Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CIC-IS'BE-O, n. [It.]

A dangler about females. – Smollett.

CIC'U-RATE, v.t. [L. cicer, tame; cicuro, to tame.]

To tame; to reclaim from wildness. [Little used.]

CIC-U-RA'TION, n.

The act of taming wild animals. [Little used.]

CI-CU'TA, n. [L. cicuta; W. cegid; Fr. cigue; Arm. chagud. The Welsh is from ceg, a choking.]

A genus of plants containing three species, one European and two American. The European species is called popularly water hemlock. The name Cicuta is sometimes applied to Conium maculatum, or officinal hemlock. It was likewise one of the ancient names of a poison, now unknown, which was used in the execution of criminals.

CI'DER, n. [Fr. cidre or sidre; It. sidro; Sp. sidra; Arm. cistr; Port. cidra, a citron and cider. This cannot be the Gr. σικερα, unless the radical letter has been changed.]

The juice of apples expressed, a liquor used for drink. The word was formerly used to signify the juice of other fruits, and other kinds of strong liquor; but it is now appropriated to the juice of apples, before and after fermentation.

CI'DER-IST, n.

A maker of cider. – Mortimer.

CI'DER-KIN, n.

The liquor made of the gross matter of apples, after the cider is pressed out, and a quantity of boiled water is added; the whole steeping forty-eight hours. Phillips. [The two last words, I believe, are little used in America.]

CI-DEVANT, n. [Fr. se devong.]

Formerly; used to designate men who had been in office.

CIERGE, n. [Fr. Qu. L. cera.]

A candle carried in processions.

CI-GAR', n. [Sp. cigarro, a small roll of tobacco for smoking. In Sp. cigarra is the L. cicada, the balm-cricket or locust, Port. cigarra; and in Sp. cigarron is a large species of that animal, and a large roll of tobacco.]

A small roll of tobacco, so formed as to be tubular, used for smoking. Cigars are of Spanish origin.

CIL'I-A, n.

In botany, long hairs upon the margin of a vegetable body. – Brande.

CIL'IA-RY, a. [L. cilium, the eye-lashes, or edge of the eyelid.]

Belonging to the eyelids. – Ray.

CIL'IA-TED, a. [from L. cilium, as above.]

In botany, furnished or surrounded with parallel filaments, or bristles resembling the hairs of the eyelids, as a ciliated leaf, &c. – Encyc. Martyn.

CI-LI'CIOUS, a. [from L. cilium, whence cilicium, hair cloth.]

Made or consisting of hair. Brown.

CIL'I-O-GRADE, n. [L. cilium and gradior.]

An animal that swims by means of cilia. The word may be used adjectively.

CI'MA, n. [See CYMA.]

CIM'BAL, n. [It. ciambella.]

A kind of cake.

CIM'BRIC, a.

Pertaining to the Cimbri, the inhabitants of the modern Jutland, in Denmark, which was anciently called the Cimbric Chersonese. Hence the modern names, Cymru, Wales, Cambria; Cymro, a Welshman; Cymreig, Welsh, or the Welsh language; names indicating the Welsh to be a colony of the Cimbri, or from the same stock.

CIM'BRIC, n.

The language of the Cimbri.

CIM-EL'LI-ARCH, n. [Gr. κειμηιος, precious furniture, and αρχος, a chief.]

A superintendent or keeper of valuable things belonging to a church.

CIM'I-TER, n. [Fr. cimiterre; Sp. and Port. cimitarra; It. scimitarra.]

A short sword with a convex edge or recurvated point, used by the Persians and Turks. [This word is variously written; but it is a word of foreign origin, and it is not material which orthography is used, provided it is uniform. I have adopted that which is most simple.]

CIM-ME'RI-AN, a.

Pertaining to Cimmerium, a town at the mouth of the Palus Mæotis. The ancients pretended that this country was involved in darkness; whence the phrase Cimmerian darkness, to denote a deep or continual obscurity. The country is now called Crimea, or Krim-Tartary.

CIM'O-LITE, n. [Gr. κιμολια; L. cimolia, so called by Pliny; said to be from Cimolus, an isle in the Cretan Sea, now Argentiera.]

A species of clay used by the ancients as a remedy for erysipelas and other inflammations. It is white, of a loose, soft texture, molders into a fine powder, and effervesces with acids. It is useful in taking spots from cloth. Another species, of a purple color, is the steatite or soap-rock. From another species, found in the Isle of Wight, tobacco pipes are made. – Pliny, lib. 35, 17. Encyc.

CIN-CHO'NA, n. [So named from the Countess del Cinchon.]

The Peruvian bark tree, quinquina, of which there are numerous species.

CIN-CHO'NI-NA, or CIN-CHO'NINE, n. [or CIN-CHO'NI-A.]

An alkaloid obtained from the bark of several species of Cinchona, and one of the medicinal active principles of this bark.