Cicindela 
coloring, the numerous species of this genus have always 
been great favorites with collectors, although, on account 
of their variability 
of ruloraml sculp- 
ture, they are very 
dinlcult to 'IMiii 
guisli. They are 
among the most 
predaeeniis Itee 
tlr,. beiiiH excel- 
lent runners and 
quick. .a the wing. 
Their lame live in 
cylindrical holes 
111 the ground ; 
they are whitish 
grubs, with a large 
Hat head, the flrst 
thoracic joint 
hfin^ furnished 
withalargeconir 
oua plate, aiul the 
ninth abdominal 
joint having on 
the dorsal side 
two curved lunik*. 
The four species 
llumvd are charac- 
teristic examples. 
Cicindeletae 
(sis-iu-del'e- 
te), tt.pl. [NL., 
< L. cicindela, a 
glow-worm, + 
Gr. ITI/C, a kins- 
man, neighbor. 
Tiger-beetles.. 
a, Cicindela sexfuttata : A, C. rtpanda ; 
c, C. splendida; d, C. vulgaris. (All nat- 
ural size. J 
Cf. Ciciittli'ln.] In Latreille's 
system of classification, a group of carnivo- 
rous or adephagous pentamerous Coleoptera or 
beetles, embracing the tiger-beetles and their 
allies. 
Cicindelidae(sis-in-del'i-de), . pi. [NL., < 
Cicindela + -id<e.~\ A family of adepnagous 
Coleoptera or beetles, commonly called tiger- 
beetles and sparklers. The typical genus is Cicindela. 
The metasternum has an autecoxal piece separated by a 
well-marked suture reaching from one side to the other, 
and extending in a triangular process between the hind 
coxie, which are small and mobile ; and the antenna; are 
11-jointetl, and inserted on the front above the base of 
the mandibles. The species are found in every quarter of 
the globe. They have very prominent eyes, very strong 
mandibles, are armed with strong teeth, and are remark- 
able for the beauty of their colors. See Cicindela. 
Cicindelinae (si-sin-de-li'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Ci- 
cindela + -in<e.~] The typical subfamily of the 
Cicindelidte ; the tiger-beetles proper. 
cicindeline (si-sin'de-lin), a. Pertaining to or 
having the nature of the genus Cicindela or sub- 
family Cicindelince. 
cicinnal (si-sin'al), a. Same as cincinnal. 
Cicinnurus, n. See Cincinnurus. 
cicinnus (si-sin'us), n. Same as cincinnus. 
cicisbeism (si-sis'be-izm), n. [< cicisbeo + *ism ; 
= F. sigisbeisme.] 'The practice of acting as, 
or the custom of having, a cicisbeo ; the practice 
of dangling about women. 
The enormous wickedness and utter paganism of the 
Borgias and Medici seem almost respectable when com 
pared with the reign of cicigbeism and Jesuitry. 
Atheiueuiii, No. 3084, p. 787. 
cicisbeo (si-sis'be-6; It. pron. che-ches-ba'o), H. 
[It. (> F. cicisbee, sigisbee), said to be < F. ctiiehr. 
small, little, + beau, beautiful: see beau, belle.] 
1. In Italy, since the seventeenth century, tho 
name given to a professed gallant and atten- 
dant of a married woman; one who dangles 
about women. 
Lady T. You know I admit you as a lover no farther 
than fashion sanctions. 
Joseph S. True a mere platonic cicijtbeo what every 
wife is entitled to. Sheridan, School for Scandal, it 2. 
2f. A bow of silk or ribbon with long pendent 
ends attached to a walking-stick, the hilt of a 
sword, or the handle of a fan. Smollett. 
ciclatont, ciclatount, [In Spenser, after 
Chaucer, cheklaton,shecklaton, schecklaton; ME. 
eiclatoun,ciclatun,cyclatoun, siclatoun, syclatoun, 
sylcelatoun, once chekelatmin, < OF. ciclaton, eickt- 
tun, chielaton, ciglaton, siglaton, singlaton, sen- 
glaton, segteton (> Sp. ciclaton), a kind of mantle 
or robe, also, at least in AF. (as alone in ME.), 
a rich fabric (see def.), appar. (with suffix -OH) 
(= Sp. ciclada, a kind of mantle) < ML. cyclan 
(ace. cycladem), ciclas, ciclade, ciclades, cicladis. 
a kind of mantle, also a rich fabric (see def.), < 
L. cyclas, ace. cyclada (in Propertius), < Gr. KD- 
K?^r, a mantle worn chiefly by women, adorned 
with a border of purple or gold, with ref. to 
which, or to its circular form (cf . E. circular, a 
cloak), it received its name, < Gr. nviMf, round, 
circular, < ni-i&jot, round: see cyclas and cycle. 
The transfer and enrichment of the sense (from 
a round mantle' to 'a costly fabric of diverse 
use') is remarkable, and, with the peculiar 
forms, gives some color to the supposition that 
999 
witli the L. i-i/<'liin. etc., in its proper sense of 'a 
HIM lit !.',' lias lji 'on merged another word, per- 
haps of Eastern origin, meaning 'a fabric.' 
Yule compares the I'anjub trade-name ..u/.-ln/, 
Broadcloth, or the Ar. fiil.-ilii/at, Sicily.] 1. A 
costly fabric, used in the middle ages for men's 
and women's robes or mantles, and also for 
leggings, housings, banners, tents, etc. it was 
-"iin -times, |..-rlia]>s ^cm-rally, of silk, often witvell with 
gold; it is found explained as JXIHHIU aureut, cloth of 
'(dd. Krum the diversity of Its use, the term seems to 
have been applied to any rich-looking fabric. 
Of Bmgges were his hosen brown, 
Hi* robe Has of ciclatoun, 
That foste many a jane. 
Chaucer, Sir Thupas, 1. 23. 
Ther was inoiiy gonfanoiiii 
Of gold, sendel, and eicl" ' 
Kiifi .llinauader (Weber's Metr. Rom., I. S,',), I. ]:vl. 
Off silk, cendale, and *//</ 
VVas the eniiffr.nirs pavyk-un. 
Rich. Caerde Lion (Weber s Metr. Rom., II. 90). 
2. A mantle or robe worn by men and women, 
ipparently of the fabric called by the same 
name. [But this sense belongs properly only to the 
Krench and Spanish ciclaton and the Middle Latin cyda; 
it is not established in English. The word Is erroneously 
explained and used in the following passages by Spenser: 
The quilted leather Jgcke is old English ; for it was the 
proper weede of the horseman, as ye may reade In Chau- 
cer, where he describeth Sir Thopas his apparrell and ar- 
m. .lire, when he went to fight agaynst the Gyant, in his 
robe of thecklittiiii, which schecklaton is that kind of guild- 
ed leather with xvhich they used to embroder theyr Irish 
Jackes. Spenser, State of Ireland. 
But in a Jacket, quilted richly rare 
TJpon checklaton, he was straungely dight. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. vii. 43.) 
Ciconia (si-ko'ni-ji), n. [NL., < L. ciconia, a 
stork, dial, coniaj prob. redupl. from canere. 
sing, cry. Cf. E. hen, from same root.] The 
typical genus of storks of the family Ciconiida: 
The best-known species are the common white and black 
storks of Europe, C. "/'" and C. nigra. See stork, and cut 
under Ciconiidce. 
ciconian (si-ko'ni-an), a. [< Ciconia + -an.] 
Pertaining to or consisting of storks: as, "the 
fierce ciconian train," Pope, tr. of Odyssey, ix. 
68. [Bare.] 
Ciconiidae (sik-o-ni'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Ciconia 
+ -id.] A family of large altricial grallatorial 
birds, of the order Herodiones and suborder Pe- 
largi (which see) ; the storks. The bill is longer 
than the head, stout at the base, not grooved, tapering to 
the straight, recurved, or decurved tip ; the nostrils are 
pierced directly in the substance of the bill, and are with- 
out nasal scales ; the legs are reticulate, and bare above the 
suffrage ; the hallnx is not completely insistent ; and the 
claws are not sent*. The family contains about 12 spe- 
cidaris 
ciconiine (si-k6'ni-in), . Of or pertaining to 
,- the Ciciniiiini ; ciconine. 
:.'.' ciconine (sik'o-nin), n. [< L. (/</.<, of the 
-"' stork, < cicinnii, stoi-k: see I'imnia.] Of or 
pertaining to the Cii'miiiiln- ; having the char- 
acters of itorks; ciconiifonn: pchuyic. 
cicuratet (sik'u-rut), r. I. [< L. ciriiriitu t pp. 
of rii-uniri', make tame, < rinur, tame.] To 
tame; reclaim from "' 
White Stork \ Ciconia 
cies, representing nearly as many modern genera, chiefly 
of the warmer parts of both hemispheres. It includes 
the storks proper, the marabous, open-bills, jabirus, wood- 
ibises, etc. Also written Ciconidce, Ciconiadce. 
ciconiiform (si-ko'ni-i-form), a. [< NL. cico- 
niiforiHis, < L. ciconia, stork, 4- forma, form.] 
Having or pertaining to the form or structure 
of the Ciconiida! ; like or likened to a stork. 
Garrod and Forbes suggest a ciconiiform origin for the 
Tubinares. A. -Vcirton, Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 47, note. 
Ciconiiformes (si-ko // ni-i-f6r'mez), n.pl. [NL.. 
pi. of ci con ii 'for mis: see ciconiiform.'] In Gar- 
rod's arrangement, the third division of homa- 
logonatous birds, including several modern 
orders, as storks, herons, pelicans, vultures, 
hawks, and owls. It is not a recognized group 
in ornithology. 
Ciconiinae (si-ko-ni-i'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Ci- 
conia + -tn<?.] The typical subfamily of the 
Ciconiida:, containing the true storks, mara- 
bous, and jabirus, as distinguished from the 
open-bills and wood-ibises. The bill is straight or 
recurved ; the nostrils are nearly lateral ; the toes are 
short ; the hallux is not insistent ; and the claws are broad. 
flat, and blunt, like nails. Ciconia, Miicteria, and Lep 
toptilu* are the leading genera. Also Ciconirux. 
I'.ven after carnal con\ crsioli, persons may .vet retain 
Home portions of their natures ; yet are the\ s.i refracted, 
"(/, and subdued, as not to make jjoud their first 
and destructive niali^nn 
Sir T. llnm /..-. Vnlg. I'rr., vii. 17. 
cicurationt (sik-u-ra'shon), n. [< L. as if *ei- 
riiriilio(ii-), < cicnrarc, tame : see cicwrate.] The 
act of taming or reclaiming from wildness. 
Ray. 
Cicuta (si-ku'tij), H. [L., > It. Sp. Pg. cicuta 
= Pr. cicuda = F. ciijue, hemlock.] A genus 
of umbelliferous plants, containing four or five 
species, one European and three or four Ameri- 
can. They are tall, perennial, glabrous herbs, with di- 
vided leaves, and compound, many-rayed umbels of white 
flowers. C. oirotta and the common American species, C. 
maculata, are popularly called icater-heinloclc or cnn'i.,,,. 
The roots of all are a deadly poison. Most of the ipeciei 
may be recognized by the peculiar venation of the leaves, 
the main side-veins running to the notches instead of to 
the ends of the teeth. See hemlock. 
cicutet, " Water-hemlock. See Cicuta. 
cicutine (xi-ku'tin), . [< Cicuta + -i2.] A 
volatile alkaloid found in Cicuta virosa, the 
water-hemlock. 
Old (sid), n. [Sp., < Ar. seid, seiyid, lord, el 
seid (Sp. el Cid, ' the Cid '), the lord or chief.] 
A chief ; a commander: a title applied in Span- 
ish literature to Buy or Boderigo Diaz, count 
of Bivar, a dauntless champion of the Chris- 
tian religion and of the old Spanish monarchy 
against the Moors in the eleventh century. He 
received this title from the Moors against whom he fought, 
while from his countrymen he received that of el Carnpe- 
odor, the champion ; and the two were combined in the 
form el Cid Campeador, the lord champion. 
The title of Cid ... is often said to have come to him 
from the remarkable circumstance that five Moorish kings 
or chiefs acknowledged him in one battle as their Seid, or 
their lord and conqueror. Ticknor, Span. Lit., I. 12. 
cidarea, n. Plural of cidaris. 
Cidaria (si-da 'ri -a,), H. [NL. (Treitschke, 
1825), < Gr. Kidaptf, a Persian head-dress. See 
Cidaris, 2.] A ge- 
nus of moths.of the 
family Phalcenida, 
characterized by 
having oblique 
bands with acute 
angles across the 
front wings. The 
larva arc true geome- 
ters or loopers, having 
but two pail's of pro- 
legs. C. diversilineata 
feedson the grape-vine. 
cidarid (sid'a-rid), 
n. One of the Ci- 
darido? or Cidari- 
dea ; a desmosti- 
chous or regular sea-urchin, as distinguished 
from a heart-urchin or shield-urchin. 
Cidaridse (si-dar'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Cidarin 
(Cidarid-), 2, + -id<p.] A family of desmosti- 
chous endocyclical or regular sea-urchins, with 
very narrow ambulacra! and broad iuterambu- 
lacral spaces, large perforated tubercles, club- 
shaped spines, no oral branchiae, and no spheeri- 
dia. They have the shell rounded, unclosed auricles, 
entire peristome, and ten anal plates. The typical genus 
is Cwtarw. 
Cidaridea (sid-a-rid'e-a), n. pi. [NL., < Cidaris 
(Cidarid-), 2, -f' -o.] A superfamily or ordinal 
group of Echinoidea ; the regular endocyclical or 
desmostichous sea-urchins, having the mouth 
and anus centric, two rows of ambulacra and of 
interambulacra alternating with one another, 
and teeth and masticatory apparatus, it is 
equivalent to the order Endocyeliea of some authors, and 
includes the families Cidaridce, Echinidce, Echinometridof, 
and others. 
cidaris (sid'a-ris), n. ; pi. eidares (-rez). [L., < 
Gr. KiSaptf, a turban, tiara; of Pers. origin.] 1. 
(a) An ornamental head-dress of the ancient 
Persian kings. 
On his [the Persian king's] head was set a Cidaris or 
Tiara ; this was a kind of Cap or Turbant, not like a felt 
of wooll, but of diners peeces of cloth sowed together. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 361. 
(6) The head-dress of the high priest of the 
Jews, (c) A low-crowned episcopal miter. F. 
G.Lee. Also written kidaris. 2. [cap.] [NL.] 
The typical genus of the family Cidaridai. The 
Cidaria diversilineata, natural size. 
n, larva ; b, moth. 
