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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Cĕn′tral-i-zā′tion, n. p. 211Act of centralizing; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts to a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.Cĕn’tral-ize, v. t. p. 211To draw to a central point; to bring to a center; to make central. “ [To] centralize the power of government.” Bancroft.Cen'tral-ly, adv. p. 211In a central manner; with regard to the center.Cen-trā'tion, n. p. 211Tendency to the center. [Obs.] More.Cĕn’tre, n. p. 211See CENTER.Cen'tric or Cen'tric-al, a. p. 211Placed in the center or middle; central. Donne.Cen'tric-al-ly, adv. p. 211In a central position.Cen'tric-al-ness, n. p. 211Situation in the center.Cen-tric'i-ty, n. p. 211The state of being centric.Cen-trif'u-gal, a. p. 211Tending to recede from the center. 2. (Bot.) (a.) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower. Lindley. (b.) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some…Centrifugal force p. 211that force by which a body, moving in a curve tends to fly off from the axis of motion, in a tangent to the periphery of the curve.Cĕn’tring, n. p. 211See CENTERING.Cen-trĭp'e-tal, a. p. 211Tending toward the center. 2. (Bot.) (a.) Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and later at the summit, as a flower. Lindley. (b.) Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit…Cen-trip'e-ten-cy, n. p. 211Tendency toward the center.Cen'tro-bā'rie, a. p. 211Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it. Centrobariæ method (Math.), a process invented for the purpose of measuring the area or the volume generated by the rotation of a…Cĕn′tro-līn′e-ad, n. p. 211An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or converging to a center.Cen'tro-lin'e-al, a. p. 211Converging to a center;—applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.Cĕn’try, n. p. 211See SENTRY.Cen-tūm'vir, n. p. 211(Rom. Antiq.) A judge appointed by the pretor to decide common causes among the people;—so called because, although the original number was one hundred and five, it was commonly spoken of as one…Cen-tūm'vi-ral, a. p. 211Pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir.Cen-tūm'/vi-rate, n. p. 211The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.Cĕnʹtu-ple, a. p. 211Hundred-fold. Mussinger.Cĕn’tu-ple, v. t. p. 211To increase a hundred-fold.Cen-tū'pli-āte, v. t. p. 211To make a hundred-fold. [Rare.]Cen-tū'ri-al, a. p. 211Relating to a century, or a hundred years; as, a centurial sermon. [Rare.] When the third centurial jubilee of New England shall come, who of us will then be living to participate the general joy? J.…Cen-tū'ri-āte, v. t. p. 211To divide into hundreds. [Obs.]Cen-tū'ri-ā'tor or Cent'ū-rist, n. p. 211An historian who distinguishes time by centuries. [Rare.] Ayliffe. Sheldon. The centuriatores of Magdeburg were the first that discovered this grand imposture. Ayliffe.Cen-tū'ri-on, n. p. 211(Rom. Antiq.) A military officer who commanded a century, or company of infantry comprising a hundred men, answering to the captain in modern armies.Cēnt'ū-ry, n. p. 211The aggregate of a hundred individual persons or things; a hundred; as, a century of sonnets. “A century send forth.” Shak. 2. A period of a hundred years. This is the most common signification of…Cē'pī, n. p. 212(Bot.) A plant (Allium cepa); the common onion.Ce-pēv'o-rous, a. p. 212Feeding upon onions. Sterling.Cēph'al-āl'gie, a. p. 212Relating to headache.Cēph'al-āl'gie, n. p. 212(Med.) A remedy for the headache.Cĕph'al-āl'gy, n. p. 212Pain in the head; headache.Cēph'a-lān'thi-ūm, n. p. 212(Bot.) The head or capitate inflorescence of a composite plant. Brande.Cēph'a-lās'pis, n. p. 212(Paleon.) A genus of fishes, now found only in a fossil state in the old red sandstone. The head is very large, and in the form of a large buckler, prolonged behind into two points.Cēph'a-late, n. p. 212(Zoöl.) An animal of the subkingdom Mollusca. See MOLLUSK.Cĕph'a-lăt'o-my, n. p. 212(Anat.) The dissection of the head. Dunglison.Ce-phāl'ic, a. p. 212Pertaining to the head; as, cephalic medicines, remedies for disorders in the head. Cephalic vein, a vein running along the arm, so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the…Ce-phāl'ie, n. p. 212A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.Cēph'a-lī'tis, n. p. 212(Med.) An inflammatory disease of the brain. Dunglison.Cēph'a-lo-ex-trāct'or, n. p. 212(Surg.) An instrument to extract a fœtus by clasping the head.Cēph'a-lōg'ra-phy, n. p. 212(Anat.) A description of the head. Dunglison.Cēph'a-loid, a. p. 212Shaped like the head; spherical. Craig.Cēph'a-lŏl'o-gy, n. p. 212(Anat.) A treatise on the head.Cēph'a-lo-pŏd or Cĕ-phăl'o-pŏd, n. p. 212(Zoöl.) An animal of the sub-kingdom Mollusca, characterized by a distinct head, surrounded by a circle of long arms or tentacles, which they use for crawling and for seizing objects. See MOLLUSK.Cēph'a-lo-pōd'ic or Cēph'a-lōp'o-doŭs, a. p. 212Belonging to the cephalopods.Cēph'a-lo-thō'rax, n. p. 212(Entom. & Zoöl.) The first segment of the Arachnida and Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.Cĕph'a-lo-trībe, n. p. 212An obstetrical instrument for crushing the head of the child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.Cĕph'a-loŭs, a. p. 212Having a head; — applied chiefly to a division of mollusks, the Cephalata, which includes the Univalves, &c. Dana.Ce-rā'ceoŭs, a. p. 212Wax like; partaking of the nature of wax.Ce-rā'go, n. p. 212A substance consisting chiefly of the pollen of flowers, used by bees as food; bee-bread.Ce-rām'ic, a. p. 212Pertaining to pottery, or the art of pottery; as, the ceramic art. Fairholt.Cĕr'a-sīne, n. p. 212(Chem.) Any gummy substance which swells in cold water, but does not readily dissolve in it, as the gum which exudes from the cherry-tree. Ure.Cĕr'a-sīte, n. p. 212(Min.) The native muriate of lead. Dana.Cē'rate, n. p. 212(Med.) A thick kind of ointment, composed of wax and oil, with other ingredients.Cē'rā-ted, a. p. 212Covered with wax.Ce-rās'tēs, n. p. 212(Zoöl.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper. Baird. Cerastes horridus.Ce·rau'nics, n. sing. p. 212That branch of physics which treats of heat and electricity. [See MATHEMATICS.] R. Park.Ce-raū'no-scōpe, n. p. 212An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning. T. Moore.