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  • English Word Cinchonidine Definition 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.
  • English Word Cinchonine Definition One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
  • English Word Cinchonism Definition A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.
  • English Word Cinchonize Definition To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.
  • English Word Cincinnati epoch Definition An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New York.
  • English Word Cincture Definition A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
  • English Word Cincture Definition That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.
  • English Word Cincture Definition The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
  • English Word Cinctured Definition Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.
  • English Word Cinder Definition Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
  • English Word Cinder Definition A hot coal without flame; an ember.
  • English Word Cinder Definition A scale thrown off in forging metal.
  • English Word Cinder Definition The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.
  • English Word Cindery Definition Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.
  • English Word Cinefaction Definition Cineration; reduction to ashes.
  • English Word Cinematic Definition Alt. of Cinematical
  • English Word Cinematical Definition See Kinematic.
  • English Word Cinematics Definition See Kinematics.
  • English Word Cineraceous Definition Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous.
  • English Word Cineraria Definition A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.
  • English Word Cinerary Definition Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.
  • English Word Cineration Definition The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
  • English Word Cinereous Definition Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.
  • English Word Cinerescent Definition Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.
  • English Word Cineritious Definition Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.
  • English Word Cinerulent Definition Full of ashes.
  • English Word Cingalese Definition A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants
  • English Word Cingalese Definition the language of the Cingalese.
  • English Word Cingalese Definition Of or pertaining to the Cingalese.
  • English Word Cingle Definition A girth.