Oebrionidae 
Cebrionidae (seb-ri-on'i-de), it. pi. [NL., < Ce- 
briu(n-) + -ida;.] A family of malacoderinatous 
pentamerous coleopterous insects, relate. I in 
the Elatcrida- (which see), but having six ab- 
dominal segments, well-developed tibial spurs. 
anterior tibiiB expanded at the apex, and the 
labrum close to the front. 
OebUS (se'bus), n. [NL. (Krxloben, 1777), < (ir. 
/oyJof, also K7/7rof, a long-tailed monkey: see II/H . ] 
The typical genus of the family Ci-bidic and sub- 
family Ci'biiin; containing the ordinary prehen- 
sile-tailed un<l thumbed South American mon- 
keys. The monkeys earned about by organ- 
grinders generally belong to this genus. See 
cut under Ccbiinr. 
cecal, cecally. See caical, avcally. 
cecchint, " Hee xci/uin. 
Cecidomyia (ses"i-do-mi'i-a), n. [NL. (Meizen, 
1803), < Gr. Ki/nir (/.;/!-), a, gallnut (produced 
by the oozing of sap from punctures made by 
insects; cf. *v'f, juice, Mt/uciv, gusli forth), T 
ftvta, a fly.] A genus of nemocerous Di/iti /, 
or small two-winged flies, typical of the family 
Ceeidomyiidte, containing such as the Hessian- 
fly, C. ili'Ktritclur, noted for the ravages of its 
larvse upon crops. C. tritici is the wheat-tly. The 
genus comprises a vast number of minute, slender-bo.lieil 
midges, which are of special interest on account of their 
875 
cecomorph (se'ko-morf), . One of the ''- 
ifior/thd: 
Cecomorphae (se-ko-mor'fo), . jil. [NL. (Hux- 
ley, 1867), < Gr. MI; (/(.-), var. *arof, *; /,. , 
(see Gey*), a sea-bird, perhaps flic tarn organ- 
net, + fo/}ij>rj, form.] A superfamily group of 
palmiped schizoguathous carinate birds, in- 
cluding the short-winged, long-winged, and 
tube-nosed swimming and diving birds of the 
current ordrrs /'//</I//K/IX, Len^ftMMMf, and 
Tii/iiiiiii-ix, or the Alcittn; t'nlyiiibida; I'ljiliii/ii - 
Ctcrafi latrtilUi. 
Clover-seed Midge (Cecidomyiii Itfttmitticola). 
a, female fly, highly magnified ; /. . . /, head, tip of ovipositor, ami 
antennal joints, on still larger scale. 
mode of life, the peculiar structure exhibited in the larva, 
and the economic importance attached to several species. 
In most cases the female lays her eggs in the stems, leaves, 
or buds of various plants, producing gall-like excrescences 
of various forms, inhabited by the larva?. These are sub- 
cylindrical, legless grubs, mostly of a reddish or yellow 
color, and are furnished on the ventral side of the thoracic 
joints with a corneous plate, usually forked, called the 
breast-bone. Some species, however, do not produce galls, 
Hint among these the most familiar are the Hessian-fly and 
the clover-seed midge, C. leguminicola (Lintner), which 
latter infests the seeds of clover, causing great damage in 
the more northern parts of the United States. See also 
cut under yh/y. 
cecidomylan (ses'i-do-mi'i-an), a. and . [< Ce- 
cidomyia + -an.~\ I. a. Gall-making, as a fly 
of the family Cecidomyiidce ; of or pertaining to 
this family of insects. 
II. . A member of the genus Cecidomyia; 
a cecidomyiid. 
cecidpmyiid(ses"i-do-mi'i-id), n. Amemberof 
the family Cecidomyiidfg. 
Oecidomyiidae (ses*i-do-mi-ri-de), n. pi. [NL., 
< Ceeidomyia + -idee.] The family of nemoce- 
rous dipterous insects of which the genus Ceci- 
domyia is the type ; the gall-flies. They are most- 
ly gall-makers, producing excrescences by piercing soft 
growing wood with their ovipositors and laying their eggs 
in the punctures. 
cecidqmylidous (ses'i-do-mi-I'i-dus), a. [< ceci- 
domyiid + -ous.] Pertaining to or produced 
by the Ceeidomyiidce or gall-flies : as, a cecido- 
inyiidouii gall. 
Cecilia, Cecilia, etc. See Ccecilia, etc. 
cecils (se'silz), n. ]>l. [Appar. from the name 
Cecil.] In cookery, minced meat, crumbs of 
bread, onions, chopped parsley, etc., with sea- 
soning, made up into balls and fried. 
cecity (se'si- or ses'i-ti), n. [Also ccecity, af- 
ter the L. ; < F. excite = Pr. cecitat, ceguetat = 
Sp. cegucdad (cf. Pg. cegueira) = It. cecita, < L. 
ccecitas, blindness, < evens, blind: see caecum.'] 
Blindness. [Now rare.] 
There is in them [moles] no cecity, yet more than a ce- 
cutiency. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 18. 
Here [in Arabia], as in Egypt, a blind Muezzin is pre- 
ferred, and many ridiculous stories are told about men 
who for years have counterfeited cecity to live in idleness. 
K. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 383. 
cecograph (se'ko-graf), . [< P. efrographe, < 
L. caicus, blind, '+ Gr. ypAfeiv, write.] A writ- 
ing-machine for the blind. E. H. Knight. 
ilidir, I'riM'illiiriidii; and I,<imlir. 
cecomorphic (se-ko-mor'fik), a. [< Cecitninr- 
liliir + -.] Having the characters of tin- ' <- 
I'liimir/ihiL'; of or pertaining to the t'cci>i<iri>lt<i: 
Cecropia (se-kro'pi-a), . [NL. : see Cecrojm.] 
1. A genus of beautiful tropical American trees, 
with milky juice, natural order Urticacea:. C. 
;K-/f^(,the trumpet-tree, is remarkable for its hollow stem 
and branches, the former licini.' made by the Indians into 
a kind of drum and the latter into wind-instruments. 
The litfhl porous \vood is iis,:d liy them for procuring lire 
t>y friction. The inner bark is tlbrous and strong, and is 
used for cordage. 
2. [I. c.~\ In entom.. a moth, Attacus ceero/iin. 
Cecropa (se'krops), n. [NL. (Leach, 1813), 
after f'covi/w, the mythical founder and first 
king of Athens.] A ge- 
nus of siphonostomous 
crustaceans, of the fam- 
ily Caligidie, parasitic 
upon the skin or gills 
of marine fishes. C. la- 
treillei is an example. 
cecum, . See cteeum. 
cecutiencyt (se-ku'shien-si), . [< L. ccecu- 
lif>i(t-)s, ppr. 'of ciecutirr, bo blind, < (xecus, 
blind.] Cloudiness of sight ; partial blindness 
or tendency to blindness. See first extract un- 
der cecity. 
cedant anna togae. [L., from a Latin poem 
quoted by Cicero : cedant, 3dpers. pi. pres. subj. 
of cederc, yield; anna, arms: togce, dat. of <?/, 
a gown: see cede, arnft, and toga.] Literally, 
let arms yield to the gown; that is, let war 
give way to peace, and military operations to 
peaceful pursuits: it is used as the motto of 
Wyoming Territory. 
cedar (se'dar), n. and a. [Early mod. E. also 
ceder, < ME. ceder, cedre. < OF. cedre, F. cedre 
= Pr. cedre = Sp. Pg. It. cedro = AS. ceder 
(also in comp. cedcr-bedm, ceder-treoic, cedar- 
tree) = D. ceder = MHG. ceder, zeder, G. ceder, 
zeder = Sw. Dan. ceder = Bohem. ct'dr = Pol. 
cedr, cedar, < L. cedrus = Russ. kedrti, cedar, 
= Pol. keder, kicder, a kind of larch, < Gr. ni- 
fpof, a cedar-tree. Theophrastus uses the word 
both for the Cedrus Libani of Syria and (as also 
prob. Homer) for the juniper (Juniperus Oxycc- 
drus).] I. n. 1. A tree of the coniferous genus 
Cedrus, of which three species are known. The 
most noted is the cedar of Lebanon, C. Libani, native 
among the mountains of Syria, Asia Minor, and Cyprus. 
On Lebanon itself there still remains a grove of about 400 
trees, some of them exceeding 40 feet in girth. The other 
Atlas Cedar (Cedrus Atlantica). 
representatives of the genus are the Atlas cedar, C. At- 
lantica, a native of Algeria, and the deodar or Himalayan 
cedar, C. Deodara. In their native forests they are of 
very slow growth, and form hard, durable timber. 
They have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts 
for thee. Ezek. xxvii. 5. 
Under the covert of some ancient oak 
Or cedar to defend him from the dew. 
Hilton, P. R., i. 3O6. 
2. The name given, usually with qualifying 
terms, to various coniferous trees, chiefly North 
American, and of genera nearly allied to Cedrus. 
The white cedar of the eastern United States is the Cka- 
macyparu tpluxroidea, of swamps near the coast, and also 
cede 
tin- arlHtr-vitie, TltH>i<> "' "/< '"inlix; on the Pacific coast it 
is tile LilH-<(tni*< i/ei;rrv/i*(also km." n ; ""it, or 
'/>, am! aUu ' '/"//;"' "i/ir- !.< "i< "inn. the 
I'ort Hrford or Oregon cedar. Tin n il i ilai is usually the 
.l<in>i-riix Vir^iiunmt. the odnrou* \si>i*l ..I which is nlt< n 
ealleil , 1 1 .-In 11^ c\teli>i\ c ll.^e ill the lliallllfac 
til re of leait |n-m-il> ; west nf tin: Kocky MI>I in tain.- the red 
re'litr i* till' 't'l'l"/" ll'i/l'llt'''!, also calle' I ,;!,: <"/r/r. Tile 
cellar ot lieriiuiila ami I'.art.ailns is ./ 
"im ; the Japan cellar, <',-://il",/<' t'i'i Ji*ii<-n. The stink- 
ing cedars of the I Illicit States are species of '/ 
Tile Mhnalavali cellar is tile Jnnij" i U - wo.wl 
resembles that of the pencil-cellar, lint is hauler, ami lias 
<t- peculiar oilor. Washington cedar is the big-tree 
of California, .Vyi/om ni'inntcn. 'I'lie wood of mo*t of 
these trees is soft, line-grained, of a reddish color, and 
often fragrant. 
3. A name popularly given in tropical regions 
to a considerable number of trees, mostly of 
the natural order .!/< linccit, in no way related 
to the preceding. That knun valioiis!\ as tlie Hot 
Indian cedar, the bastard or sweet- scented I larhados cellar, 
the Jamaica red cedur, and the Spanish, Havana, or llondn- 
i ;i - 1 1 ilar is the Cedrela mlttrditi. 'I lie cciliir of India and 
New South Wales is C. TIUIHH ; the red cedar of Imlia, .w/- 
mida Jcbrifutin ; and the bastanl cedar "I India, Mi-lta 
Azrdarach. (See aledarach.) The white cellar of Austra- 
lia is M. <':nil i:xit . ami tile leilceilar / 'trail*. 
A mon- trees of other orders, the bastard cellar of the West 
Indies is &".< > " 'iitom or G. ulmifolia ; the white 
cedar of Guiana, J'l-nlii/m nUixininnn ; and the white cedar 
of Dominica, Biffiuu" I "'<> >ii.o>t. In Imlia the name 
red cedar is sometimes given to the euphorbiaceoiu Sijt- 
chnj/ta Jacanica. 
4. The wood of the cedar-tree (Cedrus), or 
(with or without a qualifying term) of any kind 
of tree called a cedar. 
The wisest man 
Feasted the woman wisest then in halls 
Of Lebanonian cedar. Tennyson, Princess. 
n. a. Pertaining to the cedar; made of cedar: 
as, a cedar twig. 
He shall uncover the cedar work. Zeph. ii. 14. 
cedar-apple (se'dar-ap'l), . A fungus belong- 
ing to the genus Gynutospo- 
rangium. Species of this genus 
arc parasitic upon cedar-trees. 
Some of them form globular dis- 
tortions with appendages, and 
develop into yellow gelatinous 
masses during the spring rains. 
Also called cedar-ball. See Gym- 
cedar-bird (se'dar-berd), n. 
The popular name of the 
common American wax- 
wing, Ampelis cedrorum or 
Bombycilla carolinentsis : so 
called in the United States 
from its fondness for ju- 
niper-berries, the fruit of 
Juni)>erus Virginiana, com- 
monly called cedar. Also 
called cedar-lark. See Am- 
pelis and waxwing. 
cedared (se'dard), a. [< ce- 
dar + -erf 2 .] Covered or furnished with ce- 
dars: as, a cedared mountain-slope. 
We did not explore the Malahoodus far, but left the 
other birch to thread its cedaretl solitudes, while we 
turned back to try our fortunes in the larger stream. 
Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 140. 
cedar-gum (se'dar-gum), n. A yellow, trans- 
parent, fragrant resin obtained from Callitris 
arborea, a coniferous tree of the mountains of 
South Africa. It is used in making varnish, 
and in preparing plasters and various medici- 
nal articles. 
cedar-lark (se'dar-lark), n. Same as cedar- 
bird. 
cedarn (se'darn), a. [< cedar + -n for -en?, as 
in oaken, etc.] Of cedar; made of cedar. 
West winds, with musky wing, 
About the cedarn alleys fling 
Sard and cassia's balmy smells. 
Milton, Comns, 1. 990. 
The carven cedarn doors. Tfnnynon, Arabian Nighte. 
cedar-tree (se'dar-tre), . Specifically, a tree 
of the genus Cedrus; also (with or without a 
qualifying term), a tree of any of the genera 
known as cedars. See cedar. 
cedar-wood (se'dar-wud), n. 1. The wood of 
the cedar, in any iise of the name. 2. A wood 
or assemblage of cedar-trees. 
Thou wert born, on a summer morn, 
A mile beneath the cedar-u>ood. 
Tennynon, Eleanore. 
Cedar-WOOd oil, an aromatic oil distilled from the wood 
of the Cedrela odorata. 
cede (sed), v. ; pret. and pp. ceded, ppr. ceding. 
[= OF. ceder, F. ceder = Pr. cedar = Sp. Pg. 
ceder = It. cedere, < L. cedere (pp. cessus), intr. 
go, withdraw, pass away, yield, tr. yield, grant, 
give up: related to cadere, fall: see eadent, 
case 1 , etc. L. cedere is the ult. source of many 
E. words, as cede, accede, concede, exceed, pre- 
Cedar-apple (Gymno- 
sporangiutn macrupus* 
growing upon red cedar 
\Juniperus I'irfiniana . 
