Index of English words, starting with "ci"

(1) - Cinquecento (n. & a.) The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.

(1) - Cinquefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc.
(2) - Cinquefoil (n.) The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.

(1) - Cion (n.) See Scion.

(1) - Cipher (v. t.) To designate by characters.
(2) - Cipher (v. t.) To decipher.
(3) - Cipher (v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
(4) - Cipher (v. t.) To write in occult characters.
(5) - Cipher (v. i.) To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.
(6) - Cipher (a.) Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
(7) - Cipher (n.) A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.
(8) - Cipher (n.) A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.
(9) - Cipher (n.) A character in general, as a figure or letter.
(10) - Cipher (n.) One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.
(11) - Cipher (n.) A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.