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A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed in the lungs, which are designated cavities or vomicæ. Quain. Body cavity, the coelum. See under Body.

Cayenne pepper. Cayenne pepper. (a) (Bot.) A species of capsicum (C. frutescens) with small and intensely pungent fruit. (b) A very pungent spice made by drying and grinding the fruits or seeds of several species of the genus Capsicum, esp. C. annuum and C. Frutescens; -- Called also red pepper. It is used chiefly as a…

A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key. [Sp. Am.]

A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. The heroic confessor in his cell. Macaulay.

A small cell.

tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originaly called xylonite.

The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.

A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.

A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid.

According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious. "Ceremonious phrases." Addison. Too ceremonious and traditional. Shak.

A small visorless cap, worn by members of German student corps. It is made in the corps colors, and usually bears the insignia of the corps.

bol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air.

from the upper jaw on each side, thus making a strainer, through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed. (b) The Denticete, including the dolphins and sperm whale, which have teeth. Another suborder (Zeuglodontia) is extinct. The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea, but are now made a sepa…

A small chain. Sir W. Scott.

A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands.

One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidæ), having four small or rudimentary legs.

A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus.

e, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.

A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.