Search the Dictionary

Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.

Cineration; reduction to ashes. [Obs.]

Like ashes; ash-colored; cinerous.

Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes. Cinerary urns, vessels used by the ancients to preserve the ashes of the dead when burned.

The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.

Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.

Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.

Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.

Full of ashes. [Obs.]

to write or engare around. [R.] Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph. Ashmole.

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

A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. Nares.

Having a clear sound. [Obs.] Ash.

Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning. [Obs.]

To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw. "Clawing [in ash barrels] for bits of coal." W. D. Howells. To claw off (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.

et be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.

To more with the sound of a click. She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash. Thackeray.

An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.

Washing; cleansing.

the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.