7. (Zo[94]l.) A variety of carrier pigeon. 8. (Her.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms. Note: Dragon is often used adjectively, or in combination, in the sense of relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a dragon. {Dragon arum} (Bot.), the name of several species of {Aris[91]ma}, a genus of plants having a spathe and spadix. See {Dragon root}(below). {Dragon fish} (Zo[94]l.), the dragonet. {Dragon fly} (Zo[94]l.), any insect of the family {Libellulid[91]}. They have finely formed, large and strongly reticulated wings, a large head with enormous eyes, and a long body; -- called also {mosquito hawks}. Their larv[91] are aquatic and insectivorous. {Dragon root} (Bot.), an American aroid plant ({Aris[91]ma Dracontium}); green dragon. {Dragon's blood}, a resinous substance obtained from the fruit of several species of {Calamus}, esp. from {C. Rotang} and {C. Draco}, growing in the East Indies. A substance known as dragon's blood is obtained by exudation from {Drac[91]na Draco}; also from {Pterocarpus Draco}, a tree of the West Indies and South America. The color is red, or a dark brownish red, and it is used chiefly for coloring varnishes, marbles, etc. Called also {Cinnabar Gr[91]corum}. {Dragon's head}. (a) (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus {Dracocephalum}. They are perennial herbs closely allied to the common catnip. (b) (Astron.) The ascending node of a planet, indicated, chiefly in almanacs, by the symbol [?]. The deviation from the ecliptic made by a planet in passing from one node to the other seems, according to the fancy of some, to make a figure like that of a dragon, whose belly is where there is the greatest latitude; the intersections representing the head and tail; -- from which resemblance the denomination arises. --Encyc. Brit. {Dragon shell} (Zo[94]l.), a species of limpet. {Dragon's skin}, fossil stems whose leaf scars somewhat resemble the scales of reptiles; -- a name used by miners and quarrymen. --Stormonth. {Dragon's tail} (Astron.), the descending node of a planet, indicated by the symbol [?]. See {Dragon's head} (above). {Dragon's wort} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Artemisia} ({A. dracunculus}). {Dragon tree} (Bot.), a West African liliaceous tree ({Drac[91]na Draco}), yielding one of the resins called dragon's blood. See {Drac[91]na}. {Dragon water}, a medicinal remedy very popular in the earlier half of the 17th century. [bd]Dragon water may do good upon him.[b8] --Randolph (1640). {Flying dragon}, a large meteoric fireball; a bolide.
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Cardamine \Car"da*mine\, n. [L. cardamina, Gr. [?]: cf. F. cardamine.] (Bot.) A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.
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Cardamom \Car"damom\ (k[aum]r"d[adot]m[ucr]m), n. [L. cardamomun, Gr. karda`mwmon] 1. The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine. 2. (Bot.) A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. {Elettaria Cardamomum} and several species of {Amomum}.
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Cardinal \Car"di*nal\, a. [L. cardinalis, fr. cardo the hinge of a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: cf. F. cardinal.] Of fundamental importance; pre[89]minent; superior; chief; principal. The cardinal intersections of the zodiac. --Sir T. Browne. Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. --Drayton. But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. --Shak. {Cardinal numbers}, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called {ordinal numbers}. {Cardinal points} (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir. {Cardinal signs} (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and Capricorn. {Cardinal teeth} (Zo[94]l.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See {Bivalve}. {Cardinal veins} (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. {Cardinal virtues}, pre[89]minent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. {Cardinal winds}, winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.
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Cardinal \Car"di*nal\, n. [F. carinal, It. cardinale, LL. cardinalis (ecclesi[91] Roman[91]). See {Cardinal}, a.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college. The clerics of the supreme Chair are called Cardinals, as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the hinge by which all things are moved. --Pope Leo IX. Note: The cardinals are appointed by the pope. Since the time of Sixtus V., their number can never exceed seventy (six of episcopal rank, fifty priests, fourteen deacons), and the number of cardinal priests and deacons is seldom full. When the papel chair is vacant a pope is elected by the college of cardinals from among themselves. The cardinals take precedence of all dignitaries except the pope. The principal parts of a cardinal's costume are a red cassock, a rochet, a short purple mantle, and a red hat with a small crown and broad brim, with cords and tessels of a special pattern hanging from it. 2. A woman's short cloak with a hood. Where's your cardinal! Make haste. --Lloyd. 3. Mulled red wine. --Hotten.
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{Cardinal bird}, or {Cardinal grosbeak} (Zo[94]l.), an American song bird ({Cardinalis cardinalis}, or {C. Virginianus}), of the family {Fringillid[91]}, or finches having a bright red plumage, and a high, pointed crest on its head. The males have loud and musical notes resembling those of a fife. Other related species are also called cardinal birds. {Cardinal flower} (Bot.), an herbaceous plant ({Lobelia cardinalis}) bearing brilliant red flowers of much beauty. {Cardinal red}, a color like that of a cardinal's cassock, hat, etc.; a bright red, darker than scarlet, and between scarlet and crimson.
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Dean \Dean\, n. [OE. dene, deene, OF. deien, dien, F. doyen, eldest of a corporation, a dean, L. decanus the chief of ten, one set over ten persons, e. g., over soldiers or over monks, from decem ten. See {Ten}, and cf. {Decemvir}.] 1. A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop. {Dean of cathedral church}, the chief officer of a chapter; he is an ecclesiastical magistrate next in degree to bishop, and has immediate charge of the cathedral and its estates. {Dean of peculiars}, a dean holding a preferment which has some peculiarity relative to spiritual superiors and the jurisdiction exercised in it. [Eng.] {Rural dean}, one having, under the bishop, the especial care and inspection of the clergy within certain parishes or districts of the diocese. 2. The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college. --Shipley. 3. The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities. 4. A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department. [U.S.] 5. The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy. {Cardinal dean}, the senior cardinal bishop of the college of cardinals at Rome. --Shipley. {Dean and chapter}, the legal corporation and governing body of a cathedral. It consists of the dean, who is chief, and his canons or prebendaries. {Dean of arches}, the lay judge of the court of arches. {Dean of faculty}, the president of an incorporation or barristers; specifically, the president of the incorporation of advocates in Edinburgh. {Dean of guild}, a magistrate of Scotch burghs, formerly, and still, in some burghs, chosen by the Guildry, whose duty is to superintend the erection of new buildings and see that they conform to the law. {Dean of a monastery}, {Monastic dean}, a monastic superior over ten monks. {Dean's stall}. See {Decanal stall}, under {Decanal}.
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{Cardinal bird}, or {Cardinal grosbeak} (Zo[94]l.), an American song bird ({Cardinalis cardinalis}, or {C. Virginianus}), of the family {Fringillid[91]}, or finches having a bright red plumage, and a high, pointed crest on its head. The males have loud and musical notes resembling those of a fife. Other related species are also called cardinal birds. {Cardinal flower} (Bot.), an herbaceous plant ({Lobelia cardinalis}) bearing brilliant red flowers of much beauty. {Cardinal red}, a color like that of a cardinal's cassock, hat, etc.; a bright red, darker than scarlet, and between scarlet and crimson.
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{Cardinal bird}, or {Cardinal grosbeak} (Zo[94]l.), an American song bird ({Cardinalis cardinalis}, or {C. Virginianus}), of the family {Fringillid[91]}, or finches having a bright red plumage, and a high, pointed crest on its head. The males have loud and musical notes resembling those of a fife. Other related species are also called cardinal birds. {Cardinal flower} (Bot.), an herbaceous plant ({Lobelia cardinalis}) bearing brilliant red flowers of much beauty. {Cardinal red}, a color like that of a cardinal's cassock, hat, etc.; a bright red, darker than scarlet, and between scarlet and crimson.
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Number \Num"ber\, n. [OE. nombre, F. nombre, L. numerus; akin to Gr. [?] that which is dealt out, fr. [?] to deal out, distribute. See {Numb}, {Nomad}, and cf. {Numerate}, {Numero}, {Numerous}.] 1. That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures. 2. A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many. Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers. --Addison. 3. A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door. 4. Numerousness; multitude. Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage. --Bacon. 5. The state or quality of being numerable or countable. Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds out of number. --2 Esdras iii. 7. 6. Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things. 7. That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural. I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. --Pope. 8. (Gram.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one. 9. (Math.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value. {Abstract number}, {Abundant number}, {Cardinal number}, etc. See under {Abstract}, {Abundant}, etc. {In numbers}, in numbered parts; as, a book published in numbers.
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Cardinal \Car"di*nal\, a. [L. cardinalis, fr. cardo the hinge of a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: cf. F. cardinal.] Of fundamental importance; pre[89]minent; superior; chief; principal. The cardinal intersections of the zodiac. --Sir T. Browne. Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. --Drayton. But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. --Shak. {Cardinal numbers}, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called {ordinal numbers}. {Cardinal points} (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir. {Cardinal signs} (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and Capricorn. {Cardinal teeth} (Zo[94]l.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See {Bivalve}. {Cardinal veins} (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. {Cardinal virtues}, pre[89]minent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. {Cardinal winds}, winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.
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Cardinal \Car"di*nal\, a. [L. cardinalis, fr. cardo the hinge of a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: cf. F. cardinal.] Of fundamental importance; pre[89]minent; superior; chief; principal. The cardinal intersections of the zodiac. --Sir T. Browne. Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. --Drayton. But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. --Shak. {Cardinal numbers}, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called {ordinal numbers}. {Cardinal points} (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir. {Cardinal signs} (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and Capricorn. {Cardinal teeth} (Zo[94]l.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See {Bivalve}. {Cardinal veins} (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. {Cardinal virtues}, pre[89]minent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. {Cardinal winds}, winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.
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{Cardinal bird}, or {Cardinal grosbeak} (Zo[94]l.), an American song bird ({Cardinalis cardinalis}, or {C. Virginianus}), of the family {Fringillid[91]}, or finches having a bright red plumage, and a high, pointed crest on its head. The males have loud and musical notes resembling those of a fife. Other related species are also called cardinal birds. {Cardinal flower} (Bot.), an herbaceous plant ({Lobelia cardinalis}) bearing brilliant red flowers of much beauty. {Cardinal red}, a color like that of a cardinal's cassock, hat, etc.; a bright red, darker than scarlet, and between scarlet and crimson.
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Cardinal \Car"di*nal\, a. [L. cardinalis, fr. cardo the hinge of a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: cf. F. cardinal.] Of fundamental importance; pre[89]minent; superior; chief; principal. The cardinal intersections of the zodiac. --Sir T. Browne. Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. --Drayton. But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. --Shak. {Cardinal numbers}, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called {ordinal numbers}. {Cardinal points} (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir. {Cardinal signs} (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and Capricorn. {Cardinal teeth} (Zo[94]l.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See {Bivalve}. {Cardinal veins} (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. {Cardinal virtues}, pre[89]minent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. {Cardinal winds}, winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.
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Cardinal \Car"di*nal\, a. [L. cardinalis, fr. cardo the hinge of a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: cf. F. cardinal.] Of fundamental importance; pre[89]minent; superior; chief; principal. The cardinal intersections of the zodiac. --Sir T. Browne. Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. --Drayton. But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. --Shak. {Cardinal numbers}, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called {ordinal numbers}. {Cardinal points} (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir. {Cardinal signs} (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and Capricorn. {Cardinal teeth} (Zo[94]l.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See {Bivalve}. {Cardinal veins} (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. {Cardinal virtues}, pre[89]minent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. {Cardinal winds}, winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.
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Cardinal \Car"di*nal\, a. [L. cardinalis, fr. cardo the hinge of a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: cf. F. cardinal.] Of fundamental importance; pre[89]minent; superior; chief; principal. The cardinal intersections of the zodiac. --Sir T. Browne. Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. --Drayton. But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. --Shak. {Cardinal numbers}, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called {ordinal numbers}. {Cardinal points} (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir. {Cardinal signs} (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and Capricorn. {Cardinal teeth} (Zo[94]l.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See {Bivalve}. {Cardinal veins} (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. {Cardinal virtues}, pre[89]minent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. {Cardinal winds}, winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.
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Virtue \Vir"tue\ (?; 135), n. [OE. vertu, F. vertu, L. virtus strength, courage, excellence, virtue, fr. vir a man. See {Virile}, and cf. {Virtu}.] 1. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor. [Obs.] --Shak. Built too strong For force or virtue ever to expugn. --Chapman. 2. Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine. Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about. --Mark v. 30. A man was driven to depend for his security against misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his syntax. --De Quincey. The virtue of his midnight agony. --Keble. 3. Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance. She moves the body which she doth possess, Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch. --Sir. J. Davies. 4. Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth. I made virtue of necessity. --Chaucer. In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is better observed than in Terence, who thought the sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in of sentences. --B. Jonson. 5. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty. Virtue only makes our bliss below. --Pope. If there's Power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue. --Addison. 6. A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc. [bd]The very virtue of compassion.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Remember all his virtues.[b8] --Addison. 7. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity. H. I believe the girl has virtue. M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the world to attempt to corrupt it. --Goldsmith. 8. pl. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy. Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. --Milton. {Cardinal virtues}. See under {Cardinal}, a. {In}, [or] {By}, {virtue of}, through the force of; by authority of. [bd]He used to travel through Greece by virtue of this fable, which procured him reception in all the towns.[b8] --Addison. [bd]This they shall attain, partly in virtue of the promise made by God, and partly in virtue of piety.[b8] --Atterbury. {Theological virtues}, the three virtues, faith, hope, and charity. See --1 Cor. xiii. 13.
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Cardinal \Car"di*nal\, a. [L. cardinalis, fr. cardo the hinge of a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: cf. F. cardinal.] Of fundamental importance; pre[89]minent; superior; chief; principal. The cardinal intersections of the zodiac. --Sir T. Browne. Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. --Drayton. But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. --Shak. {Cardinal numbers}, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called {ordinal numbers}. {Cardinal points} (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir. {Cardinal signs} (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and Capricorn. {Cardinal teeth} (Zo[94]l.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See {Bivalve}. {Cardinal veins} (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. {Cardinal virtues}, pre[89]minent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. {Cardinal winds}, winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.
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Wind \Wind\ (w[icr]nd, in poetry and singing often w[imac]nd; 277), n. [AS. wind; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G. wind, OHG. wint, Dan. & Sw. vind, Icel. vindr, Goth winds, W. gwynt, L. ventus, Skr. v[be]ta (cf. Gr. 'ah`ths a blast, gale, 'ah^nai to breathe hard, to blow, as the wind); originally a p. pr. from the verb seen in Skr. v[be] to blow, akin to AS. w[be]wan, D. waaijen, G. wehen, OHG. w[be]en, w[be]jen, Goth. waian. [root]131. Cf. {Air}, {Ventail}, {Ventilate}, {Window}, {Winnow}.] 1. Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air. Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind that turns none to good. --Tusser. Winds were soft, and woods were green. --Longfellow. 2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows. 3. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. Their instruments were various in their kind, Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind. --Dryden. 4. Power of respiration; breath. If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. --Shak. 5. Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind. 6. Air impregnated with an odor or scent. A pack of dogfish had him in the wind. --Swift. 7. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds. Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain. --Ezek. xxxvii. 9. Note: This sense seems to have had its origin in the East. The Hebrews gave to each of the four cardinal points the name of wind. 8. (Far.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing. 9. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words. Nor think thou with wind Of airy threats to awe. --Milton. 10. (Zo[94]l.) The dotterel. [Prov. Eng.] Note: Wind is often used adjectively, or as the first part of compound words. {All in the wind}. (Naut.) See under {All}, n. {Before the wind}. (Naut.) See under {Before}. {Between wind and water} (Naut.), in that part of a ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's surface. Hence, colloquially, (as an injury to that part of a vessel, in an engagement, is particularly dangerous) the vulnerable part or point of anything. {Cardinal winds}. See under {Cardinal}, a. {Down the wind}. (a) In the direction of, and moving with, the wind; as, birds fly swiftly down the wind. (b) Decaying; declining; in a state of decay. [Obs.] [bd]He went down the wind still.[b8] --L'Estrange. {In the wind's eye} (Naut.), directly toward the point from which the wind blows. {Three sheets in the wind}, unsteady from drink. [Sailors' Slang]
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Cardinal \Car"di*nal\, a. [L. cardinalis, fr. cardo the hinge of a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: cf. F. cardinal.] Of fundamental importance; pre[89]minent; superior; chief; principal. The cardinal intersections of the zodiac. --Sir T. Browne. Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. --Drayton. But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. --Shak. {Cardinal numbers}, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called {ordinal numbers}. {Cardinal points} (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir. {Cardinal signs} (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and Capricorn. {Cardinal teeth} (Zo[94]l.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See {Bivalve}. {Cardinal veins} (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. {Cardinal virtues}, pre[89]minent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. {Cardinal winds}, winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.
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Cardinalate \Car"dinalate\, n. [Cf. F. cardinalat, LL. cardinalatus.] The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.
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{Cardinal bird}, or {Cardinal grosbeak} (Zo[94]l.), an American song bird ({Cardinalis cardinalis}, or {C. Virginianus}), of the family {Fringillid[91]}, or finches having a bright red plumage, and a high, pointed crest on its head. The males have loud and musical notes resembling those of a fife. Other related species are also called cardinal birds. {Cardinal flower} (Bot.), an herbaceous plant ({Lobelia cardinalis}) bearing brilliant red flowers of much beauty. {Cardinal red}, a color like that of a cardinal's cassock, hat, etc.; a bright red, darker than scarlet, and between scarlet and crimson.
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Cardinalize \Car"dinalize\, v. t. To exalt to the office of a cardinal. --Sheldon.
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Cardinalship \Car"dinalship\, n. The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal
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d8Cardo \[d8]Car"do\ (k[aum]r"d[osl]), n.; pl. {Cardines}.) [L., a hinge.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The basal joint of the maxilla in insects. (b) The hinge of a bivalve shell.
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Card \Card\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Carded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Carding}.] To play at cards; to game. --Johnson.
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Carding \Card"ing\, a. 1. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under {Card}, v. t. 2. A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine. {Carding engine}, {Carding machine}, a machine for carding cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the action of cylinders, or drum covered with wire-toothed cards, revoling nearly in contact with each other, at different rates of speed, or in opposite directions. The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called sivers.
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Carding \Card"ing\, a. 1. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under {Card}, v. t. 2. A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine. {Carding engine}, {Carding machine}, a machine for carding cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the action of cylinders, or drum covered with wire-toothed cards, revoling nearly in contact with each other, at different rates of speed, or in opposite directions. The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called sivers.
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Carding \Card"ing\, a. 1. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under {Card}, v. t. 2. A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine. {Carding engine}, {Carding machine}, a machine for carding cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the action of cylinders, or drum covered with wire-toothed cards, revoling nearly in contact with each other, at different rates of speed, or in opposite directions. The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called sivers.
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Cardioinhibitory \Car`dioinhib"ito*ry\, a. (Physiol.) Checking or arresting the heart's action.
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Cardiometry \Car`diom"etry\, n. [Gr. [?] heart + -metry.] (Med.) Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation.
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Cardoon \Cardoon"\ (k[aum]rd[oomac]n"), n. [F. cardon. The same word as F. cardon thistle, fr. L. carduus, cardus, LL. cardo. See 3d {Card}.] (Bot.) A large herbaceous plant ({Cynara Cardunculus}) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad.
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Caretuned \Care"*tuned\, a. Weary; mournful. --Shak.
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Carotin \Ca*ro"tin\, n. (Chem.) A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.
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Safranin \Saf"ra*nin\, n. (Chem.) (a) An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron. [R.] (b) A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also {Spanish red}, {China lake}, and {carthamin}. (c) An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.
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Carthamin \Car"tha*min\, n. (Chem.) A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or {Carthamus tinctorius}.
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Safranin \Saf"ra*nin\, n. (Chem.) (a) An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron. [R.] (b) A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also {Spanish red}, {China lake}, and {carthamin}. (c) An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.
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Carthamin \Car"tha*min\, n. (Chem.) A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or {Carthamus tinctorius}.
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Safflower \Saf"flow`er\, n. [F. safleur, saflor, for safran, influenced by fleur flower. See {Saffron}, and {Flower}.] 1. (Bot.) An annual composite plant ({Carthamus tinctorius}), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron. 2. The dried flowers of the {Carthamus tinctorius}. 3. A dyestuff from these flowers. See {Safranin} (b) . {Oil of safflower}, a purgative oil expressed from the seeds of the safflower.
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Carthamin \Car"tha*min\, n. (Chem.) A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or {Carthamus tinctorius}.
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Cart \Cart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Carted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Carting}.] 1. To carry or convey in a cart. 2. To expose in a cart by way of punishment. She chuckled when a bawd was carted. --Prior.
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Cartman \Cart"man\, n.; pl. {Cartmen}. One who drives or uses a cart; a teamster; a carter.
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Cartomancy \Car"to*man`cy\, n. [Cf. F. cartomancie. See {Card}, and {-mancy}.] The art of telling fortunes with cards.
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Carton \Car"ton\ (k[aum]r"t[ocr]n), n. [F. See {Cartoon}.] Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box. {[d8]Carton pierre}, a species of papier-mach[82], imitating stone or bronze sculpture. --Knight.
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Cartoon \Car*toon"\, n. [F. carton (cf. It. cartone pasteboard, cartoon); fr. L. charta. See 1st {card}.] 1. A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael. 2. A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of [bd]Puck.[b8]
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Cartoonist \Car*toon"ist\, n. One skilled in drawing cartoons.
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Mocker \Mock"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider. 2. A deceiver; an impostor. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A mocking bird. {Mocker nut} (Bot.), a kind of hickory ({Carya tomentosa}) and its fruit, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut.
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Carob \Car"ob\, n. [Cf. F. caroube fruit of the carob tree, Sp. garrobo, al-garrobo, carob tree, fr. Ar. kharr[d4]b, Per. Kharn[d4]b. Cf. {Clgaroba}.] 1. (Bot.) An evergreen leguminous tree ({Ceratania Siliqua}) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also {carob tree}. 2. One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called also {St. John's bread}, {carob bean}, and {algaroba bean}.
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Ceratine \Cer"a*tine\, a. [Gr. [?] the fallacy called [bd]the horns.[b8] fr. [?] a horn.] (Lagic.) Sophistical.
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Hawk moth \Hawk" moth`\ (?; 115). (Zo[94]l.) Any moth of the family {Sphingid[91]}, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larv[91] are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See {Sphinx}, also {Tobacco worm}, and {Tomato worm}. Tobacco Hawk Moth ({Macrosila Carolina}), and its Larva, the Tobacco Worm. Note: The larv[91] of several species of hawk moths feed on grapevines. The elm-tree hawk moth is {Ceratomia Amyntor}.
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Locust tree \Lo"cust tree`\ [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A large North American tree of the genus {Robinia} ({R. Pseudacacia}), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called {acacia}. Note: The name is also applied to other trees of different genera, especially to those of the genus {Hymen[91]a}, of which {H. Courbaril} is a lofty, spreading tree of South America; also to the carob tree ({Ceratonia siliqua}), a tree growing in the Mediterranean region. {Honey locust tree} (Bot.), a tree of the genus {Gleditschia} ) {G. triacanthus}), having pinnate leaves and strong branching thorns; -- so called from a sweet pulp found between the seeds in the pods. Called also simply {honey locust}. {Water locust tree} (Bot.), a small swamp tree ({Gleditschia monosperma}), of the Southern United States.
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Telescope \Tel"e*scope\, n. [Gr. [?] viewing afar, farseeing; [?] far, far off + [?] a watcher, akin to [?] to view: cf. F. t[82]lescope. See {Telegraph}, and {-scope}.] An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies. Note: A telescope assists the eye chiefly in two ways; first, by enlarging the visual angle under which a distant object is seen, and thus magnifying that object; and, secondly, by collecting, and conveying to the eye, a larger beam of light than would enter the naked organ, thus rendering objects distinct and visible which would otherwise be indistinct and or invisible. Its essential parts are the object glass, or concave mirror, which collects the beam of light, and forms an image of the object, and the eyeglass, which is a microscope, by which the image is magnified. {Achromatic telescope}. See under {Achromatic}. {Aplanatic telescope}, a telescope having an aplanatic eyepiece. {Astronomical telescope}, a telescope which has a simple eyepiece so constructed or used as not to reverse the image formed by the object glass, and consequently exhibits objects inverted, which is not a hindrance in astronomical observations. {Cassegrainian telescope}, a reflecting telescope invented by Cassegrain, which differs from the Gregorian only in having the secondary speculum convex instead of concave, and placed nearer the large speculum. The Cassegrainian represents objects inverted; the Gregorian, in their natural position. The Melbourne telescope (see Illust. under {Reflecting telescope}, below) is a Cassegrainian telescope. {Dialytic telescope}. See under {Dialytic}. {Equatorial telescope}. See the Note under {Equatorial}. {Galilean telescope}, a refracting telescope in which the eyeglass is a concave instead of a convex lens, as in the common opera glass. This was the construction originally adopted by Galileo, the inventor of the instrument. It exhibits the objects erect, that is, in their natural positions. {Gregorian telescope}, a form of reflecting telescope. See under {Gregorian}. {Herschelian telescope}, a reflecting telescope of the form invented by Sir William Herschel, in which only one speculum is employed, by means of which an image of the object is formed near one side of the open end of the tube, and to this the eyeglass is applied directly. {Newtonian telescope}, a form of reflecting telescope. See under {Newtonian}. {Photographic telescope}, a telescope specially constructed to make photographs of the heavenly bodies. {Prism telescope}. See {Teinoscope}. {Reflecting telescope}, a telescope in which the image is formed by a speculum or mirror (or usually by two speculums, a large one at the lower end of the telescope, and the smaller one near the open end) instead of an object glass. See {Gregorian, Cassegrainian, Herschelian, [and] Newtonian, telescopes}, above. {Refracting telescope}, a telescope in which the image is formed by refraction through an object glass. {Telescope carp} (Zo[94]l.), the telescope fish. {Telescope fish} (Zo[94]l.), a monstrous variety of the goldfish having very protuberant eyes. {Telescope fly} (Zo[94]l.), any two-winged fly of the genus {Diopsis}, native of Africa and Asia. The telescope flies are remarkable for having the eyes raised on very long stalks. {Telescope shell} (Zo[94]l.), an elongated gastropod ({Cerithium telescopium}) having numerous flattened whorls. {Telescope sight} (Firearms), a slender telescope attached to the barrel, having cross wires in the eyepiece and used as a sight. {Terrestrial telescope}, a telescope whose eyepiece has one or two lenses more than the astronomical, for the purpose of inverting the image, and exhibiting objects erect.
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Cerotene \Cer"o*tene\, n. [L. cerotum a pomade. See {Cerate}.] (Chem.) A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.
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Cerotin \Cer"o*tin\, n. [See {Cerotene}.] (Chem.) 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}.
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Certain \Cer"tain\, a. [F. certain, fr. (assumed) LL. certanus, fr. L. certus determined, fixed, certain, orig. p. p. of cernere to perceive, decide, determine; akin to Gr. [?] to decide, separate, and to E. concern, critic, crime, riddle a sieve, rinse, v.] 1. Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning. To make her certain of the sad event. --Dryden. I myself am certain of you. --Wyclif. 2. Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive. However, I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom. --Milton. 3. Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact. The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. --Dan. ii. 45. 4. Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable. Virtue that directs our ways Through certain dangers to uncertain praise. --Dryden. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. --Shak. 5. Unfailing; infallible. I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper. --Mead. 6. Fixed or stated; regular; determinate. The people go out and gather a certain rate every day. --Ex. xvi. 4. 7. Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons. It came to pass when he was in a certain city. --Luke. v. 12. About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum. --Macaulay. {For certain}, assuredly. {Of a certain}, certainly. Syn: Bound; sure; true; undeniable; unquestionable; undoubted; plain; indubitable; indisputable; incontrovertible; unhesitating; undoubting; fixed; stated.
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Certain \Cer"tain\, n. 1. Certainty. [Obs.] --Gower. 2. A certain number or quantity. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Certain \Cer"tain\, adv. Certainly. [Obs.] --Milton.
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Certainly \Cer"tain*ly\, adv. Without doubt or question; unquestionably.
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Certainness \Cer"tain*ness\, n. Certainty.
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Certainty \Cer"tainty\, n.; pl. {Certainties}. [OF. certainet[82].] 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty* of punishment is the truest security against crimes. --Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth unquestionable established. Certainties are uninteresting and sating. --Landor. 3. (Law) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. {Of a certainty}, certainly.
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Certainty \Cer"tainty\, n.; pl. {Certainties}. [OF. certainet[82].] 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty* of punishment is the truest security against crimes. --Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth unquestionable established. Certainties are uninteresting and sating. --Landor. 3. (Law) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. {Of a certainty}, certainly.
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Chariot \Char"i*ot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charioted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Charioting}.] To convey in a chariot. --Milton.
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Buffel duck \Buf"fel duck\ (b[ucr]f"f[ecr]l d[ucr]k`). [See {Buffalo}.] (Zo[94]l.) A small duck ({Charitonetta albeola}); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also {bufflehead}.
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Chartomancy \Char"to*man`cy\, n. [L. charta paper + -mancy. Cf. {Cartomancy}.] Divination by written paper or by cards.
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Chartometer \Chartom"eter\, n. [Chart + -meter.] An instrument for measuring charts or maps.
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Chord \Chord\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chorded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chording}.] To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune. When Jubal struck the chorded shell. --Dryden. Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp. --Beecher.
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Co94rdain \Co`[94]r*dain\, v. t. To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.
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Co94rdinance \Co[94]r"dinance\, n. Joint ordinance.
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Co94rdinate \Co[94]r"dinate\ (-n[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Co[94]rdinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Co[94]rdinating}.] 1. To make co[94]rdinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to co[94]rdinate ideas in classification. 2. To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to co[94]rdinate muscular movements.
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Co94rdinate \Co[94]r"dinate\, a. [Pref. co- + L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare to regulate. See {Ordain}.] Equal in rank or order; not subordinate. Whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many co[94]rdinate powers presiding over each country. --Law. Conjunctions joint sentences and co[94]rdinate terms. --Rev. R. Morris. {Co[94]rdinate adjectives}, adjectives disconnected as regards ane another, but referring equally to the same subject. {Co[94]rdinate conjunctions}, conjunctions joining independent propositions. --Rev. R. Morris.
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Co94rdinate \Co[94]r"dinate\, n. 1. A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance. It has neither co[94]rdinate nor analogon; it is absolutely one. --Coleridge. 2. pl. (Math.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called co[94]rdinate axes and co[94]rdinate planes. See {Abscissa}.
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Co94rdinate \Co[94]r"dinate\, a. [Pref. co- + L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare to regulate. See {Ordain}.] Equal in rank or order; not subordinate. Whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many co[94]rdinate powers presiding over each country. --Law. Conjunctions joint sentences and co[94]rdinate terms. --Rev. R. Morris. {Co[94]rdinate adjectives}, adjectives disconnected as regards ane another, but referring equally to the same subject. {Co[94]rdinate conjunctions}, conjunctions joining independent propositions. --Rev. R. Morris.
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Co94rdinate \Co[94]r"dinate\, a. [Pref. co- + L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare to regulate. See {Ordain}.] Equal in rank or order; not subordinate. Whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many co[94]rdinate powers presiding over each country. --Law. Conjunctions joint sentences and co[94]rdinate terms. --Rev. R. Morris. {Co[94]rdinate adjectives}, adjectives disconnected as regards ane another, but referring equally to the same subject. {Co[94]rdinate conjunctions}, conjunctions joining independent propositions. --Rev. R. Morris.
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Analytic \An`alyt"ic\, Analytical \An`alyt"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. analytique. See {Analysis}.] Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to {synthetic}. {Analytical} or {co[94]rdinate geometry}. See under {Geometry}. {Analytic language}, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. {Analytical table} (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.
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Co94rdinate \Co[94]r"dinate\ (-n[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Co[94]rdinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Co[94]rdinating}.] 1. To make co[94]rdinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to co[94]rdinate ideas in classification. 2. To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to co[94]rdinate muscular movements.
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Co94rdinately \Co[94]r"dinate*ly\, adv. In a co[94]rdinate manner.
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Co94rdinateness \Co[94]r"dinate*ness\, n. The state of being co[94]rdinate; equality of rank or authority.
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Co94rdinate \Co[94]r"dinate\ (-n[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Co[94]rdinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Co[94]rdinating}.] 1. To make co[94]rdinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to co[94]rdinate ideas in classification. 2. To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to co[94]rdinate muscular movements.
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Co94rdination \Co[94]r`dina"tion\, n. 1. The act of co[94]rdinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the co[94]rdination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a co[94]rdination of functions. [bd]Co[94]rdination of muscular movement by the cerebellum.[b8] --Carpenter. 2. The state of being co[94]rdinate, or of equal rank, dignity, power, etc. In this high court of parliament, there is a rare co[94]rdination of power. --Howell.
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Co94rdinative \Co[94]r"dina*tive\, a. (Gram.) Expressing co[94]rdination. --J. W. Gibbs.
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Sebesten \Se*bes"ten\, n. [Ar. sebest[be]n the tree: cf. Sp. sebesten.] (Bot.) The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees ({Cordia Myxa}, and {C. latifolia}), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases. Note: In the West Indies the name is given to the similar fruit of {Cordia Sebestana}.
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Cordiner \Cor"di*ner\ (k?r"d?-n?r), n. A cordwainer. [Obs.]
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Cord \Cord\ (k?rd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cording}.] 1. To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment. 2. To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
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Cordon \Cor"don\ (k?r"d?n; F. k?r"{d?n}"), n. [F., fr. corde. See {Cord}.] 1. A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. {Grand cordon}. 2. The cord worn by a Franciscan friar. --Sir E. Sandys. 3. (Fort.) The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches. 4. (Mil.) A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing. 5. A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state. {[d8]Cordon bleu} (k[?]r`{d[?]n}" bl[?]") [F., blue cordon], a first-rate cook, or one worthy to be the cook of the cordons bleus, or Knights of the Holy Ghost, famous for their good dinners. {[d8]Cordon sanitaire} (k[?]r`{d[?]n}" s[?]`n[?]`t[?]r") [F., sanitary cordon], a line of troops or military posts around a district infected with disease, to cut off communication, and thus prevent the disease from spreading.
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Cordwain \Cord"wain\ (k?rd"w?n), n. [OE. cordewan, cordian, OF. cordoan, cordouan, fr. Sp. cordoban. See {Cordovan}.] A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. --Spenser.
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Cordwainer \Cord"wain*er\ (-?r), n. [OE. cordwaner, cordiner, fr. OF. cordoanier, cordouanier, F. cordonnier.] A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. [Archaic.]
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Coridine \Co"ri*dine\ (k?"r?-d?n; 104), n. [From L. cortium leather.] A colorless or yellowish oil, {C10H15N}, of a leathery odor, occuring in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type. [Written also {corindine}.]
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Corrodent \Cor*rod"ent\ (k?r-r?"dent), a. [L. corrodens, p. pr. of corrodere.] Corrosive. [R.] --Bp. King.
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Corrodent \Cor*rod"ent\, n. Anything that corrodes. --Bp. King.
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Corrode \Cor*rode"\ (k?r-r?d") v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corroded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Corroding}.] [L. corrodere, -rosum; cor + rodere to gnaw: cf. F. corroder. See {Rodent}.] 1. To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali. Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green-blue solution. --Boyle. 2. To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
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Corrode \Cor*rode"\, v. i. To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion. {Corroding lead}, lead sufficiently pure to be used in making white lead by a process of corroding. Syn: To canker; gnaw; rust; waste; wear away.
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Tennis \Ten"nis\, n. [OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to hold (see {Tenable}).] A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand. --Shak. His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London. --Macaulay. {Court tennis}, the old game of tennis as played within walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished from lawn tennis. {Lawn tennis}. See under {Lawn}, n. {Tennis court}, a place or court for playing the game of tennis. --Shak.
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Court tennis \Court" ten"nis\ (k?rt" t?n"n?s). See under {Tennis}.
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Court \Court\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Courted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Courting}.] 1. To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with. By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted. --Macaulay. 2. To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo. If either of you both love Katharina . . . leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure. --Shak. 3. To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek. They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdem. --Prescott. Guilt and misery . . . court privacy and silitude. --De Quincey. 4. To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract. A well-worn pathway courted us To one green wicket in a privet hedge. --Tennyson.
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Court-martial \Court`-mar"tial\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Court-martialed} (-shald); p. pr. & vb. n. {Court-martialing}.] To subject to trial by a court-martial.
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Court-martial \Court`-mar"tial\ (k?rt`m?r"shal), n.; pl. {Courts-martial} (k[?]rts`-). A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
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Court-martial \Court`-mar"tial\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Court-martialed} (-shald); p. pr. & vb. n. {Court-martialing}.] To subject to trial by a court-martial.
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Court-martial \Court`-mar"tial\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Court-martialed} (-shald); p. pr. & vb. n. {Court-martialing}.] To subject to trial by a court-martial.
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Crate \Crate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Crating}.] To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.
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Creatin \Cre"a*tin\ (kr?"?-t?n), n. [Gr. [?][?][?] flesh.] (Physiol. Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue. [Written also {kreatine}.]
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Create \Cre*ate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Created}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Creating}.] 1. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. --Gen. i. 1. 2. To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew. Your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers. --Shak. Create in me a clean heart. --Ps. li. 10. 3. To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer. [bd]I create you companions to our person.[b8] --Shak.
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Creatinin \Creat"inin\ (kr?-?t"?-n?n), n. (Physiol. Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also {kretinine}.]
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Creation \Cre*a"tion\ (kr?-A"sh?n), n. [L. creatio: cf. F. cr[?]ation. See {Create}.] 1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. --Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. --Locke. 2. That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature. We know that the whole creation groaneth. --Rom. viii. 22. A dagger of the mind, a false creation. --Shak. Choice pictures and creations of curious art. --Beaconsfield. 3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation. An Irish peer of recent creation. --Landor.
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Creational \Crea"tional\ (-al), a. Of or pertaining to creation.
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Creationism \Crea"tionism\ (-?z'm), n. The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.
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Credence \Cre"dence\ (kr[emac]"d[eit]ns), n. [LL. credentia, fr. L. credens, -entis, p. pr. of credere to trust, believe: cf. OF. credence. See {Creed}, and cf. {Credent}, {Creance}.]
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Credence \Cre"dence\, v. t. To give credence to; to believe. [Obs.]
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d8Credendum \[d8]Cre*den"dum\ (kr?-d?n"d?m), n.; pl. {Credenda} (-d[?]). [L., fr. credere to believe.] (Theol.) A thing to be believed; an article of faith; -- distinguished from {agendum}, a practical duty. The great articles and credenda of Christianity. --South.
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Credent \Cre"dent\ (kr?"dent), a. [. credens, -entis, p. pr. of credere to trust, believe. See {Creed}.] 1. Believing; giving credence; credulous. [R.] If with too credent ear you list songs. --Shak. 2. Having credit or authority; credible. [Obs.] For my authority bears of a credent bulk. --Shak.
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Credential \Creden"tial\ (kr[esl]d[ecr]n"sh[ait]l), a. [Cf. It. credenziale, fr. LL. credentia. See {Credence}.] Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting. Their credential letters on both sides. --Camden.
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Credential \Cre*den"tial\, n. [Cf. It. credenziale.] 1. That which gives a title to credit or confidence. 2. pl. Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate. The committee of estates excepted against the credentials of the English commissioners. --Whitelocke. Had they not shown undoubted credentials from the Divine Person who sent them on such a message. --Addison.
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Cretan \Cre"tan\ (kr[emac]"t[ait]n), a. Pertaining to Crete, or Candia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.
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Rockrose \Rock"rose`\, n. (Bot.) A name given to any species of the genus {Helianthemum}, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European {H. vulgare} and the American frostweed, {H. Canadense}. {Cretan rockrose}, a related shrub ({Cistus Creticus}), one of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.
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Cretian \Cre"tian\ (kr[emac]"sh[ait]n), a. & n. See {Cretan}.
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Cretin \Cre"tin\ (kr[emac]"t[icr]n), n. [F. cr[82]tin; of uncertain origin.] One afflicted with cretinism.
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Cretinism \Cre"tinism\ (kr[emac]"t[icr]n[icr]z'm), n. [F. cr[82]tinisme.] A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.
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Cretinous \Cre"tin*ous\ (-[ucr]s), a. Having the characteristics of a cretin. [bd]Cretinous stupefaction.[b8] --Ruskin.
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Cretonne \Cre*tonne"\ (kr?-t?n"), n. [F., gr. Creton, its first manufacturer.] 1. A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax. 2. A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft. 3. A kind of chintz with a glossy surface.
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Samphire \Sam"phire\ (? [or] ?; 277), n. [F. l'herbe de Saint Pierre. See {Saint}, and {Petrel}.] (Bot.) (a) A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant ({Crithmum maritimum}). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles. Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! --Shak. (b) The species of glasswort ({Salicornia herbacea}); -- called in England {marsh samphire}. (c) A seashore shrub ({Borrichia arborescens}) of the West Indies. {Golden samphire}. See under {Golden}.
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Crithomancu \Crith"o*man`cu\ (kr?th"?-m?n`s?), n. [Gr. [?][?][?][?]. pl., barley + -mancy: cf. F. crithomancie.] A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.
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Melungeon \Me*lun"geon\, n. [Cf. F. m[82]langer to mix, m[82]lange a mixture.] One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the {Croatan Indians}, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct.
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Croatian \Cro*a"tian\ (kr?-?"shan), a. Of or pertaining to Croatia. -- n. A Croat.
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Croton \Cro"ton\ (kr?"t?n), n. [Gr. [?][?][?][?], prop., a tick, which the seed of the croton resembles.] (Bot.) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries. {Croton oil} (Med.), a viscid, acrid, brownish yellow oil obtained from the seeds of {Croton Tiglium}, a small tree of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.
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Croton bug \Cro"ton bug`\ (b?g`). [From the Croton water of New York.] (Zo[94]l.) A small, active, winged species of cockroach ({Ectobia Germanica}), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes.
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, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance. Note: Stick-lac is the substance in its natural state, incrusting small twigs. When broken off, and the coloring matter partly removed, the granular residuum is called seed-lac. When melted, and reduced to a thin crust, it is called shell-lac or shellac. Lac is an important ingredient in sealing wax, dyes, varnishes, and lacquers. {Ceylon lac}, a resinous exudation of the tree {Croton lacciferum}, resembling lac. {Lac dye}, a scarlet dye obtained from stick-lac. {Lac lake}, the coloring matter of lac dye when precipitated from its solutions by alum. {Mexican lac}, an exudation of the tree {Croton Draco}.
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Cascarilla \Cas`ca*ril"la\, n.[Sp., small thin bark, Peruvian bark, dim. of c[a0]scara bark.] (Bot.) A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub ({Croton Eleutheria}); also, its aromatic bark. {Cascarilla bark} (or {Cascarilla}) (Med.), the bark of {Croton Eleutheria}. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication.
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, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance. Note: Stick-lac is the substance in its natural state, incrusting small twigs. When broken off, and the coloring matter partly removed, the granular residuum is called seed-lac. When melted, and reduced to a thin crust, it is called shell-lac or shellac. Lac is an important ingredient in sealing wax, dyes, varnishes, and lacquers. {Ceylon lac}, a resinous exudation of the tree {Croton lacciferum}, resembling lac. {Lac dye}, a scarlet dye obtained from stick-lac. {Lac lake}, the coloring matter of lac dye when precipitated from its solutions by alum. {Mexican lac}, an exudation of the tree {Croton Draco}.
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d8Malambo \[d8]Ma*lam"bo\, n. [Pg.] A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub {Croton Malambo}.
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Croton \Cro"ton\ (kr?"t?n), n. [Gr. [?][?][?][?], prop., a tick, which the seed of the croton resembles.] (Bot.) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries. {Croton oil} (Med.), a viscid, acrid, brownish yellow oil obtained from the seeds of {Croton Tiglium}, a small tree of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.
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Tilley \Til"ley\, n., [or] Tilley seed \Til"ley seed`\ (Bot.) The seeds of a small tree ({Croton Pavana}) common in the Malay Archipelago. These seeds furnish croton oil, like those of {Croton Tiglium}. [Written also {tilly}.]
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Tiglic \Tig"lic\, a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, {C4H7CO2H} (called also methyl crotonic acid), homologous with crotonic acid, and obtained from croton oil (from {Croton Tiglium}) as a white crystalline substance.
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Tilley \Til"ley\, n., [or] Tilley seed \Til"ley seed`\ (Bot.) The seeds of a small tree ({Croton Pavana}) common in the Malay Archipelago. These seeds furnish croton oil, like those of {Croton Tiglium}. [Written also {tilly}.]
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Croton \Cro"ton\ (kr?"t?n), n. [Gr. [?][?][?][?], prop., a tick, which the seed of the croton resembles.] (Bot.) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries. {Croton oil} (Med.), a viscid, acrid, brownish yellow oil obtained from the seeds of {Croton Tiglium}, a small tree of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.
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Crotonic \Cro*ton"ic\ (kr?-t?n"?k), a. Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus {Croton}, or from croton oil. {Crotonic acid} (Chem.), a white crystalline organic acid, {C3H5.CO2H}, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series. It was so named because formerly supposed to exist in croton oil. Also, any acid metameric with crotonic acid proper. Note: The acid characteristic of croton oil is tiglic or tiglinic acid, a derivative of {crotonic acid}.
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Crotonic \Cro*ton"ic\ (kr?-t?n"?k), a. Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus {Croton}, or from croton oil. {Crotonic acid} (Chem.), a white crystalline organic acid, {C3H5.CO2H}, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series. It was so named because formerly supposed to exist in croton oil. Also, any acid metameric with crotonic acid proper. Note: The acid characteristic of croton oil is tiglic or tiglinic acid, a derivative of {crotonic acid}.
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Crotonine \Cro"ton*ine\ (kr?"t?n-?n), n. (Chem.) A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil. --Watts.
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Crotonylene \Croton"ylene\ (kr?-t?n"?-l?n), n. [Crotonic + acet-ylene.] (Chem.) A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, {C4H6}, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.
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Crowd \Crowd\ (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crowded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Crowding}.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr[?]dan; cf. D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.] 1. To push, to press, to shove. --Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. [bd]Crowd us and crush us.[b8] --Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. --Prescott. 4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.] {To crowd out}, to press out; specifically, to prevent the publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out the article. {To crowd sail} (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.
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Croydon \Croy"don\, n. [From Croydon, England.] 1. A kind of carriage like a gig, orig. of wicker-work. 2. A kind of cotton sheeting; also, a calico.
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Crudeness \Crude"ness\, n. A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.
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Curation \Cu*ra"tion\ (k?-r?"sh?n), n. [Cf. OF. curacion.] Cure; healing. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Curdiness \Curd"i*ness\ (-?-n?s), n. The state of being curdy.
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Curd \Curd\ (k?rd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Curded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Curding}.] To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle. Does it curd thy blood To say I am thy mother? --Shak.
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Curette \Cu*rette"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Curetted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Curetting}.] (Med.) To scrape with a curette.
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Curtain \Cur"tain\ (k?r"t?n; 48), n. [OE. cortin, curtin,fr. OF. cortine, curtine, F. courtine, LL. cortina, curtian (in senses 1 and 2), also, small court, small inclosure surrounded by walls, from cortis court. See {Court}.] 1. A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage. 2. (Fort.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of {Ravelin} and {Bastion}. 3. (Arch.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc. 4. A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt. [Obs.] --Shak. {Behind the curtain}, in concealment; in secret. {Curtain lecture}, a querulous lecture given by a wife to her husband within the bed curtains, or in bed. --Jerrold. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. --W. Irving. {The curtain falls}, the performance closes. {The curtain rises}, the performance begins. {To draw the curtain}, to close it over an object, or to remove it; hence: (a) To hide or to disclose an object. (b) To commence or close a performance. {To drop the curtain}, to end the tale, or close the performance.
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Curtain \Cur"tain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Curtained} (-t?nd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. {Curtaining}.] To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains. So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red. --Milton.
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Curtain \Cur"tain\ (k?r"t?n; 48), n. [OE. cortin, curtin,fr. OF. cortine, curtine, F. courtine, LL. cortina, curtian (in senses 1 and 2), also, small court, small inclosure surrounded by walls, from cortis court. See {Court}.] 1. A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage. 2. (Fort.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of {Ravelin} and {Bastion}. 3. (Arch.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc. 4. A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt. [Obs.] --Shak. {Behind the curtain}, in concealment; in secret. {Curtain lecture}, a querulous lecture given by a wife to her husband within the bed curtains, or in bed. --Jerrold. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. --W. Irving. {The curtain falls}, the performance closes. {The curtain rises}, the performance begins. {To draw the curtain}, to close it over an object, or to remove it; hence: (a) To hide or to disclose an object. (b) To commence or close a performance. {To drop the curtain}, to end the tale, or close the performance.
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Curtain \Cur"tain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Curtained} (-t?nd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. {Curtaining}.] To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains. So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red. --Milton.
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Curtain \Cur"tain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Curtained} (-t?nd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. {Curtaining}.] To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains. So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red. --Milton.
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Curtana \Cur*ta"na\ (k?r-t?"n?), n. The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the {sword of Edward the Confessor}.
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Curtein \Cur*tein"\ (k?r-t?n"), n. Same as {Curtana}.
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Curtness \Curt"ness\, n. The quality of bing curt.
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Partridge \Par"tridge\, n. [OE. partriche, pertriche, OF. pertris, perdriz, F. perdrix, L. perdix, -icis, fr. Gr. [?].] (Zo[94]l.) 1. Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus {Perdix} and several related genera of the family {Perdicid[91]}, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. Full many a fat partrich had he in mew. --Chaucer. Note: The common European, or gray, partridge ({Perdix cinerea}) and the red-legged partridge ({Caccabis rubra}) of Southern Europe and Asia are well-known species. 2. Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to {Colinus}, and allied genera. [U.S.] Note: Among them are the bobwhite ({Colinus Virginianus}) of the Eastern States; the plumed, or mountain, partridge ({Oreortyx pictus}) of California; the Massena partridge ({Cyrtonyx Montezum[91]}); and the California partridge ({Callipepla Californica}). 3. The ruffed grouse ({Bonasa umbellus}). [New Eng.] {Bamboo partridge} (Zo[94]l.), a spurred partridge of the genus {Bambusicola}. Several species are found in China and the East Indies. {Night partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the woodcock. [Local, U.S.] {Painted partridge} (Zo[94]l.), a francolin of South Africa ({Francolinus pictus}). {Partridge berry}. (Bot.) (a) The scarlet berry of a trailing american plant ({Mitchella repens}) of the order {Rubiace[91]}, having roundish evergreen leaves, and white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself. (b) The fruit of the creeping wintergreen ({Gaultheria procumbens}); also, the plant itself. {Partridge dove} (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Mountain witch}, under {Mountain}. {Partridge pea} (Bot.), a yellow-flowered leguminous herb ({Cassia Cham[91]crista}), common in sandy fields in the Eastern United States. {Partridge shell} (Zo[94]l.), a large marine univalve shell ({Dolium perdix}), having colors variegated like those of the partridge. {Partridge wood} (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It is obtained from tropical America, and one source of it is said to be the leguminous tree {Andira inermis}. Called also {pheasant wood}. (b) A name sometimes given to the dark-colored and striated wood of some kind of palm, which is used for walking sticks and umbrella handles. {Sea partridge} (Zo[94]l.), an Asiatic sand partridge ({Ammoperdix Bonhami}); -- so called from its note. {Snow partridge} (Zo[94]l.), a large spurred partridge ({Lerwa nivicola}) which inhabits the high mountains of Asia. {Spruce partridge}. See under {Spruce}. {Wood partridge}, [or] {Hill partridge} (Zo[94]l.), any small Asiatic partridge of the genus {Arboricola}.
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Cardin, OK (town, FIPS 11900) Location: 36.97526 N, 94.85163 W Population (1990): 165 (81 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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Corte Madera, CA (town, FIPS 16462) Location: 37.92361 N, 122.50732 W Population (1990): 8272 (3717 housing units) Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 3.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 94925
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Corydon, IA (city, FIPS 16635) Location: 40.75905 N, 93.31755 W Population (1990): 1675 (826 housing units) Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Corydon, IN (town, FIPS 15256) Location: 38.21266 N, 86.12535 W Population (1990): 2661 (1202 housing units) Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47112 Corydon, KY (city, FIPS 17686) Location: 37.73967 N, 87.70654 W Population (1990): 790 (297 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 42406
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Courtenay, ND (city, FIPS 16380) Location: 47.22450 N, 98.56873 W Population (1990): 70 (40 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58426
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Creedmoor, NC (city, FIPS 15320) Location: 36.12089 N, 78.68718 W Population (1990): 1504 (684 housing units) Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27522 Creedmoor, TX (city, FIPS 17612) Location: 30.09188 N, 97.74168 W Population (1990): 194 (75 housing units) Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 78747
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Crittenden, KY (city, FIPS 18568) Location: 38.78111 N, 84.60554 W Population (1990): 731 (266 housing units) Area: 5.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 41030
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Crittenden County, AR (county, FIPS 35) Location: 35.21264 N, 90.31406 W Population (1990): 49939 (18875 housing units) Area: 1581.2 sq km (land), 68.0 sq km (water) Crittenden County, KY (county, FIPS 55) Location: 37.35663 N, 88.08975 W Population (1990): 9196 (4039 housing units) Area: 938.0 sq km (land), 22.8 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Croton, OH Zip code(s): 43013
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Croton On Hudson, NY Zip code(s): 10520
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Croton-on-Hudson, NY (village, FIPS 19213) Location: 41.20320 N, 73.89071 W Population (1990): 7018 (2728 housing units) Area: 12.3 sq km (land), 15.7 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Croydon, PA (CDP, FIPS 17448) Location: 40.09025 N, 74.89553 W Population (1990): 9967 (3738 housing units) Area: 6.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 19021 Croydon, UT Zip code(s): 84018
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
core dump n. [common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by Unix] 1. [techspeak] A copy of the contents of {core}, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error. 2. By extension, used for humans passing out, vomiting, or registering extreme shock. "He dumped core. All over the floor. What a mess." "He heard about X and dumped core." 3. Occasionally used for a human rambling on pointlessly at great length; esp. in apology: "Sorry, I dumped core on you". 4. A recapitulation of knowledge (compare {bits}, sense 1). Hence, spewing all one knows about a topic (syn. {brain dump}), esp. in a lecture or answer to an exam question. "Short, concise answers are better than core dumps" (from the instructions to an exam at Columbia). See {core}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
creationism n. The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers. In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population -- and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong. Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit the planning models beloved of {management}, they are generally ignored.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
cretin /kret'in/ or /kree'tn/ n. Congenital {loser}; an obnoxious person; someone who can't do anything right. It has been observed that many American hackers tend to favor the British pronunciation /kret'in/ over standard American /kree'tn/; it is thought this may be due to the insidious phonetic influence of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
cretinous /kret'n-s/ or /kreet'n-s/ adj. Wrong; stupid; non-functional; very poorly designed. Also used pejoratively of people. See {dread high-bit disease} for an example. Approximate synonyms: {bletcherous}, {bagbiting} {losing}, {brain-damaged}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
cardinal number The {cardinality} of some set.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
cardinality The number of elements in a set. If two sets have the same number of elements (i.e. there is a {bijection} between them) then they have the same cardinality. A cardinality is thus an {isomorphism class} in the {category} of sets. {aleph 0} is defined as the cardinality of the first {infinite} {ordinal}, {omega} (the number of {natural number}s). (1995-03-29)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
coordinate One member of a {tuple} of numbers which defines the position of a point in some space. Commonly used coordinate systems have as many coordinates as their are dimensions in the space, e.g. a pair for two dimensions. The most common coordinate system is {Cartesian coordinates}, probably followed by {polar coordinates}. (1997-07-09)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, World Time) The standard time common to every place in the world. UTC is derived from {International Atomic Time} (TAI) by the addition of a whole number of "leap seconds" to synchronise it with {Universal Time} 1 (UT1), thus allowing for the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit, the rotational axis tilt (23.5 degrees), but still showing the Earth's irregular rotation, on which UT1 is based. Coordinated Universal Time is expressed using a 24-hour clock and uses the {Gregorian calendar}. It is used in aeroplane and ship navigation, where it also sometimes known by the military name, "Zulu time". "Zulu" in the phonetic alphabet stands for "Z" which stands for longitude zero. UTC was defined by the International Radio Consultative Committee ({CCIR}), a predecessor of the {ITU-T}. CCIR Recommendation 460-4, or ITU-T Recommendation X.680 (7/94), contains the full definition. The language-independent international abbreviation, UTC, is neither English nor French. It means both "Coordinated Universal Time" and "Temps Universel Coordonné". {BIPM (http://www.bipm.fr/enus/5_Scientific/c_time/time_1.html)}. {The Royal Observatory Greenwich (http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/time/time.html)}. {History of UTC and GMT (http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/chronos/GMT-explained.html)}. {U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology (http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-009/_1277.htm)}. {UK National Physical Laboratory (http://www.npl.co.uk/npl/ctm/time_scales.html)}. {US Naval Observatory (http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/systime.html)}. {International Telecommunications Union (http://www.itu.int/radioclub/rr/arts02.htm)}. {Earth's irregular rotation (http://www.foldoc.org/pub/earth_rotation)}. (2001-08-30)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks (CCIRN) A committee that includes the United States FNC and its counterparts in North America and Europe. Co-chaired by the executive directors of the Federal Networking Council and the European Association of Research Networks (RARE), the CCIRN provides a forum for cooperative planning among the principal North American and European research networking bodies. (1994-11-30)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
core dump [Common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by Unix] 1. A copy of the contents of {core}, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error. 2. A complete account of a human's knowledge on some subject (also {brain dump}), especially in a lecture or answer to an exam question. "Short, concise answers are better than core dumps" (from the instructions to an exam at Columbia). [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Coroutine Pascal ["Control Separation in Programming languages", Lemon et al, ACM Ann Conf 1977]. (1994-12-08)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
creationism The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers. In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population - and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong. Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit the planning models beloved of {management}, they are generally ignored. [{Jargon File}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Cherethim (Ezek. 25:16), more frequently Cherethites, the inhabitants of Southern Philistia, the Philistines (Zeph. 2:5). The Cherethites and the Pelethites were David's life-guards (1 Sam. 30:14; 2 Sam. 8:18; 20:7, 23; 23:23). This name is by some interpreted as meaning "Cretans," and by others "executioners," who were ready to execute the king's sentence of death (Gen. 37:36, marg.; 1 Kings 2:25).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Creation "In the beginning" God created, i.e., called into being, all things out of nothing. This creative act on the part of God was absolutely free, and for infinitely wise reasons. The cause of all things exists only in the will of God. The work of creation is attributed (1) to the Godhead (Gen. 1:1, 26); (2) to the Father (1 Cor. 8:6); (3) to the Son (John 1:3; Col. 1:16, 17); (4) to the Holy Spirit (Gen. 1:2; Job 26:13; Ps. 104:30). The fact that he is the Creator distinguishes Jehovah as the true God (Isa. 37:16; 40:12, 13; 54:5; Ps. 96:5; Jer. 10:11, 12). The one great end in the work of creation is the manifestation of the glory of the Creator (Col. 1:16; Rev. 4:11; Rom. 11:36). God's works, equally with God's word, are a revelation from him; and between the teachings of the one and those of the other, when rightly understood, there can be no contradiction. Traditions of the creation, disfigured by corruptions, are found among the records of ancient Eastern nations. (See {ACCAD}.) A peculiar interest belongs to the traditions of the Accadians, the primitive inhabitants of the plains of Lower Mesopotamia. These within the last few years have been brought to light in the tablets and cylinders which have been rescued from the long-buried palaces and temples of Assyria. They bear a remarkable resemblance to the record of Genesis.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Curtain (1.) Ten curtains, each twenty-eight cubits long and four wide, made of fine linen, also eleven made of goat's hair, covered the tabernacle (Ex. 26:1-13; 36:8-17). (2.) The sacred curtain, separating the holy of holies from the sanctuary, is designated by a different Hebrew word (peroketh). It is described as a "veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work" (Ex. 26:31; Lev. 16:2; Num. 18:7). (3.) "Stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain" (Isa. 40:22), is an expression used with reference to the veil or awning which Orientals spread for a screen over their courts in summer. According to the prophet, the heavens are spread over our heads as such an awning. Similar expressions are found in Ps. 104:2l; comp. Isa. 44:24; Job 9:8.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Cherethims, Cherethites, who cut or tear away