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century; - - hence the name. See Agave. -- The Magdeburg Centuries, an ecclesiastical history of the first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes, compiled in the 16th century by Protestant scholars at Magdeburg.

The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.

Any Old French epic poem having for its subject events or exploits of early French history, real or legendary, and written originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland.

An old joke or story. [Slang] Chestnut tree, a tree that bears chestnuts.

Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.

A narrative of events; a history; a record.

A description or record of past time; history. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

ivisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates. If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.

See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic. Had Virgil been a circular poet, and closely adhered to history, how could the Romans have had Dido Dennis.

ace, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.

n; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story.

Commotion; disturbance. "Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story." Barrow.

The Muse who presided over history.

ht. Ball cock. See under Ball. -- Chaparral cock. See under Chaparral. -- Cock and bull story, an extravagant, boastful story; a canard. -- Cock of the plains (Zoöl.) See Sage cock. -- Cock of the rock (Zoöl.), a South American bird (Rupicola aurantia) having a beautiful crest. -- Cock of the walk, a chief or mast…

p., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.

ce as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation. Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss. Compton Reade. Dead coloring. See under Dead.

Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden.

ime of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed "modern history."

terials from other books or documents. He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome. Macaulay.

That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole. History is the complement of poetry. Sir J. Stephen.