Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CE-PHAL'IC, n.

A medicine for headache or other disorder in the head.

CEPH'AL-O-EX-TRACT'OR, n.

An instrument to extract a fetus by clasping the head. – Casanova.

CE-PHAL'O-GY, n. [Gr. κεφαλη and λογος.]

The science which teaches the influences and susceptibilities of the human brain, and the method of controlling the separate mental and physical organs by pathetism. – Sunderland.

CEPH'AL-O-PODE, n. [Gr. κεφαλη, head, and ποδα, the feet.]

In natural history, an animal which has its organs of motion arranged round its head, as the sepia or cuttle-fish. – Bail.

CEPH-A-LOP'O-DIC, or CEPH-A-LOP'O-DOUS, a.

Relating to the cephalopodous molluscs, e. g. the cuttle fish.

CE-PHE'US, n.

A constellation in the Northern hemisphere.

CE'PHUS, n.

A fowl of the duck kind; also, a species of monkey, the Mona. – Dict. of Nat. Hist.

CER-A-SEE', n.

The male balsam apple.

CER'A-SIN, n. [L. cerasus.]

Any gummy substance which swells in cold water, but does not readily dissolve in it. – Ure. Dr. John.

CER'A-SITE, n. [L. cerasum, cherry.]

A petrifaction resembling a cherry. – Cyc.

CE-RAS'TES, n. [Gr. κεραστης, from κερας, a horn.]

In zoology, the name of a serpent, of the genus Coluber, which the ancients supposed to have horns.

CE'RATE, n. [L. ceratum, from cera, wax.]

A thick kind of ointment, composed of wax and oil, with other ingredients, applied externally in various diseases. – Cyc.

CE'RA-TED, a. [L. ceratus.]

Covered with wax.

CE'RA-TRIN, n.

The bitter principle of Iceland moss.

CER'BE-RUS, n.

In mythology, a monster guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, and described as having a hundred heads.

CERE, n.

The naked skin that covers the base of a hawk's bill. – Encyc.

CERE, v.t. [L. cera, wax.]

To wax or cover with wax. – Wiseman.

CE'RE-AL, a. [from Ceres.]

Pertaining to edible grain, as wheat, rye, &c. – Humboldt.

CE-RE-A'LI-A, n. [plur.]

A technical term for the edible grains. – Prout.

CER'E-BEL, or CER-E-BEL'LUM, n. [L. cerebellum.]

The hinder and lower part of the brain, or the little brain. – Coxe.

CER'E-BRAL, or CER'E-BRINE, a. [from L. cerebrum, the brain.]

Pertaining to the cerebrum or brain.

CER'E-BRUM, n. [L.]

The brain.

CERE'CLOTH, n. [L. cera, wax, and cloth.]

A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. – Bacon. But the English word for a cloth used to cover wounds is sear-cloth; Sax. sar-cloth, a sore-cloth.

CER'ED, pp.

Spread over with melted wax.

CERE'MENT, n. [L. cera, wax.]

Cloths dipped in melted wax, with which dead bodies are infolded, when embalmed. – Johnson.