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to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sa) lying between those islands and Central America.

The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.)

Of or pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus. [Written also Cerberian.] With wide Cerberean mouth. Milton.

-colored; blue; azure. Cowper. Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. Bryant.

Same as Cæsarean, Cæsarian.

One of the Cestoidea.

One of the Cetacea.

Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the Chaldeans.

Of or pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel.

Burdensome; troublesome. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to Chile.

Same as Monkey-puzzle.

er victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.

Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

See Clear-cut.

With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens.

Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.

One who, or that which, cleans.

The act of making clean.