CPage 122
- English Word Cessible Definition Giving way; yielding.
- English Word Cessing Definition of Cess
- English Word Cession Definition A yielding to physical force.
- English Word Cession Definition Concession; compliance.
- English Word Cession Definition A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.
- English Word Cession Definition The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
- English Word Cession Definition The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
- English Word Cessionary Definition Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt.
- English Word Cessment Definition An assessment or tax.
- English Word Cessor Definition One who neglects, for two years, to perform the service by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. See Cessavit.
- English Word Cessor Definition An assessor.
- English Word Cesspipe Definition A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool.
- English Word Cesspool Definition A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.
- English Word Cest Definition A woman's girdle; a cestus.
- English Word Cestode Definition Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
- English Word Cestode Definition One of the Cestoidea.
- English Word Cestoid Definition Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
- English Word Cestoid Definition One of the Cestoidea.
- English Word Cestoidea Definition A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm.
- English Word Cestoldean Definition One of the Cestoidea.
- English Word Cestraciont Definition A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples.
- English Word Cestraciont Definition Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the genus Cestracion.
- English Word Cestui Definition He; the one.
- English Word Cestus Definition A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.
- English Word Cestus Definition A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.
- English Word Cestus Definition A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.
- English Word Cestuy Definition Alt. of Cestui
- English Word Cesura Definition See Caesura.
- English Word Cesural Definition See Caesural.
- English Word Cetacea Definition An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders: