a. [ L. cera wax. ] Having the texture and color of new wax; like wax; waxy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cera wax. ] Beebread. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; earthenware. Cf. Keramic. ] Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Ceramic. ] 1. The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ke`ras horn + 'a`rgyros silver. ] (Min.) Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the backs of nudibranchs and other related mollusks that serve as gills. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Chem.) A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) A gummy mucilaginous substance; -- called also bassorin, tragacanthin, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to, or containing, cerasin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of a cherry color. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a horned serpent, fr. Gr. kera`sths horned, fr. ke`ras horn. ] (Zool.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of weedy plants of the pink family, comprising the mouse-ear chickweeds.
Syn. -- genus Cerastium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]