Part 1736

<h1>Cellarer</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cel"lar*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>cellararius</ets>, equiv. to L. <ets>cellarius</ets> steward: cf. F. <ets>cell\'82rier</ets>. See <er>Cellar</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.</def>

<h1>Cellaret</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cel`lar*et"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Dim of <ets>cellar</ets>.]</ety> <def>A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.</def>

<h1>Cellarist</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cel"lar*ist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Cellarer</er>.</def>

<h1>Celled</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Celled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Containing a cell or cells.</def>

<h1>Cellepore</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cel"le*pore</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cella</ets> cell + <ets>porus</ets>, Gr. <?/, passage.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.</def>

<h1>Celliferous</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cel*lif"er*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Cell</ets> + <ets>-ferous</ets>.]</ety> <def>Bearing or producing cells.</def>

<h1>Cello</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cel"lo</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. E. <plw>Cellos</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, It. <plw>Celli</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>A contraction for <er>Violoncello</er>.</def>

<h1>Cellular</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cel"lu*lar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cellula</ets> a little cell: cf. F. <ets>cellulaire</ets>. See <er>Cellule</er>.]</ety> <def>Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Cellular plants</col>, <col>Cellular cryptogams</col></mcol> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and alg\'91.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Cellular theory</col>, &or; <col>Cell theory</col></mcol> <fld>(Biol.)</fld>, <cd>a theory, according to which the essential element of every tissue, either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of cells having been formed from the development of the germ cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants ans animals, are to be considered as a mass of minute cells communicating with each other.</cd> -- <col>Cellular tissue</col>. <cd><sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> See <cref>conjunctive tissue</cref> under <er>Conjunctive</er>. <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts.</cd></cs> <-- <col>cellular telephone</col>, <cd>a portable radio-telephone transmitting and receiving the radio-telephonic signals from one of a group of transmitter-receiver stations so arranged that they provide adequate signal contact for such telephones over a certain geographical area. The area within which one transmitter may service such portable telephones is called its "cell.</cd> -->

<h1>Cellulated</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cel"lu*la`ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Cellular.</def>

<i>Caldwell.</i>

<h1>Cellule</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cel"lule</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cellula</ets> a small apartment, dim. of <ets>cella</ets>: cf. F. <ets>cellule</ets>. See <er>Cell</er>.]</ety> <def>A small cell.</def>

<h1>Celluliferous</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cel`lu*lif"er*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cellula</ets> + <ets>-ferous</ets>.]</ety> <def>Bearing or producing little cells.</def>

<h1>Cellulitis</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cel`lu*li"tis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. L. <ets>cellula</ets> + <ets>-itis</ets>.]</ety> <def>An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.</def>

<h1>Celluloid</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cel"lu*loid`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Cellulose</ets> + <ets>-oid</ets>.]</ety> <def>A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originaly called <i>xylonite</i>.</def>