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Cero [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis).

Cerograph [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A writing on wax.

Cerographic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Cerographical

Cerographical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to cerography.

Cerographist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who practices cerography.

Cerography [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.

2. A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.

Cerolite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.

Ceroma [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.

2. That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

3. The cere of birds.

Ceromancy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Divination by dropping melted wax in water.

Ceroon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A bale or package made of skins.

Ceroon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

Ceroplastic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Relating to the art of modeling in wax.

2. Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure.

Ceroplastics [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ceroplasty

Ceroplasty [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The art of modeling in wax.

Cerosin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae.

Cerote [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Cerate.

Cerotene [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

Cerotic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.

Cerotin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.