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Of or pertaining to cedar or the cedar tree.

The quality of being chary.

The state of being cheery.

crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.

owerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.

The precursory symptoms of cholera.

taining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.

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

A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.

like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.

A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.

Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness. Howell.

The quality of being contradictory; opposition; inconsistency. J. Whitaker.

state or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinancy.

A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.

Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.

A very fine, hairlike feather. Booth.

A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.

The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.

Quality of being customary.