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A cyma.

A grimace. [Obs.] Dryden.

n's long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf. [Written also cimar, cymar, samare, simare.]

See Simar. Sir W. Scott.

A hundredth part. The neglect of a few centesimals. Arbuthnot.

The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.

ly or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small. Infinitesimal calculus, the different and the integral calculus, when developed according to the method used by Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given to variables as infinitesimal.

By infinitesimals; in infinitely small quantities; in an infinitesimal degree.

mal (Crossarchus obscurus) of tropical Africa. It its allied to the civets. Called also kusimansel, and mangue.

Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.

Wrong imagination; delusion. Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal.

Education late in life. [R.] Hales.

The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.

Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.

Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.

Fiftieth. Quinquagesima Sunday, the Sunday which is the fiftieth day before Easter, both days being included in the reckoning; -- called also Shrove Sunday.

The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.

Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies. Our abridged and septuagesimal age. Sir T. Browne.

The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter.