Part 2707

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.</def>

<h1>Cyclic sklk &or; sklk, Cyclical</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw><hw>Cyc"lic</hw> <tt>(s?k"l?k &or; s?"kl?k)</tt>, <hw>Cyc"lic*al</hw> <tt>(s?k"l?-k<it>a</it>l)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>cycluque</ets>, Gr.<?/<?/<?/<?/<?/, fr. <?/<?/<?/<?/<?/ See <er>Cycle</er>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; <as>as, <ex>cyclical</ex> time</as>.</def>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<cs><col>Cyclic chorus</col>, <cd>the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle.</cd> -- <col>Cyclic poets</col>, <cd>certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a singe subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject.</cd></cs>

<i>Milman.</i>

<h1>Cyclide</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy"clide</hw> <tt>(s?"kl?d)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/ circle.]</ety> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides.</def>

<h1>Cycling</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy"cling</hw> <tt>(s?"kl?ng)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.</def>

<h1>Cyclist</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy"clist</hw> <tt>(s?"kl?st)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A cycler.</def>

<h1>Cyclo-</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy"clo-</hw> <tt>(s?"kl?-)</tt>. <ety>[Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/<?/<?/ circle, wheel.]</ety> <def>A combining form meaning <i>circular</i>, <i>of a circle</i> or <i>wheel</i>.</def>

<h1>Cyclobranchiate</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy`clo*bran"chi*ate</hw> <tt>(s?`kl?-br?n"k?-?t)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Cyclo-</ets> + <ets>branchiate</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l)</fld> <def>Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets.</def>

<h1>Cycloganoid</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy`clo*ga"noid</hw> <tt>(s?`kl?-g?"noid &or; -g?n"oid)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei.</def>

<h1>Cycloganoid</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy`clo*ga"noid</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>One of the Cycloganoidei.</def>

<h1>Cycloganoidei</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy`clo*ga*noi"de*i</hw> <tt>(s?"kl?-g?-noi"d?-?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/<?/ circle + NL. <ets>ganoidei</ets>. See <er>Ganoid</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (<spn>Amia calva</spn>) is a living example.</def>

<h1>Cyclograph</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy"clo*graph</hw> <tt>(s?"kl?-gr?f)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Cyclo-</ets> + <ets>-graph</ets>.]</ety> <def>See <er>Arcograph</er>.</def>

<h1>Cycloid</h1> <Xpage=361>

<hw>Cy"cloid</hw> <tt>(s?"kloid)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Cyclo-</ets> + <ets>-oid</ets>: cf. F. <ets>cyclo\'8bde</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.</def>

<note>&hand; The <i>common cycloid</i> is the curve described when the generating point (<i>p</i>) is on the circumference of the generating circle; the <i>curtate cycloid</i>, when that point lies without the circumference; the <i>prolate</i> or <i>inflected cycloid</i>, when the generating point (<i>p</i>) lies within that circumference.</note>

<h1>Cycloid</h1> <Xpage=361>