Part 1747

<note>&hand; The metallurgists use a weight divided into a hundred equal parts, each one pound; the whole they call a <i>centner</i>: the pound is divided into thirty-two parts, or half ounces; the half ounce into two quarters; and each of these into two drams. But the assayers use different weights. With them a <i>centner</i> is one dram, to which the other parts are proportioned.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds.</def>

<h1>Cento</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cen"to</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Centos</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[L. <ets>cento</ets> a garment of several pieces sewed together, patchwork, a poem made up of various verses of another poem.]</ety> <def>A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.</def>

<h1>Centonism</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cen"to*nism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos.</def>

<h1>Central</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cen"tral</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>centralis</ets>, fr. <ets>centrum</ets>: cf. F. <ets>central</ets>. See <er>Center</er>.]</ety> <def>Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center\'3c-- original had "or of.." --\'3e; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points.</def>

<cs><col>Central force</col> <fld>(Math.)</fld>, <cd>a force acting upon a body towards or away from a fixed or movable center.</cd> -- <col>Center sun</col> <fld>(Astron.)</fld>, <cd>a name given to a hypothetical body about which M\'84dler supposed the solar system together with all the stars in the Milky Way, to be revolving. A point near Alcyone in the Pleiades was supposed to possess characteristics of the position of such a body.</cd></cs>

<h1>Central, Centrale</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw><hw>Cen"tral</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Cen*tra"le</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. <ets>centrale</ets>, fr. L. <ets>centralis</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.</def>

<h1>Centralism</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cen"tral*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The system by which power is centralized, as in a government.</def>

<h1>Centrality</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cen*tral"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Centralities</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>The state of being central; tendency towards a center.</def>

<blockquote>Meantime there is a great <b>centrality</b>, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence. <i>R. W. Emerson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Centralization</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cen`tral*i*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>centralisation</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; <as>as, the <ex>centralization</ex> of power in the general government; the <ex>centralization</ex> of commerce in a city.</as></def>

<h1>Centralize</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cen"tral*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Centralized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Centralizing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>centraliser</ets>.]</ety> <def>To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.</def>

<blockquote> <b>centralize</b> the power of government. <i>Bancroft.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Centrally</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cen"tral*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a central manner or situation.</def>

<h1>Centre</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw>Cen"tre</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. & v.</tt> <def>See <er>Center</er>.</def>

<h1>Centric, Centrical</h1> <Xpage=230>

<hw><hw>Cen"tric</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Cen"tric*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Placed in the center or middle; central.</def>