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Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested. Wiseman.

Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased.

Adorned with cowslips. "Cowslipped lawns." Keats.

The hydroid or naked-eyed medusæ. See Hydroidea.

Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.

tion in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia.

Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.

A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia.

A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.

Ten feet in length.

Furnished with a dewlap.

Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.

The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.

Cinch (the game).

Resembling an egg in form; ovoid.

Curled. [Obs.] Skelton.

hes of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.

Encyclopedic.

Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects.