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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume C

Cy"toid (s?"toid), a. [Gr. ? hollow vessel + -oid.] (Physiol.) Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.

Cy"toˇplasm (s?"t?-pl?z'm), n. [Gr. ? hollow vessel + ? a mold.] (Biol.) The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.

-- Cy`toˇplas"mic (-pl?z"m?k), a.

Cyt"uˇla (s?t"?-l?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a hollow vessel.] (Biol.) The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed. Hćckel.

Czar (zär), n. [Russ. tsare, fr. L. Caesar Cćsar; cf. OPol. czar, Pol. car. ] A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia. [Written also tzar.]

Czaˇrev"na (z?-r?v"n?), n. [Russ. tsarevna.] The title of the wife of the czarowitz.

Czaˇri"na (z?-r?"n?), n. [Cf. G. Zarin, Czarin, fem., Russ. tsaritsa.] The title of the empress of Russia.

Czaˇrin"iˇan (z?-r?n"?-an), a. Of or pertaining to the czar or the czarina; czarish.

Czar"ish (z?r"?sh), a. Of or pertaining to the czar.

Czar"oˇwitz (z?r"?-w?ts or t?r"?-v?ch), n.; pl. Czarowitzes (-?z). [Russ. tsarévich'.] The title of the eldest son of the czar of Russia.

Czech (ch?k; 204), n.

1. One of the Czechs.

2. The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.

Czech"ic (ch?k"?k), a. Of or pertaining to the Czechs. "One Czechic realm." The Nation.

Czechs (ch?ks), n. pl.; sing. Czech. [Named after their chieftain, Czech.] (Ethnol.) The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia.


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