<B>cinematograph, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(British.) a machine for projecting motion pictures on a screen. <DD><B> 2. </B>a camera for taking motion pictures. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to make a record (of) with a cinematograph. Also, <B>kinematograph.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cinematographer">
<B>cinematographer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who takes cinematographic pictures. </DL>
<A NAME="cinematographic">
<B>cinematographic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a cinematograph or cinematography. <BR> <I>Ex. This mute scene, already regarded here as a new cinematographic classic, is the film's climax (New Yorker).</I> adv. <B>cinematographically.</B> </DL>
<B>cinematography, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the art and science of taking and reproducing motion pictures. Also, <B>kinematography.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cinemaverite">
<B>cinema verite,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a type of motion picture or cinematography that conveys documentary realism by filming spontaneous actions with a hand-held camera, editing a minimum of the original footage, and similar techniques. </DL>
<A NAME="cinemicrography">
<B>cinemicrography, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> photomicrography in the form of motion pictures. </DL>
<B>cineole</B> or <B>cineol, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a colorless liquid having an odor like that of camphor, occurring in many essential oils, and used medicinally; eucalyptol. </DL>
<A NAME="cinephile">
<B>cinephile, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a lover of motion pictures; movie fan. </DL>
<A NAME="cineplasty">
<B>cineplasty, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> surgical connection of muscle in an artificial limb or hand to permit control. </DL>
<A NAME="cineradiographic">
<B>cineradiographic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with cineradiography. </DL>
<A NAME="cineradiography">
<B>cineradiography, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the producing of X-ray photographs in the form of motion pictures. </DL>
<A NAME="cinerama">
<B>Cinerama, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) a motion-picture medium that uses three projectors and a large, three-paneled, curved screen to produce the illusion of three dimensions, and a system whereby sound is reproduced from the direction of its original source. </DL>
<A NAME="cineraria">
<B>cineraria, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of several horticultural varieties of a small, composite plant native to the Canary Islands, popular as house plants for their large, heart-shaped leaves and clusters of usually white, red, or purple, daisylike flowers. <DD><B> 2. </B>plural of <B>cinerarium.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="cinerarium">
<B>cinerarium, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ia.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a place for keeping the ashes of cremated bodies; funerary urn. </DL>
<A NAME="cinerary">
<B>cinerary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or for ashes; used to hold the ashes of a cremated body. <BR> <I>Ex. There were also many niches for cinerary urns (Bayard Taylor).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cineration">
<B>cineration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the reduction of anything to ashes, as by burning. </DL>
<A NAME="cinerator">
<B>cinerator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an incinerator; crematory. </DL>
<A NAME="cinereous">
<B>cinereous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of the nature of ashes. <DD><B> 2a. </B>of an ashy hue; ash-colored; ash-gray. <DD><B> b. </B>(in names of birds) having ash-colored feathers. <BR> <I>Ex. the cinereous crow, the cinereous eagle.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cinereousvulture">
<B>cinereous vulture,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large vulture with a bare, pinkish head and black feathers that lives in southern Europe, northwestern Africa, and central Asia. </DL>
<B>Cinghalese</B> or <B>Cingalese, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lese,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) Singhalese. </DL>
<A NAME="cingular">
<B>cingular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the cingulum of a tooth. <BR> <I>Ex. a cingular cusp.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cingulate">
<B>cingulate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Zoology.) surrounded by one or more colored bands (used especially in describing the thorax or abdomen of insects). </DL>
<B>cingulum, </B>noun, pl. <B>-la.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a girdle, now especially one used in connection with surgery. <DD><B> b. </B><B>=waist.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a girdlelike part: <DD><B> a. </B>a band or ridge on an animal. <DD><B> b. </B>a ridge at the base of the crown of a tooth. </DL>
<A NAME="cinnabar">
<B>cinnabar, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a reddish or brownish mineral that is the chief source of mercury; native mercuric sulfide. <DD><B> 2. </B>artificial mercuric sulfide, used as a red pigment especially in making paints and dyes; vermilion. <DD><B> 3. </B>a bright-red color; vermilion. <DD><I>adj. </I> bright-red; vermilion. </DL>
<A NAME="cinnabaric">
<B>cinnabaric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with cinnabar. <BR> <I>Ex. cinnabaric sand, cinnabaric medicine.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cinnabarmoth">
<B>cinnabar moth,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, bright-red moth of Great Britain, having pupae that feed on ragwort. </DL>
<A NAME="cinnamate">
<B>cinnamate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a salt of cinnamic acid. </DL>
<A NAME="cinnamic">
<B>cinnamic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or obtained from cinnamon. </DL>
<A NAME="cinnamicacid">
<B>cinnamic acid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white, crystalline acid found especially in storax, various balsams, and cinnamon. </DL>
<A NAME="cinnamon">
<B>cinnamon, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a spice made from the dried, reddish-brown inner bark of a laurel tree of the East Indies, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and Malabar. <DD><B> 2. </B>this bark. <DD><B> 3. </B>the tree itself. <DD><B> 4. </B>any one of several related or similar trees. <DD><B> 5. </B><B>=cassia bark.</B> <DD><B> 6. </B>a light, reddish brown. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>flavored with cinnamon. <DD><B> 2. </B>light reddish-brown. <BR> <I>Ex. a cinnamon coat.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cinnamonbear">
<B>cinnamon bear,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the reddish-brown variety of the North American black bear. <BR> <I>Ex. The cinnamon bear ... is the compeer of the grizzly in ferocity ... and in everything but size (Richard Irving Dodge).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cinnamonfern">
<B>cinnamon fern,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large fern with dense, green foliage and cinnamon-colored fronds that bear brown, dustlike spores. </DL>
<A NAME="cinnamonstone">
<B>cinnamon stone,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various brown or yellow kinds of garnet; essonite; hessonite. </DL>
<A NAME="cinnamonteal">
<B>cinnamon teal,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small duck of western North America having a blue patch on the wing, and, in the male, a cinnamon-colored body. It usually migrates south in the winter, often to Mexico. </DL>
<A NAME="cinquain">
<B>cinquain, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Rare.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a poem of five lines having respectively two, four, six, eight, and two syllables, a form originated by the American poet, Adelaide Crapsey. (Example:) <DD> These be <DD> Three silent things <DD> The falling snow ... the hour <DD> Before the dawn ... the mouth of one <DD> Just dead. <DD><B> 2. </B>a collection or company of five. </DL>
<A NAME="cinque">
<B>cinque, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> five, especially the five spot in dice and playing cards. </DL>
<A NAME="cinquecentist">
<B>cinquecentist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an Italian artist or writer of the cinquecento period. </DL>
<A NAME="cinquecento">
<B>cinquecento, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a term applied in Italy to the 1500's, and to that style of art and architecture which arose about 1500, characterized by a reversion to classical forms. <BR> <I>Ex. Titian ... was the last survivor of the great painters of the cinquecento (William Spalding).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the 1500's. </DL>
<A NAME="cinquefoil">
<B>cinquefoil, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of a genus of plants of the rose family, having small, five-petaled yellow, white, or red flowers and leaves divided into three, five, or more parts. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Architecture.) an ornament made of five connected semi-circles or part circles. <DD><B> 3. </B>an ornamental design resembling the leaf of the cinquefoil, such as a bearing in heraldry. </DL>
<A NAME="cinquepace">
<B>cinquepace, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete.) an old dance of lively character, characterized by a movement of five steps. </DL>
<A NAME="cio">
<B>CIO</B> (no periods) or <B>C.I.O.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Congress of Industrial Organizations, a group of labor unions organized on a permanent basis in 1938. It merged with the AFL in 1955. The unions in the CIO are organized according to industries (such as the auto workers and the electrical workers); in the AFL they are organized according to crafts (such as the carpenters and the machinists). </DL>
<A NAME="cion">
<B>cion, </B>noun. <B>=scion.</B></DL>
<A NAME="cipango">
<B>Cipango, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an island or group of islands east of Asia, first described by Marco Polo and now identified with Japan. Columbus imagined the West Indies to be outlying portions of it. Also, <B>Zipango,</B> <B>Zipangu,</B> <B>Zumpango.</B> </DL>
