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CEREBEL'LBM, Lat. dim. of cerebrum; the 

 little brain, situate behind the cerebrum. 

 See ENCEPHALOS. 



CER'EMONIES, MASTER OF THE, an officer 

 of the king's household, instituted for the 

 more honourable reception of strangers 

 of quality. 



CER'EOLITE, wax-stone (cera a 

 % substance resembling steatite. 



CEREOP'SIS, the generic name of an Aus- 

 tralian goose, characterised by a green 

 cere-like naked membrane, covering the 

 upper portion of the base of the bill. 



CE'RES. 1. The mythological goddess 

 of corn and tillage, the daughter of Sa- 

 turn and Ops. 2. The name of a planet 



discovered by M. Piazzi, at Palermo in 

 Sicily, in 1801. It is situated between 

 Mars and Jupiter. 



CE'REUS, in botany, a colour, surface, or 

 texture, resembling that of wax. 



CE'RINE, one of the constituents of wax 

 (cera). "Wax, like the oils and fats, has 

 been found to be composed of two sub- 

 stances, which differ from each other only 

 in their fusibility, and their solubility in 

 alcohol, and which are called Cerine and 

 Myricine. The first is analogous to elaine, 

 and the myricine corresponds to stearine. 

 Sp. gr. of cerine 969, melting pt. 138 ; 

 soluble in 16 times its weight of boiling 

 alcohol. 



CERIN'THIANS, an early sect of heretics 

 who denied the Divinity of Christ. Named 

 from Cerinthus, the founder of the sect. 



CE'RITE, the silicious oxide of cerium ; 

 a rare mineral of a rose-red colour, found 

 in the Swedish mine of Bastuas, and long 

 known to the German mineralogists, 

 under the name of Eastnds Schwer stein, 

 i. e. heavy stone of Bastnas. It is named 

 Cerite from the metal it contains. 



CERITH'IUM, the name given by Bru- 

 gueir to a turretted or turriculated spiral 

 shell, of which Lamark has discovered 

 upwards of 60 species in the neighbour- 

 hood of Paris. Class Gasteropoda; order 

 2'ectinibranchiata; family Eucciiwida. 



CE'RIUM, a metal discovered in 1803, by 

 Hisinger and Bcrzelius, in ccrite (q. v.), 

 and named by them after the planet 

 Ceres. It is brittle, white, and volatile 

 in a very intense heat; is not acted upon 

 by nitric acid, but is dissolved in aqua- 

 regia, nitro-hydrochloric acid. 



CER'OMA, In ancient architecture, the 

 apartment in a bath or gymnasium in 

 which persons anointed themselves with 

 wax and oil. 



CERoptAs'Ttc, the art of modelling in 

 v-ax ; it is of very high antiquity. 



CEROSTRO'TCM,;**^, wax, and g-rqturos , 

 spread. A species of encaustic painting 

 executed on horn or ivory. 



CEK'THIA, the creeper or ox-eye, a genus 

 tif birds. Order 1'atso-ina family Tcnui 



rostres, Cuv. About 50 species of this 

 little bird are enumerated. They take 

 their name from their habit of climbing 

 trees like wood- peckers. The common 

 ox-eye is well known. 



CERTIFICATE, in a general sense, means 

 any written testimony ; but the word is 

 used in a more practical sense to denote 

 the written declaration of some public 

 officer, to be used as evidence in a court 

 or to substantiate a fact, and is consi- 

 dered as being given under the oath of 

 the officer. 



CERTIFICATE COCKET. In the Customs. 

 See COCKET. 



CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN, written docu- 

 ments subscribed by the proper officers of 

 the places where goods were shipped. 

 These are required by the importers of 

 sugar, coffee, cocoa, and spirits from, any 

 British plantation. 



CERTIORA'RI, a writ issued out of Chan- 

 cery or other superior court, to call up 

 the records of an inferior court, or re- 

 move a cause there depending, that it 

 may be triea in the superior court. This 

 writ is obtained upon complaint of a 

 party that he cannot in the inferior court 

 receive justice, or that he is not certain 

 (certus) of receiving it. 



CERUSE, Lat. cerussa. Carbonate of 

 lead, commonly called white lead. 



CER'VICAL, Lat. cervicalis, belonging to 

 the neck (cervix) as the cervical vertebras, 

 muscles, and arteries. 



CERVICOBRANCHIA'TA, the name of an 

 order of shells, in the conchological sys- 

 tem of De Blainville, comprising the two 

 families Rotifera and Branchifera, and 

 the genera Patella, Fissurella, Emargi- 

 nata, and Parmophorus. 



CER'VCS (Latin), a stag; a genus ot 

 Ruminant mammalia, which have heads 

 armed with antlers ; the females, how- 

 ever (the rein-deer alone excepted), are 

 always without them. The elk or moose, 

 roebuck, axis, fallow-deer, &c., are spe- 

 cies. The flesh is used as food. 



CES'PITOSE PLANTS are such as produce 

 many stems from one root, and which 

 have all their leaves radical, so as to re- 

 semble turfs. From cespes, a turf. 



CESSA'VIT, a Latin word meaning he 

 hath ceased, from cesso, to cease, used in 

 law as the name of a writ given by sta- 

 tute to recover lands, when the tenant or 

 occupier has ceased for two years to per- 

 form the service which constitutes the 

 condition of his tenure, and has not 

 sufficient goods or chattels to be dis- 

 trained. 



CES'SIO BONO'RCM, a Latin law phrase 

 meaning the surrender by an insolvent 

 debtor of his entire property to his cre- 

 ditors. This exempts him from all per- 

 sonal penalties. 



CESSOR. In late, one who neglects tot 



