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- English Word Cuttystool Definition A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
- English Word Cutwal Definition The chief police officer of a large city.
- English Word Cutwater Definition The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.
- English Word Cutwater Definition A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.
- English Word Cutwater Definition A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.
- English Word Cutwork Definition An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
- English Word Cutworm Definition A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvae of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.
- English Word Cuvette Definition A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
- English Word Cuvette Definition A cunette.
- English Word Cuvette Definition A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.
- English Word Cyamelide Definition A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.
- English Word Cyamellone Definition A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.
- English Word Cyanate Definition A salt of cyanic acid.
- English Word Cyanaurate Definition See Aurocyanide.
- English Word Cyanean Definition Having an azure color.
- English Word Cyanic Definition Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.
- English Word Cyanic Definition Of or pertaining to a blue color.
- English Word Cyanide Definition A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.
- English Word Cyanin Definition The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin.
- English Word Cyanine Definition One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.
- English Word Cyanite Definition A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium.
- English Word Cyanogen Definition A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals recognized.
- English Word Cyanometer Definition An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.
- English Word Cyanopathy Definition A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.
- English Word Cyanophyll Definition A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll.
- English Word Cyanosed Definition Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a/ration of the blood.
- English Word Cyanosis Definition A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.
- English Word Cyanosite Definition Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue.
- English Word Cyanotic Definition Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin.
- English Word Cyanotype Definition A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.