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Cachinnation
Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections.
Cage
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Calibration
The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.
Caligraphy
See .
Cameronian
A follower of the Rev. Richard , a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charles II.
Cannikin
A small can or drinking vessel.
Canoness
A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
Carnalist
A sensualist.
Carnegiea
a genus of plants consisting of one species, the .
Carouser
One who carouses; a reveler.
Carrancha
The Brazilian kite (); -- so called in imitation of its notes.
Cash
A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
Cashier's check
A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds, signed by the cashier.
Cashoo
See .
Castanopsis
a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs of warm regions valued for their foliage; found in southeastern U.S. and eastern Australia and northern New Zealand.
Cata
The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify , , , , or , , ; as in clysm, rrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in ptric; and is sometimes changed to , as in artic, olic.
Cautionary block
A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
cede
To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; .
Celsiture
Height; altitude.
Celtiberian
Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus).
Centuplicate
To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times.
Ceratopogonidae
a natural family of insects including the biting midges and sand flies.
Cerotype
A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.
Chase
To give chase; to hunt; .
Chausses
The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.
Cherish
To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
Chesible
See .
Chih hsien
An official having charge of a hsien, or administrative district, in China; a district magistrate, responsible for good order in his hsien (which see), and having jurisdiction in its civil and criminal cases.
Chinchilla
A small rodent (), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.
Chlorate
A salt of chloric acid; .
Christmasberry
a spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern U. S. () having spreading branches with usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries.
Churchyard
The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.
Cimbrian
Of or pertaining to the Cimbri.
Circumterraneous
Being or dwelling around the earth.
Cirrhous
See .
Citigrad
A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders () and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See .
Clip
To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite .
Clownish
Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.
Clypeiform
Shield-shaped; clypeate.
Clyster
A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema.
Coccygeal
Of or pertaining to the coccyx; .
Coddle
To parboil, or soften by boiling.
Codpiece
A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous.
Cognate
One who is related to another on the female side.
Cognovit
An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.
Coindication
One of several signs or symptoms indicating the same fact; .
Colliquable
Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid.
Colliquate
To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt.
Columbic
Pertaining to, or containing, columbium or niobium; niobic.
Combination
The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.
Comfortableness
State of being comfortable.
Communal
Pertaining to a commune.
Compassable
Capable of being compassed or accomplished.
Compendium
A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.
Complicity
The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.
Compressor
Anything which serves to compress
Conchologist
One who studies, or is versed in, conchology.
Console
To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
Contaminate
To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.
Content
That which is contained; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; .
Contortion
A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; .
Contributory
One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.
Controversial
Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; .
cookware
cooking utensils, such as pots, pans, or baking dishes made of heat-resistant material.
Copula
The word which unites the subject and predicate.
Cordwain
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.
Corrugent
Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator.
Corselet
Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
Countermand
To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; .
Counterscarp
The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; .
Courtyard
A court or inclosure attached to a house.
Cranioclast
An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.
Crawler
One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
Cresselle
A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent.
criticize
same as ; .
Crouch
To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.
Crumple
To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; .
Cur
A curate; a pardon.
Cushionet
A little cushion.
Cytogenous
Producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue.