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The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion. Cinnabar Græcorum (. Etym: [L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the Greeks.] (Med.) Same as Dragon's blood. -- Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire. -- Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), an impure…

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

Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon. Cinnamic acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, odorless substance. C6H5.C2H2C2H2.CO2H, formerly obtained from storax and oil of cinnamon, now made from certain benzene derivatives in large quantities, and used for the artificial production of indigo.

See Cinnamic.

The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.

A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.

The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds. [Formerly written also cinnamule.]

A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds.

To place fitly together; to adapt; to clear. [Obs.] Holland.

l adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. [R.] An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.

Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant. [R.] The most concinnous and most rotund of proffessors, M. Heyne. De Quiency.

The common gazelle (Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle. [Written also korin.]

An entertainment; a feast. A grand political dinner. Tennyson.

Having no dinner. Fuller.

Of or pertaining to dinner. [R.] The dinnerly officer. Copley.

See Jinnee, Jinn.

A native of Finland; one of the FinnFinns.

"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock. [Written also finnan haddock.]

Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin. Mortimer.