Chapter Chylification to Cincture of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Cimbrian
(Cim"bri*an) a. Of or pertaining to the Cimbri. — n. One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric.

Cimbric
(Cim"bric) a. Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting Northern Germany. — n. The language of the Cimbri.

Cimeliarch
(Ci*me"li*arch) n. [L. cimeliarcha, Gr. treasurer.] A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. [Obs.] Bailey.

Cimeter
(Cim"e*ter) n. See Scimiter.

Cimex
(||Ci"mex) n.; pl. Cimices [L., a bug.] (Zoöl.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.

Cimia
(Cim"i*a) n. (Arch.) See Cimbia.

Cimiss
(Ci"miss) n. [L. cimex, -icis, a bug.] (Zoöl.) The bedbug. [Obs.] Wright.

Cimmerian
(Cim*me"ri*an) a. [L. Cimmerius.] [Written also Kimmerian.]

1. Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.

2. Without any light; intensely dark.

In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Milton.

Cimolite
(Cim"o*lite) n. [Gr. (sc. ) Cimolian earth, fr. L. Cimolus, an island of the Cyclades.] (Min.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.

Cinch
(Cinch) n. [Sp. cincha, fr. L. cingere to gird.]

1. A strong saddle girth, as of canvas. [West. U. S.]

2. A tight grip. [Colloq.]

Cinchona
(Cin*cho"na) n. [So named from the wife of Count Chinchon, viceroy of Peru in the seventeenth century, who by its use was freed from an intermittent fever, and after her return to Spain, contributed to the general propagation of this remedy.]

1. (Bot.) A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.

2. (Med.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.

Cinchonaceous
(Cin`cho*na"ceous) a. Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.

Cinchonic
(Cin*chon"ic) a. Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne.

Cinchonidine
(Cin*chon"i*dine) n. [From Cinchona.] (Chem.) One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C₁₉H₂₂N₂O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; — sometimes called also cinchonidia.

Cinchonine
(Cin"cho*nine) n. [From Cinchona: cf. F. cinchonine.] (Chem.) One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; — called also cinchonia.