Cement (n.) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.
Cement (n.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.
Cemented (imp. & p. p.) of Cement
Cementing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cement
Cement (n.) To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
Cement (n.) To unite firmly or closely.
Cement (n.) To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
Cement (v. i.) To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
Cemental (a.) Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.
Cementation (n.) The act or process of cementing.
Cementation (n.) A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with 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.
Cementatory (a.) Having the quality of cementing or uniting firmly.
Cementer (n.) A person or thing that cements.
Cementitious (n.) Of the nature of cement.
Cemeterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a cemetery.
Cemeteries (pl. ) of Cemetery
Cemetery (n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
Cenanthy (n.) The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.
Cenation (n.) Meal-taking; dining or supping.
Cenatory (a.) Of or pertaining to dinner or supper.
Cenobite (n.) One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.
Cenobitic (a.) Alt. of Cenobitical
Cenobitical (a.) Of or pertaining to a cenobite.
Cenobitism (n.) The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.
Cenogamy (n.) The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.
Cenotaph (n.) An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
Cenotaphy (n.) A cenotaph.
Cenozoic (a.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.
Cense (n.) A census; -- also, a public rate or tax.
Cense (n.) Condition; rank.
Censed (imp. & p. p.) of Cense
Censing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cense
Cense (v. t.) To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.
Cense (v. i.) To burn or scatter incense.
Censer (n.) A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.
Censor (n.) One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.
Censor (n.) One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.
Censor (n.) One given to fault-finding; a censurer.
Censor (n.) A critic; a reviewer.
Censorial (a.) Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.
Censorial (a.) Full of censure; censorious.
Censorian (a.) Censorial.
Censorious (a.) Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
Censorious (a.) Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.
Censorship (n.) The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.
Censual (a.) Relating to, or containing, a census.
Censurable (a.) Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.
Censure (n.) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
Censure (n.) The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.
Censure (n.) Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
Censured (imp. & p. p.) of Censure
Censuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Censure
Censure (v. i.) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
Censure (v. i.) To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.
Censure (v. i.) To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.
Censure (v. i.) To judge.
Censurer (n.) One who censures.
Census (n.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.
Census (n.) An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
Cent (n.) A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
Cent (n.) A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
Cent (n.) An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.
Centage (n.) Rate by the hundred; percentage.
Cental (n.) A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.
Cental (n.) Relating to a hundred.
Centare (n.) A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.
Centaur (n.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
Centaur (n.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.
Centaurea (n.) A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).
Centaury (n.) A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.
Centenarian (a.) Of or relating to a hundred years.
Centenarian (n.) A person a hundred years old.
Centenary (a.) Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.
Centenary (a.) Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial.
Centenaries (pl. ) of Centenary
Centenary (n.) The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century.
Centenary (n.) A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hundred years before.
Centennial (a.) Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.
Centennial (a.) Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.
Centennial (a.) Lasting or aged a hundred years.
Centennial (n.) The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.
Centennially (adv.) Once in a hundred years.
Center (n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
Center (n.) The middle or central portion of anything.
Center (n.) A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.
Center (n.) The earth.
Center (n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.
Center (n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
Center (n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
Centered (imp. & p. p.) of Centre
Centred () of Centre
Centering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Centre
Centring () of Centre
Center (v. i.) Alt. of Centre
Centre (v. i.) To be placed in a center; to be central.
Centre (v. i.) To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.
Center (v. t.) Alt. of Centre
Centre (v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point.
Centre (v. t.) To collect to a point; to concentrate.