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A female citizen. [R.]

The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.

A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, derived from, or having certain characteristics of, citric and aconitic acids. Citraconic acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, deliquescent substance, C3H4(CO2H)2, obtained by distillation of citric acid. It is a compound of the ethylene series.

A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange (Citrus trifoliata). It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.

A salt of citric acid.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid. Citric acid (Chem.), an organic acid, C3H4OH.(CO2H)3, extracted from lemons, currants, gooseberies, etc., as a white crystalline substance, having a pleasant sour taste.

The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color. Thynne.

Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow. Citrine ointment (Med.), a yellowish mercurial ointment, the unquentum hydrargyri nitratis.

mbling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.

A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.

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

Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. Marsion

or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see. A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, t…

Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.

To cite; to summon. [Obs.] Our heralds now accited all that were Endamaged by the Elians. Chapman.

The act or state of being an accomplice. [R.]

Achromatism.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. "Adscititious evidence." Bowring. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.