अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.

A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.

The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.

That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

The cere of birds.

Divination by dropping melted wax in water.

A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

Relating to the art of modeling in wax.

Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure.

Alt. of Ceroplasty

The art of modeling in wax.

A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae.

See Cerate.

A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.

A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.

Of or pertaining to the cerris.

A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.

Certainty.

Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.