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Caballo
A horse.
Calciner
One who, or that which, calcines.
Campanulales
an order of plants which includes the ; ; ; ; ; ; and .
Canderos
An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made.
Candlewaster
One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
Canescent
Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.
Caoutchouc
A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree or ), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and . See .
Caplin
See .
Capping plane
A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.
Caracas
The capital of .
Carbonaro
A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.
catalufa
a type of brightly colored carnivorous fish () of the West Atlantic and West Indies waters.
Catchwork
A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
Causator
One who causes.
censored
suppressed or subjected to censorship; . Opposite of .
Center
A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
Cerebropathy
A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also .
Cerebroscopy
Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of disease; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope).
Ceriph
One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters.
Chacma
A large species of African baboon (); -- called also .
Chanceable
Fortuitous; casual.
Charm
To make music upon; to tune.
Charre
See , , 17.
Charterer
One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.
Chevachie
See .
Chicane
The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
Chivalry
A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
Chow
A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district; -- often part of the name of a city, as in .
Chronoscope
An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.
Cithara
An ancient stringed musical instrument resembling the harp.
Clarity
Clearness; brightness; splendor.
Cloddish
Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.
Closh
The game of ninepins.
Clovered
Covered with growing clover.
Cm
the chemical symbol for the element .
Cobwebby
Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.
Coddle
To parboil, or soften by boiling.
Collocate
Set; placed.
colonized
inhabited by people who were born in or retain strong ties to another country.
Colonizer
One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist.
Columbic
Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root.
Commendatory
Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising.
Complicately
In a complex manner.
Concameration
An arch or vault.
Concavo-concave
Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave.
Conceive
To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
Conceptious
Apt to conceive; fruitful.
Condisciple
A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.
conditioned response
a behavioral response to a stimulus that has been acquired by experience or conditioning.
Conductress
A woman who leads or directs; a directress.
Confectioners' sugar
A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.
Configurate
To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern.
Connature
Participation in a common nature or character.
Connection
The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; the act or process of bringing two things into contact; junction; union; .
Consul
One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.
Contradict
To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.
Conundrum
A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.
Copal
A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (, , and ), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes.
Copula
The word which unites the subject and predicate.
Coquelicot
The wild poppy, or red corn rose.
Coreopsis
A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. , of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.
Cotemporary
One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.
Cottonseed oil
A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.
Counter-courant
Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.
Counterpart
A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.
Counterrolment
A counter account. See .
Cousinage
Relationship; kinship.
Credential
Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting.
Cretan
Pertaining to Crete, or Candia.
Crossbones
A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death.
Crotch
The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; .
Culmination
The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
Cupbearer
One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.
Cyanate
A salt of cyanic acid.