CYANURIC ACID

A crystallizable acid, obtained by decomposing urea by heat. CYBELE (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.), in Mythology, was originally the Phrygian godde of the earth. When her worship was introduced among the Greeks, they confounded her with Rhea, as did the Latins with their Ops. Her rites, like those of the Asiatic deities, in general were celebrated with great excitement; her priests, who were called Galli, Corybantes, Curetes, ., running about with bowlings and clashing of cymbals. CYCADACEiE. (Cycas, one of the genera.) In Botany, a very small natural order of arborescent Gjmanosperms, inhabiting the tropics of Asia and America. They were formerly referred by Linnaeus to the Palms; but in 1825 Brown showed the analogy between Cycadaceoe and ConifercE, and hence their present station. Adolphe Brongniart also proved the affinity by finding the ve els contained in the wood of both orders to be, as he says, of the same structure. The only remarkable quality in the order is the production of a kind of sago by tiie soft centre of Cycas circinalis. CYCLANTHACE^. (Cyclanthus, one of the genera.) In Botany, a natural order of Endogens, inhabiting the tropics of the western hemisphere, and allied to PandanacecB, from which their plaited leaves and spiral flowers divide them. CYCLAS, SINGLETON, . An article of dre worn both with and without defensive armour, which came hi to fashion about the reigns of Edward II. and III. in England. It was a mantle or surcoat without sleeves, of silk, cloth, ., reaching to the knees before and to the calves of the legs behind. It was succeeded by the jap on or gyppon, a shorter kind of surcoat. [s. 323]