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Pertaining to craniometry.

ment upon, literary or artistic productions. It is submitted to the judgment of more critical ears to direct and determine what is graceful and what is not. Holder.

In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden.

The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time.

Pertaining to crustaceology.

Pertaining to crustalogy.

Hidden; secret; occult. "Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working." Glanvill.

Secretly; occultly.

Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.

Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.

Pertaining to crystallography.

In the manner of crystallography.

est power of the unknown quantity is a cube. -- Cubic foot, a volume equivalent to a cubical solid which measures a foot in each of its dimensions. -- Cubic number, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See Cube. -- Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of t…

In a cubical method.

The quality of being cubical.

Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. Coleridge. Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan…

of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder. Cylindrical lens, a lens having one, or more than one, cylindrical surface. -- Cylindric, or Cylindrical, surface (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line that moves according to any law, but so as to be constantly parallel to a g…

In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical.

aving the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson.

In a cynical manner.