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A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.

Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.

hed in 1098 at Cîteaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor. -- a.

A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water. "The wide cisterns of the lakes." Blackmore.

See Cystic.

One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.

Hook-shaped.

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.

The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.

An empiric.

One who favors etacism.

One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.

One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism. Certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists. Acts xix. 13.

A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.

An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub.

One who is in favor of itacism.

One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.

One versed in physics.