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Citied
() Belonging to, or resembling, a city.
Citied
() Containing, or covered with, cities.
Citified
() Aping, or having, the manners of a city.
Citigradae
() A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider.
Citigrade
() Pertaining to the Citigradae.
Citigrade
() One of the Citigradae.
Citiner
() One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen.
Citizen
() One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.
Citizen
() An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.
Citizen
() A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.
Citizen
() One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.
Citizen
() Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.
Citizen
() Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.
Citizeness
() A female citizen.
Citizenship
() The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
Citole
() A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer.
Citraconic
() Pertaining to, derived from, or having certain characteristics of, citric and aconitic acids.
Citrate
() A salt of citric acid.
Citric
() Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid.
Citrination
() The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color.
Citrine
() Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow.
Citrine
() A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.
Citron
() A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.
Citron
() A citron tree.
Citron
() A citron melon.
Citrus
() A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.
Cittern
() An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
Cittern-head
() Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.
Cities
() of City
City
() A large town.
City
() A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.
City
() The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
City
() Of or pertaining to a city.
Cive
() Same as Chive.
Civet
() A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.
Civet
() The animal that produces civet (Viverra civetta); -- called also civet cat. It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species.
Civet
() To scent or perfume with civet.
Civic
() Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.
Civicism
() The principle of civil government.
Civics
() The science of civil government.
Civil
() Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.
Civil
() Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.
Civil
() Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.
Civil
() Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.
Civil
() Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.
Civil
() Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.
Civilian
() One skilled in the civil law.
Civilian
() A student of the civil law at a university or college.
Civilian
() One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.
Civilist
() A civilian.
