Part 1925

<i>Bailey.</i>

<h1>Cimeter</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cim"e*ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Scimiter</er>.</def>

<h1>Cimex</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Ci"mex</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Cimices</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[L., a bug.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See <er>Bedbug</er>.</def>

<h1>Cimia</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cim"i*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>See <er>Cimbia</er>.</def>

<h1>Cimiss</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Ci"miss</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cimex</ets>, <ets>-icis</ets>, a bug.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The bedbug.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Wright.</i>

<h1>Cimmerian</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cim*me"ri*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Cimmerius</ets>.]</ety> <altsp>[Written also <asp>Kimmerian</asp>.]</altsp> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Without any light; intensely dark.</def>

<blockquote>In dark <b>Cimmerian</b> desert ever dwell. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cimolite</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cim"o*lite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ (sc. <?/) Cimolian earth, fr. <?/, L. <ets>Cimolus</ets>, an island of the Cyclades.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.</def>

<h1>Cinch</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cinch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Sp. <ets>cincha</ets>, fr. L. <ets>cingere</ets> to gird.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.</def> <mark>[West. U. S.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A tight grip.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Cinchona</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cin*cho"na</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[So named from the wife of Count <ets>Chinchon</ets>, viceroy of Peru in the seventeenth century, who by its use was freed from an intermittent fever, and after her return to Spain, contributed to the general propagation of this remedy.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>The bark of any species of <spn>cinchona</spn> containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.</def>

<h1>Cinchonaceous</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cin`cho*na"ceous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.</def>

<h1>Cinchonic</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cin*chon"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona.</def>

<i>Mayne.</i>