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An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.

A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] [Written also checklaton, chekelatoun.] His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.

A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it. [Written also cimia.]

Of or pertaining to the Cingalese. [Written also Singhalese.]

The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds. [Formerly written also cinnamule.]

A character in general, as a figure or letter. [Obs.] This wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures. Sir W. Raleigh.

An inscription written around anything. [R.] Ashmole.

instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] Shak.

A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document. The usual attestation clause to a will. Bouvier.

A stupid fellow; a dolt. [Written also clodpole.] Shak.

tracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] McCulloch.

Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse. [Written also cloisteral.] Best become a cloistral exercise. Daniel.

A cabin on the after part of the quarterdeck, usually occupied by the captain. [Written also couch.] [Obs.] The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach. Pepys.

ore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges. [Written also combings.]

A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus). [Written also cobb.]

tercourse among its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies. [Written also cenogamy.]

or groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries. [Written also coistrel.]

oasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world. [Written also Colosseum.]

aired. It is remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks. [Written also colly, colley.]