Cestoidea :: Cestoidea (n. pl.) A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm..

Cestoldean :: Cestoldean (n.) One of the Cestoidea.

Chaldean :: Chaldean (a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.

Chaldean :: Chaldean (n.) A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.

Chaldean :: Chaldean (n.) A learned man, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the Chaldeans..

Chaldean :: Chaldean (n.) Nestorian.

Chondroganoidea :: Chondroganoidea (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton..

Crinoidea :: Crinoidea (n. pl.) A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula..

Crinoidean :: Crinoidean (n.) One of the Crinoidea.

Ctenoidean :: Ctenoidean (a.) Relating to the Ctenoidei.

Ctenoidean :: Ctenoidean (n.) One of the Ctenoidei.

Cynoidea :: Cynoidea (n. pl.) A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes..

Cystidea :: Cystidea (n. pl.) An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems..

Cystidean :: Cystidean (n.) One of the Cystidea.

Cystoidea :: Cystoidea (n.) Same as Cystidea.

Cystoidean :: Cystoidean (n.) Same as Cystidean.

Deacon :: Deacon (n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and

Deacon :: Deacon (n.) The chairman of an incorporated company.

Deacon :: Deacon (v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off..

Deaconess :: Deaconess (n.) A female deaco.

Deaconess :: Deaconess (n.) One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons.

Deaconess :: Deaconess (n.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.

Deaconess :: Deaconess (n.) A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists..

Deaconhood :: Deaconhood (n.) The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.

Deaconry :: Deaconry (n.) See Deaconship.

Deaconship :: Deaconship (n.) The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.

Dead :: Dead (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man..

Dead :: Dead (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter..

Dead :: Dead (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep..

Dead :: Dead (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight..

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