Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume CChym"ic (?), Chym"ist, Chym"is·try (?). [Obs.] See Chemic, Chemist, Chemistry. Chy·mif"er·ous (?), a. [Chyme + -ferous.] (Physiol.) Bearing or containing chyme. Chym`i·fi·ca"tion (?), n. [Chyme + L. facere to make: cf. F. Chymification.] (Physiol.) The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice. Chym"i·fy (?), v. t. [Chyme + -fy: cf. F. chymifier.] (Physiol.) To form into chyme. Chy"mous (?), a. Of or pertaining to chyme. Chy·om"e·ter (?), n. [Gr. ? to pour + -meter.] (Chem.) An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod. Ci·ba"ri·ous (?), a. [L. cibaruus, fr. cibus food.] Pertaining to food; edible. Johnson. Ci·ba"tion (?), n. [L. cibatio, fr. cibare to feed.] 1. The act of taking food. 2. (Alchemy) The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material. B. Jonson. Cib"ol (?), n. [F. ciboule, LL. cepula, cepola, dim. of L. cepa, caepa, caepe, an onion. Cf. Chibbal, Cives.] A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery. Ci·bo"ri·um (?), n.: pl. Ciboria (#). [LL., fr. L. ciborium a cup, fr. Gr. ? a seed vessel of the Egyptian bean; also, a cup made from its largeleaves, or resembling its seed vessel in shape.] |