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A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.

Same as Cryptographer.

ber, 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 the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.

A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds.

Same as Cumin. Ye pay tithe of mint, and cummin. Matt. xxiii. 23.

Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.

A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a celing having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.

Same as Curtana.

Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.

Same as Vetiver oil.

Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21. Moved beyong his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak.

gged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.

henomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cucle of the seasons, or of the year. Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of…

plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.

Same as 2d and 3d Cycloid.

A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning. [Obs.] Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. Shak.

Same as Cyprus. Milton.

ablished at Cyrene by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.

Same as Cystidean.

Same as Cystidea.