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- English Word Cymatium Definition A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.
- English Word Cymbal Definition A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.
- English Word Cymbal Definition A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.
- English Word Cymbal Definition A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.
- English Word Cymbalist Definition A performer upon cymbals.
- English Word Cymbiform Definition Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.
- English Word Cymbium Definition A genus of marine univalve shells; the gondola.
- English Word Cymbling Definition A scalloped or "pattypan" variety of summer squash.
- English Word Cyme Definition A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.
- English Word Cymene Definition A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.
- English Word Cymenol Definition See Carvacrol.
- English Word Cymidine Definition A liquid organic base, C10H13.NH2, derived from cymene.
- English Word Cymiferous Definition Producing cymes.
- English Word Cymling Definition Alt. of Cymbling
- English Word Cymogene Definition A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures.
- English Word Cymoid Definition Having the form of a cyme.
- English Word Cymophane Definition See Chrysoberyl.
- English Word Cymophanous Definition Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.
- English Word Cymose Definition Alt. of Cymous
- English Word Cymous Definition Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.
- English Word Cymric Definition Welsh.
- English Word Cymric Definition The Welsh language.
- English Word Cymry Definition A collective term for the Welsh race; -- so called by themselves .
- English Word Cymule Definition A small cyme, or one of very few flowers.
- English Word Cynanche Definition Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.
- English Word Cynanthropy Definition A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal.
- English Word Cynarctomachy Definition Bear baiting with a dog.
- English Word Cynarrhodium Definition A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.
- English Word Cynegetics Definition The art of hunting with dogs.
- English Word Cynic Definition Alt. of Cynical