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A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. [Written also kerseymere.]

A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc. [Written also ketchup.]

A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name. [Written also Catharine wheel.]

rfaces, and the differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard. [Written also kathetometer.]

A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. [Written also caveson, causson.] White.

An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar. [Also written cauk.]

The south America alligator. See Alligator. [Sometimes written caiman.]

he essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type. [Written also cedren.]

act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia. [Frequently written kelotomy.]

day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France. [Written also Kelt. The letter C was pronounced hard in Celtic languages.]

Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. [Written also Keltic.]

ical time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also cænozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.

Same as Center, n., 6. [Written also centring.]

oda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet. [Written also centipede (

Of or pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus. [Written also Cerberian.] With wide Cerberean mouth. Milton.

A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior.

f turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots. [Written also cæspitose.]

in, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptace of filth. [Written also sesspool.]

ale and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm. [Written also Cestoda.]

A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste. [Written also ceylonite.]