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Cacoon
One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine () used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.
Calceated
Fitted with, or wearing, shoes.
Caloriduct
A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.
Calycular
Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle.
Canal coal
See .
Carpet
To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.
Carrow
A strolling gamester.
cattalo
hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; it yields leaner beef than conventional breeds; it is called also .
cede
To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; .
centralisation
same as .
Centrosome
A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.
Cerement
A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.
Chaffery
Traffic; bargaining.
Chamaecytisus
a genus of small late-flowering trees or subshrubs having yellow to red flowers and leathery or woody pods; -- often used especially for those formerly included in genus .
Chimney
A fireplace or hearth.
Chondrification
Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.
Christian Socialism
Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850.
Ciborium
A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.
Circumcenter
The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.
Citrine
A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.
Citrus
A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, lime, tangerine, citron, grapefruit, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.
Classis
A class or order; sort; kind.
Clubfisted
Having a large fist.
Coagulatory
Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; .
Coaster
A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade.
coattails
the influence of another person; the effect of association with another person; .
Codling
A young cod; also, a hake.
Cnurus
The larval stage of a tapeworm () which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as , , or .
Cohabitant
One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country.
Cohorn
See .
Coistril
An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries.
collaborator
An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.
Collective
Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; .
Collodion
A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography.
Colorate
Colored.
Colorature
Vocal music , as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.
Commendatory
A commendation; eulogy.
Compiler
One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.
Compinge
To compress; to shut up.
Concentrativeness
The quality of concentrating.
Concentrically
In a concentric manner.
conceptualisation
the act of formulating or making a concept of something.
confusing
causing mental confusion and perplexity.
Congeniality
The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.
Conium
A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit (seeds) and decompound leaves.
Connect
To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.
Consanguineous
Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
Consensus
Agreement; accord; consent.
Consent
To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit.
Constant
Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to .
Contrary
A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.
Contumacy
Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.
Cootfoot
The phalarope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.
Copsy
Characterized by copses.
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.
Corniplume
A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.
Corno di bassetto
A tenor clarinet; -- called also , and sometimes confounded with the , which is a tenor oboe.
Corregidor
The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.
Correspond
To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by or ; .
Corrival
Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry.
Corvine
Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike.
Coston lights
Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.
Countreplete
To counterplead.
Crackle
To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; .
Creaminess
The quality of being creamy.
Creep
The act or process of creeping.
Crustific
Producing or forming a crust or skin.
Cuculoid
Like or belonging to the cuckoos ().
Curtal friar
A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.
Cystose
Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.
Cytoblast
The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.