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casional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.

A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

very tissue, either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of cells having been formed from the development of the germ cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants ans animals, are to be considered as a mass of minute cells communicating with each other. -- Cellular ti…

One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France. [Written also Kelt. The letter C was pronounced hard in Celtic languages.]…

To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge. [Obs.] "Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer." Beau. & Fl.

A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.

To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the co…

A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.

n of a line or surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle that every figure formed by the revolution of a line or surface about such an axis has for measure the product of the line or surface by the length of the path of its center of gravity; -- sometimes called theorem of Pappus, also, incorrectly, Guld…

The nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc.

A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.

A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.

Form or development of the skull; as, the races of man differ greatly in cephalism.

A combining form denoting the head, of the head, connected with the head; as, cephalosome, cephalopod.

constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.

Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc. Knight.

A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid.

The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the brain. Cerebric acid (Physiol. Chem.), a name formerly sometimes given to cerebrin.