Name Report For First Name CIAN:
CIAN
First name CIAN's origin is Irish. CIAN means "archaic". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CIAN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cian.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with CIAN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with CIAN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming CIAN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CİAN AS A WHOLE:
cianna cianni graciana gracianna luciana cianan feliciano lucian luciano wacian lucianna laciann dacianNAMES RHYMING WITH CİAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ian) - Names That Ends with ian:
lilian bian germian sofian bedrosian izmirlian korian cyprian kristian sebastian urian iulian octavian traian burian christian dagian dian gillian jilian jillian kadian lillian lorian marian millian vivian adrian aidrian andrian blian brian cassian cillian cristian davian derrian dorian eldrian evian fabian favian finian finnian gabrian gremian ian jadarian jamian jorian julian kavian khristian kian kilian killian laurian maximilian o'brian ossian rian trevian xavian gian damian andswarian erian anbidian arian astyrian derian ealdian gaderian leanian lufian nerian tilian treddian trymian warian werian wissian hadrian maximillian tristian torrianRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (an) - Names That Ends with an:
achan ayan iman lishan loiyan nishan saran anan hanan janan rukan sawsan wijdan shoushanNAMES RHYMING WITH CİAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cia) - Names That Begins with cia:
ciar ciara ciaran ciarda ciardubhan ciarrai ciatlllaitRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ci) - Names That Begins with ci:
cibil cicely ciceron cicily cidney cidro ciera cierra cihuaton cili cim cimberleigh cinda cindel cindelyz cinderella cindi cindia cindra cindy cingeswell cingeswiella cinnard cinneide cinneididh cinnfhail cinnia cinnie cinthia cinwell cinyras ciodaru ciorstag cipactli cipriana cipriano ciqala cira circe circehyll ciri cirilla cirilo ciro cisco citlali citlalic citlalminaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CİAN:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'n':
cadan caden cadman cadmon cadwallon caedmon caedon caelan caerleon caerlion cailean cailen cailin caillen cailyn cain caitilin caitlan caitlin caitlinn caitlyn caitlynn caitrin calan calhoun caliburn calidan calin callaghan callahan camarin camaron camdan camden camdin camdyn camelon cameron cameryn camlann camren camron camryn camshron caoilfhinnn caoilfhionn caoimhghin caolabhuinn caolan caomhan caralyn carelton carilyn carlatun carleen carleton carlin carlson carlton carman carmen carmon carnation carolan carolann carolin carolyn carolynn carrington carson carsten caryn carynn casen caswallan catalin catelyn catheryn cathleen cathlin cathryn catlin catlyn cavalon cavan cayden caylan ceallachan ceannfhionn ceapmann ceastun ceawlin ceileachan cein celdtun celidon celyddon cendrillon cenon cercyonEnglish Words Rhyming CIAN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CİAN AS A WHOLE:
| academician | noun (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. |
| noun (n.) A collegian. |
| acoustician | noun (n.) One versed in acoustics. |
| amphiscians | noun (n. pl.) The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith. |
| antecians | noun (n. pl.) See Ant/cians. |
| antiscians | noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Antiscii |
| antoecians | noun (n. pl) Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator. |
| apician | adjective (a.) Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery. |
| appreciant | adjective (a.) Appreciative. |
| arithmetician | noun (n.) One skilled in arithmetic. |
| ascian | noun (n.) One of the Ascii. |
| ascians | noun (n. pl.) Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun. |
| atomician | noun (n.) An atomist. |
| cilician | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cilicia. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cilicia in Asia Minor. |
| cistercian | noun (n.) A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cistercians. |
| confucian | noun (n.) A Confucianist. |
| adjective (a.) Of, or relating to, Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher and teacher. |
| confucianism | noun (n.) The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god. |
| confucianist | noun (n.) A follower of Confucius; a Confucian. |
| dacian | noun (n.) A native of ancient Dacia. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians. |
| deforciant | noun (n.) One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate. |
| noun (n.) One against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought. |
| dialectician | noun (n.) One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner. |
| diecian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Diecious |
| dioecian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Dioecious |
| dogmatician | noun (n.) A dogmatist. |
| dulciana | noun (n.) A sweet-toned stop of an organ. |
| electrician | noun (n.) An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity. |
| galician | noun (n.) A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also Gallegan. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland. |
| geometrician | noun (n.) One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician. |
| grecian | noun (n.) A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek. |
| noun (n.) A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist. | |
| noun (n.) One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek. |
| gynaecian | adjective (a.) The same as Gynecian. |
| gynecian | adjective (a.) Of or relating to women. |
| hebrician | noun (n.) A Hebraist. |
| heteroscian | noun (n.) One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward). |
| hydrostatician | noun (n.) One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics. |
| iatromathematician | noun (n.) One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists. |
| insouciance | noun (n.) Carelessness; heedlessness; thoughtlessness; unconcern. |
| insouciant | adjective (a.) Careless; heedless; indifferent; unconcerned. |
| logician | noun (n.) A person skilled in logic. |
| magician | noun (n.) One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer. |
| magnetician | noun (n.) One versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetist. |
| marcian | adjective (a.) Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold. |
| mathematician | noun (n.) One versed in mathematics. |
| mechanician | noun (n.) One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist. |
| metaphysician | noun (n.) One who is versed in metaphysics. |
| metrician | noun (n.) A composer of verses. |
| mnemonician | noun (n.) One who instructs in the art of improving or using the memory. |
| monecian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Monecious |
| monoecian | noun (n.) One of the Monoecia. |
| noun (n.) A monoecious animal, as certain mollusks. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Monoecia; monoecious. |
| musician | noun (n.) One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument. |
| neoplatonician | noun (n.) A neoplatonist. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CİAN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ian) - English Words That Ends with ian:
| abderian | adjective (a.) Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment. |
| abecedarian | noun (n.) One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro. |
| noun (n.) One engaged in teaching the alphabet. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Abecedary |
| abelian | noun (n.) Alt. of Abelonian |
| abelonian | noun (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. |
| absinthian | noun (n.) Of the nature of wormwood. |
| abyssinian | noun (n.) A native of Abyssinia. |
| noun (n.) A member of the Abyssinian Church. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. |
| academian | noun (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college. |
| acadian | noun (n.) A native of Acadie. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. |
| acanthopterygian | noun (n.) A spiny-finned fish. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. |
| accadian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. |
| achaian | noun (n.) A native of Achaia; a Greek. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. |
| acroceraunian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. |
| adessenarian | noun (n.) One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. |
| adrian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows. |
| aeolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial. |
| aeonian | adjective (a.) Eternal; everlasting. |
| aesculapian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Aesculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal. |
| agrarian | noun (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property. |
| noun (n.) An agrarian law. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. | |
| adjective (a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields. |
| alabastrian | adjective (a.) Alabastrine. |
| albanian | noun (n.) A native of Albania. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey. |
| albigensian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Albigenses. |
| aleutian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Aleutic |
| alexandrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library. |
| adjective (a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n. |
| algerian | noun (n.) A native of Algeria. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria. |
| allophylian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. |
| alogian | noun (n.) One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos. |
| alphabetarian | noun (n.) A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian. |
| alsatian | noun (n.) An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to Alsatia. |
| altaian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Altaic |
| altitudinarian | adjective (a.) Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. |
| amatorian | adjective (a.) Amatory. |
| amazonian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley. |
| ambrosian | adjective (a.) Ambrosial. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose. |
| ametabolian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to insects that do undergo any metamorphosis. |
| amoebian | noun (n.) One of the Amoebea. |
| amphibian | noun (n.) One of the Amphibia. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles. |
| amphicoelian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Amphicoelous |
| anglian | noun (n.) One of the Angles. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Angles. |
| antediluvian | noun (n.) One who lived before the Deluge. |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. |
| antemeridian | adjective (a.) Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.) |
| anthobian | noun (n.) A beetle which feeds on flowers. |
| anthropophaginian | noun (n.) One who east human flesh. |
| antichristian | adjective (a.) Opposed to the Christian religion. |
| antinomian | noun (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory. |
| antiochian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria. |
| antiphlogistian | noun (n.) An opposer of the theory of phlogiston. |
| antiquarian | noun (n.) An antiquary. |
| noun (n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature. |
| antiquitarian | noun (n.) An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.] |
| antisabbatarian | noun (n.) One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath. |
| anythingarian | noun (n.) One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CİAN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cia) - Words That Begins with cia:
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CİAN:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'n':
| cabezon | noun (n.) A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin. |
| cabin | noun (n.) A cottage or small house; a hut. |
| noun (n.) A small room; an inclosed place. | |
| noun (n.) A room in ship for officers or passengers. | |
| verb (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge. | |
| verb (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cabin. |
| cabirean | noun (n.) One of the Cabiri. |
| cabirian | adjective (a.) Same as Cabiric. |
| cabman | noun (n.) The driver of a cab. |
| caburn | noun (n.) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc. |
| cachinnation | noun (n.) Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. |
| cacodemon | noun (n.) An evil spirit; a devil or demon. |
| noun (n.) The nightmare. |
| cacoon | noun (n.) One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc. |
| cadmean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /. These are called Cadmean letters. |
| cadmian | adjective (a.) See Cadmean. |
| caducean | adjective (a.) Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand. |
| caecilian | noun (n.) A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha. |
| caesarean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Caesarian |
| caesarian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Caesar or the Caesars; imperial. |
| caftan | noun (n.) A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash. |
| verb (v. t.) To clothe with a caftan. |
| caiman | noun (n.) See Cayman. |
| cairn | noun (n.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. |
| noun (n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. |
| caisson | noun (n.) A chest to hold ammunition. |
| noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. | |
| noun (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach. | |
| noun (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level. | |
| noun (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins. | |
| noun (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it. | |
| noun (n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits. |
| calamistration | noun (n.) The act or process of curling the hair. |
| calcedon | noun (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones. |
| calcedonian | adjective (a.) See Chalcedonic. |
| calcification | noun (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue. |
| calcination | noun (n.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime. |
| noun (n.) The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation. |
| calcitration | noun (n.) Act of kicking. |
| calculation | noun (n.) The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. |
| noun (n.) An expectation based on circumstances. |
| caldron | noun (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.] |
| caledonian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Caledonia or Scotland. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Caledonia or Scotland; Scottish; Scotch. |
| calefaction | noun (n.) The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies. |
| noun (n.) The state of being heated. |
| calendulin | noun (n.) A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin. |
| calfskin | noun (n.) The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin. |
| calibration | noun (n.) The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument. |
| californian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of California. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to California. |
| caligation | noun (n.) Dimness; cloudiness. |
| calin | noun (n.) An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters. |
| calkin | noun (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1. |
| callisection | noun (n.) Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection. |
| callithumpian | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. |
| callosan | adjective (a.) Of the callosum. |
| calorification | noun (n.) Production of heat, esp. animal heat. |
| calumbin | noun (n.) A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root. |
| calumniation | noun (n.) False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name. |
| calyon | noun (n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc. |
| cambrian | noun (n.) A native of Cambria or Wales. |
| noun (n.) The Cambrian formation. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology. |
| cameleon | noun (n.) See Chaceleon. |
| cameration | noun (n.) A vaulting or arching over. |
| cameronian | noun (n.) A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charles II. |
| campaign | noun (n.) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. |
| noun (n.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field. | |
| noun (n.) Political operations preceding an election; a canvass. | |
| noun (n.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation. | |
| verb (v. i.) To serve in a campaign. |
| campanularian | noun (n.) A hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae. |
| campestrian | adjective (a.) Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground. |
| camphogen | noun (n.) See Cymene. |
| campion | noun (n.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous. |
| can | noun (n.) A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids. |
| noun (n.) A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can. | |
| verb (v. t.) To preserve by putting in sealed cans | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To know; to understand. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To be able to do; to have power or influence. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to. | |
| () an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.] |
| canadian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Canada. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Canada. |
| canakin | noun (n.) A little can or cup. |
| canalization | noun (n.) Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. |
| cancan | noun (n.) A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures. |
| cancellarean | adjective (a.) Cancellarean. |
| cancellation | noun (n.) The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. |
| noun (n.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor. |
| canceration | noun (n.) The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer. |
| cannabin | noun (n.) A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin. |
| cannikin | noun (n.) A small can or drinking vessel. |
| cannon | noun (n.) A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. |
| noun (n.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of type. See Canon. | |
| noun (n. & v.) See Carom. | |
| verb (v. i.) To discharge cannon. | |
| verb (v. i.) To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound. | |
| (pl. ) of Cannon |
| canoeman | noun (n.) One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe. |
| canon | noun (n.) A law or rule. |
| noun (n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. | |
| noun (n.) The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a. | |
| noun (n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. | |
| noun (n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. | |
| noun (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. | |
| noun (n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation. | |
| noun (n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church. | |
| noun (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank. | |
| noun (n.) See Carom. |
| ca–on | noun (n.) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. |
| canonization | noun (n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. |
| noun (n.) The state of being canonized or sainted. |
| cantabrian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain. |
| cantabrigian | noun (n.) A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England. |
| cantation | noun (n.) A singing. |
| canteen | noun (n.) A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. |
| noun (n.) The sutler's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers. |
| cantharidin | noun (n.) The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms. |
| cantillation | noun (n.) A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations. |
| cantion | noun (n.) A song or verses. |
| canton | noun (n.) A song or canto |
| noun (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment. | |
| noun (n.) A small community or clan. | |
| noun (n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement. | |
| noun (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side. | |
| verb (v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. | |
| verb (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops. |
| cantoon | noun (n.) A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other. |
| canyon | noun (n.) The English form of the Spanish word Ca–on. |
| caoutchin | noun (n.) An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc. |
| caoutchoucin | noun (n.) See Caoutchin. |
| caparison | noun (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. |
| noun (n.) Gay or rich clothing. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. | |
| verb (v. t.) To aborn with rich dress; to dress. |
| capelan | noun (n.) See Capelin. |
| capelin | noun (n.) A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family Salmonidae, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod. |
| capillation | noun (n.) A capillary blood vessel. |
| capitalization | noun (n.) The act or process of capitalizing. |
| capitation | noun (n.) A numbering of heads or individuals. |
| noun (n.) A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax. |
| capitolian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Capitoline |
| capitulation | noun (n.) A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement. |
| noun (n.) The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms. | |
| noun (n.) The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender. |
| caplin | noun (n.) See Capelin. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Capling |
| capon | noun (n.) A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. |
| verb (v. t.) To castrate; to make a capon of. |
| capricorn | noun (n.) The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic. |
| noun (n.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish. |
| caprification | noun (n.) The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects. |
| capsaicin | noun (n.) A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity. |
| capsicin | noun (n.) A red liquid or soft resin extracted from various species of capsicum. |
| capstan | noun (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket. |
| captain | noun (n.) A head, or chief officer |
| noun (n.) The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service. | |
| noun (n.) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army. | |
| noun (n.) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain. | |
| noun (n.) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel. | |
| noun (n.) One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The foreman of a body of workmen. | |
| noun (n.) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team. | |
| noun (n.) A military leader; a warrior. | |
| adjective (a.) Chief; superior. | |
| verb (v. t.) To act as captain of; to lead. |
| captation | noun (n.) A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction. |
| caption | noun (n.) A caviling; a sophism. |
| noun (n.) The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed. | |
| noun (n.) The heading of a chapter, section, or page. |
| captivation | noun (n.) The act of captivating. |
| capuchin | noun (n.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. |
| noun (n.) A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks. | |
| noun (n.) A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai. | |
| noun (n.) Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella. | |
| noun (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck. |
| capulin | noun (n.) The Mexican cherry (Prunus Capollin). |
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