CPage 106
- English Word Cell Definition The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
- English Word Cell Definition Same as Cella.
- English Word Cell Definition A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
- English Word Cell Definition One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
- English Word Cell Definition To place or inclose in a cell.
- English Word Cella Definition The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.
- English Word Cellar Definition A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
- English Word Cellarage Definition The space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar.
- English Word Cellarage Definition Chare for storage in a cellar.
- English Word Cellarer Definition A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.
- English Word Cellaret Definition A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.
- English Word Cellarist Definition Same as Cellarer.
- English Word Celled Definition of Cell
- English Word Celled Definition Containing a cell or cells.
- English Word Cellepore Definition A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.
- English Word Celli Definition of Cello
- English Word Celliferous Definition Bearing or producing cells.
- English Word Cello Definition A contraction for Violoncello.
- English Word Cellos Definition of Cello
- English Word Cellular Definition Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.
- English Word Cellulated Definition Cellular.
- English Word Cellule Definition A small cell.
- English Word Celluliferous Definition Bearing or producing little cells.
- English Word Cellulitis Definition An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.
- English Word Celluloid Definition A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.
- English Word Cellulose Definition Consisting of, or containing, cells.
- English Word Cellulose Definition The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin.
- English Word Celotomy Definition The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia.
- English Word Celsiture Definition Height; altitude.
- English Word Celsius Definition The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.