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  • English Word Cerographist Definition One who practices cerography.
  • English Word Cerography Definition The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
  • English Word Cerography Definition A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
  • English Word Cerolite Definition A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.
  • English Word Ceroma Definition The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.
  • English Word Ceroma Definition That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.
  • English Word Ceroma Definition The cere of birds.
  • English Word Ceromancy Definition Divination by dropping melted wax in water.
  • English Word Ceroon Definition A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.
  • English Word Ceroplastic Definition Relating to the art of modeling in wax.
  • English Word Ceroplastic Definition Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure.
  • English Word Ceroplastics Definition Alt. of Ceroplasty
  • English Word Ceroplasty Definition The art of modeling in wax.
  • English Word Cerosin Definition A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae.
  • English Word Cerote Definition See Cerate.
  • English Word Cerotene Definition A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.
  • English Word Cerotic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.
  • English Word Cerotin Definition A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.
  • English Word Cerrial Definition Of or pertaining to the cerris.
  • English Word Cerris Definition A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.
  • English Word Certain Definition Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
  • English Word Certain Definition Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive.
  • English Word Certain Definition Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
  • English Word Certain Definition Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
  • English Word Certain Definition Unfailing; infallible.
  • English Word Certain Definition Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
  • English Word Certain Definition Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons.
  • English Word Certain Definition Certainty.
  • English Word Certain Definition A certain number or quantity.
  • English Word Certain Definition Certainly.