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Pica type; -- so called by French printers.

N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.

One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.

m in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called also scorpioid cyme. --Cin*cin"nal (#), a.

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

The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.

A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] Nares. Shak.

A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.

A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

ssed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.…

The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.

To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon. The cited dead, Of all past ages, to the general doom Shall hasten. Milton. Cited by finger of God. De Quincey.

Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. Marsion

The animal that produces civet (Viverra civetta); -- called also civet cat. It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species.…

To call or name. [Obs.] Spenser.

The bernicle goose; -- called also clack goose.

Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n.

A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord.

A callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn.

clay, a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called kaolin. -- Potter's clay, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron.