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Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury.

Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.

An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.

Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fatched. -- Cat`a*chres"tic*al*ly, adv. [A] catachrestical and improper way of speaking. Jer. Taylor.

Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak.

To make celestial. [R.]

In a celestial manner.

To make like heaven. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.

Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.

A woman's girdle; a cestus. [R.] Collins.

Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea. -- n.

ain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm. [Written also Cestoda.]

One of the Cestoidea.

A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples.

A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.

He; the one. Cestuy que trust ( Etym: [norm. F.], a person who has the equitable and beneficial interest in property, the legal interest in which is vested in a trustee. Wharton. -- Cestuy que use ( Etym: [Norm. F.], a person for whose use land, etc., is granted to another.

Any Old French epic poem having for its subject events or exploits of early French history, real or legendary, and written originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland.

trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.