Part 1926

<h1>Cinchonidine</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cin*chon"i*dine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Cinchona</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, <chform>C19H22N2O</chform>, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also <altname>cinchonidia</altname>.</def>

<h1>Cinchonine</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cin"cho*nine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Cinchona</er>: cf. F. <ets>cinchonine</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also <altname>cinchonia</altname>.</def>

<h1>Cinchonism</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cin"cho*nism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Cinchona</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.</def>

<h1>Cinchonize</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cin"cho*nize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.</def>

<h1>Cincinnati epoch</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cin`cin*na"ti ep"och</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near <i>Cincinnati</i>, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New york.</def>

<h1>Cincture</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cinc"ture</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cinctura</ets>, fr. <ets>cingere</ets>, <ets>cinctum</ets>, to gird.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.</def> "Within the <i>cincture</i> of one wall."

<i>Bacon.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.</def>

<h1>Cinctured</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cinc"tured</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Having or wearing a cincture or gridle.</def>

<h1>Cinder</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cin"der</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>sinder</ets> slag, dross; akin to Icel. <ets>sindr</ets> dross, Sw. <ets>sinder</ets>, G. <ets>sinter</ets>, D. <ets>sintel</ets>; perh. influenced by F. <ets>cendre</ets> ashes, fr. L. <ets>cinis</ets>. Cf. <er>Sinter</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A hot coal without flame; an ember.</def>

<i>Swift.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A scale thrown off in forging metal.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.</def>

<cs><col>Cinder frame</col>, <cd>a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders.</cd> -- <col>Cinder notch</col> <fld>(Metal.)</fld>, <cd>the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cindery</h1> <Xpage=256>

<hw>Cin"der*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.</def>

<h1>Cinefaction</h1> <Xpage=256>