cyamelide
-a white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.

cyamellone
-a complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts;
-- called also hydromellonic acid.

cyanate
-a salt of cyanic acid.

cyanaurate
-see aurocyanide.

cyanean
-having an azure color.

cyanic
-pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.
-of or pertaining to a blue color.

cyanide
-a compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.

cyanin
-the blue coloring matter of flowers;
-- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin.

cyanine
-one of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

cyanite
-a mineral occuring in thin
-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky
-blue color. it is a silicate of aluminium.

cyanogen
-a colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, c2n2, with a peach
-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. it is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. it conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. the name is also applied to the univalent radical, cn (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.

cyanometer
-an instrument for measuring degress of blueness.

cyanopathy
-a disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.

cyanophyll
-a blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll.

cyanosed
-rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a/ration of the blood.

cyanosis
-a condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. see cyanopathy.

cyanosite
-native sulphate of copper. cf. blue vitriol, under blue.

cyanotic
-relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin.

cyanotype
-a photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.

cyanurate
-a salt of cyanuric acid.

cyanuret
-a cyanide.

cyanuric
-pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids.

cyanuric acid
-an organic acid, c3o3n3h3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. it is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless;
-- called also tricarbimide.

cyathiform
-in the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.

cyatholith
-a kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from / to / of an inch.

cyathophylloid
-like, or pertaining to, the family cyathophyllidae.
-a fossil coral of the family cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group rugosa;
-- also called cup corals. thay are found in paleozoic rocks.

cycad
-any plant of the natural order cycadaceae, as the sago palm, etc.

cycadaceous
-pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. the sago palm is an example.

cycas
-a genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. the pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.

cyclamen
-a genus of plants of the primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. it is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

cyclamin
-a white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of cyclamen europaeum.

cyclas
-a long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the middle ages. it was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.

cycle
-an imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
-an interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year.
-an age; a long period of time.
-an orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
-the circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of arthur and the knights of the round table, and that of charlemagne and his paladins.
-one entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.
-a bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.
-to pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.
-to ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.

cycled
-of cycle

cyclic
-alt. of cyclical

cyclical
-of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.

cyclide
-a surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. the tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides.

cycling
-of cycle
-the act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.

cyclist
-a cycler.

cyclo
-
-a combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel.

cyclobranchiate
-having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets.

cycloganoid
-of or pertaining to the cycloganoidei.
-one of the cycloganoidei.

cycloganoidei
-an order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. the bowfin (amia calva) is a living example.

cyclograph
-see arcograph.

cycloid
-a curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.
-of or pertaining to the cycloidei.
-one of the cycloidei.

cycloidal
-pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.

cycloidei
-an order of fishes, formerly proposed by agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. the group is now regarded as artificial.

cycloidian
-same as 2d and 3d cycloid.

cyclometer
-a contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.

cyclometry
-the art of measuring circles.

cyclone
-a violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. this center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.

cyclonic
-pertaining to a cyclone.

cyclop
-see note under cyclops, 1.

cyclopaedia
-the circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so
-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. see encyclopedia.

cyclopean
-pertaining to the cyclops; characteristic of the cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, cyclopean labors; cyclopean architecture.

cyclopedia
-alt. of cyclopaedia

cyclopedic
-belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.

cyclopedist
-a maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia.

cyclopic
-pertaining to the cyclops; cyclopean.

cyclops
-one of a race of giants, sons of neptune and amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. they were fabled to inhabit sicily, and to assist in the workshops of vulcan, under mt. etna.
-a genus of minute entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. see copepoda.
-a portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.

cyclorama
-a pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. the realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially.

cycloscope
-a machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine.

cyclosis
-the circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.

cyclostoma
-a division of bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures.

cyclostomata
-alt. of cyclostoma

cyclostome
-alt. of cyclostomous

cyclostomi
-a glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the marsipobranchii.

cyclostomous
-pertaining to the cyclostomi.

cyclostylar
-relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within.

cyclostyle
-a contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. the writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. copies are transferred with an inked roller.

cyder
-see cider.

cydonin
-a peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose.

cygnet
-a young swan.

cygnus
-a constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, lyra; the swan.

cylinder
-a solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
-the space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. the space may be limited or unlimited in length.
-any hollow body of cylindrical form
-the chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.
-the barrel of an air or other pump.
-the revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.
-the bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.
-the revolving square prism carrying the cards in a jacquard loom.

cylindraceous
-cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form.

cylindric
-alt. of cylindrical

cylindrical
-having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.

cylindrically
-in the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical.

cylindricity
-the quality or condition of being cylindrical.

cylindriform
-having the form of a cylinder.

cylindroid
-a solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical.
-a certain surface of the third degree, described by a moving straight line;
-- used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body and also the forces acting on the body.

cylindrometric
-belonging to a scale used in measuring cylinders.

cyma
-a member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form.
-a cyme. see cyme.

cymar
-a slight covering; a scarf. see simar.

cymatium
-a capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.

cymbal
-a musical instrument used by the ancients. it is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.
-a musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back;
-- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.
-a musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.

cymbalist
-a performer upon cymbals.

cymbiform
-shaped like a boat; (bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.

cymbium
-a genus of marine univalve shells; the gondola.

cymbling
-a scalloped or "pattypan" variety of summer squash.

cyme
-a flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.

cymene
-a colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, ch3.c6h4.c3h7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.;
-- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.

cymenol
-see carvacrol.

cymidine
-a liquid organic base, c10h13.nh2, derived from cymene.

cymiferous
-producing cymes.

cymling
-alt. of cymbling

cymogene
-a highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum;
-- used for producing low temperatures.

cymoid
-having the form of a cyme.

cymophane
-see chrysoberyl.

cymophanous
-having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.

cymose
-alt. of cymous

cymous
-having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.

cymric
-welsh.
-the welsh language.

cymry
-a collective term for the welsh race;
-- so called by themselves .

cymule
-a small cyme, or one of very few flowers.

cynanche
-any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.

cynanthropy
-a kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal.

cynarctomachy
-bear baiting with a dog.

cynarrhodium
-a fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.

cynegetics
-the art of hunting with dogs.

cynic
-alt. of cynical
-one of a sect or school of philosophers founded by antisthenes, and of whom diogenes was a disciple. the first cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. hence the term cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.
-one who holds views resembling those of the cynics; a snarler; a misanthrope; particularly, a person who believes that human conduct is directed, either consciously or unconsciously, wholly by self
-interest or self
-indulgence, and that appearances to the contrary are superficial and untrustworthy.

cynical
-having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.
-pertaining to the dog star; as, the cynic, or sothic, year; cynic cycle.
-belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics.
-given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self
-interest or self
-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature.

cynically
-in a cynical manner.

cynicalness
-the quality of being cynical.

cynicism
-the doctrine of the cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opinions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions.

cynoidea
-a division of carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes.

cynorexia
-a voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.

cynosural
-of or pertaining to a cynosure.

cynosure
-the constellation of the lesser bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.
-that which serves to direct.
-anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.

cyon
-see cion, and scion.

cyperaceous
-of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large family of plants of which the sedge is the type.

cyperus
-a large genus of plants belonging to the sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the egyptian papyrus.

cypher
-see cipher.

cyphonautes
-the free
-swimming, bivalve larva of certain bryozoa.

cyphonism
-a punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to insects. it is still in use among some oriental nations.

cypraea
-a genus of mollusks, including the cowries. see cowrie.

cypres
-a rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.

cypress
-a coniferous tree of the genus cupressus. the species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.

cypresses
-of cypress

cyprian
-belonging to cyprus.
-of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness.
-a native or inhabitant of cyprus, especially of ancient cyprus; a cypriot.
-a lewd woman; a harlot.

cyprides
-of cypris

cyprine
-of or pertaining to the cypress.
-cyprinoid.

cyprinodont
-one of the cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. see minnow.

cyprinoid
-like the carp (cyprinus).
-one of the cyprinidae, or carp family, as the goldfish, barbel, etc.

cypriot
-a native or inhabitant of cyprus.

cypripedium
-a genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.

cypris
-a genus of small, bivalve, fresh
-water crustacea, belonging to the ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.

cyprus
-a thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. it was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning.

cypruslawn
-same as cyprus.

cypsela
-a one
-seeded, one
-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.

cypseliform
-like or belonging to the swifts (cypselidae.)

cyrenaic
-pertaining to cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern africa, and to cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by aristippus, a native of cyrene.
-a native of cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of aristippus. see cyrenian, n.

cyrenian
-pertaining to cyrene, in africa; cyrenaic.
-a native or inhabitant of cyrene.
-one of a school of philosophers, established at cyrene by aristippus, a disciple of socrates. their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the epicureans.

cyriologic
-relating to capital letters.

cyrtostyle
-a circular projecting portion.

cyst
-a pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.
-in old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.
-one of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of the great kelp of the pacific, and common rockweeds (fuci) of our shores.
-a small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in rotifera, etc.
-a form assumed by protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. it generally precedes the production of germs. see encystment.

cysted
-inclosed in a cyst.

cystic
-having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.
-containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma.
-pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.

cysticerce
-alt. of cysticercus

cysticercus
-the larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid;
-- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).

cysticule
-an appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes.

cystid
-one of the cystidea.

cystidea
-an order of crinoidea, mostly fossils of the paleozoic rocks. they were usually roundish or egg
-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.

cystidean
-one of the cystidea.

cystine
-a white crystalline substance, c3h7nso2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.

cystis
-a cyst. see cyst.

cystitis
-inflammation of the bladder.

cystocarp
-a minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.

cystocele
-hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.

cystoid
-alt. of cystoidean

cystoidea
-same as cystidea.

cystoidean
-same as cystidean.

cystolith
-a concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.
-a urinary calculus.

cystolithic
-relating to stone in the bladder.

cystoplast
-a nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.

cystose
-containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.

cystotome
-a knife or instrument used in cystotomy.

cystotomy
-the act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.

cytherean
-pertaining to the goddess venus.

cytoblast
-the nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.

cytoblastema
-see protoplasm.

cytococci
-of cytococcus

cytococcus
-the nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.

cytode
-a nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.

cytogenesis
-development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. see gemmation, budding, karyokinesis; also cell development, under cell.

cytogenetic
-of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.

cytogenic
-alt. of cytogenetic

cytogenous
-producing cells;
-- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue.

cytogeny
-cell production or development; cytogenesis.

cytoid
-cell
-like;
-- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.

cytoplasm
-the substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.

cytty
-short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.

cytula
-the fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.