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A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.

Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. "cancerous vices" G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]

Pica type; -- so called by French printers.

s about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero. Trench.

Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.

Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression. "Great study in Ciceronianism, the chief abuse of Oxford." Sir P. Sidney.

Having broad horns.

Same as Glycerin.

Same as Glycerite.

The Irish elk.

Consisting of or containing matter like honey; -- said of certain encysted tumors.

A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn. Mighty monoceroses with immeasured tails. Spenser.

Any plant louse, or aphis.

Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidæ, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout.

A rhinoceros. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros. [R.]

Of or pertaining to sorcery.

Having horns with three angles, like those of some species of goats.

Affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. Shak. -- Ul"cer*ous*ly, adv. -- Ul"cer*ous*ness, n.

es in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.