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n. [ See Aceric. ] (Chem.) A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Acerose; needle-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acroceraunius, fr. Gr. &unr_; high, n. pl. &unr_; heights + &unr_; thunderbolt. ] Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of “thunder-smitten” peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To convert into adipocere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of changing into adipocere. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. brachy`s short + ke`ras horn. ] (Zool.) Having short antennæ, as certain insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Cancerated. ] [ LL. canceratus eaten by a cancer. See Cancer. ] To grow into a cancer; to become cancerous. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. carceralis, fr. carcer prison. ] Belonging to a prison. [ R. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. [ L. ceratum, ceratm, fr. cera wax. ] (Med.) An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Cerate consists essentially of wax (for which resin or spermaceti is sometimes substituted) mixed with oil, lard, and various medicinal ingredients. The cerate (formerly called simple cerate) of the United States Pharmacopoeia is a mixture of three parts of white wax and seven parts of lard. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. [ L. ceratus, p. p. of cerare to wax, fr. cera wax. ] Covered with wax. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; the fallacy called “the horns.” fr. ke`ras a horn. ] (Lagic.) Sophistical. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. ke`ras, ke`ratos, horn + &unr_;, n. pl., gills. ] (Zool.) A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. -- n. A ceratobranchial bone, or cartilage. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ke`ras, ke`ratos horn + &unr_; tooth. ] (Zool.) A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. ke`ras horn + the letter Υ. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch. -- n. A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family coextensive with the genus Ceratophyllum; the hornworts.
Syn. -- family Ceratophyllaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the sole genus constituting the family Ceratophyllaceae; the hornworts.
Syn. -- genus Ceratophyllum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the type genus of the Ceratopogonidae.
Syn. -- genus Ceratopogon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of insects including the biting midges and sand flies.
Syn. -- family Ceratopogonidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a suborder of extinct animals including triceratops.
Syn. -- suborder Ceratopsia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls, of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.
Syn. -- horned dinosaur. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an extinct family of American ceratopsian dinosaurs.
Syn. -- family Ceratopsidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) a genus of water ferns.
Syn. -- genus Ceratopteris. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Paleon.) the ceratosaurus.
Syn. -- ceratosaurus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ke`ras a horn + &unr_; lizard. ] (Paleon.) A swift-running bipedal carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony short horn between the nostrils on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. ke`ras, ke`ratos horn + &unr_; sponge. ] (Zool.) An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) a small cycad of the genus Ceratozamia having a short scaly woody trunk and fernlike foliage and woody cones; Mexico. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; thunder and lightning. ] That branch of physics which treats of heat and electricity. R. Park. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; thunder and lightning + -scope. ] An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning. T. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Cheliceræ [ NL., fr. Gr. chhlh` claw + ke`ras horn. ] (Zool.) One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a sprout + &unr_; a horn. ] (Zool.) An order of the Entomostraca. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They have a bivalve shell, covering the body but not the head, and from four to six pairs of legs and two pairs of antenæ, for use in swimming. They mostly inhabit fresh water. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. de`ka ten + ke`ras a horn. ] (Zool.) The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [ Written also Decacera. ] See Dibranchiata.

‖n. [ NL. ] (Paleon.) See Dinoceras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. delacerare, delaceratum, to tear in pieces. See Lacerate. ] A tearing in pieces. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dilacerated p. pr. & vb. n. Dilacerating ] [ L. dilaceratus, p. p. of dilacerare to tear apart; di- = dis- + lacerare to tear. ] To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dilaceratio: cf. F. dilacération. ] The act of rending asunder. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; terrible + &unr_;, &unr_;, horn. ] (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They were herbivorous, and remarkable for three pairs of hornlike protuberances on the skull. The males were armed with a pair of powerful canine tusks. [ 1913 Webster ]