Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume C
Cease, n. Extinction. [Obs.] Shak.
Cease"less, a. Without pause or end; incessant.
Cease"less, adv. Without intermission or end.
Cec`i·do·my"i·a (?), n. [Nl., fr. Gr. κηκισ, ?, a gall nut + μυια a fly.] (Zoöl.) A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.
Ce"ci·ty (?), n. [L. caecitas, fr. caecus blind: cf. F. cécité.] Blindness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Ce·cu"tien·cy (?), n. [L. caecutire to be blind, fr. caecus blind.] Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Ce"dar (sē"d
r), n. [AS. ceder, fr. L. cedrus, Gr. κεδροσ.] (Bot.) The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.
The cedar of Lebanon is the Cedrus Libani; the white cedar (Cupressus thyoides) is now called Chamœcyparis sphæroidea; American red cedar is the Juniperus Virginiana; Spanish cedar, the West Indian Cedrela odorata. Many other trees with odoriferous wood are locally called cedar.
-- Cedar bird (Zoöl.), a species of chatterer (Ampelis cedrorum), so named from its frequenting cedar trees; -- called also cherry bird, Canada robin, and American waxwing.
Ce"dar, a. Of or pertaining to cedar.
Ce"dared (?), a. Covered, or furnished with, cedars.
Ce"darn (?), a. Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood. [R.]
Cede (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ceded; p. pr. & vb. n. Ceding.] [L. cedere to withdraw, yield; akin to cadere to fall, and to E. chance; cf. F. céder.] To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.