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nt; vermilion. Cinnabar Græcorum (. Etym: [L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the Greeks.] (Med.) Same as Dragon's blood. -- Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire. -- Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), an impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster…

ividual States also have circuit courts, which have general statutory jurisdiction of the same class, in matters of State cognizance. -- Circuit or Circuity of action (Law), a longer course of proceedings than is necessary to attain the object in view. -- To make a circuit, to go around; to go a roundabout way. -- V…

o a number of persons. -- Circular numbers (Arith.), those whose powers terminate in the same digits as the roots themselves; as 5 and 6, whose squares are 25 and 36. Bailey. Barlow. -- Circular points at infinity (Geom.), two imaginary points at infinite distance through which every circle in the plane is, in the th…

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. Boyle.

A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. Walker.

Same as Cirrose.

Same as Cirrus.

Same as Chive.

ens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states. -- Civil suit. Same as Civil action. -- CCivil war. See under War. -- Civil year. See under Year.

President, consisting of three members, not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).

A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald. "I have marshaled my clan." Campbell.

Same as Clamjamphrie. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

One belonging to the same clan with another.

A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.

One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.

Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.

Same as Clearstory.

Same as Clerical.

e point; as, close reasoning. "Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass." Dryden.

Same as Cocklebur.