Cidaridæ (sidaride)

pl. [NL., Cidaridea (sid-a-ride-a), n. pl. [NL., the families Cidaridæ, Echinidæ, Echinometridæ, and others. cidaris (sid'a-ris), n.; pl. cidares (-rēz). [L., On his (the Persian king's] head was set a Cidaris or Tiara; this was a kind of Cap or Turbant, not like a felt of wooll, but of diuers peeces of cloth sowed together. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 361. (b) The head-dre of the high priest of the Jews. (c) A low-crowned episcopal miter. F. G. Lee. Also written kidaris.-2. [ cap.] [NL.] The typical genus of the family Cidarida. The stems and enveloped tightly in a wrapper of the same material. A cigar of tapering form, but not pointed at either end, is called a cheroot . Also written, improperly, cigar-bundler (si-gär'bundler), n . A clamp- ing-pre for packing cigars in bundles. cigar-case (si-gär'kās), n. A pocket-case for holding cigars. cigarette (sig-a-ret'), n. [F. cigarette , dim. of cigare , a cigar.] A small cigar made of finely cut tobacco rolled up in an envelop of tobacco, corn-husk, or thin paper, generally rice-paper, so as to form a cylinder open at both ends. cigarette-filler (sig-a-ret'filer), n . A device for filling the envelop of a cigarette with to- tinal side. The spines are removed from one interambulacral area and one half of another. He schall not drinke wyn ne sydyr [A. V., strong drink). Wyclif , Luke i. 15. 2. Formerly, any liquor made of the juice of fruits; now, the expre ed juice of apples, either before or after fermentation. A flask of cider from his father's vats, Prime, which I knew. Tennyson, Audley Court. paper, commonly rice-paper, used for the wrap- pers of the fine-cut tobacco which forms the filling of cigarettes. cigar-fish (si-gär'fish), n. A carangoid fish, De- capterus punctatus , having a thick fusiform shape somewhat resembling that of a cigar. It has rays of the dorsal and anal fins detached and developed as pin- nules, and a row of blackish dots along the sides. It is an inhabitant of the Caribbean sea and the neighboring coast of the United States, and abounds at Bermuda, where it is of some importance as a food-fish. Also round-robin. cigar-holder (si-gär höl" der), n. A mouth- piece or tube, often of ivory or amber, used to hold a cigar. Also, rarely, cigar - tube . cigar-plant (si-gär'plant), n. The Cuphea pla- tycentra , a native of Mexico, having a bright- scarlet tubular corolla tipped with black and Cider Act, an English statute of 1763 (3 Geo. III., c. 12), imposing additional and heavy taxes upon wine, vinegar, cider, perry, etc. It caused great agitation in the coun- try.-Hard cider, fermented cider; cider that has lost its sweetne from fermentation.-Sweet cider, cider before fermentation, or cider in which fermentation has been prevented. - Water cider, a weak cider made by adding to the apples, after the first pre ing, one half their weight of water, and expre ing the liquor a second time, cider-brandy (si'der-bran'di), n. A sort of brandy distilled from cider. In the United States also called apple - jack and apple - brandy . cigar-tree (si-gär'tre), n. A name of the catal- [ -ist .] A cideristt (si'dėr-ist), n. maker of cider. Mortimer . All his domains and his herds, and his patriarchal de- Long fellow , Evangeline, ii. 3. cidront, n. An obsolete variant of citron . C. I. E. An abbreviation of Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire , an Anglo-Indian order of knighthood instituted on January 1st, 1878. white, well known in cultivation. cigar-pre (si-gär'pres), n. A pre used to compre cigars preparatory to packing. pa, from the shape of its pods. cigar-tube (si-gär'tūb), n. Same as cigar - holder . cigninota (sig-ni-noō'tä), n. [NL., prop. * cygni- nota, nota , mark.] Same as swan -mark. cileryt, cilleryt, n. [ ciler , * ciller , for celer , celler2, celure, sculptured work in relief, orna- mental carving or other decoration: see celure .] Ornamental carving around the head of a pil- lar; a volute. Voluta [It., = E. volute ], that in the head or chapiter of a piller which sticketh out or hangeth ouer in maner of a writhen circle or curled tuft, being a kind of worke of leaues or some such deuise turned diuers and sundrie IMG:content-0411.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0412.png:[blocks in formation] 1, 2. Ciliated embryos of common red coral ( Corallium rubrum). 3. Ciliated chamber of a fresh-water sponge ( Spongilla ). 4. I 4. Free- swimming ciliated embryo of a sponge. (All highly magnified.) gams. (b) In an at . and zoöl ., furnished with cilia, in any sense; ciliary: as, ciliated cells; a ciliated embryo. The groups of ciliated cells thus produced form by their aggregation discoid bodies. (c) In entom ., provided with a row of even, fine, rather stiff, and often curved hairs; fringed: as, a ciliated margin. - Ciliated chambers, in sponges, various local dilata- tions of the inhalent canals, to which the endodermic cells, at first forming a continuous layer, are finally restricted. Now usually and more accurately called flagellated cham- bers. See Leucones , and cuts under Porifer a and Spongilla . ciliary (sil'i-a-ri), a. [= F. ciliaire, cilium , an eyelid: see cilium.] 1. Pertaining to or resembling cilia; hair-like; filamentous; specifically, belonging to the eye- lids: as, the ciliary feathers of birds (that is, feathers situated on the edges of the eyelids). 2. Furnished with cilia; ciliated.-3. Pertain- ing to cilia; characteristic of cilia; done by cilia: as, ciliary action; ciliary motion.-4. Re- lated, a ociated, or connected in some way with the eye; situated in or about the eye: ap- plied to various delicate anatomical structures. - Ciliary arteries, numerous small branches of the oph- thalmic artery, which supply the interior and other parts of the eyeball. They are divided into three sets, long, short, and anterior. — Ciliary body. ( a ) That part of the cho- roid coat of the eye which lies in front of the ora serrata, including the ciliary muscle and ciliary proce es, but not the iris. By some restricted to that part of the choroid coat which lies in front of the orbiculus ciliaris. Also called corpus ciliare. (b) In the eye of a cephalopod, a thickening of the epithelium on the anterior and posterior surfaces of the connective ti ue which invests the ciliary corpus epitheliale . - Ciliary canal. See can all . Ciliary ganglion. See ganglion.- Ciliary ligament, an elastic structure surrounding the iris, and connecting the exter- nal and middle tunics of the eyeball. See cut under eye . Ciliary motion, ciliary movement, the motion of cilia which produces the locomotion of the bodies of which they are a part, as in the ciliated protozoans, or maintains cilicia, n. Plural of cilicium. a current over the ciliated surface, as in the ciliated air- pa ages of man. - Ciliary muscle, a muscle attached to the choroid coat of the eyeball. Its contraction draws upon the ciliary proce es, affects the shape of the crystalline lens, and is the chief agent in the accommodation or adjust- The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-0414.jpg:[blocks in formation] II. n. An inhabitant of Cilicia. cilicioust (si-lish'us), a. [ A garment of camel's hair; that is, made of some texture of that hair, a coarse garment, a cilicious or sackcloth habit, suitable to the austerity of his [John the Baptist's] life. Sir T. Browne , Vulg. Err., v. 15. cilicium (si-lish'i-um), n.; pl. cilicia (-a). [L., a coarse cloth of goats' hair: see cilicious and cilice.] In the early and medieval church, an undergarment or shirt of haircloth, worn next the skin by monks or others as a means of mortifying the flesh without ostentation; a hair shirt. Also cilice. ciliella (sil-i-el'ä), n.; pl. ciliella (-ē). [NL., dim. of L. (NL.) cilium, eyelid (cilium): see cilium. Cf. ciliola.] In entom., a fringe.