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Covered, or furnished with, cedars.

To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room. The greater house he ceiled with fir tree. 2 Chron. iii. 5

(Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ. -- Cellular theory, or Cell theory (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential element of every tissue, either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of cells having been formed from th…

the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.

Full of censure; censorious. The censorial declamation of Juvenal. T. Warton.

A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheræa Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.

Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial. "Centenary solemnities." Fuller.

The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.

To furnish with a certificate; as, to certificate the captain of a vessel; a certificated teacher.

An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.

Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. The chaff and ruin of the times. Shak.

The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.

t or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.

fficers. His office is distinct from that of the lord chamberlain of the Household, whose functions relate to the royal housekeeping.

To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.

A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.

The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit.…

To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect. Championed or unchampioned, thou diest. Sir W. Scott.

Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.

division; a breach, as in a party. [Obs.] Many clefts and chaps in our council board. T. Fuller.