Part 2706

<hw>Cy"cad</hw> <tt>(s?"k?d)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Any plant of the natural order <spn>Cycadece\'91</spn>, as the sago palm, etc.</def>

<h1>Cycadaceous</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cyc`a*da"ceous</hw> <tt>(s?k`?-d?"sh?s &or; s?`k?-)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.</def>

<h1>Cycas</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy"cas</hw> <tt>(s?"k?s)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Of uncertain origin. Linn\'91us derives it from one of the "obscure Greek words."]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.</def>

<h1>Cyclamen</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cyc"la*men</hw> <tt>(s?k"l?-m?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>kykla`minos</grk>, <grk>kyklami`s</grk>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called <altname>rabbit's ears</altname>. It is also called <altname>sow bread</altname>, because hogs are said to eat the corms.</def>

<h1>Cyclamin</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cyc"la*min</hw> <tt>(-m?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of <spn>Cyclamen Europ\'91um</spn>.</def>

<h1>Cyclas</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy"clas</hw> <tt>(s?"kl?s)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf.<er>Ciclatoun</er>.]</ety> <def>A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.</def>

<h1>Cycle</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy"cle</hw> <tt>(s?"k'l)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>ycle</ets>, LL. <ets>cyclus</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/<?/ ring or circle, cycle; akin to Skr. <ets>cakra</ets> wheel, circle. See <er>Wheel</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; <as>as, the <ex>cucle</ex> of the seasons, or of the year</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad <b>cycle</b> of twenty years. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An age; a long period of time.</def>

<blockquote>Better fifty years of Europe than a <b>cycle</b> of Cathay. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>We . . . present our gardeners with a complete <b>cycle</b> of what is requisite to be done throughout every month of the year. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have severed as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend aof Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>One entire round in a circle or a spire; <as>as, a <ex>cycle</ex> or set of leaves</as>.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.</def>

<cs><col>Calippic cycle</col>, <cd>a period of 76 years, or four Metonic cycles; -- so called from Calippus, who proposed it as an improvement on the Metonic cycle.</cd> -- <col>Cycle of eclipses</col>, <cd>a priod of about 6,586 days, the time of revolution of the moon's node; -- called <i>Saros</i> by the Chaldeans.</cd> -- <col>Cycle of indiction</col>, <cd>a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Cycle of the moon</col>, &or; <col>Metonic cycle</col></mcol>, <cd>a period of 19 years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon returns to the same day of the year; -- so called from Meton, who first proposed it.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Cycle of the sun</col>, <col>Solar cycle</col></mcol>, <cd>a period of 28 years, at the end of which time the days of the month return to the same days of the week. The <i>dominical</i> or <i>Sunday letter</i> follows the same order; hence the <i>solar cycle</i> is also called the <i>cycle of the Sunday letter</i>. In the Gregorian calendar the <i>solar cycle</i> is in general interrupted at the end of the century.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cycle</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy"cle</hw> <tt>(s?"k'l)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p.p.</tt> <er>Cycled</er>. <tt>(-k'ld)</tt>; <tt>p.pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Cycling</er> <tt>(-kl<?/ng)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.</def>

<i>Tennyson. Darwin.</i>